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LITERATURE "This book by Virginia Woolf inspired Michael Cunningham's novel ""The Hours""" Mrs. Dalloway
GEOGRAPHY "The ""amiable"" former name of the Tongan archipelago" the Friendly Islands
GEOGRAPHY "The Rhine Valley occupies one-third of this 62-square-mile country; the Alps cover the rest" Liechtenstein
MUSIC "PBS fans know that ""Evening at Pops"" refers to this city's Pops" Boston
LITERATURE "In 1996 he simultaneously published ""The Regulators"" as Richard Bachman & ""Desperation"" under this name" Stephen King
HISTORY "In 1843 Congress allocated $30,000 to string one between Baltimore & Washington; it was completed in 1844" a telegraph wire
SCIENCE According to Chuck Jones, whenever possible, this force of nature was to be Wile E. Coyote's greatest enemy gravity
MUSIC This 1940 Disney film featured the music of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Schubert & Mussorgsky Fantasia
SCIENCE The Babylonians kept abreast of the times using a form of this instrument seen here: Sundial
HISTORY Dying in 2009 at age 113, British WWI vet Henry Allingham was the last original surviving member of this group, formed 1918 the Royal Air Force
SCIENCE -273 Celsius absolute zero
MUSIC Pehaps the greatest violinist ever, this Italian could play a whole piece on just one string Niccolo Paganini
MUSIC "Blink-182: ""That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're ___""" 23
MUSIC Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey The Sound of Music
MUSIC "In this song, David Bowie instructs, ""Put on your red shoes and dance the blues""" Let's Dance
LITERATURE "Longfellow wrote, ""Tell me not"" that ""life is but an empty"" this" dream
SCIENCE "His 1543 book ""Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"" started an astronomical revolution" Nicholas Copernicus
MUSIC Baby, boudoir & concert are 3 sizes of this type of piano grand piano
MUSIC "Welcome MCR, this alt-rock group, to ""The Black Parade"", its 2006 concept album" My Chemical Romance
SCIENCE Iron filings are often used to demonstrate the presence of this field magnetic field
HISTORY By 1942 FDR had appointed 7 new men to this body: it took a while, but he got the packing he had wanted the Supreme Court
GEOGRAPHY "Rebels took the post office in this city during their ""rising"" on Easter Monday, 1916" Dublin
SCIENCE An institute of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist (Niels) Bohr
SCIENCE This adjective describes organisms purposely grown in a petri disk, whether they like opera or not cultured
GEOGRAPHY To accuse someone of being dopey, crude or just unevolved, you can call him this, from a valley near Dusseldorf a Neanderthal
HISTORY "Founded in 1702, Mobile in this state became the ""City of Six Flags"" (but it doesn't have a Six Flags theme park)" Alabama
HISTORY "Montezuma's real revenge: a 1741 British expedition to conquer Mexico was devastated by this ""colorful"" disease" yellow fever
HISTORY The revolutionary Fenians invaded this British overseas dominion in 1866 & 1870 Canada
LITERATURE "In a poem he named himself Cadenus, an anagram of Decanus, or ""Dean""" Jonathan Swift
MUSIC "This man's aria ""Ombra Mai Fu"" from ""Xerxes"" is not as famous as his ""Hallelujah Chorus""" Handel
LITERATURE This loving relative who takes care of Tom Sawyer was inspired by Mark Twain's own mother Aunt Polly
HISTORY Democracy And Social Ethics is a 1902 book by this founder of Hull House Jane Addams
SCIENCE The eggs of the Japanese species of this small game bird were studied on the Mir Space Station quail
SCIENCE "C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>5</sub>, it's found before ""alcohol"" & is a homophone of a female first name" ethyl
SCIENCE With 4 patents in 1933, Edwin H. Armstrong is credited as the sole inventor of this radio system FM (Frequency Modulation)
MUSIC Leonine Monarch The Lion King
LITERATURE "A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for ""The Night of the Iguana"", a play by this writer" Tennessee Williams
GEOGRAPHY The highest point in this mountain range is Pico de Aneto, near Spain's northern border Pyrenees
MUSIC "French for ""study"", it's a musical piece intended to help students improve their technique" Etude
MUSIC In 1980 Devo had its only Top 40 hit with this song Whip It
MUSIC Parrotheads Jimmy Buffett
HISTORY The city-states of Sidon & Tyre were olocated in this Mediterranean region now occupied mostly by Lebanon Phoenicia
LITERATURE "This Russian-born author & scientist who died in 1992 said, ""I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them""" Isaac Asimov
GEOGRAPHY This Venezuelan river empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Trinidad the Orinoco
HISTORY This Alexandrian added latitude & longitude lines to his maps around 151 A.D. Ptolemy
MUSIC Barbara Cook won a Tony for playing Marian the Librarian in the original production of this musical The Music Man
MUSIC ...& the Mechanics Mike
HISTORY Named for the modest wife of Pepin the Short, a bertha is a wide one of these blouse features a collar
HISTORY "Rumor has it this ""Great"" Russian empress had insomnia; with all those lovers, who could sleep?" Catherine the Great
MUSIC The double bassoon is also known by this name Contrabassoon
MUSIC "Elton John & Kiki Dee had a No. 1 hit with ""Don't Go"" doing this" Breaking My Heart
LITERATURE In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island Don Quixote
LITERATURE "Alexandra Ripley read this novel 6 times in preparation for writing its sequel, ""Scarlett""" Gone with the Wind
HISTORY "This first host of ""The Tonight Show"" emceed ""Meeting of Minds"" for PBS in 1977" Steve Allen
MUSIC "Poetically, tones are sometimes described adjectivally as this, from the Latin for ""sweet""" dulcet
SCIENCE 2 colors called this aren't praising each other, they're directly opposite each other on a color wheel Complementary colors
MUSIC "It's where I'm sitting ""just rolling along, just rolling along""" on top of the world
HISTORY "On January 18, 1871 the German Empire's Wilhelm I received this title which means ""emperor""" Kaiser
SCIENCE A grub is this soft, thick stage of metamorphosis of flies, wasps & beetles larva
SCIENCE "In geometry it's a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, it's the smallest wrist bone" Trapezoid
HISTORY "As a child, she was captured by the Hadatsahs and given the name which means ""bird woman""" Sacajawea
HISTORY "Chloe, I need a Jan. 24, year 41 location on this Roman emperor, aka ""Little Boot""... cancel that; he's dead" Caligula
MUSIC "But don't forget who's takin' you home and in whose arms you're gonna be, so darli The Last Dance For Me"""
GEOGRAPHY There are first-person accounts of this volcano's eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.) Vesuvius
MUSIC Treat Williams, Gary Sandy & Jim Belushi have all played the pirate king in this operetta The Pirates of Penzance
SCIENCE "The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed by this space shuttle; 3 years later the Endeavour fixed its mirror" Discovery
HISTORY Thinking she's dressed as an Indian for a costume party on Dec. 16, 1773, Phoebe attends this Mass. event Boston Tea Party
SCIENCE Brighter in the night sky than any star is this planet that comes closest to the Earth Venus
GEOGRAPHY Thunder Bay, a city in Ontario, is on Thunder Bay, an arm of this largest Great Lake (Lake) Superior
MUSIC There's trouble in River City when professor Harold Hill comes a-calling in this musical The Music Man
LITERATURE In 1630 John Milton wrote a sonnet honoring this other famous sonneteer William Shakespeare
MUSIC You have our word it's Broadway's longest-running nostalgic musical set in a high school Grease
MUSIC "In 1994 Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia in ""The Brady Bunch"", appeared as Rizzo in this Broadway musical" Grease
SCIENCE This element, symbol Co, was once popular for making invisible ink cobalt
SCIENCE "A hot biomedical topic is apoptosis, the programmed ""suicide"" of these biological units" cells
HISTORY "March 1942: He ""says 'I shall return'""; April 1951: ""Harry Orders Big Mac To Go""" MacArthur
HISTORY In 1951 viewers found this Tennessee senator's organized crime hearings quite arresting Estes Kefauver
SCIENCE This word can mean unable to produce offspring or free from living microorganisms sterile (sterility accepted)
HISTORY This dance was popular for decades in Brazil before achieving popularity in the U.S. around 1930 samba
SCIENCE The Portland type of this substance is limestone & shale heated until almost fused, then ground cement
LITERATURE "Seldom does a first book contain so few unsuccessful things, said Amy Lowell of his ""Chicago Poems""" Sandburg
MUSIC The Once and Future King Camelot
SCIENCE Fm is the chemical symbol for this element, discovered in the 20th century Fermium
HISTORY In 1898 Britain leased the New Territories from China, adding to the area of this dependency Hong Kong
SCIENCE Along with pressure & elevation, breezes are mainly caused by differences in this between adjacent areas temperature
SCIENCE State of matter a substance is in after it's gone through evaporation gaseous
LITERATURE "Peter Straub & this master of horror were good friends long before they collaborated on ""The Talisman""" Stephen King
LITERATURE "Published in 1931, ""Safe Conduct"" is an autobiographical work by this ""Doctor Zhivago"" author" Boris Pasternak
MUSIC "1968 musical that featured ""45 Minutes From Broadway"", ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" & ""Harrigan""" George M!
HISTORY Old name for Russia & 14 other republics until 1991: The ____ Union the Soviet Union
SCIENCE This attraction between atoms may be ionic, covalent or hydrogen the bond
HISTORY Barons & churchmen drew up this 1215 document to reduce the power of England's King John The Magna Carta
MUSIC "Being a surfer helped this Hawaiian musician ""Sleep Through The Static""" Jack Johnson
HISTORY "Because the yoke originally was cut off, the name of this dress is Hawaiian for ""cut-off""" a mu'umu'u
MUSIC December 8, 1980 in New York City John Lennon
LITERATURE "The Red Rover is a sea novel by this author of ""The Last of the Mohicans""" James Fenimore Cooper
MUSIC "This group had 26 No. 1 country hits in the '80s, including ""Feels So Right""" Alabama
MUSIC The instrument heard here, or what you might use to capture its sound a recorder
HISTORY "He traveled the world & beyond with his novels ""Poland"", ""Caribbean"" & ""Space""" (James) Michener
MUSIC Joey Heatherton was 15 going on 16, not 16 going on 17, when she understudied the role of Liesl in this musical The Sound of Music
HISTORY The Rosebuds of this Northwest city were the first pro hockey team in the U.S. Portland
HISTORY In 1889 this island joined up with Tobago as a single colony Trinidad
HISTORY Indianapolis was laid out in a wheel pattern inspired by this other major city some 500 miles away Washington, D.C.
HISTORY For the Cherokees this infamous trail led to Fort Gibson, Oklahoma the Trail of Tears
GEOGRAPHY Charlotte Amalie, the capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands, is located on this island St. Thomas
GEOGRAPHY "This ""great"" lake on the Arctic circle is the largest lake entirely within Canada" Great Bear Lake
HISTORY In 969 the Fatimids conquered Egypt & made this city a center of the Muslim world Cairo
MUSIC Vincent Price rap-narrates the now classic video to this Michael Jackson song Thriller
HISTORY "In 1770 Capt. James Cook became the first European to sight Australia's fertile east coast, which he named ""New"" this" South Wales
GEOGRAPHY About a third of this state lies north of the Arctic Circle Alaska
LITERATURE "This author who set ""The Return of the Native"" in Wessex had a terrier named Wessex" (Thomas) Hardy
MUSIC "Hey, ""Don't Cry for Me""! I won't get the lead in this musical, but I'll be great as Juan Peron" Evita
SCIENCE "Just using flour & water gives you unleavened bread; add this fungus to leaven it" yeast
HISTORY English words drawn from the Algonquian language include moose, terrapin & this other word for groundhog woodchuck
HISTORY This first U.S. first lady, a fine equestrienne, once rode a horse up the stairs of her uncle's house Martha Washington
LITERATURE "Henry Miller's ""The Colossus of Maroussi"" is an account of his travels in this country" Greece
MUSIC Devoted fans of the hit musical about this dual personality are known as Jeckies Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
SCIENCE The Big Dipper is part of this constellation Ursa Major
LITERATURE "1995's ""Carrington"" also portrays the life & loves of this Bloomsbury Group member who wrote ""Eminent Victorians""" Lytton Strachey
HISTORY This mystic ate his last meal at the home of Prince Feliks Yusupov, one of the men who killed him Rasputin
LITERATURE "He published the first 4 of his fairy tales in an 1835 pamphlet; ""The Tinder Box"" was among them" Hans Christian Andersen
LITERATURE "In this novel, d'Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as ""Don Quixote at 18""" The Three Musketeers
HISTORY During the Wars of the Roses, the houses of Lancaster & this one both claimed the English throne York
MUSIC Knowing Me, Knowing You by Sam Carmichael Mamma Mia
MUSIC Liszt, Borodin & Rimsky-Korsakov all wrote variations of this simple waltz Chopsticks
MUSIC A little larger than the violin, it's the alto or tenor of the family Viola
HISTORY The Treaty of Bretigny in 1360 brought a brief period of peace during this war Hundred Years' War
HISTORY These ancient people referred to themselves as Hellenes Greeks
HISTORY England & France fought the Battle of the Herrings in 1429, as this long, long conflict lurching was to a close The Hundred Years' War
HISTORY Segregation was in effect long before this country formally introduced apartheid in 1948 South Africa
MUSIC ...& the Blackhearts Joan Jett
MUSIC "Peter Allen's song ""Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage"" was a tribute to this late star, once his mother-in-law" Judy Garland
SCIENCE "In old science, it's a type of ""generation"" of life from nonliving matter; it's also a type of ""combustion""" spontaneous
LITERATURE "Depending on the book, he could be a ""Jones"", a ""Sawyer"", or an ""Uncle""" Tom
SCIENCE In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes Meiosis
HISTORY Called by some the Father of Europe, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans December 25, 800 Charlemagne
MUSIC "In 2003 he & Art Garfunkel broke their ""Sounds of Silence"", reuniting for the Grammys & a new tour" Paul Simon
LITERATURE "It completes the Robert Browning line ""God's in His heaven...""" ...all's right with the world
HISTORY As a result of the Congress of Vienna in 1835, Sweden received Norway from this country Denmark
GEOGRAPHY "2 of the 4 countries bordering Afghanistan whose names also end in ""stan""" (2 of 4) Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan
MUSIC "He made his name in '50s gospel before ""twisting the night away"" as a pop superstar" Sam Cooke
MUSIC This string instrument got its name from its old job of playing along with other instruments low notes a double bass
LITERATURE As this 1931 novel begins, Wang Lung travels to the house of Hwang to fetch his bride The Good Earth
SCIENCE His contribution to science was the celluloid strip used in film, not the sanitary strip used in hotels John Wesley Hyatt
HISTORY Mercader is going after Trotsky on Aug. 20, 1940! I need the site! In Coyoacan, in this country? I'll be there in 20! Mexico
SCIENCE This process of making rubber harder & more elastic by heating it with sulfur bears the name of a Roman god vulcanization
LITERATURE "In ""Beowulf"", this monster regularly devours Hrothgar's sleeping warriors" Grendel
HISTORY "When this ""dark"" knight sacked Limoges, France in 1370, he killed more than 3,000 citizens" the Black Prince
MUSIC If your sheet music features no sharps or flats, just a treble clef, this is the key C
SCIENCE "The petals of the English daisy do this at night; the flowers of the scarlet pimpernel, when bad weather approaches" fold up (or close)
SCIENCE He published his quantum theory in 1900 while a professor of physics in Berlin (Max) Planck
SCIENCE About 1 hydrogen atom in 6,500 is this isotope deuterium
HISTORY In 1863 Prince William of Denmark ascended this country's throne as King George I Greece
LITERATURE "This ""Lord of the Rings"" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959" J.R.R. Tolkien
HISTORY On Feb. 12, 1912, the last emperor of this dynasty abdicated, ending more than 3,000 years of Chinese monarchy Manchu
HISTORY "Between 1951 & 1977 this ""automotive"" foundation pumped about $290 million into public TV" the Ford Foundation
HISTORY Sadiq Al-Mahdi, great-grandson of the Mahdi, led this largest African country from 1986-1989 The Sudan
HISTORY Romania was one Warsaw Pact country that didn't participate in the 1968 invasion of this country Czechoslovakia
MUSIC Reverend Moore, Ariel, Ren Footloose
MUSIC In 1893 Francisco Fanciulli succeeded this man as leader of the U.S. Marine Band John Philip Sousa
MUSIC "In 1999 this group sang, ""Maria, you've gotta see her, go insane and out of your mind""" Blondie
HISTORY Of the 15 expulsions of senators in the Senate's 215-year history, 11 took place in this year 1861
HISTORY Prior to his election to the Tennessee legislature in 1821, this frontiersman was a Justice of the Peace Davy Crockett
HISTORY In 1936 this 16-year-old succeeded his father, Fuad I, as king of Egypt Farouk I
SCIENCE Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types igneous
SCIENCE Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types igneous
HISTORY Named for a monastery, this group led by Robespierre instigated France's reign of terror in 1793 the Jacobins
HISTORY "In 303 A.D. Diocletian forbade Christian worship; this man, his ""Great"" successor, revoked the edict 10 years later" Constantine
GEOGRAPHY 1 of Denmark's 2 overseas regions Faroe Islands & Greenland
LITERATURE "In ""Alexander's Feast"" John Dryden wrote, ""None but the brave deserves"" them" the fair
LITERATURE "From the early 1900s, his ""The First Men in the Moon"" & ""The War in the Air"" proved eerily prophetic" H.G. Wells
SCIENCE "Intact DNA was recently extracted from one of these ancient ""royal relics""" mummy
MUSIC "The 1924 musical revue ""I'll Say She Is"" made these goofy brothers legitimate Broadway stars" the Marx Brothers
LITERATURE "In 1991 Robert Pirsig published ""Lila"", a follow-up to his classic ""Zen and the Art of"" this" Motorcycle Maintenance
MUSIC Timpani are multiple mounted ones of these instruments drums
LITERATURE "At the time of her death in 1974, she was writing a sequel to ""Every Night, Josephine!""" Jacqueline Susann
HISTORY This Borgia, seen here, looks far more innocent than all those nasty rumors would imply Lucrezia Borgia
MUSIC "His 1983 hit ""Beat It"" featured Eddie Van Halen on gutiar" Michael Jackson
LITERATURE The Houyhnhnms in this 1726 satire have the forms of horses Gulliver's Travels
MUSIC "In 1984 this comic parodied Michael Jackson's ""Beat It"" with record & video versions of ""Eat It""" Weird Al Yankovic
HISTORY HIstoric nickname for the curved region between the Mediterranean & Mesopotamia the Fertile Crescent
HISTORY "A jacket named for this ""Spirit""ed aviator became extremely popular in 1927" Lindbergh
HISTORY In the 1960s, many Barbie doll fashions, & even Barbie's bouffant hairdo, were inspired by this First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy (Onassis)
GEOGRAPHY Alexander the Great led his troops as far east as the Hyphasis, now the Beas, river in this country India
SCIENCE Through his experiments with pea plants, he discovered the basic principles of heredity Mendel
GEOGRAPHY The Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros lies in this ocean in the Mozambique Channel Indian Ocean
LITERATURE The grandson of a humorist, the son of a children's author, his first novel in 1974 was huge bestseller Peter Benchley
LITERATURE After she died in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered hundreds of her poems in little handsewn booklets Emily Dickinson
LITERATURE His grandfather Thomas Gore was a senator from Oklahoma Gore Vidal
HISTORY Known for his long wall, he also built Rome's magnificent Athenaeum Hadrian
MUSIC "This group's Kerry Livgren wrote ""Dust in the Wind"" after reading a book of Native American poetry" Kansas
LITERATURE A religious kaside poem praised God, this man or his son-in-law, Ali Ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph Muhammad
LITERATURE Dorothy's felt-tipped pens Parker's markers
MUSIC "Ernest Bloch's orchestral work ""Helvetia, The Land Of Mountains Amd Its People"" honors this country, his birthplace" Switzerland
GEOGRAPHY This river is responsible for irrigating about 6 million acres of land in Egypt Nile
LITERATURE "First published in 1835, ""Berence"" has been called ""his most horrifying tale""" Edgar Allan Poe
HISTORY "This monk might have said, ""Give peas a chance""; he used pea plants to discover the laws of heredity" Gregor Mendel
LITERATURE "T.S. Eliot dedicated ""The Waste Land"" to this poet & critic who helped revise it" Ezra Pound
SCIENCE It's the more common name for solid CO<sub>2</sub> dry ice
SCIENCE Graphite is a soft form of this element carbon
LITERATURE The knight is the first character to tell his story in this Chaucer classic The Canterbury Tales
LITERATURE "Edwin Arlington Robinson character who ""one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head""" Richard Cory
LITERATURE "1720's ""The Adventures of Captain Singleton"" was his next novel after ""Robinson Crusoe""" Daniel Defoe
GEOGRAPHY This river enters Egypt near Lake Nasser the Nile
HISTORY "Famous 1863 speech by President Lincoln that began, ""Four score and seven years ago...""" the Gettysburg Address
MUSIC "He wrote the song that says, ""I get no kick from champagne""" Cole Porter
SCIENCE "Inside the heart there are 4 of these; 2 semilunar, a bicuspid & a tricuspid" valves
LITERATURE One of the USA's greatest novelists, he lived most of his life, from 1876 to 1916, in England Henry James
LITERATURE "In Robert Browning's ""Pippa Passes"", ""God's in"" this place -- ""all's right with the world""" His heaven
MUSIC "Her self-titled debut album, which included the hit ""Vision of Love"", reached the top of the charts in 1990" Mariah Carey
SCIENCE It's elemental: Zn zinc
LITERATURE "According to the title of an Allan Gurganus novel, Lucy Marsden, the ""Oldest Living"" one of these, ""Tells All""" Confederate widow
SCIENCE In palynology scientists study the past distribution of seed plants by looking at grains of this pollen
GEOGRAPHY This capital city lies on the broad & shallow plain formed by the Moskva River & tributaries Moscow
SCIENCE This type of headlight that uses a trace of bromine or iodine vapor is the standard in auto manufacture halogen
GEOGRAPHY Denmark's highest point, Yding Skovhoj, rises only 568 feet on this peninsula Jutland
LITERATURE A series of dreams he had about lions helped inspire his Narnia books C.S. Lewis
LITERATURE GEOGRAPHY "Leo Tolstoy's story about Hadji Murat, ""who slew the Russian swine"", opens in this present-day Russian republic" Chechnya
MUSIC "This musical direction, Italian for ""lively"", is also the title of a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical" Allegro
GEOGRAPHY "Venice, Italy is the ""mistress of"" this arm of the Mediterranean" the Adriatic
SCIENCE The X-Men know it's a change in a DNA molecule of a cell that's passed on to an offspring cell mutation
MUSIC Musical instruments such as marimbas & maracas are classified as this type Percussion
LITERATURE "With ""Pandora"", she recently began a new series of vampire tales" Anne Rice
HISTORY Soon after Ataturk became Turkey's president in 1923, he banned the wearing of this traditional hat fez
LITERATURE "19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote ""The American Woman's Home"" with this more famous sister" Harriet Beecher Stowe
HISTORY "A political or social system; an ""ancien"" one governed France until 1789" a regime
SCIENCE The flask that this British scientist invented in the 1890s was a predecessor of the Thermos James Dewar
HISTORY Beverage World reports that in 1996 the U.S. exceeded this country in number of breweries for the first time Germany
SCIENCE In 1897 this son of slaves discovered 3 new species of fungi which are named for him, including taphrina carveri George Washington Carver
HISTORY After losing his Senate seat to John F. Kennedy, he was made U.S. representative at the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
MUSIC "A 1993 film was actually ""Thirty Two Short Films About"" this pianist known for interpreting Bach" Glenn Gould
MUSIC No, it's true! A crwth is a Welsh version of this ancient stringed instrument a lyre
GEOGRAPHY "This part of the United Kingdom is called ""Cymru"" in its native language" Wales
LITERATURE "He finished writing ""Evangeline"" on his 40th birthday" Longfellow
HISTORY One reason this fascist Italian dictator adopted the Roman salute may have been a fear of shaking hands Mussolini
HISTORY Topps' 1952 series No. 311 was this player's first card & is a holy grail among collectors Mickey Mantle
LITERATURE "In 1852 this ""Scarlet Letter"" author wrote a campaign biography for his friend Franklin Pierce" Nathaniel Hawthorne
HISTORY Under the 1815 Congress of Vienna, Sweden was given this neighbor that was taken from Denmark Norway
LITERATURE Cavatica is the last name of the title character of this 1952 E.B. White novel Charlotte's Web
HISTORY As queen of the Netherlands during WWI, she helped maintain Dutch neutrality Wilhelmina
GEOGRAPHY "8th most populous country in the world, this ""Bengal Nation"" was once East Pakistan" Bangladesh
MUSIC Scene by the brook is the title of one movement of this Beethoven symphony in F major the 6th symphony
MUSIC In 1989 she released “Express Yourself” & got divorced from Sean Penn Madonna
SCIENCE In the 1780s William Herschel determined its axial inclination & found it had ice caps Mars
SCIENCE What makes Rigel the brightest star in this constellation is that it's really 3 stars (& they're not in the belt) Orion
HISTORY Tikal became an important ceremonial center of this civilization, prior to 300 A.D. the Mayans
SCIENCE "The pH in pH scale stands for the ""potential of "" this element" Hydrogen
HISTORY Between 1850 & 1864, the Taiping Rebellion claimed an estimated 20,000,000 lives in this country China
SCIENCE In breathing it's the gas you expel to the atmosphere Carbon Dioxide
HISTORY In 1914 German troops came within 15 miles of this capital before being repulsed at the Marne Paris
SCIENCE Rockets produce 7 million pounds of thrust during takeoff of this vehicle, the space transportation system the Shuttle
HISTORY "A 1795 partition ended its existence as a separate state in E. Europe; in 1918 it was back as a republic" Poland
LITERATURE "In 1833 a French historian said that this author had built ""a cathedral as solid as the foundations of the other (one)""" Victor Hugo
MUSIC "Peter Tchaikovsky wrote 3 ballets: ""Swan Lake"", ""Sleeping Beauty"" & this perennial Christmas favorite" The Nutcracker
MUSIC "Sherry & ""December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)""" Jersey Boys
HISTORY On Aug. 19, 1942 an Allied force took heavy casualties in an attack on this fort fortified by Germans Dieppe
HISTORY This Polish-French composer who was born in 1810 composed a polonaise when he was only 7 (Fredric) Chopin
SCIENCE "In concert hall acoustics, it's the opposite of reflection; the Sabin is a unit of it" absorption
MUSIC "Named for a steamboat captain, this ""Mother Church of Country Music"" was home to the Opry for 31 years" Ryman Auditorium
LITERATURE "The Burr Oak, Iowa hotel in which this ""Little House on the Prairie"" author briefly lived is a museum" Laura Ingalls Wilder
HISTORY 5 weeks after surrendering to the Allies in 1943, Italy declared war on this country Germany
HISTORY This treaty that created the European Union is named for the Dutch city where it was drawn up in 1991 Maastricht
HISTORY In 73 B.C. this Thracian gladiator began a 2-year slave revolt against Roman rule Spartacus
MUSIC "In 2005, she topped the album charts with ""The Emancipation of Mimi""" Mariah Carey
LITERATURE "An 1894 Anthony Hope romance was titled this ""of Zenda""" the Prisoner
GEOGRAPHY "This Washington volcano erupted on November 22, 1842; it blew its top again in 1980" Mount St. Helens
HISTORY Cuban hill that was stormed by the Rough Riders on July 1, 1898 San Juan Hill
LITERATURE "This author of espionage novels like ""Our Man in Havana"" was a popular candidate for the prize" Graham Greene
HISTORY In 1368 the Ming dynasty didn't just take over this country, they urned it China
MUSIC "Her big sister Loretta Lynn wrote her 1st single, ""I've Cried The Blue Right Out Of My Eyes""" Crystal Gayle
HISTORY In 1992 Nathan E. Cook, the last veteran of this war, died the Spanish-American War
HISTORY In 1502, during his last voyage to the Americas, he sighted what is now Nicaragua Christopher Columbus
HISTORY J.J. Dessalines, who bore scars from his master's whip, wanted to kill all whites on his island, now called this Hispaniola
GEOGRAPHY The tiny nation of Andorra is located in the Pyrenees Mountains between France & this country Spain
SCIENCE Launched by the Soviets in 1957, the 1st living creature to orbit the Earth was one of these Dog (Laika)
LITERATURE "In his 1st book, ""The Boo"", Pat Conroy wrote about this South Carolina military academy, his alma mater" The Citadel
HISTORY This late 18th- early 19th-century French diplomat served at least seven different regimes Talleyrand
HISTORY "Since the 1600s this 8-letter word has meant men of letters; a punning form of it refers to celebrities" literati
HISTORY The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was known by this pious title Edward the Confessor
LITERATURE "In 1900 he wrote the line, ""The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick""" L. Frank Baum
GEOGRAPHY The Paraguay River divides Paraguay into 2 major regions: Occidental Paraguay & this Oriental Paraguay
GEOGRAPHY Once the capital of New Netherland, New York City was originally named this New Amsterdam
LITERATURE Shaw's scorched saint St. Joan of Arc
HISTORY The lid seen here depicts a bird in this dynasty that was ruling China in 101 Han
HISTORY In 1927 the 2nd Treaty of Tirana established a 20-year defensive alliance between Italy & this country Albania
HISTORY "In a large painting called ""Models"", this pointillist included a glimpse of his masterpiece ""La Grande Jatte""" Seurat
MUSIC "This Frenchman did not allow the publication of his ""Carnival of the Animals"" during his lifetime" Camille Saint-Saens
MUSIC "This superstar was born in Saginaw in 1950 & by 1961, signed with Motown's Berry Gordy; isn't he lovely?" Stevie Wonder
MUSIC "This group's 1995 album ""Pulse"" includes a live performance of all the songs from ""Dark Side of the Moon""" Pink Floyd
LITERATURE "This ""Lolita"" author remembers his childhood in St. Petersburg in his memoir ""Speak, Memory""" Vladimir Nabokov
SCIENCE This word can mean to weaken a solution by adding water, or can describe a solution that's been weakened Dilute
LITERATURE This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line Madeline
SCIENCE "This Pole died in 1543, days after receiving the first copy of his book ""On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies""" Copernicus
LITERATURE Pal, a male collie, played the lead in the 1943 movie version of this Eric Knight novel Lassie Come Home
LITERATURE "While living on a Maine farm, he wrote ""Charlotte's Web"", which is set on a farm" E.B. White
HISTORY In 1524 peasants, influenced by the teachings of this German religious leader, started an uprising Martin Luther
HISTORY A runner ran 25 miles & died after announcing Greeks had defeated them in the Battle of Marathon the Persians
LITERATURE "Her bestsellers ""Chances"", ""Lucky"" & ""Lady Boss"" all revolve around Lucky Santangelo" Jackie Collins
SCIENCE This medal metal is usually an alloy of tin & copper bronze
HISTORY In about 1403 Belgrade, now the capital of Yuogslavia, became the capital of this country Serbia
HISTORY "In 1192 Yoritomo, the leader of the Minamoto Clan controlling Japan, was given this title that means ""great general""" shogun
SCIENCE Physicist John Wheeler compared possible passages through space & time to the work of this creature a worm
MUSIC He was a disc jockey on San Francisco's soul station KSOL before teaming on records with the Family Stone Sly
GEOGRAPHY Nuremberg & Augsburg are cities in this southern German state Bavaria
SCIENCE The number of planets in our solar system larger than the Earth 4
HISTORY MUSIC It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work London Bridge
MUSIC This composer & Freemason belonged to Suomi Lodge No. 1 in Helsinki Sibelius
LITERATURE "On a 1987 trip to China, this author of ""The Joy Luck Club"" met 2 of her half-sisters for the first time" Amy Tan
GEOGRAPHY MUSIC It's where Fats Domino found his thrill in 1956 Blueberry Hill
GEOGRAPHY Joshua Tree National Monument near Palm Springs in this state was made a national park in 1994 California
HISTORY James Connnolly & Patrick Pearse were among those executed for leading this April 1916 rebellion Easter Rebellion
MUSIC "Telluride's festival for this ""colorful"" style of country music is a good place to fiddle around" bluegrass
LITERATURE "In this novel, Javert says, ""There is a brigand, there is a convict called Jean Valjean, and I have got him!""" Les Miserables
SCIENCE From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element silver
HISTORY 2 of the 3 member nations of the Triple Alliance at the beginning of World War I Austria-Hungary & Germany (also Italy)
GEOGRAPHY The first recorded eruption of this Sicilian volcano occurred in about 1500 B.C. Mount Etna
SCIENCE Tracking these, coast guard rates them as bergy bits, growlers, small, medium, & large icebergs
SCIENCE "From the French for ""to raise"", it's an embankment designed to prohibit the overflow of water" a levee
HISTORY In 1963 Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of this north African country Algeria
LITERATURE "As well as the ""Iliad"" & ""Odyssey"", a number of hymns are attributed to him" Homer
LITERATURE "In ""Little Women"", this youngest of the 4 sisters is ""a most important person, in her own opinion at least""" Amy
SCIENCE "A magnetic field is measured in units called gauss or this after a real ""coil"" guy" Nikola Tesla
LITERATURE New Hampshire, a poem with notes & grace notes, earned this poet the first of his four Pulitzers Robert Frost
HISTORY He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean Charles Lindbergh
HISTORY The youngest branch of the U.S. military, it was created soon after World War II the Air Force
HISTORY This state's constitution of 1849 led married women retain control of their own property California
LITERATURE "This author's ""The Man Who Would Be King"" has been called the perfect short story" Rudyard Kipling
LITERATURE African Game Trails Teddy Roosevelt
SCIENCE A pair of pliers is an example of this type of simple machine a lever
HISTORY Germany's worst terrorist gang finally disbanded in 1998, though Baader died in 1977 & this co-leader in 1976 Ulrike Meinhof
SCIENCE To the nearest 100, the number of different elements we know about 100
LITERATURE This 1532 work is dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, son of Piero de Medici The Prince
LITERATURE "In 2002 Christopher Hitchens published a book called ""Why"" this great anti-totalitarian writer ""Matters""" George Orwell
GEOGRAPHY Yding Skovhoj, Denmark's highest point, is located on this peninsula Jutland
MUSIC "The name of this small harpsichord may come from the Latin for ""rod"" or for ""maiden""" a virginal
LITERATURE The academy didn't have time to recognize this author, killed by Spanish nationalists in 1936 at age 38 Federico Garcia Lorca
SCIENCE Almost all weather takes place in this lowest part of the atmosphere Troposphere
GEOGRAPHY Northern California's Mount Shasta & Lassen Peak are at the southern end of this mountain range the Cascades
LITERATURE In the 1970s Milan Kundera was stripped of his citizenship by this country's government Czechoslovakia
LITERATURE "This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled ""A Story of the Buried Life""" Look Homeward Angel
LITERATURE "In ""Little Women"" she tells sisters Jo, Amy & Beth, ""It's so dreadful to be poor""" Meg
MUSIC This ConAgra sweet popcorn treat comes in butter toffee & caramel flavors Fiddle Faddle
MUSIC "1941: ""Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy""" The Andrews Sisters
LITERATURE "A famous line in a James Weldon Johnson poem says, ""Young man -- young man -- your arm's too short to"" do this" box with God
LITERATURE Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909 Futurism
LITERATURE TMZ went on the literary beat in 2009 when this partner of Jessica Lange was busted for a DUI Sam Shepard
LITERATURE "His ""From Here to Eternity"" was the top-selling novel of 1951" James Jones
LITERATURE In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor the Mayor of Casterbridge
HISTORY "With its food served ""With the Speed of Sound"", the Top Hat chain in Oklahoma changed its name to this in 1959" Sonic
HISTORY "A visit to Toynbee Hall, a settlement house in England, inspired Jane Addams to found this ""house""" Hull House
SCIENCE "Matter has the ""potential"" form of this by virtue of its position or structure" energy
LITERATURE "He wrote his 1914 poem ""Chicago"" while working as a newspaper writer in that city" Carl Sandburg
HISTORY Union with this Baltic country in 1386 made Poland Europe's largest country Lithuania
HISTORY "The last of the 13 colonies to be founded, its ""Mother City"", Savannah, was settled in 1733" Georgia
MUSIC "The Ladies Who Lunch love this composer's ""Company"", which began keeping company on B'way again in 2006" Stephen Sondheim
HISTORY On Sept. 2, 31 B.C. the forces of Octavian defeated Mark Antony's troops at the battle of this Greek promontory Actium
MUSIC Icky Thump was a No. 1 modern rock hit for this duo the White Stripes
LITERATURE Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Lit., was also the first person from this country to win it Sweden
SCIENCE This innermost & larger of Mars' 2 moons orbits the planet every 7.65 hours Phobos
LITERATURE In 1912 he eloped with Freida von Richthofen, sister of the famed aviator D.H. Lawrence
HISTORY On July 22, 1969 he designated Juan Carlos as his successor in Spain Francisco Franco
SCIENCE "Sarcasm aside, this word from the Greek for ""burning"" describes a substance that causes corrosion" caustic
HISTORY In 1827 Allan Cunningham became the first European to explore this continent's Darling Downs Australia
SCIENCE This type of cable has insulated conducting material around a separately insulated conducting tube coaxial
HISTORY "The leader of the post-WWII style, sometimes called action painting; his work is seen here" (Jackson) Pollock
GEOGRAPHY Named for an explorer (not the brothers, eh?), this longest river in Canada empties into the Beaufort Sea the MacKenzie River
MUSIC "He recorded his 1982 hit album, ""Nebraska"", as a series of demos on a 4-track machine at home" Bruce Springsteen
GEOGRAPHY This state has a Custer County as well as one named Big Horn Montana
HISTORY "This wild west ""Belle"" served time in prison for horse theft in 1883" Belle Starr
LITERATURE ...Nearly every man in the village agreed she was the finest collie he had ever laid eyes on Lassie
SCIENCE In astronomy, Ptolemy's geocentric model gave way to the Copernican one described by this adjective heliocentric
HISTORY "When this Italian explorer was a kid, his dad went to China without him; when he was a teen, his dad took him along" Marco Polo
MUSIC "The working title of this musical was ""Welcome to Berlin""" Cabaret
HISTORY More than 250,000 died in fighting before France granted this African nation independence July 3, 1962 Algeria
HISTORY During an 1832 expedition, Lake Itasca was discovered to be the source of this river the Mississippi
MUSIC "(Hi, I'm Marvin Hamlisch, here at the Hollywood Bowl) I composed the music for this Broadway smash that includes the song... (""One"")" A Chorus Line
LITERATURE "Born Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, she chose this pseudonym for her 1st novel, 1832's ""Indiana""" George Sand
LITERATURE "Poet Laureate of the U.S. from 1993 to 1995, she won a 1987 Pulitzer for ""Thomas and Beulah""" Rita Dove
HISTORY Davy Crockett was among nearly 200 men who died defending this mission-fortress in San Antonio, Texas the Alamo
HISTORY 1985: The national finals in this 5-letter cowboy competition are held in Vegas for the first time rodeo
HISTORY Hold the phone! said Elisha Gray & Thomas Edison, who both sued this Scottish-born inventor (& lost) Alexander Graham Bell
LITERATURE "He wrote ""Bech: A Book"", ""Bech Is Back"" & ""Bech At Bay"" in addition to his ""Rabbit"" novels" (John) Updike
LITERATURE In this 3-part work, the main character encounters Nimrod, Ulysses, Muhammad & Thomas Aquinas "\""The Divine Comedy\"""
MUSIC Mr. Vicious' offspring Sid's kids
HISTORY 19th century feminists denounced the 14th Amendment for putting this 4-letter word in the constitution male
MUSIC This musical style that developed in the 1940s is nicknamed R&B rhythm & blues
LITERATURE In this Wilkie Collins novel, Sergeant Cuff searches for the missing title diamond The Moonstone
MUSIC He's the trumpeter featured here on an oldie but goodie Herb Alpert
SCIENCE As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second photon
LITERATURE Mark Twain's real middle name Langhorne
LITERATURE "Mary Higgins Clark's recent book ""Silent Night"" takes place on the eve of this holiday" Christmas
LITERATURE 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel Sister Carrie
MUSIC "The revue ""Sophisticated Ladies"" is based on the music of this ""noble"" composer & bandleader" Duke Ellington
MUSIC "Kansas City (where ""ev'rythin's up to date"")" Oklahoma!
SCIENCE When Henry Cavendish discovered this lightest-known element, he called it inflammable air Hydrogen
SCIENCE In 1995 Dr. Robert Lefkowitz discovered sperm uses this sense to track down the egg smell
MUSIC "Seen here, this is a real ""hands-on"" instrument" bongo drums
HISTORY Thomas Savery's contribution to British history was patenting the first of these engines in 1698 a steam engine
GEOGRAPHY "It makes sense that this is ""The Mountain State"" since it lies entirely within the Appalachians" West Virginia
SCIENCE This drug marketed as Motrin was patented in Great Britain in 1964 Ibuprofen
HISTORY In 1867 Emperor Franz Joseph created this dual monarchy Austria-Hungary
HISTORY At its independence in 1957, the Gold Coast took the name of this medieval west African empire Ghana
HISTORY In 1541 Pedro de Valdivia, a soldier of this Inca conqueror, founded the city of Santiago in Chile Pizarro
HISTORY Elected the 19th U.S. president in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was a member of this political party Republican
MUSIC This instrument that's about half the size of a flute is the smallest woodwind in an orchestra Piccolo
MUSIC "Ray Brown, Percy Heath & Charles Mingus were ""stand-up"" guys as masters of this instrument" the double bass
MUSIC General Mills makes this snack with an unusual funnel shape in 6 flavors Bugles
HISTORY "In 1928 this Republican campaigned for president promising ""a chicken in every pot""" Hoover
LITERATURE "The 158-Pound Marriage, ""The Cider House Rules"", ""A Son of the Circus""" John Irving
LITERATURE If you're looking for Mr. (Robin) Goodfellow, ask for this Shakespearean character Puck
HISTORY It's the more familiar way that Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Great is known Charlemagne
SCIENCE In 1932 this inventor figured out a better way than using Iceland spar to polarize light Edwin Land
LITERATURE Austen's walking sticks Jane's canes
MUSIC This conductor, later seen on television, gained fame substituting on a 1943 New York Philharmonic radio broadcast Leonard Bernstein
HISTORY In 1965 President Johnson flew to this state to sign the Medicare bill with a former president as witness Missouri
LITERATURE To research this 1958 novel, Leon Uris reportedly traveled about 12,000 miles in Israel Exodus
MUSIC "In a Billy Joel hit, she's ""looking for a downtown man""" an Uptown Girl
HISTORY "In 1934 & 1935 this Chinese Communist leader led the Red Army on the ""Long March""" Mao Tse-tung
LITERATURE Joseph Heller used the Mediterranean island of Pianosa as the setting for this 1961 WWII novel Catch-22
SCIENCE Of the noble gases, it's first, alphabetically, was the first discovered & is the most abundant in air Argon
MUSIC One of the 4 notes to which violin strings are tuned (1 of 4) A, D, E, or G
GEOGRAPHY Dongfang, China, on Hainan Island, & northern Vietnam's Haiphong lie on this gulf Gulf of Tonkin
SCIENCE Activia says its yogurt is creamy & full of this type of culture that boosts health probiotic
GEOGRAPHY The north part of this Pacific sea off Australia's Queensland state is known as the Solomon Sea Coral Sea
LITERATURE He died at age 28, just 5 years after his Civil War novel was published "Stephen Crane (\""The Red Badge of Courage\"")"
HISTORY This Holy Roman empress was also the queen of Hungary & Bohemia from 1740 to 1780 Maria Theresa
LITERATURE A Bell For Adano John Hersey
MUSIC In 1969 Johnny Cash had a hit with this Shel Silverstein song A Boy Named Sue
SCIENCE "Despite the name, a substance gains electrons in this process, which puts the ""red"" in redox" reduction
MUSIC "She refused a 1990 Grammy for best alternative performance for ""I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got""" (Sinead) O'Connor
MUSIC The B-52's headed up the charts when they headed on down to this place Love Shack
HISTORY "This Indian ""king"" for whom a war against American colonists was named was tracked down & killed in 1676" Philip
LITERATURE This most popular of Zane Grey's books featured a gunslinger named Lassiter & Jane Withersteen, a Mormon heiress Riders of the Purple Sage
MUSIC "Kids & ""Put On A Happy Face""" Bye Bye Birdie
MUSIC His Piano Concerto No. 18, K. 456, was written for Viennese virtuoso Maria Theresia von Paradis Mozart
SCIENCE His first law of planetary motion states the planets' orbits are ellipses with the sun at one focus Johannes Kepler
HISTORY In January 1935 she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland Amelia Earhart
LITERATURE "In ""The Village Blacksmith"", Longfellow wrote of this ""Sounding"" object that the Blacksmith's hammer strikes" an anvil
LITERATURE "Concerning his ""Alice in Wonderland"" books, he said, ""I meant nothing but nonsense""" Lewis Carroll
LITERATURE "In a poem in this 1855 collection, the author introduced himself as ""Walt Whitman, an American""" Leaves of Grass
LITERATURE "In 1677 this dramatist's play ""Phedre"" was produced & he became Louis XIV's official historian" Jean Racine
HISTORY On Feb. 8, 1904 this country attacked Port Arthur, a Chinese port leased by the Russians, beginning a 19-month war Japan
MUSIC "In 1999 this Broadway musical was advertised with the line: ""Before the Century Ends, See How It All Began""" Ragtime
LITERATURE In early drafts, the heroine of this novel was named Pansy & her family home was called Fontenoy Hall Gone with the Wind
LITERATURE "In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about ""The Lost Princess of"" this place" Oz
LITERATURE "Charles Perrault's 1697 work ""Contes de Ma Mere l'Oye"" was a collection of these" Mother Goose stories
LITERATURE "Dominick Dunne set part of his novel ""People Like Us"" in the home the Grenvilles lived in in this book" The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
LITERATURE At the end of their story, one returns to his estate, one marries a rich widow & one becomes a monk The Three Musketeers
LITERATURE "He collaborated with ex-wife Margaret Bourke White on documentaries but not on ""God's Little Acre""" Erskine Caldwell
HISTORY "In 1889 this ""colossal"" man's British South African Company received a charter to develop Malawi" (Cecil) Rhodes
SCIENCE In 1610 this Italian made his biggest discovery: the 4 largest moons of Jupiter Galileo
LITERATURE "Her novel ""The Shipping News"" has won several awards, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize" Anne Proulx
GEOGRAPHY This country is so huge that it occupies nearly half of South America's land area Brazil
GEOGRAPHY "This ""stately"" river carved the Black Canyon as well as the Grand Canyon" Colorado River
LITERATURE Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23 The Red Badge of Courage
MUSIC "In 1981 this group topped the charts singing, ""Here I am, the one that you love, askin' for another day""" Air Supply
SCIENCE A horse's hooves are made up of this protein, the same protein found in your fingernails Keratin
SCIENCE Ideally, this, the apparent boundary between the sky & the Earth, is at 90 degrees from the zenith Horizon
LITERATURE "As a youngster this ""Billy Budd"" author worked in his brother's fur store in Albany" Herman Melville
LITERATURE "Before playing ""Patriot Games"", all his military experience was in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore" Tom Clancy
MUSIC Lionel Hampton vibraphone
MUSIC This Leoncavallo opera of 1892 has a Commedia Dell'Arte playlet within it Pagliacci
SCIENCE It's defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge Ion
LITERATURE "The title of his 1840 novel ""The Pathfinder"" refers to Natty Bumppo" (James Fenimore) Cooper
HISTORY This 3-word Virginia village, site of a surrender, was made a National Historic Park in 1954 Appomattox Court House
LITERATURE "This ""Lolita"" author began writing in English while living in France" Vladimir Nabokov
MUSIC 2 songs from this Civil War epic were nominated for Academy Awards in 2004 Cold Mountain
SCIENCE A brain disease is named for Hans Creutzfeldt & this man who also described it around 1920 Alfons Jakob
HISTORY The Liberty Bell cracked July 8, 1835 while tolling this Chief Justice's death (John) Marshall
MUSIC "In 1967 Dionne Warwick sang, ""While combing my hair, now, and wondering what dress to wear, now, I"" do this" say a little prayer for you
LITERATURE "Only Dag Hammarskjold & Erik Karlfeldt have been awarded a Nobel Prize this way; it's not allowed anyore" posthumously
MUSIC The book of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John Gospel
LITERATURE Iraklion-born Nikos Kazantzakis is best known for this 1946 novel Zorba the Greek
LITERATURE "A puritanical tale: ""A Note From Miss Johansson""" The Scarlet Letter
HISTORY "Though the Supreme Court said in the 1830s this tribe was its own ""nation"" within Georgia, it didn't happen" Cherokee
LITERATURE Cervantes' Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry Don Quixote
SCIENCE Phytology is another name for this, the study of plants botany
HISTORY Historic ones of these occurred on St. Bartholomew's Day in 1572 & St. Valentine's Day in 1929 massacres
MUSIC "This flamboyant pianist said he did ""Reader's Digest versions of concertos""" Liberace
LITERATURE "His ""Fictional Memoir"" about his last African safari was published in 1999, 38 years after his death" Ernest Hemingway
MUSIC "Al Hirt jazzed up this Rimsky-Korsakov tune for the '60s ""Green Hornet""' TV series" Flight Of The Bumblebee
LITERATURE T.S. Eliot Stearns
HISTORY In 1801 this American boat designer tried to sell his submarine to Napoleon Fulton
LITERATURE "In ""Julia"", Jane Fonda played Lillian Hellman & Jason Robards played this author, her lover" Dashiell Hammett
MUSIC A 1725 notebook of compositions by this Baroque master bears the name of a wife who bore him 13 children Johann Sebastian Bach
SCIENCE "He died on May 24, 1543, just after receiving the first copy of his book ""On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies""" Nicolaus Copernicus
GEOGRAPHY This river that rises at Lake Itasca drains about 1/8 of the North American continent Mississippi River
GEOGRAPHY This South Dakota peak near Rapid City was named for a New York attorney, who represented mining investors Mount Rushmore
HISTORY Believed to be part black & part Native American, he was a leader & fatality in the 1770 Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks
LITERATURE "1915's ""The Metamorphosis"" is one of the best-known works by this Czech-born author" Franz Kafka
HISTORY These professional warriors wore 2 swords as a symbol of their caste Samurai
MUSIC This form of light opera with spoken dialogue evolved from the opera comique & led to the musical Operetta
SCIENCE This thermometer developer discovered that the boiling point of a liquid varies with atmospheric pressure Fahrenheit
SCIENCE France derives a higher percentage of its electricity from this energy source than any other country nuclear power
MUSIC Jim Henson's Creature Shop created a dancing pushmi-pullyu for the musical about this doctor who talks to animals Doctor Dolittle
HISTORY This geometric area is seen here in the 1890s, when it got its name after a gift from New York City's Italians Columbus Circle
HISTORY Around 2,000 years ago, members of this large African ethnolinguistic group began settling in Angola Bantu
HISTORY Centuries-long Iberian prosecution of heretics: The Spanish ____ the Spanish Inquisition
SCIENCE When the Earth's magnetosphere interacts with this flow of charged particles from the sun, auroras are produced the solar wind
LITERATURE "Charles Dickens' ""A Tale of Two Cities"" takes place during this struggle" the French Revolution