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16th CENTURY NAMES In his 1557 almanac this French doctor predicted, "Immortal I shall be in life, and in death even more so"

Nostradamus

PUBLISHING In 1927 the publishers of the Modern Library widened its scope and took this name, meant as a joke about how it would select titles

Random House

LITERARY TITLE WORDS b"It was Giovanni Boccaccio who added this adjective to another Italian author's work"

b'divine'

SCIENCE WORDS b'Appropriately, this word from Latin for "unfold" isn\'t in the first edition of "Origin of Species", but does appear in later editions'

b'evolution'

PHRASE ORIGINS b'Used in 1947\'s "U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey", this 2-word term became widely used again in NYC on 9/11/01'

b'ground zero'

OPERA b'The aria "Pour mon ame" by Donizetti includes 9 of these; a few tenors have earned the nickname "King of" them'

b'high Cs'

FAMILIAR PHRASES b'This 3-word phrase originated with a signal sent by General Sherman; today it means to be in charge temporarily'

b'hold the fort'

INVENTORS b'In 1702 Thomas Savery wrote of one of his designs, "Such an engine will do the work or labour of ten or twelve" these'

b'horses'

WORD ORIGINS b'When evidence was lacking, juries of yore would reply with this Latin word meaning "we do not know"; now it means a dunce'

b'ignoramus'

MEDICAL DISCOVERIES b'Nicolas Paulescu isolated a substance he called pancrein, now known as this'

b'insulin'

VOCABULARY b"Pronounced one way, this 7-letter word can mean unjustified; pronounced another, it's someone sickly"

b'invalid'

WORD ORIGINS b'Named for a Mediterranean country, this style of typography is based on a Renaissance script'

b'italics'

THE ANIMAL WORLD b"Born in Brisbane in 1999, Euca & Lyptus are the world's first confirmed identical twins of this animal"

b'koala'

8-LETTER WORDS b'This word that means "freedom from narrow restrictions" can also refer to one of a range of imaginary lines'

b'latitude'

ADJECTIVES b'This word meaning "gruesome" was inspired by the deaths of the leaders of a Jewish revolt in the 100s B.C.'

b'macabre'

WORD ORIGINS b'From the Arabic for "storehouse", in 1731 it was first used to refer to a monthly storehouse of information'

b'magazine'

TECH TERMS b'In a July 1990 post Yisrael Radai called this 7-letter term "a word I just coined for Trojans, viruses, worms etc."'

b'malware'

WORDS FROM THE FRENCH b'The first known use of this word in the U.S. was in an obituary for wealthy banker Pierre Lorillard in 1843'

b'millionaire'

SOCIAL MEDIA b'The most retweeted tweet of all time happened on November 6, 2012 & started with "four" & ended with these 2 words'

b'more years'

WORD ORIGINS b'This word for an action that could cause you to fail a class comes from the Latin for "kidnap"'

b'plagiarism'

5-LETTER LITERARY TERMS b'The "History" by Herodotus has been called the earliest surviving European work of this form, from Latin for "straightforward"'

b'prose'

POLITICALLY CORRECT POP CULTURE b'The violence goes on, but in 2006 Time Warner TV removed depictions of this activity from old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons'

b'smoking'

THE U.S. MILITARY b'This corps\' motto is "Building strong"'

b'the Army Corps of Engineers'

1920s LITERATURE b'The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita & a marquesa'

b'the Bridge of San Luis Rey'

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT b'This office is named for a tablecloth imprinted with squares that was once used as an abacus'

b'the Chancellor of the Exchequer'

HISTORIC STRUCTURES b"Pope Sixtus' death in 1590 ended his plan to convert this, still in Rome today, to a wool factory to employ city prostitutes"

b'the Colosseum'

WORLD RIVERS b'With 4, more national capitals are located on this river than any other river in the world'

b'the Danube'

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT b'Before signing the bill creating this, President George W. Bush noted its "nearly 170,000 employees" & "a new kind of war"'

b'the Department of Homeland Security'

GEOGRAPHIC ADJECTIVES b'Of the nations with adjectives in their common names, only this Western Hemisphere one bears the name of a religious order'

b'the Dominican Republic'

BUSINESS HISTORY b'Found near Amsterdam in 2010, a 1606 stock certificate from this long-defunct company has been valued at $750,000'

b'the Dutch East India Company'

BUSINESS HISTORY b'Crosby, Sinatra & Hope starred in the October 13, 1957 CBS-TV special that launched this short-lived product'

b'the Edsel'

WORLD LANDMARKS b"Built for a World's Fair in 1889, its visitors that year included the Prince of Wales & Buffalo Bill; it still gets 7M a year"

b'the Eiffel Tower'

U.S. TRANSPORTATION b'Writing in the 1820s, Lafayette\'s secretary called it a "great channel of communication, executed in eight years"'

b'the Erie Canal'

ORGANIZATIONS b'The C.A.P., or Common Agricultural Policy, accounts for almost half the budget of this 25-nation organization'

b'the European Union'

THE WORLD AFTER WWII b'This peninsula was divided when Japan surrendered to the U.S. below the 38th parallel & to the Soviet Union north of it'

b'the Korean Peninsula'

MUSIC IN AMERICA b"Established by Congress in 1798, it's the oldest continuously active U.S. professional music ensemble"

b'the Marine Corps Band'

ADVERTISING ICONS b'On Advertising Age\'s list of the Top 10 Ad Icons of the 20th c., they\'re the 2 alliterative entries that end in "Man"'

b'the Michelin Man & the Marlboro Man'

CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHIES b'The constitution of this country allows the monarch to abdicate, which has happened in 1948, 1980 & 2013'

b'the Netherlands'

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART b"64 paintings from the Met's founding purchase are still in its collection; over 1/3 of them are from this current European nation"

b'the Netherlands'

PHYSICISTS b'On Oct. 14, 1992 particle detector inventor Georges Charpak became the last man in physics to achieve this honor alone'

b'the Nobel Prize'

THE EARTH b'As Earth wobbles slowly on its axis, this moves in a "Chandler Circle" with a diameter of about 1 to 70 feet'

b'the North Pole'

STATE FLAGS b"It is mentioned in the motto on Minnesota's flag & is depicted on Alaska's"

b'the North Star'

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS b'It\'s the shorter, better-known name of the document "United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967"'

b'the Pentagon Papers'

HISTORIC OBJECTS b'In 1802, 3 years after it was discovered, it was moved to London under the terms of the surrender of Alexandria'

b'the Rosetta Stone'

AMERICAN HISTORY b"This volunteer group was born in May 1898 near the bar in San Antonio's Menger Hotel; it existed for just 133 days"

b'the Rough Riders'

GOVERNMENT b'"Features" at the website of this agency include "Protection", "Investigations" & "Know Your Money"'

b'the Secret Service'

U.S. GOVERNMENT PEOPLE b'A committee chaired by the official in this job released the influential 1964 report "Smoking and Health"'

b'the Surgeon General'

ON THE GLOBE b"Of the 5 named circles of latitude on a standard Earth globe, it's the one with the longest name"

b'the Tropic of Capricorn'

GARMENTS OF THE WORLD b'The custom of hijab, Arabic for "veiling", can include this garment, mentioned by Kipling'

b'the burqa'

PLANTS b'Economically speaking, this plant family with about 10,000 species is by far the most important'

b'the grass family'

MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS b'Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of...tail & both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up"'

b'the hound of Hades or Cerberus'

AMERICAN LITERATURE b'"The Scarlet Letter" says, "to forbid the culprit to hide his face... was the essence of" this 7-letter punishment'

b'the pillory'

FAMOUS BUILDINGS Completed in 1943, this "city within a city" has outer walls over 900 feet long

the Pentagon

BUSINESSES An 1860 ad for this business that only lasted 19 months sought "ten or a dozen men, familiar with the management of horses"

the Pony Express

IN THE NEWSPAPER b'Her pen name honored a wise woman from the Old Testament & a 19th century U.S. president'

b'Abigail van Buren (or Dear Abby)'

THE MIDDLE AGES b"Some say the Dark Ages began when Byzantine Emperor Justinian closed this city's school of philosophy in 529 A.D."

b'Athens'

OLYMPIC CITIES b"It's the only U.S. state capital to have hosted the Summer Olympics"

b'Atlanta, Georgia'

COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS ON SCREEN b'From 1966 to 1968 this role was played by 2 different actresses in a TV series; it was also the title role in a 2004 film'

b'Catwoman'

BRITISH SCIENTISTS b'In 1859 a theory was born when he wrote, "from so simple a beginning endless forms... have been, and are being, evolved"'

b'Charles Darwin'

THE CIVIL WAR ERA The USA's largest state school in 1861, by 1862 its enrollment had dropped by 90%

the University of Virginia

U.S. POLITICAL PARTIES Shortly before its demise, it had split into "Conscience" & "Cotton" factions

the Whig party

SPORTS MASCOTS This Major League team has no mascot today, but from 1979 to 1981 used a mustachioed fella named Dandy

the Yankees

ENGLISH POETS b'Translator Edward Fitzgerald wrote that her 1861 "death is rather a relief to me... no more Aurora Leighs, thank God"'

b'Elizabeth Barrett Browning'

LITERARY CHARACTERS b"The only title character in her creator's 6 major novels, she was portrayed in a 1996 film & a 2009 miniseries"

b'Emma (Woodhouse)'

POETRY b'Her most famous poem was written for a December 1883 art & literary auction to benefit the Pedestal Fund'

b'Emma Lazarus'

AMERICAN NOVELISTS b'"What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after", he wrote in 1932'

b'Ernest Hemingway'

CHARACTERS IN POETRY b'The name of this title heroine of an 1847 poem is from the Greek for "good news"'

b'Evangeline'

DEATH OF AN AUTHOR b'In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly'

b'F. Scott Fitzgerald'

WEBSITES b"A slang term for Harvard's freshman register gave this website its name"

b'Facebook'

DISNEY MOVIES b'With special sound equipment needed in the auditorium, this 1940 film was initially released in only 14 theaters'

b'Fantasia'

SAINTHOOD b"In 2009 this man who died on Molokai in 1889 became Hawaii's first saint"

b'Father Damien'

HOLIDAYS b'Some believe a Roman celebration of the coming of spring, including fertility rites, led to the holiday we observe on this date'

b'February 14'

COMPOSERS b'His first name means "happy", but 3 of his 5 symphonies are in gloomy minor keys'

b'Felix Mendelssohn'

MEN OF MEDICINE b'After giving birth in Paris, American Marjorie Karmel wrote "Thank You" him & co-founded an organization now named for him'

b'Fernand Lamaze'

THE MOVIES b'This 2003 film spawned a craze for clown fish in home aquariums'

b'Finding Nemo'

"FIRST" PHRASES b'The earliest known use of this term was in an Indianapolis Star opinion piece of September 20, 1914'

b'First World War'

STATE QUARTERS b'Of the U.S. state quarters that feature sail-powered craft, the state depicting the oldest ship'

b'Florida'

MAGAZINES b'This title, launched in early 1930, seemed at odds with the Great Depression in subject & $1 cover price'

b'Fortune'

ALLIANCES b'The Quadruple Alliance began in 1813 against this country; in 1818 it let this country in & became the Quintuple Alliance'

b'France'

FILM DIRECTORS b'His work of the 1930s & \'40s is so associated with sentimentality that his name is often combined with "corn"'

b'Frank Capra'

HISTORIC SPEECHES b'He said, "We look forward to a world founded upon" freedom of speech, of worship, from want & from fear'

b'Franklin Delano Roosevelt'

TV SPIN-OFFS b'Premiering in 1993, this show lasted 11 seasons, like its predecessor show; the 2 were set nearly 2,500 miles apart'

b'Frasier'

TOYS b"In 1963 sculptor Phil Kraczkowski was paid $600 to design this Hasbro toy's original head"

b'G.I. Joe'

SCIENCE HISTORY b'In August 1971 on the Moon\'s surface, an astronaut repeated a famous experiment & declared that this man "was correct"'

b'Galileo'

THE VATICAN b"A statue of this man is being erected inside the Vatican's walls near where he was locked up in 1633"

b'Galileo'

1870s PEOPLE b'Preserved in the West Point library, his last message reads, "Benteen. Come on. Big village. Be quick. Bring packs"'

b'General Custer'

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY b'Founded in 1908, this big company was removed from the S&P 500 in 2009 after filing for bankruptcy but returned in 2013'

b'General Motors'

PLAYWRIGHTS b'On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet'

b'George Bernard Shaw'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b"He's the only U.S. president who never lived in the District of Columbia"

b'George Washington'

THE 50 STATES b'Between 1990 & 2004, its pop. grew 36%, edging Florida for the highest growth rate of any state east of Colorado'

b'Georgia'

AMERICAN HISTORY b'He was the only member of the Warren Commission who would later face would-be assassins himself'

b'Gerald Ford'

THE BRITISH EMPIRE b"1713's Treaty of Utrecht concluding the War of the Spanish Succession granted this small 2.3-square-mile area to Great Britain"

b'Gibraltar'

SPORTS TERM HISTORY b'After throwing a long, last-second touchdown in 1975, Roger Staubach said, "I closed my eyes & said" this'

b'Hail Mary'

U.S. TOURISM b"You can reach this town's convention & visitors bureau by calling 1-TOMANDHUCK"

b'Hannibal, Missouri'

BOOK DEDICATIONS b'The 1853 dedication of "12 Years a Slave" was to this woman author "whose name... is identified with the Great Reform"'

b'Harriet Beecher Stowe'

20th CENTURY PEOPLE b'In a PS to an April 12, 1945 letter, he wrote, "This was dictated before the world fell in on me... what a blow it was, but--I must meet it"'

b'Harry Truman'

STATE CAPITALS b'Seen here is the seal of this New England city that got its current name in 1637'

b'Hartford, Connecticut'

THE 50 STATES b"It's the only state name that when spelled officially contains a diacritical mark"

b'Hawaii'

HISTORIC NAMES ON THE MAP b'Nothing is known of his early life in England before 1600 or of the end of his life in North America after June 22, 1611'

b'Henry Hudson'

BRITISH ROYALTY b'After the death in combat of the previous king, he became the last one to win the crown while on the battlefield'

b'Henry VII'

SHAKESPEARE b'This 5-letter name appears 7 times in Shakespeare titles, more than any other name'

b'Henry'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b"When this president & his wife didn't want to be understood by others, they spoke to each other in Chinese"

b'Herbert Hoover'

U.S.A. b'Chocolate Avenue & Cocoa Avenue are 2 of the main thoroughfares in this town that was established in 1903'

b'Hershey, Pennsylvania'

LANDMARKS b'From 1936 to 1987, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power helped operate this facility in another state'

b'Hoover Dam'

ENGLISH SPELLING b'There are at least 50 common exceptions to the rule expressed by this popular rhyming mnemonic couplet'

b'I before E, except after C'

AUTHORS b'An international airport in Jamaica is named for this author who set many of his stories of the 1950s & 1960s there'

b'Ian Fleming'

BRITISH LEGENDARY POETRY b'The first edition of this collection of poems did not include "The Last Tournament"; it was added in the 1870s'

b'Idylls of the King'

20th CENTURY ARTISTS b'In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it"'

b'Jackson Pollock'

POPULAR BABY NAMES b'Character names in a book & movie series, the top names for 2009 & 2010 were Isabella for girls & this biblical one for boys'

b'Jacob'

ENGLISH LITERARY HISTORY b"Immediately before the Caroline era came this one, also from the monarch's Latin name"

b'Jacobean'

BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS b'One critic called Peter Martin\'s book about him "the best biography of the greatest biographer in the English language"'

b'James Boswell'

MOVIE STARS b"No. 18 on the AFI's list of the greatest American screen actors, he starred in just 3 films"

b'James Dean'

HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS b'Some claim the 1932 "suicide" of this star\'s husband Paul Bern was murder; she died 5 years later, at age 26'

b'Jean Harlow'

19th CENTURY MEN b"In 1813 La. Gov. William Claiborne put a $500 bounty on him; he responded by offering one for the gov.'s head"

b'Jean Lafitte'

BESTSELLING AUTHORS b"He had the year's bestselling novel a record 7 years in a row with 7 different titles, ending in 2000"

b'John Grisham'

AWARD NAMESAKES b'His "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book" from 1744 was one of the 1st books published specifically for children'

b'John Newbery'

MUSIC LEGENDS b'His 2003 People magazine obituary was headlined "Fade to Black"'

b'Johnny Cash'

MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES b'In 1949 this kingdom dropped the word "Trans" from the beginning of its name'

b'Jordan'

AUTHORS b'In hiding when his life was threatened, Salman Rushdie paid tribute to Conrad & Chekhov by using this pseudonym'

b'Joseph Anton'

AUTHORS b'In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River'

b'Joseph Conrad'

EUROPEAN LITERATURE b'An 1870 novel by this man mentions Moby Dick as well as a sea monster called a Kraken'

b'Jules Verne'

COMEDIC ACTRESSES b"She's won Emmys for 3 different TV shows & in 2013 she broke Lucille Ball's record for most nominations by a comedic actress"

b'Julia Louis-Dreyfus'

ANCIENT TIMES b'Plutarch\'s chapter on Romulus quotes this much later man as saying, "I love treason but hate a traitor"'

b'Julius Caesar'

MODERN-DAY CHINA b'Because Internet censors block mentions of this 1989 date, Chinese bloggers write it as "535"'

b'June 4'

SINGERS b'The only solo artist to have 5 Billboard No. 1 albums before the age of 19'

b'Justin Bieber'

INFLUENTIAL 19th CENTURY THINKERS b'At the University of Bonn in 1836, he was wounded in a duel with a member of an aristocratic Prussian fraternity'

b'Karl Marx'

PLACE NAMES b'From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man'

b'Karl Marx'

LITERARY HEROINES b'Fittingly, this character is named for a plant also known as arrowhead that belongs to the genus Sagittaria'

b'Katniss Everdeen'

19th CENTURY WRITERS b'After his death, he was given full military honors in Greece before his body was returned home for burial at his baronial seat'

b'Lord Byron'

POETS ON POETS b'Coleridge said this poet will "not be remembered at all, except as a wicked lord who... pretended to be ten times more wicked than he was"'

b'Lord Byron'

ASIA b'Consisting of a peninsula & 2 islands, it was the longest-lasting European colony in Asia: 442 years, ending in 1999'

b'Macau'

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY b'It\'s a landlocked nation in Western Africa & its name is "locked" within the name of a nation on Africa\'s east coast'

b'Mali (in Somalia)'

WORLD WAR II b'Rhyming names of the 2 places where FDR & Winston Churchill met up in February 1945'

b'Malta & Yalta'

THE 13th CENTURY b'In 1298 this explorer created his "Description of the World"'

b'Marco Polo'

RELIGION b'In 1875 she wrote, "Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe"'

b'Mary Baker Eddy'

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE SIGNERS b'The only Roman Catholic signer represented this state'

b'Maryland'

COLONIAL HISTORY b'A 1763 letter said that these 2 men were equipped with "instruments... to look at the posts in the line for ten or twelve miles"'

b'Mason & Dixon'

OCCUPATIONAL FIRST NAMES b"It's once again in demand repairing old stone infrastructure, & is 1 of the 5 most popular U.S. boys' names today"

b'Mason'

PRESIDENTIAL BIRTHPLACES b'4 U.S. presidents serving in 3 different centuries have been born in the same county in this state'

b'Massachusetts'

PRESIDENTIAL NAMES b"He's the only president whose first & last names contain the same pair of double letters"

b'Millard Fillmore'

RUSSIAN COMPOSERS b'His first name means "moderate"; sadly, immoderate drinking helped kill him in 1881 at age 42, but not on Bald Mountain'

b'Modest Mussorgsky'

TV THEME SONGS b'A 1984 country hit, "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" is the basis for its theme song'

b'Monday Night Football'

FRENCH PAINTERS b'This French painter wrote, "I am good for nothing except painting and gardening"'

b'Monet'

BASEBALL GEOGRAPHY b"After Alaska, it's the largest state in area without a Major League Baseball team"

b'Montana'

ROMAN EMPERORS b'In 59 A.D. Agrippina wrote to this man, her son, "Tell me why I should plot against your life?"--she was killed anyway'

b'Nero'

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS b'The last time the Democratic & Republican nominees had once been governor of the same state, this was the state'

b'New York'

GOVERNORS b'Of the 17 state governors who became president, the most from any state, 4, were from this one'

b'New York'

MUSICAL INSPIRATIONS b'The libretto for Haydn\'s oratorio "The Creation" was based on this epic English poem'

b'Paradise Lost'

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD b"Once a poor British protectorate, in 2012 this peninsular country ranked as the world's richest per capita"

b'Qatar'

20th CENTURY WOMEN b"The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor"

b'Rachel Carson'

PUBLISHING b'Founded in 1856, this company introduced a numbering system for U.S. highways in 1917'

b'Rand McNally'

AUTHORS & FILMMAKERS b'This author had a bitter feud with Michael Moore over the title of a 2004 documentary'

b'Ray Bradbury'

WORLD WAR II b'On June 5, 1944 FDR said of the capture of this city, "One up and two to go"'

b'Rome'

STATE CAPITALS b"It's the only 3-word state capital"

b'Salt Lake City'

BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS b"It's the last Best Picture winner with a real person's name in the title (a person who lived 400 years ago)"

b'Shakespeare in Love'

EUROPEAN AUTHORS b'Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle e-books'

b'Stieg Larsson'

BESTSELLING BOOKS b'This novel is dedicated to Esther Earl, who died of thyroid cancer at 16 & never got to read it'

b'The Fault in Our Stars'

CHARLES DICKENS b'The title setting of this novel includes figures in china, iron & ivory; suits of armor; old carvings & furniture'

b'The Old Curiosity Shop'

U.S. LANDMARKS b'It contains over 5,000 tons of steel, rises 630 feet in the air & is in the shape of an inverted catenary curve'

b'The St. Louis Gateway Arch'

CHARACTERS IN NOVELS b'Molly, the wife in this 1922 novel, represents a modern-day Penelope'

b'Ulysses'

ALPHABETS b"In the phonetic alphabet used by the U.S. military, it's the only letter that has the same name as a warrior people"

b'Zulu'

NATIONAL SONGS b'First publicly performed in 1745, this song sometimes has its pronouns changed'

b'\\"God Save The Queen\\" (or \\"King\\")'

BEATLES SONGS b'The title of this Beatles song is a Yoruba phrase that means "life goes on"'

b'\\"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\\"'

NO. 1 HITS OF THE 1970s b'In 2008 doctors said that, aptly, this Bee Gees song provides an ideal beat to follow'

b'\\"Stayin\\\' Alive\\"'

WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS b'After living in Honduras, O. Henry coined this term for a small country dependent on a single export'

b'a banana republic'

ANCIENT WEIGHTS & MEASURES b'The Hebrew word for this Biblical unit of measurement is Ammah, aptly meaning "elbow" or "forearm"'

b'a cubit'

INVENTORS b'In 1894, in his West Orange lab, Thomas Edison shot this sport, the first sporting event ever filmed'

b'boxing'

OSCAR WINNERS Later an Oscar winner, she appeared as the child baptized towards the end of "The Godfather"

Sofia Coppola

WORLD FAUNA Platypuses are to this Pacific island what alligators are to Florida

Tasmania

WRITERS A New Orleans literary festival in his honor includes various panels, a walking tour & a Stanley & Stella shouting contest

Tennessee Williams

VIDEO GAMES As part of its 30th anniversary celebration in 2014, this video game used the slogan "We all fit together"

Tetris

19th CENTURY NOTABLES Calling him a red-headed madman, in 1889 a group of his neighbors signed a petition to ban him from his home in Arles, France

Vincent van Gogh

ACTRESSES Already an Emmy winner, in 2017 she won an Oscar for the same role that had won her a Tony

Viola Davis

19th CENTURY NOVELS "The Gold Bug", Edgar Allan Poe's story about the search for Captain Kidd's buried loot, helped inspire this 1883 novel

Treasure Island

ECONOMICS b'In 2007 this 18th century professor & writer became the first Scotsman to appear on an English banknote'

b'Adam Smith'

NAVAL HEROES b'When he was killed in battle in 1805, he was wearing a uniform coat with sewn-on replicas of his 4 orders of chivalry'

b'Admiral Nelson'

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD b'The 14 countries that border China run alphabetically from this to Vietnam'

b'Afghanistan'

THE INTERNET b'On March 10, 2003 this nation got control of the .af Internet domain'

b'Afghanistan'

THE CONTINENTS b'It\xe2\x80\x99s the continent that\xe2\x80\x99s home to the most U.N. member countries, including a new one added in 2011'

b'Africa'

BRITISH AUTHORS b'The Pharmaceutical Journal praised her 1920 first novel, saying it dealt "with poisons in a knowledgeable way"'

b'Agatha Christie'

WORLDWIDE MEDIA b'The name for this news agency means "peninsula", referring to the Arabian peninsula'

b'Al Jazeera'

ORGANIZATIONS b'The co-founder of this respected organization refused to appear on the cover of Time magazine, even with his back turned'

b'Alcoholics Anonymous'

HISTORIC AMERICANS b'On July 11, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, "This is a mortal wound"; he died the next day'

b'Alexander Hamilton'

THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION b"New York's delegates were John Lansing, Robert Yates & this Founding Father, the only one of the 3 who signed"

b'Alexander Hamilton'

EUROPEAN HISTORY b'On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899'

b'Alfred Dreyfus'

MEDICAL HISTORY b'A patient who told this Frankfurt doctor "I have lost myself" was the basis for a paper he gave in 1906'

b'Alois Alzheimer'

BUSINESS b'"The Everything Store" is a book about this company that in 2012 was home to 1% of all North American Internet traffic'

b'Amazon.com'

SHAKESPEAREAN GEOGRAPHY b'This land, named for an Italian, is mentioned just once in a Shakespeare play--in "The Comedy of Errors"'

b'America'

NOTABLE NAMES b'The fervent patriotism of this man who died in 1919 earned him the nickname "The Star-Spangled Scotchman"'

b'Andrew Carnegie'

PRESIDENTIAL VETOES b'Of the 21 regular vetoes by this 19th century president, 15 were overridden, the highest reversal total for any president'

b'Andrew Johnson'

MOVIE SEQUELS b'Golf carts used by the crew in the production of this 2009 movie bore signs reading "Galileo" & "Bernini"'

b'Angels & Demons'

21st CENTURY GAMES b'The villains in this game were inspired by the swine flu epidemic scare'

b'Angry Birds'

THE TUDORS b'"Alone in prison strong / I wail my destiny" & "let pass my weary, guiltless ghost" are lines from a poem attributed to her'

b'Anne Boleyn'

LITERARY INFLUENCES b'A 1919 Shaw play subtitled "A Fantasia in the Russian Manner..." is an homage to this playwright who died in 1904'

b'Anton Chekhov'

BRAND LOGOS b'Its original logo, designed in 1976, showed Isaac Newton sitting under a tree'

b'Apple Computer'

STORES b"These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's"

b'Apple stores'

NUMBERS & LETTERS b"It's the world's most common number system & second-most common alphabet"

b'Arabic'

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD b"It's the largest country in area completely south of the equator that has a female president"

b'Argentina'

COUNTRIES' HIGHEST POINTS b'This country is home to the highest mountain outside Asia'

b'Argentina'

FRENCH LITERATURE b'An article about improvements in transportation, including the opening of the Suez Canal, inspired this 1873 novel'

b'Around the World in 80 Days'

PLAYWRIGHTS b'For a 1953 play, he spent time in Salem doing research at the courthouse & at the Witch House'

b'Arthur Miller'

GREEK MYTHOLOGY b'Fittingly, the name of this Titan may be derived from a word meaning "to bear" or "to support"'

b'Atlas'

20th CENTURY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS b'In 1997 the Alabama Bar Association erected a monument to this lawyer at the Old Courthouse in Monroeville'

b'Atticus Finch'

STATE CAPITALS b"It's the Southern city in which the building seen here is located; counting the panels may help"

b'Austin'

STATE CAPITALS b"Located in the Central Time Zone, it's the largest city by population to have no MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL team"

b'Austin, Texas'

EUROPEAN HISTORY b'So Prussia could dominate Germany, Bismarck excluded this country that lost the 1866 Battle of Koniggratz'

b'Austria'

CLASSIC MOVIE CHARACTERS b'The parents of this 1942 film character are an unnamed mother & a father known as "the great prince of the forest"'

b'Bambi'

SINGERS & ALBUMS b"She's the only artist to have No. 1 albums in 5 consecutive decades, from the 1960s to the 2000s"

b'Barbra Streisand'

20th CENTURY AMERICANS b'Rhyming last names of the 2 men pictured here, who had two very different professions'

b'Barrow & Darrow'

TV ANIMATION b'This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog'

b'Beavis & Butt-head'

TRAINS b"As of 2006, you can take a 48-hr. ride between these 2 cities, with a stretch on the world's highest railroad"

b'Beijing & Lhasa'

EPIC MOVIES b"An actress named Martha Scott played Charlton Heston's mother in both of these epics"

b'Ben-Hur & The Ten Commandments'

FROM NOVEL TO FILM b'First published in 1880 & made into a film in 1907, 1925 & 1959, it was the first work of fiction blessed by a pope'

b'Ben-Hur'

THE OSCARS b'The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s'

b'Ben-Hur'

WORLD LEADERS b'In 1990 she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office, to a daughter named Bakhtawar'

b'Benazir Bhutto'

COLONIAL PEN NAMES b'For gossip columns, he wrote under the name Busy Body; to discuss marriage, he became Anthony Afterwit'

b'Benjamin Franklin'

BRITISH BUSINESS b'For decades Rolls-Royce also owned this luxury brand named for its founder; now both are produced by German companies'

b'Bentley'

U.S. SCIENCE CITIES b'This California city has the honor of being the only one in the U.S. to have an element named for it'

b'Berkeley'

BRITISH LANDMARKS b'Completed in 1858, it was to be named St. Stephen, but was nicknamed this, honoring the chief commissioner of the works'

b'Big Ben'

THE PRESIDENCY b'With a combined age of just 90 years, this president & vice president were the youngest team ever inaugurated'

b'Bill Clinton & Al Gore'

WRITER/DIRECTORS b'His headstone, using a line from one of his scripts, says, "I\'m a writer but then nobody\'s perfect"'

b'Billy Wilder'

LITERATURE b'This 1877 novel was written "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses"'

b'Black Beauty'

MEET THE PRESS b'With 63 appearances, this ex-Senator & Pres. nominee has been on "Meet the Press" more than any other guest'

b'Bob Dole'

AMERICAN ICONS b'He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll & Minnesota Music Halls of Fame'

b'Bob Dylan'

19th CENTURY NOVELISTS b'William Wilkinson\'s "An Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia" inspired this author\'s most famous novel'

b'Bram Stoker'

PEOPLE IN HISTORY b'The name of this assassin is Latin for heavy, dull, insensitive, oafish'

b'Brutus'

JOLLY OLD ENGLAND b'Queen Anne liked the Marquess of Normanby, gave him permission to build a huge home in London & made him Duke of this'

b'Buckingham'

AMERICAN CITIES b'6 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are found in these 2 states'

b'California & Texas'

CLASSICAL MUSIC b'"Royal March of the Lion", "The Aquarium" & "The Aviary" are thematically related 1886 works from this man'

b'Camille Saint-Saens'

WWII b'FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him'

b'Camp David'

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES b'For 200 years, much of this large current country was known as "Rupert\'s Land", in honor of a cousin of Charles II'

b'Canada'

BROADWAY ACTRESSES b'She originated 2 famous Broadway roles: one later played on film by Marilyn Monroe, another by Barbra Streisand'

b'Carol Channing'

18th CENTURY SCIENTISTS b'This N. European said his grave-stone should be inscribed Princeps botanicorum, "prince of botanists"'

b'Carolus Linnaeus'

FICTION b'A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled'

b'Catch-22'

HISTORIC ROYAL RELATIVES b'This wife of Henry VIII was the aunt of the powerful Holy Roman Emperor Charles V'

b'Catherine of Aragon'

FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN b'On the eve of his 200th birthday in 2009, the Church of England offered him "an apology for misunderstanding you"'

b'Charles Darwin'

BRITISH HISTORY b'This 17th century king was the last British monarch to enter the House of Commons'

b'Charles I'

AVIATION HISTORY b'He was the 118th man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean'

b'Charles Lindbergh'

FAMOUS AMERICANS b'About him F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "In the spring of \'27, something bright and alien flashed across the sky..."'

b'Charles Lindbergh'

INVENTORS b'In 1823 this Scot obtained a patent for a process that made silk, paper & "other substances impervious to water and air"'

b'Charles Macintosh'

FILM LEGENDS b'His only competitive Oscar win was for Best Score in 1973 for a 1952 film in which he had starred as a washed-up comic'

b'Charlie Chaplin'

FRENCH HISTORY b'She said, "I told my plans to no one. I was not killing a man, but a wild beast that was devouring the French people"'

b'Charlotte Corday'

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE b'Joy, Nellie & Aranea are 3 of the many children of this title character'

b'Charlotte'

FIRST FAMILIES b'Sasha & Malia Obama are the first presidential children who were not old enough to vote for Dad since this one'

b'Chelsea Clinton'

BROADWAY MUSICALS b"Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history"

b'Chicago'

U.S. CITIES b'Its largest airport is named for a World War II hero; its second largest, for a World War II battle'

b'Chicago'

EVENTS OF 2010 b'A piece of custom-made equipment called the Phoenix played a key role in an October event in this country'

b'Chile'

CLASSICAL MUSIC b'This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair"'

b'Claire de Lune'

NOTABLE WOMEN b'When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort'

b'Clara Barton'

ARTISTS b'In 1881 he wrote to Emile Zola, "I must soon leave Vetheuil, and I am looking for a pretty place by the Seine"'

b'Claude Monet'

PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES b'The last 2 U.S. presidents to have only one child; both served in the 20th century'

b'Clinton & Truman'

BUSINESS TRADEMARKS b"Registered in 1893, this product's trademark is written in the Spencerian script of bookkeeper Frank Robinson"

b'Coca-Cola'

HOLIDAYS b"The Society for Human Resource Management says, of the 10 federal holidays, it's the least observed by the private sector"

b'Columbus Day'

PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION b"It's the name of the person next in the line of presidential succession after Robert Byrd"

b'Condoleezza Rice'

U.S. STATES b"This third-smallest state in area is home to the USA's third-oldest college"

b'Connecticut'

16th CENTURY SCIENTISTS b'It is often said of this man that he "stopped the sun and moved the earth"'

b'Copernicus'

FOREIGN FILMS b'A series of novels includes "Iron Knight, Silver Vase", "Precious Sword, Golden Hairpin" & this one, made into a film in 2000'

b'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS b'The Air Force\'s C-130 "Hurricane Hunters" are the only U.S. military aircraft allowed to enter this country\'s airspace'

b'Cuba'

AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS b"He was also the U.S.'s best-paid sportswriter, with stories of people like Chicago O'Brien & Jack the Bookie"

b'Damon Runyon'

THE OLD TESTAMENT b'This man was given the armor, helmet & sword of the first king of Israel, but refused to use them'

b'David'

MAGAZINES b'Celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013, 5280 Magazine is a guide to this city'

b'Denver'

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS b'The winner in 1984, he likes to be called "Arch", a reference to his job'

b'Desmond Tutu'

2013 NEWSMAKERS b'The name of this woman who achieved a long-held goal in 2013 is a homophone of a word for a water nymph'

b'Diana Nyad'

FOOD & DRINK b'A sign of a trend, in 2010 this product passed Pepsi to move into the No. 2 spot in U.S. soft drink popularity'

b'Diet Coke'

CLASSIC NOVELS b'In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about... chivalry"'

b'Don Quixote de la Mancha'

LITERATURE & MUSIC b'The band called "They Might Be Giants" ultimately gets its name from a phrase said by this title hero in a 1605 work'

b'Don Quixote'

LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS b'Lord Henry tells him, "What an exquisite life you have had!... It has not marred you. You are still the same"'

b'Dorian Gray'

AUTHORS' OBITUARIES b'In 1991 the N.Y. Times said English was "too skimpy for so rich an imagination"; his language & meter were irresistible'

b'Dr. Seuss'

THE SUPREME COURT b'Britannica said the court\'s ruling in his case "seemed a mortal blow to the newly created Republican Party"'

b'Dred Scott'

20th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITERS b'A publisher\'s note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "an enigma to book reviewers"'

b'E.E. Cummings'

CHARACTERS IN BOOKS b'This character says, "It\'s Christmas Day! I haven\'t missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night"'

b'Ebenezer Scrooge'

EMMY WINNERS b'These 2 men with 16 total career Emmys appeared in series with Mary Tyler Moore, one playing a TV host, one a TV producer'

b'Ed Asner & Carl Reiner'

AUTHORS b'Chapters in a 1914 novel by this author include "Jungle Battles", "His Own Kind" & "The Call of the Primitive"'

b'Edgar Rice Burroughs'

21st CENTURY EMMYS b'As 2 different characters, she is the first actress to win lead acting Emmys in both the drama & comedy categories'

b'Edie Falco'

BRITISH AUTHORS b'Though known for writing nonsense verse, he gave Queen Victoria drawing lessons & Tennyson wrote a poem to him'

b'Edward Lear'

COLONIAL AFRICA b'In 1945 Africa had only 4 independent countries; these 2 started with the same first letter'

b'Egypt & Ethiopia'

BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS b'The latest "Bartlett\'s" lists quotes chronologically; the first quotes come from this country'

b'Egypt'

CHARACTERS IN PLAYS b'This woman wished to be taken to "Bucknam Pellis... don\'t you know where it is? In the Green Park, where the king lives"'

b'Eliza Doolittle'

BORDERS b"Twice as long as Hadrian's Wall, Offa's Dyke was the traditional border between these 2 lands"

b'England & Wales'

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALISTS b'Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 individual golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid'

b'Eric Heiden'

AMERICAN AUTHORS b'Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day'

b'Ernest Hemingway'

U.S. STATES b"The difference of this Southern state's highest & lowest points is only 345 feet, the smallest disparity among the states"

b'Florida'

PRESIDENTIAL LASTS b'He was the most recent president who had not previously been a state governor'

b'George H.W. Bush'

AUTHORS b'In 1949 he wrote, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever"'

b'George Orwell'

BRITISH NOVELISTS b'In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable"'

b'George Orwell'

AUTHORS b'"The American Tolkien" was what Time magazine called this author with the same 2 middle initials as Tolkien'

b'George R.R. Martin'

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS b"He's the last person to receive a state's electoral votes while not running as a Democrat or as a Republican"

b'George Wallace'

THE PRESIDENCY b'From the same state, they\'re the 2 presidents whose occupations are listed by World Book as "planter"'

b'George Washington & Thomas Jefferson'

ENGLISH MONARCHS b'Since 1066, the longest consecutive period when the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name'

b'George'

THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE b'Living from 1846 to 1935, this celebrated Frenchman was known as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings"'

b'Georges Auguste Escoffier'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b"This man is the only U.S. president since Hoover not named Time magazine's Man or Person of the Year"

b'Gerald Ford'

LANDMARKS b"Operation Felix, a planned 1941 Nazi action to seize this territory, was never carried out because Spain wouldn't go along"

b'Gibraltar'

PLAYS OF THE 1980s b"This Pulitzer Prize-winning play was inspired by the writer's own experiences selling real estate in Chicago"

b'Glengarry Glen Ross'

WORLD LEADERS b'In 1946 she said, "We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples... to be masters of our own fate"'

b'Golda Meir'

CABLE TV FIRSTS b'When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one'

b'Gone with the Wind'

FAMOUS HOMES b'Purchased in 1957 & called "the second most famous home in America", it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006'

b'Graceland'

COUNTRIES' HIGHEST PEAKS b'These 2 nations, one an island, have highest peaks with the same name; they also share a common European culture'

b'Greece & Cyprus'

AMERICAN ACTORS b"Reflecting a long friendship dating to a 1962 film they did together, Brock Peters gave the eulogy at this star's 2003 funeral"

b'Gregory Peck'

THE HALL OF PRESIDENTS b'Of the 9 presidents whose images have a beard or mustache, this late 19th century man is the only Democrat'

b'Grover Cleveland'

LEGENDARY WOMEN b'In various tales, she is abducted by Melwas, Meleagant & Mordred'

b'Guinevere'

CHILDREN'S LIT b'This classic book begins, "The pretty little Swiss town of Mayenfeld lies at the foot of a mountain range"'

b'Heidi'

OLYMPIC HOST CITIES b'This European city hosted the northernmost Summer Games, also the first where Soviet athletes participated'

b'Helsinki, Finland'

19th CENTURY AMERICANS b'This New Englander began building his house in March 1845 & later wrote that it cost exactly $28.12 1/2'

b'Henry David Thoreau'

AMERICAN THINKERS b'"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude", he wrote in a chapter on solitude in an 1854 work'

b'Henry David Thoreau'

PLAY CHARACTERS b'In Peter Roach\'s phonetics glossary, this alliterative guy is "the best-known fictional phonetician"'

b'Henry Higgins'

FILMS OF THE 1950s b'The action in this film begins at 10:30 A.M. & plays out in almost-real time until 12:15'

b'High Noon'

FILMS OF THE 1950s b"In 2006 Albert II of Monaco attended the Newport Jazz Festival's 50th anniv. celebration of this film that's set during the festival"

b'High Society'

ISLANDS b'Present name of an island settled by Europeans in the 1490s, today the most populous island in the Americas'

b'Hispaniola'

COUNTRIES & POPULATIONS b"If it were a nation, a state with a 2-word name in this country would be the world's 6th most-populous at 200 million"

b'India'

COUNTRIES b"By area, it's the world's largest country that's named for a river"

b'India'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY b'Though it consists entirely of islands, this populous country borders 3 other nations'

b'Indonesia'

MONARCHS b"Cairo's Al-Rifai mosque is the resting place of 2 Egyptian kings & of a 20th century ruler of this Mideast country"

b'Iran'

AMERICAN AUTHORS b'Celebrated in April, National Robotics Week honors this man who coined the word "robotics" in a 1941 story'

b'Isaac Asimov'

GEOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE b'The first 2 sections of this Hemingway novel, published 9 years after his death, are titled "Bimini" & "Cuba"'

b'Islands in the Stream'

SHAKESPEARE b'After England, more Shakespeare plays are set in this present-day country than in any other'

b'Italy'

TV CHARACTERS b'Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban & Mayor Mike Rawlings were 3 of the real folks at the 2013 memorial for this TV character'

b'J. R. Ewing'

THE ACADEMY AWARDS b'Peter Finch was the first winner of a posthumous Best Actor Oscar; he was first to get 2 posthumous acting nominations'

b'James Dean'

AUTHORS b'He died in 1995, the day before the opening of a Glasgow veterinary library named for him'

b'James Herriot'

PRESIDENTS b'He is the only 19th century president to serve 2 complete terms with the same vice president'

b'James Monroe'

CELEBRITY NAMES b'This Oscar winner who had his own WB sitcom took his last name as a tribute to an earlier comic & sitcom star'

b'Jamie Foxx'

19th CENTURY NOVELISTS b'She wrote that "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance"'

b'Jane Austen'

ISLANDS b"Part of the 4th-most populous country, it's the world's most populous single island with about 120 million people"

b'Java'

20th CENTURY THINKERS b'Refusing to imprison this man for demonstrating during the 1960s, de Gaulle said, "One does not arrest Voltaire"'

b'Jean-Paul Sartre'

1960s TV CHARACTERS b'One of her first spoken lines is translated as "You have the face of a wise and fearless caliph"'

b'Jeannie'

STATE CAPITALS b"It's the only state capital that bears the name of a U.S. vice president"

b'Jefferson City'

ANCIENT HISTORY b"Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city"

b'Jericho'

BROADWAY MUSICALS b'Winner of a Tony for Best Musical, it culminates with an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'

b'Jersey Boys'

ENTERTAINERS b'In 2007 this entertainer & former sitcom star was made an honorary corporal by the U.S. Marine Corps'

b'Jim Nabors'

HOLLYWOOD HISTORY b'They were the first 2 sisters ever nominated for the same acting Oscar in the same year'

b'Joan Fontaine & Olivia de Havilland'

FLAGS & BANNERS b'This 15th century person said, "I had a banner of which the field was sprinkled with lilies"; written on top: "Jhesus Maria"'

b'Joan of Arc'

HISTORIC PURCHASES b'The English received this teenager from the Burgundians in 1431 for the sum of 10,000 francs'

b'Joan of Arc'

THE HISTORY OF FLIGHT b"In 1784 these 2 future presidents saw an early manned balloon flight in Paris &, in 1793, America's 1st, in Philadelphia"

b'John Adams & Thomas Jefferson'

REFERENCE BOOK MAKERS b'In 1863 he used the epigraph "I have gathered other... men\'s flowers, & nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own"'

b'John Bartlett'

19th CENTURY PEOPLE b'Frederick Douglass said this man\'s "zeal in the cause of my race was far greater than mine"'

b'John Brown'

PRESIDENTIAL RELATIVES b'Before George W. Bush, he was the last president to have both his parents attend his inauguration'

b'John F. Kennedy'

PRESIDENTS & FIRST LADIES b'The only foreign-born First Lady was the wife of this man who served in the diplomatic corps from age 14'

b'John Quincy Adams'

RICH & FAMOUS b'At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million'

b'John Rockefeller'

20th CENTURY AUTHORS b'A novel set during the Depression earned this author a 1940 Pulitzer Prize & contributed to him winning a Nobel Prize in 1962'

b'John Steinbeck'

18th CENTURY AMERICANS b'He preached, "The God that holds you over the pit of Hell, much as one holds a spider... over the fire, abhors you"'

b'Jonathan Edwards'

20th CENTURY NAMES b'In 1942 Winston Churchill said, "I can handle this peasant"; historians aren\'t sure things turned out that way'

b'Joseph Stalin'

AWARDS & HONORS b'A trophy named for this author is awarded to anyone who breaks the record for sailing a yacht around the world'

b'Jules Verne'

BABY NAMES b"Once among the top 100 girls' names, in 2006 it made a sudden drop to 382, many hesitant to use it"

b'Katrina'

MODERN MATERIALS b"Introduced in the '70s to replace steel belting on high-speed tires, it's called stronger than steel & lighter than nylon"

b'Kevlar'

FOREIGN LEADERS b'On February 25, 1956, he gave a speech "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences", seen as an attack on his predecessor'

b'Khrushchev'

BIBLICAL AKA b'This second king of Israel was "the sweet singer of Israel"'

b'King David'

MYTHOLOGY b'Rich with electrum, the Turkish river Pactolus is where this legendary man was said to have washed off his curse'

b'King Midas'

ANCIENT QUOTATIONS b'When Byzantine Emperor Justinian completed Hagia Sophia, he declared, this king, "I have surpassed thee"'

b'King Solomon'

LITERARY BIOGRAPHIES b'Quoting a famous line of his, a 2011 biography of this man was titled "And So It Goes"'

b'Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'

20th CENTURY BUSINESSMEN b'He published "Hunting, Fishing, and Camping" in 1942 & "My Story: The Autobiography of a Down-East Merchant" in 1960'

b'L.L. Bean'

U.S. BODIES OF WATER b'These 2 Great Lakes each border 4 U.S. states'

b'Lake Michigan & Lake Erie'

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN WRITERS b'Concluding a 4-book series, his 2004 novel "Folly and Glory" features Kit Carson, William Clark & Jim Bowie'

b'Larry McMurtry'

GEOGRAPHIC TERMS b'This area that includes several countries got its name because the colonizers spoke Spanish, French & Portuguese'

b'Latin America'

CLASSIC MOVIE DUOS b'Around the world they\'re known variously as "Flip i Flap", "Dick und Doof" & "El Gordo y el Flaco"'

b'Laurel & Hardy'

ACTORS b'In 1970 he became the first professional actor to be named a lord'

b'Laurence Olivier'

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM b'The coelacanth & the ivory-billed woodpecker are sometimes referred to as this biblical man "species"'

b'Lazarus'

19th CENTURY AUTHORS b'His works include "Sylvie and Bruno", "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems" & "Algebraic Formulae and Rules"'

b'Lewis Carroll'

AFRICA b"Its Declaration of Independence was signed in 1847 by 11 men in that nation's Providence Baptist Church"

b'Liberia'

AFRICAN CAPITALS b'This West Central African capital grew out of a settlement that France established for freed slaves in 1849'

b'Libreville'

COUNTRIES b'It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family'

b'Liechtenstein'

21st CENTURY NOVELS b'In a letter to the author, President Obama called this "a lovely book--an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling"'

b'Life of Pi (by Yann Martel)'

TOYS b"Original sets of this toy that was first sold in 1918 included plans for building Uncle Tom's Cabin"

b'Lincoln Logs'

CELEBRITY MARRIAGES b"Her 3rd husband won a Best Actor Oscar in the '90s; her 2nd husband, like her dad, is a Rock & Roll Hall of Famer"

b'Lisa Marie Presley'

FASHION DESIGNERS b'In 1986 her company, now associated with JC Penney, became the first founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500'

b'Liz Claiborne'

MUSICAL HISTORY b"It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work"

b'London Bridge'

20th CENTURY BOOKS b'"A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel'

b'Lord of the Flies'

LITERARY TITLES b'This 1954 book title refers to an impaled sow\'s head, an offering to the "beast"'

b'Lord of the Flies'

EUROPEAN HISTORY b'This 17th century king named his throne room the Apollo Chamber'

b'Louis XIV'

LANGUAGES b"They're the 2 states with the highest percentage of people who speak French at home"

b'Louisiana & Maine'

NATIONAL HOLIDAYS b'June 23, National Day in this country, began as a celebration of the birthday of Grand Duchess Charlotte'

b'Luxembourg'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b"He's the only president sworn in on a Catholic missal; it wasn't his"

b'Lyndon Baines Johnson'

ITALIAN INVENTORS b'In 1910 his new invention helped Scotland Yard catch a murderer escaping to North America across the Atlantic'

b'Marconi'

THE TITANIC b'A member of Parliament said, "Those who have been saved have been saved through one man", this Italian'

b'Marconi'

2013 OBITUARIES b'She was called a "savior", a "heartless tyrant", a "trailblazer", "intimidating" & a "real toughie"'

b'Margaret Thatcher'

POP SINGERS b'Charting her 18th No. 1 single in April 2008, she now has more Billboard No. 1 pop hits than any other solo artist'

b'Mariah Carey'

BEST ACTOR OSCARS b'1 of 2 performers to win 2 Best Actor Oscars for films that won Best Picture'

b'Marlon Brando or Dustin Hoffman'

MOONS & MYTHOLOGY b'This planet is named for a Roman god; its only moons are named for the sons of his Greek counterpart'

b'Mars'

16th CENTURY PEOPLE b'This non-Brit said in 1532, "I advised (Henry VIII) that it would be better for him to take a concubine than to ruin his people"'

b'Martin Luther'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b'Although born in the United States, he was the only president who spoke English as a second language'

b'Martin Van Buren'

HISTORIC AMERICANS b"Sharing his first name with the man who took this 1850s photo, he's the diplomat & officer seen here"

b'Matthew Perry'

AUTHORS b"This author whose 1st name is also an English word meaning a saying or motto was the 1st president of the Soviet writers' union"

b'Maxim Gorky'

HISTORIC RULERS b"This ruler of a New World country was born in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1832 & executed far from home in 1867"

b'Maximilian I'

MYTHOLOGY b'The ancient Greeks derived the name of this evil sorceress from a verb meaning "to plot"'

b'Medea'

SPORTS BUSINESS b'In 1993 this man said, "What Phil & Nike have done is turn me into a dream"'

b'Michael Jordan'

WORLD LEADERS b'Shortly after he received the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize, his country ceased to exist'

b'Mikhail Gorbachev'

MODERN MONARCHIES b"Of the 3 African countries ruled by monarchs, it's the farthest north"

b'Morocco'

FAMOUS AUSTRIANS b"The home on Vienna's Domgasse where he lived in the 1780s was reopened amid fanfare in January 2006"

b'Mozart'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY b'Names of the 2 geographical features on a 2012 postage stamp issued jointly by Nepal & Israel'

b'Mt. Everest & The Dead Sea'

NOBEL LAUREATES b'The 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner from this country was under arrest at the time of the award'

b'Myanmar'

ORGANIZATIONS b'In 2003 Allied Command Europe & Allied Command Atlantic, parts of this organization, merged'

b'NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)'

DOGS & GEOGRAPHY b'In 2001 the names of these 2 breeds came together in the new official name of a Canadian province'

b'Newfoundland & Labrador'

16th CENTURY NAMES b'In 2010, 467 years after his death, this man at odds with the church was reburied with honors at a Polish cathedral'

b'Nicolaus Copernicus'

THE 50 STATES b'Benjamin Harrison had the admission orders shuffled, so no one knows which of these 2 states was 39th & which was 40th'

b'North & South Dakota'

COASTAL STATES b'With 301 miles, it has the most coastline of current states that were part of the 13 original colonies'

b'North Carolina'

ANTARCTICA b'This country that explored the Antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent'

b'Norway'

A REAL RENAISSANCE MAN b"The sudden 1559 death of France's King Henry II in a joust caused some to believe in this man's writings"

b'Nostradamus'

INDEPENDENCE DAYS b"Poland's Independence Day commemorates this month & day in 1918"

b'November 11'

AMERICAN THEATRE HISTORY b'This 1943 musical is based on a 1931 play that featured Tex Ritter as a cowboy & Lee Strasberg as a peddler'

b'Oklahoma!'

OFFICIAL STATE SONGS b'In 1953 it became the only state whose official song was written for a Broadway musical'

b'Oklahoma'

1950s FICTION b'John Updike wrote "Rabbit, Run" partly in reaction to this more carefree novel that was published 3 years earlier'

b'On the Road'

TELEVISION b'Set to the song "You\'ve Got Time", a montage of real women who were incarcerated is in the opening credits of this series'

b'Orange Is the New Black'

GREAT MOMENTS IN THE 20th CENTURY b'On 9/20/1904, about 9 months after making a great advance, these 2 made another advance by going in a circle'

b'Orville and Wilbur Wright'

19th CENTURY POETRY b'He wrote, "He looked upon the garish day With such a wistful eye; The man had killed the thing he loved, & so he had to die"'

b'Oscar Wilde'

BIOGRAPHIES b'Michael Foldy examined "The Trials of" this author: "Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian Society"'

b'Oscar Wilde'

FAMOUS EUROPEANS b'After moving to Argentina in 1949, this industrialist was named a righteous gentile by Yad Vashem'

b'Oskar Schindler'

POETS b'While north of his homeland he was inspired to write perhaps his greatest work, "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"'

b'Pablo Neruda'

ASIAN BORDERS b'In 1893 the British established the Durand line, now the boundary, much in the news since 2001, between these 2 countries'

b'Pakistan & Afghanistan'

CALIFORNIA CITIES b'A park, elementary school & medical pavilion named for Herbert Hoover are found in this 2-word California city'

b'Palo Alto'

BIOGRAPHERS b'As many mourned, this minister wrote in a letter, "Washington is gone! Millions are gasping to read... about him"'

b'Parson Weems'

b"Besides Frank & Nancy Sinatra, they're the only other father & daughter who each had No. 1 solo hits"

b'Pat & Debby Boone'

FIRST NAMES b'This first name of a patron saint of a country comes from a Roman word referring to a social class'

b'Patrick'

FRENCH ARTISTS b'In 1887 this artist tried living in Panama & worked on the canal before the U.S. got involved'

b'Paul Gauguin'

AMERICANA b'The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance'

b'Peanuts'

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS STARS b'In 2002 his No. 10 jersey from the 1970 World Cup finals sold at auction for a record $220,850'

b'Pel\xc3\x83\xc2\xa9'

RULERS IN HISTORY b'Born in 1672 & named for a saint, in 1703 he founded a city whose name represents both of them'

b'Peter the Great'

RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS b'The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle'

b'Peter'

BIBLICAL TIMES b'Vipers & Whited Sepulchers were Jesus\' terms for this group, whose name comes from a word for "separatist"'

b'Pharisees'

U.S. CITIES b'Of the top 10 cities in population within city limits, this one of 1.4 million is the only state capital'

b'Phoenix, Arizona'

B.C. THINKERS b'The name we know him by was actually a nickname given him for his wide, disc-like shoulders'

b'Plato'

TOY BRANDS b'This product\'s website has stated, "Helping imagination take shape for over 50 years!" & "Fun to (use), not to eat"'

b'Play-Doh'

HISTORIC WOMEN b'She was born in Virginia around 1596 & died in Kent, England in 1617'

b'Pocahontas'

BRITISH HISTORY b'This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th century'

b'Poet Laureate'

WORLD LANGUAGES b'Of the Romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country'

b'Portuguese'

GREEK MYTHOLOGY b'Though Rhea was his mother, in one tradition this god was brought up by Capheira, the daughter of Oceanus'

b'Poseidon'

CANADA b"It's the only Canadian province that is separated from the North American mainland"

b'Prince Edward Island'

O CANADA b'The unusual flag of this Canadian province is seen here'

b'Prince Edward Island'

SNACK BRANDS b'Each unit in this brand, introduced in 1968, is a hyperbolic paraboloid, & they fit together for perfect storage'

b'Pringles potato chips'

U.S. GEOGRAPHY b'Of the non-state U.S. territories, areas & districts, the only one that is larger in area than the smallest state'

b'Puerto Rico'

MOVIES & THE BIBLE b'In this crime drama, a 1994 Oscar nominee for best picture, a character misquotes Ezekiel 25:17 twice'

b'Pulp Fiction'

WORLD POLITICS b'When these 2 men swapped jobs in 2012, their country\'s media described the move as "castling"'

b'Putin & Medvedev'

EARLY 20th CENTURY PLAYS b'Its preface says, "The English have no respect for their language, & will not teach their children to speak it"'

b'Pygmalion'

AUTHORS IN THE NEWS b'When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author who died weeks before'

b'Ray Bradbury'

SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN b'The name of this royal daughter from a tragedy is from a word meaning "little king"'

b'Regan (from King Lear)'

BRITISH ACTORS b'The first man to win Tonys as Best Actor & Best Actor in a Musical, he won for playing a king & a professor'

b'Rex Harrison'

WORLD CAPITALS b'This capital city of 113,000 is the closest national capital to the Arctic Circle'

b'Reykjav\xc3\x83\xc2\xadk'

THE GREEK ALPHABET b"Of the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet, it's the only one that ends in an English letter that none of the others does"

b'Rho'

THE 50 STATES b"It's the only 2-word state name in which neither word appears in the name of any other state"

b'Rhode Island'

ROYALTY b'He was the last English monarch to die in battle'

b'Richard III'

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTS b'These 2 men followed each other consecutively as vice president & later, in reverse order, as president'

b'Richard Nixon & LBJ'

AMERICAN POLITICIANS b'Frank Sinatra came out of retirement to sing their praises: "They\'re both unique... the Quaker & the Greek"'

b'Richard Nixon & Spiro Agnew'

BASEBALL & THE PRESIDENCY b"As both vice president & president, he threw out a season's 1st pitch, each time for a different Senators franchise"

b'Richard Nixon'

WORLD CITIES b'A member of the Hanseatic League, this city with a 4-letter name was once known as the "Paris of the Baltic"'

b'Riga'

LITERARY CHARACTERS b'His "story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him but as one night"'

b'Rip Van Winkle'

HISTORIC AMERICANS b'General Winfield Scott called him "the very best soldier I ever saw in the field"'

b'Robert E. Lee'

HISTORIC JOURNALS b'On January 18, 1912 he arrived at a tent near the pole & found "a record of five Norwegians having been there"'

b'Robert F. Scott'

SCIENTISTS b'At the time of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, his widow said, "That was his dream, sending a rocket to the Moon"'

b'Robert Goddard'

FAMOUS ACTORS b'Ironically, he lost the leading role in the 1960 play "The Best Man" because he didn\'t look presidential'

b'Ronald Reagan'

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS b'Elected President twice, he beat his 2 opponents by a combined Electoral College tally of 1,014-62'

b'Ronald Reagan'

AMERICAN WOMEN b'Referring to a 1955 incident, she said, "Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it"'

b'Rosa Parks'

WORLD LEADERS b'Since 1991 this country has had only 3 different presidents; the current one took over in 2012 for the second time'

b'Russia'

WORLD GEOGRAPHY b"These 3 nations each border the world's largest & smallest oceans"

b'Russia, the United States & Canada'

COMMUNICATIONS PIONEERS b'He painted the White House portrait of President Monroe before much wider fame as an inventor in the 1840s'

b'Samuel Morse'

U.S. CITIES b'In 1846 it had 200 people; 14 years later, thanks to a discovery, it had over 50,000, making it No. 15 in the country'

b'San Francisco'

WORLD CITIES b"Founded in 1521, 44 years before St. Augustine, Fla., it's the oldest city est. by Europeans on what is now U.S. territory"

b'San Juan, Puerto Rico'

OLYMPIC HISTORY b'In London in 2012, judo & the 800m run included the first female Olympians ever from this Mideastern country'

b'Saudi Arabia'

PENINSULAR NATIONS b"It's the largest country in the world without any permanent natural rivers or lakes"

b'Saudi Arabia'

MOVIES b"The villain's visage in this movie series was partly chosen due to its likeness to an 1893 work by a Norwegian artist"

b'Scream'

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNERS b'The 2 Middle East prime ministers of the same country who shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with another leader'

b'Shimon Peres & Yitzhak Rabin'

20th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS b"Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch"

b'Shirley Jackson'

ISLANDS b'In a satellite photo, volcanic activity can be seen on this 10,000-square-mile island'

b'Sicily'

GROUNDBREAKING NONFICTION b'Chapters in this 1962 classic include "Earth\'s Green Mantle", "Needless Havoc", "Rivers of Death" & "And No Birds Sing"'

b'Silent Spring'

TV CELEBRITIES b'Not an actor, he is the highest-paid foreign-born personality on the 2007 Forbes list of top television earners'

b'Simon Cowell'

NOVELISTS b'His later works include 1949\'s "The God-Seeker", about a missionary in his own native Minnesota'

b'Sinclair Lewis'

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD b"This Asian nation is the only nation with the same name as its capital & the island on which it's located"

b'Singapore'

THE UNITED NATIONS b'Of the 6 official languages used at the U.N., this one is the last alphabetically'

b'Spanish'

ADVERTISING ICONS b'This advertising icon who debuted in the 1950s is known as Pron-Tito in Spanish-speaking countries'

b'Speedy Alka-Seltzer'

LAST WORDS b'In 1170 he said, "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace"'

b'St. Thomas Becket'

19th CENTURY POLITICIANS b'As Territories Committee chair, this Midwest senator helped draw the borders of 7 territories, including Kansas & Nebraska'

b'Stephen Douglas'

NOTABLE NAMES b'In August 2012 the Telegraph of London ran the headline "Paralympics 2012:" he "opens ceremony with a \'Big Bang\'"'

b'Stephen Hawking'

CIVIL WAR PEOPLE b'He was the only person who died during the Civil War to be featured on Confederate currency'

b'Stonewall Jackson'

BROADWAY b'The original 1994 Broadway cast of this musical based on a film featured Alan Oppenheimer as Cecil B. DeMille'

b'Sunset Boulevard'

SOUTH AMERICA b'In 2004 the dollar replaced the guilder as the monetary unit of this country'

b'Suriname'

CALIFORNIA HISTORY b'Surname of the employer of James W. Marshall, who found gold in a stream near the Sacramento river in 1848'

b'Sutter'

20th CENTURY BRITS b"Dr. Hugh Cairns, who tried but couldn't save the life of this man in May 1935, became a pioneer in the use of motorcycle helmets"

b'T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)'

POETS b'In a 1921 letter this American-born poet had "a long poem in mind... which I am wishful to finish", & he did at 433 lines'

b'T.S. Eliot'

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS b'This intellectual forum started in 1984, bringing together people from 3 different industries, hence its 3-letter name'

b'TED'

THE MOVIES b'A famous scene from this 1976 film was completely ad-libbed; the script simply read, "Travis looks in the mirror"'

b'Taxi Driver'

THE U.S. SENATE b'This man, only the third man to serve his state in the U.S. Senate, left the body in 2009'

b'Ted Stevens'

U.S. PRESIDENTS b"Only 50 years old when he left office, he was our nation's youngest ex-president"

b'Teddy Roosevelt'

THE CIVIL WAR b'The last of the 11 Southern states to secede from the Union, it borders 6 of them'

b'Tennessee'

AMERICAN HISTORY b'In the last week of the John Tyler administration, this republic was offered statehood'

b'Texas'

LITERARY INFLUENCES b'The "Gossip Girl" series of books was inspired by this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel also set in New York City but 120 years earlier'

b'The Age of Innocence'

QUOTATIONS FROM B.C. b'This work says, "Victorious warriors win first & then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first & then seek to win"'

b'The Art of War (by Sun Tzu)'

1960s TELEVISION b'Jackie Gleason considered, but then decided against, suing this show that premiered September 30, 1960'

b'The Flintstones'

NOVEL TITLES b'"In the souls of the people" these "are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"'

b'The Grapes of Wrath'

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS b'The peat bogs of Dartmoor, England inspired the fictional home of the beastly title character in this 1902 tale'

b'The Hound of the Baskervilles'

MUSICAL THEATRE b'It opens with a widow & her son arriving by boat from Singapore to accept a job that pays 20 pounds a month'

b'The King and I'

WORDS OF INSPIRATION b'A professor\'s 2007 address at Carnegie Mellon on "really achieving your childhood dreams" inspired millions under this title'

b'The Last Lecture'

MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES b'For this 1971 film the reference is to the 1948 film "Red River"'

b'The Last Picture Show'

BROADWAY b'In 2013 this musical based on a movie became the first show to gross $1 billion on Broadway'

b'The Lion King'

OPERA INSPIRATIONS b'Scholars think that a panpipe found by Captain Cook in what is now Vanuatu inspired this 18th century opera'

b'The Magic Flute'

CIVIL WAR-ERA FICTION b'A Northerner whose sympathies exiled him to the Confederacy, Bermuda & Canada inspired this 1863 tale'

b'The Man Without A Country'

BROADWAY MUSICALS b'"Iowa Stubborn" was the second song heard in this show when it opened on Broadway in 1957'

b'The Music Man'

ANCIENT WORKS b'Astronomers used clues in the text of this epic to figure out the date of its archery contest: April 16, 1178 B.C.'

b'The Odyssey'

19th CENTURY AMERICA b"It was written for American schoolkids to recite on the dedication day of the Chicago World's Fair"

b'The Pledge of Allegiance'

POLITICAL LITERATURE b'The key message to this title figure in an Italian work is "it is far safer to be feared than loved"'

b'The Prince'

WAR NOVELS b'Appropriately, the sound of musketry & artillery is described as "a crimson roar" in this story'

b'The Red Badge of Courage'

MEDIEVAL LITERATURE b'Characters in this epic 4,002-line poem include Count Ogier, Duke Thierry & Archbishop Turpin of Reims'

b'The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland)'

WAR NOVEL & MOVIE TITLES b'Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge'

b'The Thin Red Line'

CLASSIC TV b'Among those who objected to this drama series that premiered in October 1959 were Frank Sinatra & J. Edgar Hoover'

b'The Untouchables'

1930s FILMS b'In this classic film, one of the characters tries to quote the Pythagorean theorem but gets it wrong'

b'The Wizard of Oz'

20th CENTURY NOTABLES b'Between April 1909 & March 1910, he killed 296 animals, including 9 lions & 8 elephants'

b'Theodore Roosevelt'

BUSINESSMEN b'Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink, Clank," this'

b'Think'

RECENT FILMS b'An early scene in this 2011 film is set in Tonsberg, Norway in the year 965 A.D.'

b'Thor'

19th CENTURY AMERICAN AUTHORS b'He wrote, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and spartan-like..."'

b'Thoreau'

AMERICAN WRITERS b'Contemporary reviews called this writer "A Yankee Diogenes" & the "Concord Diogenes"'

b'Thoreau'

AFRICAN AMERICANS b'As U.S. Solicitor General in the 1960s, he won 14 of the 19 cases he argued before the Supreme Court'

b'Thurgood Marshall'

20 YEARS AGO IN ENTERTAINMENT b'In 1994 this comedian starred in a No. 1 sitcom, the No. 1 Christmas movie & had a No. 1 non-fiction bestseller'

b'Tim Allen'

COMIC BOOKS b"An inspiration for this character introduced in 1929 was 15-year-old Palle Huld's 1928 44-day voyage around the world"

b'Tintin'

PLAYWRIGHTS b"This Brit won Tonys for Best Play in 1968, 1976, 1984 & 2007; in the '90s he settled for the 1998 Best Screenplay Oscar"

b'Tom Stoppard'

OPERA b"In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title"

b'Tosca'

TOYS & GAMES b'When Milton Bradley released this home game in 1966, competitors accused it of selling "sex in a box"'

b'Twister'

THE 20th CENTURY b'In the 1940s Franklin Roosevelt coined this term in reference to all the countries allied against the Axis powers'

b'United Nations'

GEOGRAPHIC PROCESS OF ELIMINATION b'This country borders the most "stan"s:Afghanistan,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan &Turkmenistan'

b'Uzbekistan'

THE WORLD OF CINEMA b'In 2006 "The Nativity Story" became the first film to have its world premiere in this country, in Paul VI Hall'

b'Vatican City'

WORLD LANGUAGES b'Of all the countries with Spanish as an official language, this one is last alphabetically'

b'Venezuela'

LITERARY TRAVEL b'The romantic balcony seen here is one of the most popular tourist attractions in this Italian city'

b'Verona'

RANKS & TITLES b'In 1858 rule of India went from the East India Company to the British Crown & Lord Canning became the first holder of this title'

b'Viceroy of India'

INTERNATIONAL AUTHORS b'Starting in 1948 at Cornell, he lectured on books written in his native language, like "Dead Souls" & "Anna Karenina"'

b'Vladimir Nabokov'

NONFICTION b'In an 1854 work, this title body of water was compared with the proportions of Loch Fyne'

b'Walden Pond'

HISTORIC HEADLINES b'On Sept. 30, 2008 Daily Variety reprised this 5-word headline from Oct. 30, 1929'

b'Wall Street Lays An Egg'

POETS b'Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass"'

b'Walt Whitman'

U.S. GEOGRAPHY b'This city of 650,000 people is the most populous U.S. city not found in a U.S. state'

b'Washington, D.C.'

SPORTS AWARDS b"In the 4 major U.S. sports leagues, he's won more regular season MVP awards than any other player"

b'Wayne Gretzky'

b"The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at No. 1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63"

b'West Side Story'

THE 50 STATES b'It was the only state physically & politically formed directly because of the Civil War'

b'West Virginia'

ANIMATED MOVIES b'The answer to the title of this Oscar winner is Judge Doom'

b'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'

ANIMATED CHARACTERS b'The middle initial of this cartoon critter introduced in 1949 stands for Ethelbert'

b'Wile E. Coyote'

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS b'He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College'

b'William Howard Taft'

SPORTS IN AMERICA b'Founded in 1795, this city that hosts a popular annual sporting event has "sport" in its name'

b'Williamsport'

POP GROUPS b'In 2012, 22 years after their first album, they released a new one that includes "Good Vibrations" & "Monday Monday"'

b'Wilson Phillips'

AMERICAN ARTISTS b'In 1909 he completed his last painting, a canvas called "Driftwood"'

b'Winslow Homer'

PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATIONS b'His second inauguration marked the first time that women officially participated in the inaugural parade'

b'Woodrow Wilson'

OSCAR NOMINEES b'One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting'

b'Woody Allen'

THE OSCARS b'He holds the record for total acting, directing & writing Oscar nominations--1 acting, 6 directing, 14 writing'

b'Woody Allen'

SPORTS VENUES b"Built in 1914 & named for the club's owner in 1926, it's the oldest National League ballpark still in use"

b'Wrigley Field'

GREAT NOVELS b'A preface to this novel called it "rustic all through... Moorish, and wild, and knotty as the root of Heath"'

b'Wuthering Heights'

THE U.S. POPULATION b"With about 5 people per square mile, it's the most sparsely populated of the lower 48 states"

b'Wyoming'

MOVIE CHARACTERS b'900 years old when he died, he spoke in OSV syntax, object-subject-verb'

b'Yoda'

THE LAW b'Asked in 1966 to write a concise statement for arresting officers to recite, California D.A. Harold Berliner started with these 7 words'

b'You have the right to remain silent'

ACTORS b"In the '50s he won a Tony for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical & a Best Actor Oscar for playing the same role, a monarch"

b'Yul Brynner'

DISNEY SONGS b"This 1964 song was inspired when one of the writer's sons took the oral polio vaccine"

b'\\"A Spoonful of Sugar\\"'

METEOROLOGY b"Low- & high-pressure systems & tropical moisture set the stage for a 1991 nor'easter nicknamed these 2 words"

b'\\"Perfect Storm\\"'

1960s HIT SONGS b"The singer/songwriter of this 1960s mega-hit has revealed that it was inspired by a president's daughter"

b'\\"Sweet Caroline\\"'

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE b'The first official use of this 4-word term is at The Declaration\'s beginning, immediately after "The thirteen"'

b'\\"United States of America\\"'

U.S. GOVERNMENT FIRSTS b'The first of these was authorized in 1790, "providing for the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States"'

b'a census'

THE ANIMAL WORLD b'C. familiaris, it has one of the largest size ranges, from a 2-pound Mexican variety to 200 pounders'

b'a dog'

HISTORIC FIRSTS b'On July 31, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these'

b'a lunar rover'

BRANDS b'Jack Odell gave his child a tiny vehicle to bring to school inside one of these items, & a toy brand name was born'

b'a matchbox'

20th CENTURY AMERICA b'In 1923 Fanny Brice made news by having this procedure, later rejected by a woman portraying her'

b'a nose job'

PHYSICS b'Discovered in the early 20th century, these 2 particles, 1 with a positive charge, the other a packet of energy, differ by a letter'

b'a proton & a photon'

MAMMALS b'Ancient Romans knew this animal featured in their circuses as a hippotigris'

b'a zebra'

WORD HISTORY b'A Roman legal term for a debtor sentenced to servitude is the origin of this term for a slave to a vice'

b'addict'

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINOLOGY b'In 1992 New York got the first one: 917'

b'an overlay area code'

THE 2012 OLYMPICS b'NBC reported that in the first days of Olympic coverage, this sport seen in recent books & on film was the most watched on cable'

b'archery'

ASTRONOMY b'Sir William Herschel coined this word in 1802 writing, "They resemble small stars so much..."'

b'asteroid'

SCIENCE TERMS b"In medieval England, it meant the smallest unit of time, 1/376 of a minute; it didn't refer to matter until the 16th century"

b'atom'

PEDIATRICS b'In 1943 Drs. Leo Kanner & Hans Asperger each used this word for the then-unnamed disorder they were studying'

b'autism'

BOTANICAL ETYMOLOGY b"This plant's name may have come from its use by Italian Renaissance women to dilate pupils, which, they felt, augmented beauty"

b'belladonna'

HEALTH MATTERS b'This term for sudden severe head pain that typically lasts only a few minutes was trademarked by 7-Eleven in 1994'

b'brain freeze'

ART SUBJECTS b'In 1816 Francisco Goya published a series of 33 etchings called "La Tauromaquia", depicting this activity'

b'bullfighting'

CULINARY HISTORY b"This fruit dessert was created to celebrate Queen Victoria's decades on the British throne"

b'cherries jubilee'

WORD HISTORY b'Once a type of Roman arena, in the 18th century this 6-letter word gained its current meaning as a type of entertainment'

b'circus'

19th CENTURY QUOTATIONS b'"In this sense, the theory of" this group "may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property"'

b'communists'

LAW b"In 1790 the USA's 1st law governing this protection gave it a term of 14 years; today it can extend well over a century"

b'copyright'

BREAD b'Larousse spread the tale that after a 17th Century triumph, the victors ate this as a symbol of the beaten Muslims'

b'croissants (crescent rolls)'

WORD ORIGINS b'Before its use in journalism, it meant a boundary beyond which straying prisoners would be shot'

b'deadline'

20th CENTURY QUOTATIONS b'In 1947 Churchill called it "the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried"'

b'democracy'

WORLD HISTORY b'This world-changing event was first announced in a Barcelona banquet hall in April 1493'

b'discovery of the New World'

GETTING A "D" IN COLLEGE b"The USA's oldest endowed chair is a Harvard chair of this subject, given in 1721 when that was largely what Harvard taught"

b'divinity'

POLITICAL WORDS b'16th century British farmers notching their livestock for identification led to this term for an item set aside for a specific purpose'

b'earmark'

IN THE DICTIONARY b'This adjective can mean "delicate", "heavenly" or, in chemistry, "related to C4H10O"'

b'ethereal'

THE INTERNET b'The inventor of this image format said the OED wrongly has 2 pronunciations of it--the right one is with a soft "G"'

b'gif'

AMERICAN POETRY b'Walt Whitman called this "the beautiful uncut hair of graves"'

b'grass'

WORD ORIGINS b'In the mid-1960s, a decade after it first appeared in a holiday tale, this word came to be used for any mean killjoy'

b'grinch'

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS b'David Phillips, whose expos\xc3\xa9 reporting inspired this word made popular by Teddy Roosevelt, was later shot dead'

b'muckraking'

FUN WITH NUMBERS b"It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order"

b'one'

HEALTH & MEDICINE b"According to the Mayo Clinic, allergies to these are the USA's most common cause of life-threatening allergic reactions"

b'peanuts'

LITERARY QUOTATIONS b'Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost remarked that this is what gets "lost in translation"'

b'poetry'

PHRASE ORIGINS b'This 2-word adjective for "going against accepted speech or conduct" first appeared in a 1933 translation from Izvestia'

b'politically incorrect'

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES b"In 1919, barely 20 years after its discovery, it was the world's most expensive substance at $3 million an ounce"

b'radium'

20th CENTURY HISTORY b"In terms of British monarchs, it's next in the sequence seventh, fifth, eighth, sixth..."

b'second'

GOING TO THE DOGS b'Their name comes from their being bred to crouch in front of prey that the hunter then captured with a net'

b'setters'

COMPUTER SCIENCE b'John Tukey coined this compound word in 1958 saying it was as important as "tubes, transistors, wires, tapes..."'

b'software'

20th CENTURY FIRSTS b'On Oct. 14, 1947 in the Mojave Desert the first of these sounds was made by man; it was the byproduct of another first'

b'sonic boom'

U.S. MEMORIALS b'"No day shall erase you from the memory of time", from Virgil\'s "Aeneid", is inscribed on a wall at this memorial'

b'the 9/11 Memorial in New York City'

NOTABLE GROUPS b"Harpo Marx was among this group when it met in NYC's Rose Room for its final time, in 1943, & found there was nothing left to say"

b'the Algonquin Round Table'

HISTORIC LASTS b'In the "thanks a lot, fellas" department, Mongolia was the last country to join this group--August 9, 1945'

b'the Allies'

MUSIC HISTORY b'In this building Ella Fitzgerald & Sarah Vaughan both won amateur talent contests, one in 1934 & the other in 1942'

b'the Apollo Theater'

POETRY b'In a poem about this battle, Robert Browning wrote, "To Akropolis! Run, Pheidippides, one race more"'

b'the Battle of Marathon'

20th CENTURY LITERARY TERMS b'The writer who named this U.S. movement said the term referred to supreme blessedness, not exhaustion'

b'the Beat movement'

EUROPEAN LANDMARKS b'Completed in 1791, it was reopened in 1989 after being closed for 28 years'

b'the Brandenburg Gate'

PORTRAIT SUBJECTS b"One of Goya's few portraits of a foreigner was of this Englishman painted in 1812"

b'the Duke of Wellington'

ARCHITECTURE b'De Maupassant, Zola & Dumas fils were among those signing a petition decrying it as "a gigantic... factory chimney"'

b'the Eiffel Tower'

WEAPONS OF WORLD WAR II b"This nickname given a bomber at a 1935 test flight reflected the early belief that it wouldn't need fighter protection"

b'the Flying Fortress'

PHRASE ORIGINS b'On February 22, 1918 Warren Harding said it is good to drink "at the fountains of wisdom inherited from" this alliterative group'

b'the Founding Fathers'

FAMOUS BUILDINGS b'Recent evidence suggests that, despite its name, this 1599 building was a 20-sided icosagon'

b'the Globe Theatre'

ENGINEERING FEATS b'In 1937 its chief engineer wrote a poem about it, mentioning its "titan piers" & the "Redwood Empire" to the north'

b'the Golden Gate Bridge'

U.S. GEOGRAPHY b"It's 277 miles long, it's up to 18 miles wide, it's 6 million years old & at a given time temperatures within it can vary by 25 degrees"

b'the Grand Canyon'

THE 18th CENTURY b"If the Earl of Chesterfield hadn't gotten England to adopt this, he'd have died March 13 instead of March 24, 1773"

b'the Gregorian Calendar'

THE 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD b'Philo of Byzantium called it a ploughed field "above the heads of those who walk between the columns below"'

b'the Hanging Gardens of Babylon'

HEALTH & MEDICINE b'In 1985 the Surgeon General called this "the best rescue technique in any choking situation"'

b'the Heimlich maneuver'

AFRICAN FLAGS b'The flag of Burundi has stars representing the Twa & these 2 other ethnic groups much in the news in the 1990s'

b'the Hutu & the Tutsi'

ANNUAL SPORTING EVENTS b'With an estimated sellout crowd of 267,925 people, it claims to be the best-attended single-day sporting event in the U.S.'

b'the Indy 500'

ANNIVERSARIES b'In 2011 Elizabeth II marked the 400th anniversary of this, assembled by 47 translators in Oxford, London & Cambridge'

b'the King James Bible'

AMERICAN HISTORY b'It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million'

b'the Louisiana Purchase'

AMERICANA b'Made for only 19 years, it sold for $825 in 1908 & $360 in 1927'

b'the Model T'

SPORTS TEAM NAMES b"It's the only Major League Baseball team name whose first 4 letters match the first 4 letters of its city"

b'the Philadelphia Phillies'

17th CENTURY PEOPLE b'Rev. John Robinson, Minister to these people, wrote them a letter saying how upset he was not to be going with them'

b'the Pilgrims'

ANNIVERSARIES & FAREWELLS b"In 2009 it celebrated its 40th anniversary with a farewell tour of the British Isles, where it was built; today, it's in Dubai"

b'the Queen Elizabeth 2'

NOVEL TITLES b'These are not found in the Koran, & the angel Gabriel told Muhammad that they were not revealed by God'

b'the Satanic Verses'

THE NFL b"This team that joined the NFL in the mid-1970s is the only one whose name starts with the same 3 letters as its city's name"

b'the Seattle Seahawks'

TOYS b'Invented in 1943, this toy was flung over tree branches by soldiers in Vietnam & used as a makeshift radio antenna'

b'the Slinky'

ENGLISH HISTORY b'It was the "they" in the medal issued by Elizabeth I reading, "God breathed and they were scattered"'

b'the Spanish Armada'

FAMOUS NAMES IN TRANSPORTATION b'In 1928, a year after making international headlines, it reached its final destination, the Smithsonian'

b'the Spirit of St. Louis'

FAMOUS OBJECTS b'In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item'

b'the Stone of Scone'

LANDMARKS b'Completed in 1869, it has also been known by its nickname "the Highway to India"'

b'the Suez Canal'

BUILDINGS b'Charles Evans Hughes laid the cornerstone for this building on October 13, 1932 & got to work in it for about 6 years'

b'the U.S. Supreme Court Building'

HISTORIC TRANSPORTS b'Its principal mast is at Arlington, its foremast is at the Naval Academy & a monument to it, restored in 2013, is located in Havana'

b'the U.S.S. Maine'

THE NUCLEAR AGE b'This country has 104 nuclear reactors, more than any other country'

b'the United States'

CHAMPIONSHIP SPORTS b'In 2007 this university became the 1st to hold national titles in both football & basketball in the same year'

b'the University of Florida'

COLLEGE SPORTS MASCOTS b'In 1947 Walt Disney made a handshake deal to let this university use one of his major characters as its mascot, still in use today'

b'the University of Oregon'

U.S. STRUCTURES b'On December 6, 1884 this was capped with a 100-oz., 9-inch-high pyramid-shaped block of aluminum, a metal that was rare at the time'

b'the Washington Monument'

GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS b"Over 8,000 people have been saved from harm by this program authorized in a 1970 law, but we're not allowed to name any"

b'the Witness Protection Program'

LISTS b'Efforts to save historic treasures threatened by the creation of the Aswan High Dam led UNESCO to create this list'

b'the World Heritage (Sites) list'

20th CENTURY CORRESPONDENCE b'A telegram from these 2: "Average speed...thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.Inform press.Home Christmas"'

b'the Wright Brothers'

NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY b'This 1,980-mile river that starts in Canada is the longest in the Western Hemisphere that flows to the Pacific Ocean'

b'the Yukon River'

FASHION HISTORY b"It was unveiled July 5, 1946, at Paris' Piscine Molitor & created a scandal"

b'the bikini'

SYMBOLS b'One tale of its origin says that the blind seer Tiresias separated 2 snakes with his staff'

b'the caduceus'

BOOKS FOR KIDS b"In Wonderland, Alice comes upon a mad tea-party attended by the Hatter, March Hare, & this creature, who's asleep"

b'the dormouse'

INTERNET FIRSTS b'A broken laser pointer for $14.83 in 1995 holds this distinction'

b'the first item sold on eBay'

SYMBOLS b'One legend says Clovis, king of the Franks, adopted this symbol after flowers revealed a safe river crossing for his army'

b'the fleur-de-lis'

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS b'In the early 18th c. Sylvius Leopold Weiss wrote works for these 2 instruments whose names rhyme'

b'the flute & the lute'

LITERARY QUOTES b'A maxim of Ayn Rand was "Man\'s ego is" this "of human progress"'

b'the fountainhead'

OLYMPIC HISTORY b'This event was inspired by a legend mentioned in Plutarch\'s "On the Glory of Athens"'

b'the marathon'

SPORTING EVENTS b'An old name for this Olympic sporting event is the quinquertium'

b'the pentathlon'

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY b"Joining such pop culture icons as Dorothy's ruby slippers, this was donated to the museum by Jerry Seinfeld in 2004"

b'the puffy shirt'

INTO AFRICA b'James Bruce taught himself Arabic & Amharic to prepare for his 1768 journey upriver in search of this spot'

b'the source of the Nile'

NEW OLYMPIC SPORTS b'This sport introduced in Summer 2000 plays out over a raised area 16 1/2 feet long & 9 1/2 feet wide'

b'trampoline'

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION b"Found in Article 3, Section 3, & requiring the testimony of 2 witnesses to prove, it's the only crime defined in the Constitution"

b'treason'

NUTRITION b'The word coined for these substances in 1912 was meant to suggest they were essential to life & contained nitrogen'

b'vitamins'

THE 5 W's b"The names of the president & premier of the world's most populous nation are homophones of these 2 words"

b'who & when'

AMERICAN BUSINESS A 2007 headline said after being ridiculed since the 1950s, it "takes its victory lap" & noted the auction of one for $184,000

the Edsel

WORLD LANDMARKS Completed in 1884, the Washington Monument became the tallest manmade structure but 4 years later was surpassed by this

the Eiffel Tower

HISTORIC DOCUMENTS William Seward objected to its timing, saying "it may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government"

the Emancipation Proclamation

AMERICANA A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet"

the Empire State Building

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT Sawyers are an important part of the work force of this agency founded in 1905

the Forest Service

THE CIVIL WAR Made from a boiler at a Mobile, Alabama machine shop, it was deemed a success though it went down off Charleston 3 times

the Hunley

DOG BREEDS This popular small dog breed is named for the man who was the Vicar of Swimbridge for almost 50 years, beginning in 1832

the Jack Russell Terrier

DOG BREEDS This small breed is named for a member of the 17th century House of Stuart

the King Charles spaniel

PEOPLES OF THE WORLD Living from Norway to Russia, they've been called the only indigenous people of the European Union

the Laplanders (or Lapps or Sami)

LANDMARKS Jacques-Germain Soufflot, who designed this Paris landmark, was interred there 49 years after dying

the Panthéon

2015 MOVIES Jazz musician Trombone Shorty performed the "voices" of just the adults in the movie about this title group

the Peanuts

EUROPEAN MUSEUMS In one of her last official acts before abdicating, Queen Beatrix reopened this museum after a 10-year renovation

the Rijksmuseum

ANCIENT SYMBOLS Taiji, the Great Ultimate, is the source of this pair that's represented by the colors orange & azure respectively

yin and yang

AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY After the secession of South Sudan from Sudan in 2011, this became the largest country in Africa by area

Algeria

THE PRIME MERIDIAN Besides the U.K., it's the only country that the Prime Meridian touches that starts with a vowel

Algeria

BOOK TITLES A Pulitzer winner in 1947 & Best Picture Oscar winner in 1949, its title is also a line from Lewis Carroll

All the King\'s Men

Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015

Angela Merkel

CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...& a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition"

Animal Farm

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Once the center of an empire, it didn't exist as an independent nation from 1938 to 1955

Austria

PLANTS Made famous by a 1959 musical, the flower seen here graces a coin of this European country

Austria

POP MUSIC HISTORY Appropriately, this 1984 blockbuster was the first music CD mass-produced in the United States

Born in the U.S.A.

U.S. STATE GEOGRAPHY Of the contiguous states, these 2 coastal states have elevation changes within them of more than 14,000 feet

California & Washington

NATIONS OF THE WORLD Its contiguous territory covers 36 degrees of latitude, the longest stretch of any country not in the top 10 in area

Chile

ADVERTISING CHARACTERS This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials

Dos Equis

U.S. HISTORY On Dec. 7, 1787 30 delegates at Battell's Tavern gathered & made history in what's now this state capital

Dover

LITERARY QUOTES More than once this 1897 novel quotes from Deuteronomy, "The blood is the life"

Dracula

SCIENTISTS In a 1694 Royal Society lecture, he suggested an astronomical cause for the biblical flood in Genesis

Edmond Halley

NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN U.N. delegate was one role of this woman who wrote, "I could not... be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside"

Eleanor Roosevelt

RECORDING HISTORY Guinness recognizes his 1902 version of Leoncavallo's "Vesti La Giubba" as the 1st million-selling record

Enrico Caruso

NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY Far from New England, it's the state that has the shortest land border with Canada, only 45 miles

Idaho

WORLD POLITICS In August 2015 3 retired Marines helped raise the U.S. flag in this city where they'd hauled it down 54 years earlier

Havana

LITERARY INSPIRATIONS Seen here, the White City built for Chicago's 1893 Columbian Exposition is said to have inspired this author who then lived near it

L. Frank Baum

20th CENTURY ARTISTS A 1910 magazine article asked this groundbreaking artist if he used models; he grinned & said, "Where would I get them?"

(Pablo) Picasso

LITERARY REFERENCES An homage to a 1953 novel, this number appears as an error code when a user tries to access a web page with censored content

451

ART Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting

American Gothic

18th CENTURY NAMES From the Latin, it's one of the middle names of an 18th century luminary & means lover of or loved by God

Amadeus

BIG BUSINESS Bill Fernandez, who in 1971 introduced to each other the 2 founders of this California company, became its first full-time employee in 1977

Apple

COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero

Archie Comics

SOUTH AMERICA This capital's name is a Latinized form of the name of its country

Brasilia

TELEVISION IN THE 2000s Blanco is the last name of the main character in "Metástasis", a Colombia-set version of this show

Breaking Bad

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES The mission of this Western university founded in 1875 is "to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life"

Brigham Young University

AMERICAN PRODUCTS In 1913 this cleaning item was born when its creators named it from a word meaning "bright" or "shining"

Brillo

SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS 8-letter name shared by a tragic heroine & Uranus' innermost known moon

Cordelia

POP STARS She won the 1984 Grammy for Best New Artist & in 2013 became the first solo woman to win a Tony Award for Best Score

Cyndi Lauper

ART HISTORY Although it's a statue of a giant's foe, an observer who saw its 1504 unveiling called it "the marble giant"

David (Michelangelo\'s statue)

AFRICA On the Horn of Africa, it's the only country whose name in English begins with a silent letter

Djibouti

LITERARY ANIMALS In a 1926 book, he "is in a very sad condition, because it's his birthday, & nobody has taken any notice of it, & he's very gloomy"

Eeyore

AFRICAN COUNTRIES With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert

Egypt

SENATORS The last names of these 2 current senators, one from Virginia & one from Massachusetts, are anagrams of each other

Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner

BABY GIRLS' NAMES In 2014 it was No. 1 in Sweden &, thanks to an animated movie, in the top 300 for U.S. baby girls for the first time in decades

Elsa

BOOKS & AUTHORS His first novel, from 1920, incorporated some of his pieces from The Nassau, a Princeton literary magazine

F. Scott Fitzgerald

WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994

F.W. de Klerk

WORLD LEADERS A landmark 1957 New York Times story called him "a powerful six-footer, olive-skinned...with a straggly beard"

Fidel Castro

INTERNATIONAL SPORTS Its name refers to safety efforts that currently restrict cylinder capacity & prohibit supercharging

Formula One

THE OSCARS For films of 2005 through 2012, he received nominations for Best Picture, Director, Writing & Acting

George Clooney

20th CENTURY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES He was awarded a DFC in WWII for a combat mission as pilot of the B-24 bomber he named the "Dakota Queen"

George McGovern

CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A 2016 biography of a children's author is titled "In the Great Green Room", a line from this classic book

Goodnight Moon

THE ACADEMY AWARDS He holds the record for time between acting nominations for the same role, 39 years between 1976 & 2015 films

Sylvester Stallone

THE EUROPEAN UNION Since Bulgaria joined in 2007, the E.U.'s 3 official alphabets have been our Latin one & these 2

Greek & Cyrillic

PLAYWRIGHTS He wrote the line "Our home has been nothing but a playroom"

Henrik Ibsen

RELIGIOUS TERMS Unlike newer Bibles the King James version usually translates pneuma hagion as this, which can lead to unnerving images

Holy Ghost

DISNEYLAND This attraction was originally built for the New York World's Fair in 1964, with proceeds going to UNICEF

It\'s a Small World

WORLD WAR II The book "From the Volcano to the Gorge" tells the story of this World War II battle

Iwo Jima

U.S. AUTHORS In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style

Jack Kerouac

NAMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY He headed a British committee on prison reform, which gave him the idea for founding a colony in America in 1732

James Oglethorpe

19th CENTURY NOTABLES He died in New Orleans on December 6, 1889, a little over 20 years after his treason case had been dropped

Jefferson Davis

ENTERTAINERS He won a Tony & later an Oscar for the same role & decades later, published a memoir called "Master of Ceremonies"

Joel Grey

17th CENTURY GERMANS Astronomer who began his epitaph, "I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of Earth"

Johannes Kepler

AUTHORS In 1990 he said, "I would like to do what Faulkner did; carve out a little piece of Mississippi territory & claim it for my own"

John Grisham

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS His official website says, "It is forty years since I hung up my cloak and dagger"

John le Carré

CONTEMPORARIES In an 1864 letter, he congratulated Abraham Lincoln on reelection on behalf of "the workingmen of Europe"

Karl Marx

ACTRESSES From 1959 to 1968, she made only 4 films but received Oscar nominations for Best Actress for all 4

Katharine Hepburn

19th CENTURY BRITISH AUTHORS Cliffs Notes says a book by this man "was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist"

Lewis Carroll

RELIGION IN AMERICA The Dakotas & Minnesota are the 3 states with the largest % of residents identifying as this denomination

Lutherans

HISTORIC TV An authentic Bell H-13 Sioux air ambulance was used in the opening credits of this television series

M*A*S*H

ART HISTORY "Escalier" is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized New York City's International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913

Marcel Duchamp

FICTIONAL PLACES This land is described as "all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the Eastern Sea"

Narnia

FAMOUS AMERICANS Of his greatest accomplishment, he humbly remarked, "Pilots... take pride in a good landing, not in getting out of the vehicle"

Neil Armstrong

FAMOUS NAMES At a May 1989 ceremony in Cape Town, he received a bachelor of laws correspondence degree in absentia

Nelson Mandela

WORLD GEOGRAPHY This country has 8 of the world's 10 highest peaks

Nepal

WORLD CITY NAMES Novosibirsk, the 3rd-largest city in Russia, translates as this "city": the 1st word for its more recent founding, the 2nd for its location

New Siberia

19th CENTURY AMERICANS In 1855 he wrote, "The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived"

P.T. Barnum

ABBREVIATIONS Its meaning as an individual product dates to 1977; its meaning as conforming to orthodox opinion dates to 1986

PC

LITERARY CHARACTERS In 1929 London's Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital was given all rights to this character created 27 years earlier

Peter Pan

THE FIRST CENTURY A.D. Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar

Pliny the Younger

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY This company's first mailers in 1953 offered 20 different magazine subscriptions--prizes came 14 years later

Publishers Clearing House

BRITISH POP MUSIC This song released on July 11, 1969 to coincide with the Apollo 11 mission was used in the BBC's coverage of the Moon landing

\"Space Oddity\" (by David Bowie)

DUAL-USE TERMS In 1812 the U.S. endured a literal one of these 2-word terms & beginning in 1964 enjoyed a musical one

a British invasion

20th CENTURY FAMOUS NAMES In a 1905 diary entry, Nicholas II wrote of this man, "We have made the acquaintance of a man of God"

Rasputin

SHAKESPEARE CHARACTERS About himself he says, "Since the heavens have shap'd my body so, let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it"

Richard III

U.S. PRESIDENTS He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri

Richard Nixon

COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES The constitution of this country came into effect on Feb. 4, 1997 & by 2016, 13 parties were represented in its parliament

South Africa

SMALL COUNTRIES This tiny island nation 700 miles northeast of Madagascar makes a great addition to a classic tongue twister

Seychelles

CONTEMPORARY WOMEN AUTHORS A critic said that this bestselling author "makes me wish there were more than 26 letters"

Sue Grafton

PHILOSOPHERS His last name means a type of burial place & in 1855 that's where he went

Søren Kierkegaard

POETRY Wagner's line "Oed' und leer das Meer", meaning "Waste and empty the sea", is quoted in a poem by this American-born man

T.S. Eliot

INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS Released in 2011, it's the only film that has won both the Oscar & France's Cesar for Best Film of the Year

The Artist

ROCK & ROLL The group Nazareth took its name from the first line of a 1968 song from this other group

The Band

BOOKS OF THE 1960s "Wherever I sat...I would be sitting under the same glass" this, the title of the author's only novel

The Bell Jar

CLASSIC TV HOMES In 2017 the Bel-Air estate used in this '60s TV show was listed for $350 million

The Beverly Hillbillies

THE MOVIES The title of this 2009 Best Picture Oscar nominee alludes to the left tackle's job in a football game

The Blind Side

THE 1960s It was already a crime to alter one of these; a 1965 law passed 393-1 in the House criminalized burning one too

a draft card

THE ANIMAL KINGDOM In Portuguese this bird is known as beija flor, or "flower kisser"

a hummingbird

ENGLISH LIT b'The line "We had everything before us, we had nothing before us" is found in the 1st paragraph of this 1859 novel'

b'A Tale of Two Cities'

FAMILIAR PHRASES In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it's an extreme group on the edge of a cause

a lunatic fringe

MODERN WORDS In 1994 Wired magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping "from mind to mind... as viruses leap from body to body"

a meme

CABLE TV HISTORY "You need us...for everything you do" was a slogan used by this channel, one of the first to customize content by location

The Weather Channel

MOONS & PLANETS The name of this moon refers to the mythical group that its planet’s name belonged to

Titan

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES Founded in 1873, it was endowed by & named for the richest man in America

Vanderbilt University

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS b'It was the last Presidential election year when there was no sitting President or VP on the national ballot'

b'1952'

19th CENTURY EUROPEANS In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choiceâ€

Vincent van Gogh

ALPHABETS It's the only letter of the Greek alphabet whose English spelling could also be identified as a number in Roman numerals

Xi

FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES Often used to describe artists ahead of their time, it was also the name of a youth militia in WWII Vichy France

avant-garde

POLITICAL NONFICTION b'This book begins, "June 17, 1972. Nine o\'clock Saturday morning"'

b"All the President\\'s Men"

PRESIDENTS & FILM b'Jimmy Carter held 480 screenings at the White House; his first was this film set in 1970s Washington, D.C.'

b"All the President\\'s Men"

AT THE OLD BALLGAME This word dates back to the 19th century & referred to what the sun did to roofless seating

bleachers

LANDMARKS On the completion of this in 1937, its chief engineer wrote, "At last the mighty task is done; Resplendent in the western sun"

the Golden Gate Bridge

FLAG COLORS They're the 3 colors of New York City's flag & of the Knicks & Mets teams; 2 are on the Dutch flag & 1 used to be

blue, white, and orange

COMMUNICATION Shigetaka Kurita designed the original set of 176 of these, which included the zodiac glyphs, hearts & a pair of googly eyes

emojis

PRINTING The 3 major Western typefaces are Gothic, Roman & this one first used in an entire book in 1501 for a work by Virgil

italics

SCRABBLE & CHEMISTRY As a word used in Scrabble, this longest-named one of the 6 noble gases would give you the highest score

krypton

WORD ORIGINS From the Greek for "all views", this word was 1st used to describe a large 1787 painting of Edinburgh by artist Robert Barker

panorama

WORDS WITH MULTIPLE MEANINGS Found in a 1970 Tom Wolfe book title, it's a chemistry term, a math quantity & a drastic word in politics

radical

WORD HISTORY From the Latin for "buy back", it once referred to buying a slave's freedom & today can refer to being saved from sin

redeem (or redemption)

WORD ORIGINS The first recorded use of this word in print was when Nathan Hope posted an image of his busted lip online in 2002

selfie

20th CENTURY TRANSPORTATION The first of these to enter service was christened by First Lady Pat Nixon at Dulles Intl. Airport on January 15, 1970

the 747

HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS Its restitchings over the centuries helped perpetuate the story of King Harold II being struck in the eye with an arrow

the Bayeux Tapestry

BASEBALL TEAMS When translated, the full name of this Major League Baseball team gets you a double redundancy

the Los Angeles Angels

THE THOMAS JEFFERSON ADMINISTRATION Of this agreement, Thomas Jefferson said he "stretched the Constitution until it cracked"

the Louisiana Purchase

U.S. LANDMARKS For its 50th anniversary in 2012, the roof of this landmark was temporarily repainted its original color, Galaxy Gold

the Space Needle (in Seattle)

SCIENCE & MATH VOCABULARY These 2 words are just 1 letter different; one is a whirlpool & the other a geometry term for a meeting point

vertex and vortex

CONTEMPORARIES On an 1851 visit to Europe, Mathew Brady had hoped to meet this man who inspired him, but he died just as Brady set sail

Louis Daguerre

FRENCH MONARCHS His reign was interrupted for "100 days" in the 19th century before he was restored & reigned for 9 years more

Louis XVIII

AUTHORS She wrote in her journal in 1867 that a publisher "asked me to write a girls book. Said I'd try."

Louisa May Alcott

WOMEN AUTHORS A 1936 N.Y. Times review called the debut novel by this author "in all probability, the biggest book of the year: 1,037 pages"

Margaret Mitchell

PRIMETIME TV ACTRESSES On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series

Mariska Hargitay

2016 U.S. OLYMPIANS If this U.S. state was a country, it would have been in the top 10 in gold medals with 14--9 of them by 1 man & 1 woman

Maryland

STATE SONGS Its state song rhymes "patriotic gore" with the name of its largest city

Maryland

20th CENTURY NOTABLES Despite protests in 2009 some of his personal effects as seen here were sold at auction

Mohandas Gandhi

U.S. CITIES In 2015 it returned to the list of the 50 most populous U.S. cities, 10 years after dropping off

New Orleans

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN YEARS Year the New York World lamented, "The age of statesmen is gone... The age of rail-splitters and tailors... has succeeded"

1864

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS The only election year since 1952 in which neither major-party candidate had been president or vice president

2008

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE Each state has as many electors as its total of senators & reps.; D.C. has this many, the minimum for any state

3

ART MODELS Seen here in 1942 are the real-life models for this painting

American Gothic

ALLITERATIVE AMERICANS In 1932 he & several San Francisco colleagues formed Group f/64 to promote greater realism in their art

Ansel Adams

CONSTELLATIONS The brightest star in Scorpius is named this, meaning "rival" of the god equivalent to Mars

Antares

THE SUPREME COURT With the passing of Antonin Scalia, this Reagan appointee became the longest-tenured justice on the court

Anthony Kennedy

AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN Ironically, this man worth tens of millions when he died in 1990 said his parents named him with a socialist logo in mind

Armand Hammer

1950s FICTION The New York Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman "one of the most influential business books ever written"

Atlas Shrugged

WESTERN HEMISPHERE GEOGRAPHY The 2 Central American nations that border only one ocean

Belize & El Salvador

THE OSCARS "Gladiator" is close, but this film has the earliest historical setting of any Best Picture Oscar winner

Ben-Hur

UNITED NATIONS NATIONS This nation of 55 million is the only one to provide a secretary-general but never to have a seat on the Security Council

Burma (or Myanmar)

19th CENTURY BRITS In May 1810 during one of his more famous exploits, he employed the breaststroke

Byron

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AUTHORS This Pulitzer winner changed his first name to that of an Irish king, avoiding associations with a famous ventriloquist's dummy

Cormac McCarthy

AIRLINES On June 17, 1929 this airline's first passenger flight left Dallas, making stops at Shreveport, Monroe & Jackson

Delta

ANIMALS In Greek myth she was a half-serpent & mother of the Sphinx; in zoology it's a weird mammal that lays eggs

Echidna

RECENT OSCAR WINNERS For his portrayal of a famous man born in the 1940s, he was the first actor born in the '80s to win the Best Actor Oscar

Eddie Redmayne

DAYS OF THE WEEK To the ancient Greeks, this day of the week was Hemera Aphrodites

Friday

WORLD LITERATURE In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude"

Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez

WORLD WAR I Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for "beautiful city"

Gallipoli

MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES With depths of up to 30,000 feet, ocean trenches make up a zone named for this brother of Poseidon & his domain

Hades

CITIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A Hanseatic city, this port of 1.8 million is the largest European Union city that's not a capital

Hamburg, Germany

NOTABLE WOMEN On her passing in 1913, Booker T. Washington called her heroic, "not unlike some of the heroic figures... in the Bible"

Harriet Tubman

THE 16th CENTURY In 1521 he was the credited author of "Defense of the 7 Sacraments" against Martin Luther's attacks

Henry VIII

EUROPEAN AUTHORS "To explain... Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt", he wrote in 1927

Hermann Hesse

PRESIDENTIAL HOMES Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat"

Hermitage

ANCIENT AUTHORS His famous work culminates in accounts of Xerxes' invasion & Greek victories at Salamis & Plataea

Herodotus

NATO COUNTRIES With a population of under 400,000, this founding member of NATO remains the smallest of the member nations

Iceland

COUNTRIES OF THE U.N. The 3 U.N. member states that begin with the letter "J"; 2 are island nations & one is nearly landlocked

Jamaica, Japan, and Jordan

OSCAR-WINNING TITLE SUBJECTS The only Nobel Prize winner to be the title subject of a Best Picture Oscar winner is this man

John Nash

SHAKESPEARE These 2 title characters who have the same pair of initials both die by stabbing

Juliet Capulet & Julius Caesar

BESTSELLING NOVELS This 1990 novel made into a blockbuster film says the Hammond Foundation "has spent $17 million on amber"

Jurassic Park

BRITISH HISTORY On January 1, 1801, George III relinquished this royal title claimed by English monarchs since the Hundred Years' War

King of France

THE MIDDLE EAST With an area of 4,000 square miles, it's the only primarily Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East that has no desert

Lebanon

WORLD FLAGS & THE BIBLE The central image on the flag of this nation is a symbol of strength in Psalm 92 & a prized building material in I Kings 5

Lebanon

CLASSIC MOVIE ROLES A letter to the director that said, "Dear sir, I am fat & wear spectacles" got a young actor a role in this 1963 film

Lord of the Flies

FAMOUS FIRST NAMES This first name of a 21st century activist was inspired by that of a Pashtun heroine known as the Afghan Joan of Arc

Malala

CHILDREN'S LIT As she arrived at the house of her new employer, "the wind seemed to catch her up into the air and fling her" at the door

Mary Poppins

FIRST LADY FACTS In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else

Medicare

LITERARY BROTHERS This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine

Mycroft Holmes

COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD Of the 5 countries with the lowest population density, this U.N. member is the only one named for a desert

Namibia

FICTIONAL PLACES Some residents of the place with this name came from Kensington Gardens, where they had fallen out of their perambulators

Never Never Land

HISTORIC WORLD BUILDINGS Rome's Colosseum may have gotten its name because of a colossal circa 65 A.D. statue of this emperor erected nearby

Nero

NOVEL TITLE CHARACTERS One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins

Oliver Twist

He "inaugurated a new depth--both visually... and emotionally... and (had) a voice that paid the bills until he died"

Orson Welles

OSCAR HISTORY In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actors, director & writer for the same film

Orson Welles

PLAYWRIGHTS An 1892 Punch cartoon depicts him lounging with a cigarette & holding a fan with a name written on it

Oscar Wilde

WORLD CAPITALS It's the only world capital whose name is derived from an Algonquin word

Ottawa

THE BRITISH EMPIRE The city that some 19th century Englishmen called "Caranjee" is now the biggest city in this country

Pakistan

GREEK MYTHOLOGY Famous mother of Pyrrha, who survived the Great Flood & with her husband repopulated the Earth

Pandora

THE U.S.A. The Empire State Building says that on a clear day you can see 5 states from the top: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut & these 2

Pennsylvania and Massachusetts

TODAY'S INTERNATIONAL FILM STARS The first 2 Spanish actors to win acting Academy Awards, they got married soon after they both had won

Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem

CITY NAME ORIGINS This city that's home to an NFL team is named for an 18th century British prime minister

Pittsburgh

VIDEO GAMES The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game

Pokémon

ERAS IN U.S. HISTORY On April 11, 1865 Abraham Lincoln spoke of "the mode, the manner, and means of" this, which he would not live to see

Reconstruction

REFERENCE BOOKS This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting

Robert\'s Rules of Order

AMERICAN ICONS This WWII icon was created in a 1943 song that says, "That little frail can do more than a male can do"

Rosie the Riveter

POETIC INSPIRATIONS One summer day in 1797 this British poet fell asleep reading a book that adapted the writings of Marco Polo

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

STATE CAPITALS This Midwestern capital was named for a man who was born in what is now Turkey over 2,000 years ago

St. Paul

LANDLOCKED COUNTRY NAMES One in Europe & one in Africa, these 2 landlocked countries start with the same 2 letters & end with the same 4

Switzerland and Swaziland

FIRST NAMES b'A wife of King David & 2 of our early first ladies shared this name derived from Hebrew for "my father\'s joy"'

b'Abigail'

INAUGURAL ADDRESSES b'He said, "It is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national Constitution"'

b'Abraham Lincoln'

INTERNATIONAL MOTORING b'One of the 3 European Union countries besides the United Kingdom that have not switched to driving on the right'

b'(1 of) Ireland, Malta & Cyprus'

AFTER THE PRESIDENCY b'One of the 2 presidents to return to elected jobs in U.S. federal government after their final terms'

b'(1 of) John Quincy Adams or Andrew Johnson'

CAPITAL CITIES b'One of the 2 world capitals that end in the letter "Z"; one is in Europe & one in the Americas'

b'(1 of) La Paz & Vaduz'

THE ACADEMY AWARDS b'As of 2006, 1 of only 3 women to be nominated for best director, for 1976, 1993 & 2003'

b'(1 of) Lina Wertm\xc3\x83\xc2\xbcller, Jane Campion & Sofia Coppola'

THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA b'1 of the 2 1-word plays, winners in 2001 & 2005, which both became movies; if you have one, you want the other'

b'(1 of) Proof & Doubt'

U.S. STATES b'2 of the 4 states whose names were those of independent republics before they entered the Union'

b'(2 of) Hawaii, Texas, California, & Vermont'

This singer's first studio album came out in 1955, but a 2011 duets release was his first album to hit No. 1

Tony Bennett

ADVERTISING ICONS This spokes-animal created in 1951 got a wife & a daughter, Antoinette, in the 1970s

Tony the Tiger

BIBLICAL NAMES b'The name of this rebellious young man of the Old Testament can be translated from the Hebrew as "father of peace"'

b'Absalom'

MUSIC HALLS OF FAME b'2 of the 4 Country Music Hall of Fame acts who are also in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as performers'

b'(2 of) Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Brenda Lee & The Everly Brothers'

GEOGRAPHY b'2 of the 4 U.S. states that border Mexico'

b'(2 of) Texas, New Mexico, Arizona & California'

OLYMPIC HOST COUNTRIES b'3 of the 6 countries that have hosted both the summer & winter Olympics'

b'(3 of) United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy & Japan'

SNACK FOODS The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times

Triscuit

SHAKESPEARE With a backdrop of war, the 1609 play titled "The History of" this pair takes place earlier than any Shakespeare history play

Troilus and Cressida

19th CENTURY NONFICTION A 2014 bestseller, in 1853 it was called "more extraordinary" than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" because "it is only a simply unvarnished tale"

Twelve Years a Slave

STATE BIRDS Oddly, the California gull is the state bird of this landlocked state

Utah

THE SOLAR SYSTEM Its surface features include ones named for Margaret Mead, Josephine Baker & Cleopatra

Venus

19th CENTURY VICE PRESIDENTS b'Woodrow Wilson said this man had enough genius to be immortal & "unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous"'

b'(Aaron) Burr'

NOTABLE NAMES b'During a jubilee celebration in 2003, he became the first foreigner to be made an honorary citizen of Nepal'

b'(Edmund) Hillary'

MATH MEN b'In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another"'

b'(John) Venn'

CHILDREN'S BOOKS For this series of picture books that started in 1987, each crowd scene takes about 8 weeks to illustrate

Where\'s Waldo?

ARTISTS' SUBJECTS The woman seen here, who was born in North Carolina & died in England in 1881, was the subject of this painting

Whistler\'s Mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1)

ENTERTAINMENT AWARD WINNERS She won a Comedy Grammy in the 1980s, a Supporting Actress Oscar in the 1990s & a Daytime Emmy in the 2000s

Whoopi Goldberg

20th CENTURY NOVELS A line from this 1995 novel is "The infant glistened a scandalous shade of pale emerald"

Wicked

EXPLORERS b'In 1616, after Hudson died, this man became the 1st European to reach Ellesmere Island; an island & bay are named for him'

b'(William) Baffin'

MODERN DAY SUFFIXES b'Dating from 1973, this 4-letter suffix indicates a person or thing that has become associated with public scandal'

b'-gate'

SPORTS TRADITIONS Since 1986, reaching the quarterfinals of this event has entitled you to free tickets & free tea for life

Wimbledon

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION HISTORY b'Due to the large numbers of men away from home, it was the first year a majority of states counted absentee votes'

b'1864'

20th CENTURY AMERICA b'Experts say Glenn McDuffie is the mystery man in the classic Eisenstaedt photo taken in this year'

b'1945'

OSCAR-NOMINATED SONGS This song from a 1999 animated film about censorship had a word censored from its Oscar performance

\"Blame Canada\" (from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut)

SONGS FROM MUSICALS This song from a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical was once simply titled "First Singing Lesson"

\"Do-Re-Mi\"

CLASSIC ROCK SONGS Jonathan Cain was a struggling musician when his father told him to keep at it & never give up, inspiring this 3-word 1981 title

\"Don\'t Stop Believin\'\"

CLASSICAL MUSIC Scholar think this 1810 piano piece was dedicated to Elisabeth Röckel or Therese Malfatti, a student of the composer

\"Für Elise\"

NATIONAL ANTHEMS In her memoirs Queen Liliuokalani tells us that before Hawaii had its own national anthem, it used this one

\"God Save The Queen\"

BEATLES SONGS Later a book title, the 2-word title of this 1968 song is a British name for a spiral slide seen at fairgrounds

\"Helter Skelter\"

MODERN AMERICAN POETRY A critic said this 1956 poem was "a tirade... against those who do not share the poet's... sexual orientation"

\"Howl\" (by Allen Ginsberg)

CARS When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag & a red flag with a fleur-de-lis

a Chevrolet Corvette

SPORTS TEAM MASCOTS Echoing a rock band with 8 platinum albums, the teams of the Ark. School for the Deaf are named for this animal

a leopard

CLASSIC GAMES b'Monopoly creator Charles Darrow\'s sole quote in "the Yale Book of Quotations" includes this 3-digit number'

b'200'

GEOGRAPHIC MATH b"North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states"

b'31'

PLAY & FILM TITLES b'Erasmus called an English friend of his "omnium horarum homo", which became this title of a play & film'

b'A Man for All Seasons'

SPECIAL DAYS A 1954 act amended a 1938 one by striking out this word & replacing it with "Veterans"

armistice

AMERICANA b"A bo'sun whistle was once a prize in boxes of this alliterative product introduced in 1963"

b"Cap\\'n Crunch"

STRUCTURES b'When completed, it stretched for 73 1/2 miles from Bowness to Wallsend'

b"Hadrian\\'s Wall"

STATE QUARTERS b'The back of the quarter for this state is the only one that features a monarch'

b"Hawai\\'i"

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS b'Still in existence, it began in 1688 in a British coffee shop popular with maritime folk; it soon got involved in their business'

b"Lloyd\\'s of London"

SHAKESPEARE TITLES b"It's not one of the Bard's better-known comedy titles, but has the distinction of containing the most apostrophes"

b"Love\\'s Labour\\'s Lost"

20th CENTURY PLAYS b'This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 A.M. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus'

b"Who\\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf"

SPORTING EVENTS b'The cup presented since 1887 to the man who wins this is inscribed "single handed champion of the world"'

b"Wimbledon (the men\\'s singles championship)"

THE BIBLE b'This term for a final resting place got its name because clay was dug up there for craftsmen'

b"potter\\'s field"

SPORTS b'Among its 13 founding members in 1950 were Louise Suggs, Patty Berg & Babe Zaharias'

b"the LPGA (Ladies\\' Professional Golf Association)"

AMERICAN PUBLISHING b'The 1860 frontier novel "Malaeska", the first of its kind, sold 300,000 copies for total sales revenue of this'

b'$30,000'

ACTOR-DIRECTORS b"It's rare to get Oscar nominations for Best Director & Best Actor for the same film; he is 1 of the 2 who did it twice"

b'(1 of) Clint Eastwood & Warren Beatty'

ISLANDS b'1 of the 2 islands with a population exceeding 100 million; each one is part of an Asian country'

b'(1 of) Honshu or Java'

POPULAR PSYCHOLOGY TERMS Anna Freud wrote, "The infantile ego resorts to" this behavior "in order not to become aware of some painful impression"

denial

FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living"

the Count of Monte Cristo

TECHNOLOGY In 2005 Steve Jobs used "It's sort of like TiVo for radio" to describe this new form

podcasting

MEDIEVAL ASIA Though it means "one who serves", in medieval Japan it was a property holder who received rent from serfs

samurai

METAPHORICAL PHRASES In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this 2-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment

snake oil

PHILOSOPHY Despite the title, in this Plato work, Socrates says, "I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times"

the Apologia or Apology

19th CENTURY EUROPE This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment"

the Congress of Vienna

U.S. MEMORIALS Symbolic bookends, these 2 neighboring memorials mark the beginning & end of U.S. involvement in World War II

the Arizona & the Missouri

LITTLE COUNTRIES It's the closest nation to the mainland U.S. where cars customarily drive on the left

the Bahamas

WORLD CAPITALS Ruled at times by Persians, Mongols & Russians, Baku is the only capital that borders this body of water

the Caspian Sea

EUROPEAN ISLANDS Once known as the Norman Isles, per the British government this group is "not part of the U.K." & has "never been colonies"

the Channel Islands

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS Between 1920 & 1939 its presidents included Leon Bourgeois, Tevfik Aras & Carlos Saavedra Lamas

the League of Nations

ISLANDS The Spanish name of these islands is Islas de Sotavento; their French name is Iles Sous-le-Vent

the Leeward Islands

MODERN MYTHOLOGY A purported image of this subject of legend was published in the Daily Mail newspaper on April 21, 1934

the Loch Ness monster

EARLY AMERICA William Bradford wrote that this document was partly inspired by the "mutinous speeches" of some passengers

the Mayflower Compact

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES This country's last 3 queens abdicated in favor of their children

the Netherlands

WORLD FLAGS Peter the Great designed Russia's flag based on the tricolor flag of this nation where he'd gone to learn shipbuilding

the Netherlands

ART & POP CULTURE The Brooklyn mural seen here is an homage to this fictional group whose first appearance came in 1984

the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

THE ANCIENT WORLD Dedicated to a female, it's among the few of the 7 Ancient Wonders whose ruins you can visit

the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS Due to developments in 2012, this annual summer contest now lists no winner from the years 1999-2005

the Tour de France

WORLD TRANSPORTATION It traverses hundreds of bridges, the longest stretching 2 miles across the Amur River

the Trans-Siberian Railroad