cardinal

     

The wor cardinal comes from the Latin cardo for "hinge" and usually refers to things of fundamental importance, as in cardinal rule or cardinal sins.

Trivia about cardinal

  • Illinois' state bird:CLAN RAID
  • Ohio:This redbird
  • This red bird is the state bird of 7 states
  • Bird associated with Aeneas Williams & Mark McGwire
  • This red-feathered friend is the state bird of a record 7 states
  • If we've got your number, odds are the number we have is either ordinal or this
  • Though born Jewish, Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris holds this high position in the Catholic church
  • He shares his name & color with an ecclesiastic
  • As ham radio fan Roger Mahoney holds this rank in Los Angeles, it must mean no ham on Fridays
  • Jules Mazarin was one in the 17th century, Stan Musial in the 20th
  • One of the cardinal rules of e-mail listed on insiderreports.com is to turn off your Caps-Lock
  • Virginia:This bird, not Albert Pujols
  • That's not a papal advisor: it's this red fish of the family Apogonidae
  • The male of this state bird of Indiana is one of the few all-red birds in North America
  • The males of this familiar "redbird" have a black mark around their eyes & bill
  • The state bird of Indiana is this red bird
  • Seen here, & common in Hawaii, is the red-crested variety of this bird
  • Aka a redbird & protected by law, this bird may have up to 4 broods from April to August each year
  • Pope Urban VIII raised Jules Mazarin to this high church office in 1641
  • To be "raised to the purple" is to become one of these, as Archbishop Terence Cooke did in 1969
  • West Virginia:This crested bird
  • (I'm Ed McCaffrey.) It was the name of my team at Stanford, & also one of the team colors
  • This bird is probably popular in Vatican City & St. Louis
  • Stanford's singular nickname comes not from a bird or religious rank but from this red color
  • Kentucky:This colorful songbird
  • Chicago's Francis George is among the few U.S. archbishops also to be this (since February 1998)
  • Rodrigo's uncle Pope Calixtus III made 25-year-old Rodrigo one of these high ecclesiastics
  • It's the songbird & finch family member seen here
  • It's the masked animal seen here
  • Germany's Joseph Ratzinger,The USA's Roger Mahony
  • Numbers like 2 & 3, as opposed to second & third
  • North Carolina got religion & named this its state bird
  • The name of this deep red also means "of prime importance"