cork

     

Cork may refer to:

Trivia about cork

  • Wine should be stored lying down, so this remains wet & swollen
  • To stopper a bottle with material from the bark of the oak of the same name
  • Dodger Wilton Guerrero was thrown out of a game June 1, 1997 for having this in his bat
  • As well as port & Madeira wines, Portugal produces half the world's supply of this stopper material
  • Cut in sections off trees, it's boiled, scraped & then dried for commercial use, like for bottle stoppers
  • An 1890s bottle cap invented by William Painter was lined with this; plastic-lined ones appeared years later
  • The French term bouchonne refers to a wine contaminated by a faulty one of these
  • Also the surface of bulletin boards, this material makes warm, sound-insulating flooring
  • The bark of this type of oak is used for a variety of purposes, including bottle stoppers & bulletin boards
  • Pull out the stopper! It's Ireland's second most populous city
  • A museum in Silves, Portugal is devoted to this natural product important to Portugal's wine industry
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sandeman Winery in Portugal.) In Portugal corks are made from this variety of oak tree
  • Place:The Irish county where you'll find Kinsale Harbor
  • Irish city & county (4)
  • In 2007 Portugal issued a stamp made of this stopper material, 1/100 of an inch thick
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Little League headquarters in Williamsport, PA.) A baseball is made of leather, several yards of yarn & two layers of rubber covering a grape-sized sphere made with this lightweight wood
  • Pull out the stopper! This southern Irish city is the country's second largest
  • You may be asked to sniff one of these removed by a sommelier
  • The bull's eye in darts is also called this, the tree material from which it's made