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Hull

the watertight body of a ship or boat

Femur

thigh bone; longest in the body.

Apollo

third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the NASA, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.

Max Planck

this German who introduced the fundamental constant of quantum theory

Wainwright

trades person skilled in the making and repairing of wagons and carts

Panama Hat

traditional brimmed straw hat of Ecuadorian origin

Sumac

tree that, bush, or vine that has small leaves and red or white poisonous berries

Cider

un-distilled alcoholic beverage popular in UK, and made from Apples.

Superstructure

upward extension of an existing structure above a baseline. Like on a ship.

Field Marshall

a very senior military rank, ordinarily senior to the general officer ranks. Usually it is the highest rank in an army, and when it is, few (if any) persons are appointed to it. It is considered as a five-star rank (OF-10). Erwin Rommel and Montgomery were this.

Charles Macintosh

as a Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric. The _______ raincoat (the variant spelling is now standard) is named after him

John Hinckley Jr.

attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C

Opal

black these gems of siclia are the rarest.

Lemmings

rodent of Norway, known for its periodic mass migrations that can lead to mass drownings

Pulsar

rotating neutron star or white dwarf, that emits a beam of electromagnetic radiation.

Stratosphere

second major layer of Earth's atmosphere, just above the troposphere; About 20% of the atmosphere's mass is contained in the ___

Williamsport

the birthplace of Little League Baseball

College of Cardinals

the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. They elect the Pope.

Will Rogers

"Cowboy Philosopher" & "Prince of Wit & Wisdom" were nicknames of this 1930s humorist, of Cherokee descent also a famous columnist and cowboy movie actor.

Izack Walton

"The compleat Angler" was written by?

Born to Run

"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive" in this Springsteen classic

Probate

"The judicial procedure by which a testamentary document is established to be a valid will"

Polaris

"The north star," or pole star. In Ursa Minor constellation.

Ansel Adams

American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park, have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, books, and the internet.

John Milton

English, Wrote "Paradise Lost" (1608-1674)

Edward Lear

English, nonsense poet, used Limerick (1812-1888)

Mesozoic era

Era meaning "Middle" in which dinosaurs lived.

Paleozoic era

Era meaning first or ancient in which trilobites existed and called the age of fish.

Cenozoic era

Era meaning new or later life, that includes present day.

Jules Verne

French novelist, poet, and playwright. Wrote "Journey to the center of the earth," "Twenty thousand Leagues under the sea," and "Around the world in eighty Days."

Toulouse-Lautrec

French painter, post impressionist, very short did the Moloun rouge poster.

Wallonia

French part of Belgium (South)

Paul Gauguin

French post-impressionist who lived with Van gough and died in French Polynesia island Marquesas Islands.

Grand Guignol

French theater that played horror shows

Emigré

French word for a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social self-exile.

Retractor

From Latin for "draw back", it's a medical tool used to pull away edges of an incision for surgical access

Solitaire

From a French word meaning "alone", it's a single diamond in a setting, be it a ring or a pendant

Triage

From the French for "to sort" comes the word for this process of treating patients based on need

Diphthong

From the Greek for "2 sounds", it's the name of the transition sound like that made by the "O-I" in "boil"; a combination of vowels articulated without pause, as in "mouse

Nuncio

From the Latin for "messenger", the highest-ranking diplomatic representative of the pope is a "papal" this

Pomegranate

Fruit that hades used to keep Persephone in hell.

oology

a branch of ornithology studying bird eggs, nests and breeding behavior.

Lipizzan

a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria

ATFE, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice. Its responsibilities include the investigation and prevention of federal offenses involving the unlawful use, manufacture, and possession of firearms and explosives; acts of arson and bombings; and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products.

cetaceans

widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

Sommelier

wine steward, is a trained and knowledgeable wine professional, normally working in fine restaurants, who specializes in all aspects of wine service as well as wine and food pairing.

Canada Dry

with the most famous soda flavor from this brand, you get "Real ginger, real taste

8 minutes and 20 seconds

How long does it take light of the sun to reach earth?

63 Years

How long was Queen Victoria's reign?

How many teeth human adults have?

12 dozen or 144

How much is a gross?

How much is fourscore

Apollo 11

Which Apollo mission landed on the moon?

William Howard Taft

Which President was also a supreme court judge?

Tennessee

Which state did Al gore represent in the senate?

Pennsylvania

Which state did Rick Santorum was a senator from this state.

Carotid

arteries that supply the head and neck with oxygenated blood

Battle of the Bulge

(16 December 1944 - 25 January 1945) was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of World War II.

Horatio Nelson

(1758-1802) Famous British Navy Commander, fought the Americans and Napoleon, died at the battle of Trafalgar. Trafalgar square was made in his honour.

Winslow Homer

American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. Very pastoral and bucolic paintings. Late 1800's early 1900's.

Fahrenheit

(1686-1736) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker. His name is a temperature scale.

Linnaeus

(1707-1788) Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalized the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy." Went to Uppsala

Gregor Mendel

(1822-1884) From Austria-Hungary scientist, Augustinian friar And gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Used Peas.

Windows

Architecturally speaking, something that's fenestrated has these

Samuel Morse

1791 -1862; was an American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age _____ contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the -______ code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

Ponce De Leon

1509 this youth-seeking man became the first colonial governor of Puerto Rico, also discovered Florida and St. Augustine.

Peter Paul Rubens

1577 - 1640 great Flemish painter based in Antwerp. Know for his "Fleshy Women" and high baroque style.

Johnathan Swift

1667 - 1745 was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, essayist, He is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729)

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Battle that secured Ohio territory for the USA. Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians there.

Alexander Pope

1688 - 1744 was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous Quotes; "Damn with faint praise!" and "A little learning is a dangerous thing." Also Wrote "Essay on Man."

lederhosen

Bavarian leather shorts with suspenders

Daniel Boone

1734 - 1820) was an American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. _______ is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky. Fought the Shawnee.

Henry Fuseli

1741-1825, swiss painter who lived in England. He had many scar works and also did depictions of Shakespeare characters.

John Paul Jones

1747 - 1792 was the United States' first well-known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War.

Mary Wollstonecraft

1759-1797 Mother of Mary Shelly and a prominent feminist in the 18th century.

Robert Falcon Scott

(6 June 1868 - 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913). On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Polar (Antarctic) Plateau, on which the South Pole is located

Tamerlane

(9 April 1336 - 18 February 1405), historically known as _____________, "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror. As the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia. From Samarkand

Peter Mark Roget

1779 - 1869 was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, a classified collection of related words. Also invented the slide-rule, a precursor to the calculator.

Northwest Ordinance

1787 law governing the area north of Ohio River; it became a model for territories entering the Union

Lord Byron

1788 - 19 April 1824: English poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Helped fight for Greek Independence. Wrote: Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, and the short lyric poem, "She Walks in Beauty. First name was George.

Church Key

A can opener with a triangular pointed end

Lake Chad

A large lake in Chad, it is shrinking, its name literally means "river"

Alexander Nevsky

1200's Famous Russian General who repelled Swedish and German invasions later made peace with the Mongols.

Hernando de Soto

1495-1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States south (Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River

John Keats

1795 - 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. Was engaged to Fanny Brawne. Died of tuberculosis in Rome. Famous for his odes. Some Works are: Ode on Indolence, Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Phsyche, To Autumn, The Eve of St. Agnes, La Belle Dame sans Merci, "Hyperion", Lamia.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807 - 1882 an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England. From Portland Maine.

Congress of Vienna

1815 meeting of leader of Europe to reconstruct the continent.

George Eliot

1819-1880 Enlgish author of "Adam Bede" The Mill on the Floss", "Silas Marner ", "Daniel Deronda" "MiddleMarch" and Felix Holt, the Radical

Edouard Manet

1832 -1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. very controversial. Big works are Luncheon on the grass and Olympia. Later work which is more impressionist is called "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"

Edgar Degas

1834 - 1917) was a French artist famous for his paintings; usually of dancers also the absinthe drinker.

Paul Cezanne

1839 - 22 October 1906, French post-impressionist. Know for his still life's and landscapes and his famous "bathers." Was good friends with Emile Zola.

Claude Monet

1840 - 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, married to Camille. His famous works include the water lilies. He had a garden in Giverny, that inspired many of his works.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 3 December 1919, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Had a filmmaker and actor son. Painted many women and cafes. born in Limoges known for its porcelain & even apprenticed as a china painter at age 13

Franz Joseph I

1848 until his death on 21 November 1916 was emperor of Austria-Hungary

Robert Louis Stevenson

1850 - 1894. Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. He lived and died in Samoa in his later life.

Robert Peary

1856 - 1920 was an American explorer and US Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909

Georges Seurat

1859 - 1891) was a French Impressionist painter. Developed Pointillism.

Marcel proust

1871 - 1922 French Man who wrote "In Search of Lost Time" also translated as " Remembrance of Things Past" first part is called "Swann's way." was so deathly afraid of germs.

Haymarket Riots

1886 bloody confrontation between police and union activists. Some died as a bomb was thrown. No honored on May day. They were on strike against a company called McCormick a reaper company.

Eddie Rickenbacker

1890 - 1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient. With 26 aerial victories, he was America's most successful fighter ace in the war, He was also a race car driver and automotive designer

Robert Graves

1895-1985, an English poet, novelist, critic and classicist. He wrote I, Claudius.

Strom Thrurmond

1902 - 2003 was an American politician who served for 48 years as a US Senator from South Carolina. He ran for President in 1948 as a Dixiecrat. Was in the senate for a long time.

Barry Goldwater

1909 - 1998) was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term US Senator from Arizona (1953-65, 1969-87) and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the US in the 1964 election. Despite losing the election by a landslide, ____is the politician most often credited for sparking the resurgence of the American conservative political movement in the 1960s.

Dylan Thomas

1914 - 1953 was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"

Robert Bryd

1917 - June 28, 2010 was a United States Senator from West Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, longest serving senator and former clansmen.

George Wallace

1919 -1998 was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat:he remains the last third-party candidate to receive pledged electoral college votes from any state. He supported segregation strongly and had an assassination attempt on his life.

Daniel Inouye

1924 - 2012 was a US Senator from Hawaii from 1963 to 2012. He was a member of the Democratic Party, and he was President pro tempore of the United States Senate. highest ranking Asian-american in US.

Gabriel García Márquez

1927 - 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language. Won the nobel literature prize in 1982.

Omega Man

1971 film based on "I am Legend" book starring Charlton Heston

Gulf War

2 August 1990 - 28 February 1991 War to liberate Kuwait from Iraq.

Let's make a deal

3 enticing doors were your final choices as you traded up for better prizes on this Monty Hall show

Estates general

3 estates of France: Noble's, peasants, clergy

John Bunyan

30 November 1628 - 31 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher[1] best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.

Carat, cut, clarity and color

4 c's of diamonds

Scott Carpenter

4th American in space, and did second orbit; part of mercury program.

Poncho Villa

5 June 1878 - 20 July 1923) was a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. Assassinated during Presidential elections

hemidemisemiquaver

64 note

Great Pyramid of Giza Hanging gardens of Babylon Temple of Artemis and Ephesus Statue of Zeus at Olympia Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Colossus of Rhodes light house of Alexandria

7 Ancient wonders of the world

Mimicry

7-letter term for the imitation by harmless insect species of poisonous ones to fool predators.

Farthing

: a former British coin that had a value equal to 1⁄4 of a penny

King Farouk

A 1952 coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser forced this king's abdication in Egypt.

U-2

A July 4, 1956 flight by this new alphanumeric plane put the Soviet Union's military buildup on camera

Hatmaker

A Milliner has what kind of job?

Calzone

A SPECIALTY OF NAPLES, THIS PIZZA TURNOVER'S NAME MEANS "TROUSER LEG"

Hermann Goring

A World War I flying ace with 22 kills, he headed Hitler's Luftwaffe, and became leader after Hitler died. He killed himself at Nuremberg.

Epistolary Novel

A book in which the story is told through letters.

Gristle

A butcher may trim away this unpleasantly chewy part of meat

Abduction

A crime similar to kidnapping, or, medically, the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body

A goose egg is equal too?

Humboldt Current

A major Pacific Ocean current off the South American coast (Peru) is named for Alex ___ who measured it in 1802

Motor pool

A military installation's centrally managed group of vehicles intended for the use of personnel

Battle of the Marne

A month into WWI, the first battle of this French river introduced the horrors of trench warfare

Spanish flu

A new viral strain to which few had immunity caused the 1918-1919 pandemic of the "Spanish" type of this disease

Teflon

A non-stick polymer, also a nickname for Reagan.

Wok

A pan that is shaped like a bowl and is used for Chinese cooking.

Estuary

A partially closed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers flowing into it, with a free connection to the open sea.

Bulkhead

A partition wall that divides a ship's interior into compartments. Also if you're in the Navy, what you just call the walls on a ship.

shipwright

A person who builds & launches wooden sailing vessels

Apiary

A place for holding bees

Quarry

A place where valuable rocks are excavated..

Diamond Head

A popular hiking destination, the summit of this crater just beyond Waikiki was used as a military lookout in the 20th century

Invocation

A prayer to begin a religious service or public ceremony

Patois

A regional form of a language, not necessarily French

Coney Island

A roller coaster called the Cyclone is a part of this amusement area in the southern part of Brooklyn

Boatswain

A ships officer in charge of equipment and crew.

Newcomb

A sport like volleyball but you can catch and throw, Invented by woman Clara Baer.

Neutron Star

A term used since the 1930s, this star--the smallest & densest type known--can be one object left behind by a supernova

Clipper

A very fast sailing ship of the mid 1800's.

Gordon Cooper

A veteran of the last Mercury flight & Gemini 5, he was the 1st man to make 2 orbital flights and last American to go into space alone

The ambassador

A victory celebration turned to grief in 1968 when Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy at this Los Angeles hotel

Brine

A water-salt solution for preserving or flavoring food

Firmament

According to Genesis, on the second day God created this, which he called heaven. In cosmology its the structure above the atmosphere.

Lassen Peak

Active volcano in Northern California.

Christians

After Rome burned, Nero shifted the blame from himself to this sect, making sport of them in the circus

Arachne

After a weaving contest, Athena turned this maiden into a spider so that she'd spend the rest of her life spinning

Recant

After deeming his writings heretical, Pope Leo X gave Luther 60 days to do this, from the Latin for "sing again"

Taft

After he was President he became Chief Justice

Semiprecious

Adjective for any gemstone that's not a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald

Federal Housing Administration FHA

Administration that backs 30 year mortages

Zambezi River

African river that starts in Zambia and goes east to Mozambique. South Eastern river.

Serengeti

African savannah in Tanzania and Kenya with lots of lions.

Shiva

Hindu god with third eye on head, destroyer and transformer

Bucephalus

Alexander the Great's Horse

Coast Guard

All U.S. lighthouses come under the jurisdiction of this branch of the Armed Services

Voice count

Alliterative term for a procedure counting up spoken yeas & nays

Fiji

Almost half the population of this 4-letter South Pacific nation is descended from laborers imported from India

B-2 Bomber

Also called a stealth bomber weird shaped bombing aircraft/

U.S Merchant Marines

Alternative non-military body, helps transport goods throughout the U.S

Ross Perot

American businessman who ran for President in 1992 and 1996 against Clinton, H.W, and later Bob dole. Independent and reform party. Went to the Naval academy

Dian Fossey

American female scientist who studied Gorillas.

Vishnu

Hindu god, blue with four arms, god of protection and good.

Walter Mondale

American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964-76). He was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the United States presidential election of 1984, but lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide.

Gulfstream

American wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. __________designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services business jet aircraft.

Clark Gable

An American film actor and military officer, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood" or just simply as "The King," won an Academy Award for Best Actor for It Happened One Night (1934), starred in Gone with the Wind as the lead and married Carole Lombard. From Ohio.

Pissarro

An anarchist, he was the only artist whose work was at every one of the Impressionist exhibitions

Gaffe

An embarrassing mistake made in public. STarts with G.

Harem

An odalisque is a female slave or concubine in this women's residence whose name is Arabic for "forbidden

moratorium

An official suspension of an ongoing activity

Odd Lot

An order to buy less than 100 shares of stock

Cesspool

An underground container for sewage

Boudica

Ancient British queen who fought the Romans

Amphora

Ancient Greek vases

Aeschylus

Ancient greek who wrote "7 against Thebes."

Euripides

Ancient greek wrote "Medea" "The trojan women" "Rehsus " and "Helen"

Paraclete

Another name for the Holy Spirit

Apollo 13

Apollo mission that failed but they got home.

Tierra del Fuego

Archipelago of Argentina, bottom of South America

Crater of Diamonds State Park

Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre (15.2 ha) plowed field, the world's only diamond-bearing site accessible to the public

David

Around 1000 B.C. this king from Judea united all Israel into one kingdom with Jerusalem as its capital

Homo habilis

Around 2,000,001 B.C., this probable ancestor of ours, whose name means "handy man", was using simple tools. Oldest type of human.

Twins

Artemis and Apollo had what relation?

John Trumbull

Artist who painted the Signing of the declaration of independence, its housed in the Capitol Building and was on the back of the 2 dollar bill.

Erich Ludendorff

As a German general he achieved major success at Liege and Tannenburg. He rose to be joint head of the German army with Hindenburg. He advocated unrestricted submarine warfare and the policy of 'lebensraum'. He also led the unsuccessful final German offensive of 1918.

Hard

As a nautical adverb, it means "completely", as when it precedes "a-starboard"

Intolerable acts

As punishment for the Boston Tea Party in 1773, Britain passed these Acts

Charolette Corday

Assassinated Marat

Delian League

Association of Greek city states formed by Athens to protect Greece from Persian incursions.

Michael Collins

Astronaut during Apollo 11 that stayed inside the module.

Delegate

At a convention, it's a person chosen to represent a state in the nomination process

Sojourner Truth

At a women's convention in Ohio in 1851 this former slave delivered her "Ain't I A Woman" speech. Born in NY escaped from slavery and first black woman to win a case against a white man.

Sophocles

Athenian playwright, wrote "Opedis," "Electra (Agamemnon's daughter)" and "Antigone"

Wayne Gretzky

Athlete know as "The Great One."

V-J day, or victory over Japan day

August 15, 1945

celiacs disease

Aversion to gluten and wheat products

Fort McHenry

Baltimore, Maryland, is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British navy from the Chesapeake Bay

Khaleda Zia

Bangladesh's first female leader, ________ was prime minister in the 1990s & again from 2001 to 2006

Basenji

Barkless African dog

Bay of Bengal

Between India and Bangladesh, its the largest bay in the world.

Sun Records

Between July 1954 & August 1955 this Memphis label released 5 Elvis Presley singles

4 Humors

Bile, blood, choler, and phlegm.

Charlie Rangel

Black U.S house of representatives for a very long time. Represented Harlem and founded the Black Caucus.

Ionian sea

Body of water to the west of mainland Greece

Mumbai

Bollywood is located in this state of India

Rabindranath Tagore

Born in Calcutta in 1861, a Bengali poet and writer and first non-European to win the Nobel literature prize. Wrote the Indian and Bangladesh national anthems.

Golda Meir

Born in Kiev & later a U.S. citizen, this leader became prime minister in 1969 of Israel.

Charlton Heston

Born named John Carter, famous actor in "The ten commandments, (Moses)" "Ben Hur," "Planet of the Apes," "The Greatest Story Ever Told, (John the Baptist)" and "Julius Caesar (Mark Antony)." Was also President of the NRA.

Keel

Bottom fin protruding from the bottom of the ship

Temporal Lobe

Bottom lobe of the brain, main function is memory.

Sirius

Brightest star in the sky. Known as the "Dog star," as its part of the constellation Canis Major.

James II

British Monarch who tossed the Great seal into the Thames after facing the Glorious revolution.

Jane Goodall

British female scientist who studied Chimpanzees.

Bernard Montgomery

British field Marshall who fought against Erwin Rommel in Africa and led the forces on D-day.

Yosemite

California has the tallest trees, tallest dam, and tallest waterfall, which shares its name with this national park

Grizzly Bear

California's official state animal?

Calcutta

Capital of India before New Dehli.

Palermo

Capital of Sicily

Cusco

Capital of the Incan Empire

Polymers

Cellulose & nylon are examples of these large molecules made up of many smaller molecules called monomers

Wheaties

Cereal brand that had famous athletes on the cover.

Deer

Cervine refers to what type of animals

Guernsey

Channel island that Victor Hugo was exiled to.

Harold Washington

Chicago's first black mayor

Talleyrand

French Diplomat who served under many regimes preceding and after the revolution.

I.M Pei

Chinese American architect who created the Vietnam memorial

Sun Yat-sen

Chinese revolutionary, who helped depose the Qing Dynasty and founded the republic of China in 1912

All saints Day

Christian holiday on the day after Halloween (Nov 1) to passed away saints.

All souls Day

Christian holiday, day after all saints day (Nov 2) celebrates all passed away Christians

Astoria

City in Oregon named after John Jacob Astor.

Uppsala

City in Sweden with old prominent university and cathedral were Swedish monarchs were once crowned.

Freeport

City where L.L Bean is headquartered

Alpha Centauri

Closest Star system to our solar system.

Pablo Neruda

Communist Chilean poet, famous work "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" died in 1973

Analects

Confucius's main book.

Weights and measures

Congress has power to "fix the standard of" these 2 items, which make up a classic "Jeopardy!" category

Ways and Means

Congressional committee responsible for raising the money to fund the government

Macau

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

Ralph Nader

Consumer activist of Lebanese descent who ran for President multiple times, most notably in 2000 for Green Party.

Clark County

County where Las Vegas is located.

Drachma

Currency of Ancient Greece and Greece before the euro.

Dong

Currency of Vietnam

Polka

Czech bohemian dance

Cosmic Rays

Dangerous waves that come from outer space. Greek for "Universe."

Tycho Brahe

Dannish astronomer

Sofia Cappola

Daughter of Director of "The Godfather", directed "Lost in Translation."

Cassandra

Daughter of Priam and Hecuba of Troy, rejected Apollo and he spit on her making no one believe her true prophecies.

Randy Jackson

Dawg, in 2013, after 12 seasons, he left the "American Idol" judging table

Epaulette

Decorative piece that covers the shoulder in military unifroms

Challenger deep

Deepest part of the Mariana trench

aerosol

Defined as a system of particles uniformly distributed in a gas, it's used in spray paint

Lotus

Hindu traditions say the creator god Brahma emerged from this, which grows from the navel of Vishnu. A flower.

Doc Holiday

Dentist who had tuberculosis and went west, became a gambler and gunslinger, worked with Wyatt Earp.

Painted Desert

Desert in Arizona

Mojave Desert

Desert in California and Nevada.

Atacama

Desert in northern Chile

Sonora Desert

Desert in southern California and northern Mexico

Negev

Desert in southern Israel

Love in the Time of Cholera

Despite war & outbreaks of disease, the love of Florentino for Fermina endures in this Gabriel Garcia Marquez nove

Neoprene

Developed in the 1930s, this synthetic rubber is waterproof & slightly buoyant, making it ideal for wetsuits

Antonio Salazar

Dictator of Portugal

Howard Carter

Discovered king Tuts tomb in valley of the kings in 1914.

Wilhelm Röntgen

Discovered x-rays

Brandy

Distilled Wine

Oncologist

Doctor that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer

Radiologist

Doctor that specializes in X-rays

Not in my back yard

Don't want a landfill in your neighborhood? Then you know that NIMBY stands for this

Nevada

Driest state

Jack Armstrong

During WWII this "All-American Boy" of radio drama helped track down Nazi spies & traitors

Mata Hari

Dutch dancer who was accused of spying for Germany and executed by firing squad by the French

Abel Tasman

Dutch explorer, Tasmania named after him. Also saw Fiji.

Hieronymus Bosch

Dutch man who painted the crazy painting "Garden of Earthly Delights"

Ostrogoths

Eastern group of Gothic raiders. Frequently attacked the Byzantines

New Guinea

Eastern most Indonesian Island, second largest island in the world.

Eucharist

Eating bread and wine as the blood and flesh of Christ.

Florence Nightingale

English nurse during the Crimean War.

Iridium

Element named for the rainbow

Good Queen Bess

Elizabeth I's nickname?

Douglas Adams

English Author, 1953 -2001, known for "The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy." Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), Last Chance to See (1990)

Henry V

English Monarch who won the battle of Agincourt in 1415.

10 downing Street

English Parliament is located?

The Marine Corps Band

Established by Congress in 1798, it's the oldest continuously active U.S. professional music ensemble

Committee of Public Safety

Executive branch of France during reign of terror (1793-94)

Rads

Exposure to X-rays is measured in?

Frequency Modulation

FM stands for?

Alfred The Great

Famous Anglo-Saxon King who stopped Viking advances in the 800's.

Solon

Famous Athenian law maker

Great Mogul Diamond

Famous Diamond found in India

Saarinen

Famous Finnish architect

Catalina Island

Famous Island of the coast of Los Angeles.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Famous Pointillist painting by Seurat.

Sergei Korolev

Famous Russian rocket scientist

TWA

Famous airline with motto "Across the globe" bankrupt in 2001.

"The Raw and the Cooked"

Famous anthropology book by Levi-Strauss

Chillon Castle

Famous castle in Switzerland on Lake Geneva

St Marks Cathedral

Famous cathedral in Venice

Stetson

Famous company known for making cowboy hats.

Rin Tin Tin

Famous dog in movies, German Shepard.

Hypatia

Famous female teacher of Alexandria.

Fort Astoria

Famous fur trading post of John Jacob Astor, on the Columbia river in Oregon.

Hermitage

Famous museum in St. Petersburg Russia

Hatshepsut

Famous old female Egyptian pharaoh

Van Cliburn

Famous pianist who won a piano competition in Moscow, Russia in the 1950's during the cold war.

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

Famous quote by John Paul Jones

Potomac

Famous river that's in DC and Maryland

Krakatoa

Famous volcano in Indonesia

Lombard Street

Famous winding hill in San Francisco on the Russian hill.

Molly Brown

Famous woman from the Titantic disaster. She was known as the Unsinkable ________

Ethelred

Fearing a coup, in 1002 A.D. this "unready" English king ordered that all men from Denmark be slain

FCC

Federal Communications Commission

5,280

Feet in a mile?

Benazir Bhutto

Female Prime Minister of Pakistan (1993-96). Her father Ali had also once been Prime Minister. She was assassinated.

Kathy Bates

Female actress who played the woman in Misery and Molly brown in Titanic

Margaret Mead

Female anthropologist who went to the South pacific, was an acolyte of Levi-Strauss and helped in the sexual revolution.

Dorothea Lange

Female photographer during the depression.

The Mayo Clinic

Founded in 1889 as St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, today it's known as this

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Film about Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and Pope Julius II and the painting of the Sistine Chapel.

Fiduciary

Financial advisers may take this type of oath that also starts with "fi" stating they will act in good faith

Ich bin ein Berliner

Finish the June 26, 1963 JFK quote: "Therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words..."

1: Vice president 2: Speaker of the House 3: President pro tempore of the Senate 4: Secretary of State 5: Secretary of Treasury

First 5 in Presidential line of succession

Cambrian period

First period of the Paleozoic

Red Dawn

First pg-13 film

Nehru

First prime minister of India

U-2 Bomber

First spy plane used by the US in 1955.

Larva

First stage of metamorphosis in insects.

Juliette Gordon Low

Founded the Girl Scouts

Cyrus the Great

Founded the Persian Empire

Bonsai

For beginners to this Japanese art of growing dwarf trees, juniper & Chinese elms work particularly well

Rawalpindi

Former capital of pakistan

British Honduras

Former name of Belize when it was a British colony.

Aruba

Formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, this island off Venezuela is 6 miles across at its widest point

Mount Erebus

Found on Ross Island, _____ is the southernmost active volcano in the world

Amristar

Founded by Ram Das, this city in Punjab state is home to the Golden Temple, the center of the Sikh faith

Phillip petain

French WWI hero and leader of Vichy France.

Andre Maginot

French War minister after WWI, helped create a line named after him to protect France from Germany, but it failed in WWII.

Cognac

French brandy, distilled white wine, named for a region in France.

Departments

Frances regions are split into?

Nike/Victoria

Greek/Roman goddess of victory

John Jacob Astor

Fur trader and later real estate mogul of the early 1800's, became extremely rich.

Greenwich mean time

GMT time zone stands for?

Hera/Juno

Greek/roman goddess of women and marriage, also wife of Zeus.

Emanuel Leutze

German painter who painted Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Pope Benedict XVI

German pope from 2005-2013 first to retire as pope not die.

Baden-Baden

German resort town know for its spas

Becky Thatcher

Girl who loves Tom Sawyer.

Greyhound

Go this breed, which originated more than 5,000 years ago in Egypt to hunt deer, & leave the driving to us

Anubis

God of mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head

Ires

Goddess of the rainbow

Dasvidaniya

Goodbye in RUssian

Spitfire

Great Britain's main war plane during WWII, used by the Royal Air Force.

Plutarch

Greek (Roman Citizen), wrote "Parallel Lives" and "La Moralia", 46Ad - 120AD

Scamander

Greek River god

Herodotus

Greek historian (484 BC - 425BC) often referred to as the father of history. Wrote "The Histories" about the war with Persia.

Zeno

Greek philosopher who came up with many paradoxes.

Aesop

Greek who wrote "_______'sFables" 620BC-564BC

Xenophon

Greek, historian, poet, and mercenary. Wrote "Anabasis" and fought with the ten thousand for Cyrus the younger.

Gyro

Greek, lamb roasted on a spit, shaved and put into pita.

Hermes/Mercury

Greek/Roman god of cunning, also a messenger

Hestia/Vesta

Greek/Roman god of order and family

Hephaestus/Vulcan

Greek/Roman god of smithing, fire

Demeter/Ceres

Greek/Roman god of the harvest,farming.

Dionysus/Bacchus

Greek/Roman god of wine, festivals, and consumption.

Artemis/Diana

Greek/Roman goddess of the hunt

Her Majesty's Ship

HMS stands for?

Sixpence

Half a shilling

Scrimshaw

Handiwork made from marine mammals, usually whale skin for soft things and whale and walrus teeth/tusks for hard parts.

Poi

Hawaiian dish that can be thick or almost liquid, eaten with hands.

Pat Riley

He coached the Lakers to 4 NBA titles in the '80s; now he catches some heat as Miami's president & part-time owner

Oliver Hazard Perry

He earned the title "Hero of Lake Erie" for leading American forces in a decisive naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie, receiving a Congressional Gold Medal and the Thanks of Congress during the War of 1812. Famous quote "We have met the enemy and they are ours"

Igor

He is the hunchbacked assistant of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

Wenceslaus I

He was posthumously declared to be a king and came to be seen as the patron saint of the Czech state. was the duke of Bohemia from 921 until his assassination in 935

David Farragut

He was the first admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay usually paraphrased as "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Won the battle of Mobile bay.

Harry S. Trueman

He was vice president of the U.S. for just 82 days before becoming president

James Monroe

He's the only president to have held 2 different cabinet posts: Secretary of State & Secretary of Wa

Minotaur

Head of bull, human body

Arrhythmia

Heart skipping a beat; irregular heartbeat

Half-moon

Henry Hudson's ship was called?

Thomas Wyatt

Henry VIII's court poet, introduced sonnet (14 lines) to English, wrote "Tottel's Miscellany."

Victoria Cross

Highest military award in Great Britain given after the Crimean War. Bears a lion on it.

Ben Nevis

Highest mountain in great Britain located in Scotland

206

Human adults have how many bones?

Centaur

Human body, horse legs

Mary and Louis Leakey

Husband and wife paleontologist pair that discovered many pre-humans.

Orpheus

I'm the lyre-playing hero who went to rescue my wife Eurydice from Hades

Saga

Icelandic stories.

Manzanar

In Cali, main place where Japanese were held during WWII. Now a historical site.

Cape Canaveral

In Florida where they launch rockets

Between Scylla and Charybdis

In Greek mythology Odysseus lost 6 men sailing between these 2 hideous female monsters.

Erebus

In Greek mythology, one must pass through this dark region of the underworld to reach Hades

Gregorian Calander

In 1582 the man born Ugo Buoncompagni proclaimed this solar dating system still used today

Queen Mab

In 15th C. English & Welsh legend, she's queen of the fairies; Shakespeare mentions her in "Romeo & "Juliet." Also the name of a Shelly poem

Sieur de La Salle

In 1674 Louis XIV met, liked & ennobled this explorer who 8 years later put the king's name on Louisiana

Vitus Bering

In 1725 Peter the Great sent this Dane to explore the Pacific coast

Philadelphia

In 1731 the USA's first circulating library was founded in this city

Wilderness Road

In 1775 Boone & about 30 companions built this "Road" leading from Virginia into Kentucky & points west

Alien and Sedition Act

In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt. Also allowed for deportation of dangerous or hostile immigrants.

Matthew Perry

In 1854 this Naval officer opened Japan to Western trade & diplomacy

L.L Bean

In 1912 he was the Maine (& only) man in his new clothing business; today, the company has annual sales of $1.5 billion

Stainless Steel

In 1913 this alloy was invented by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England, a city known for its cutlery since before 1400

Margaret Sanger

In 1914 she began distributing a pamphlet called "Family Limitation" that outlined her views

Morton's

In 1914 the little girl with the umbrella began appearing on this company's salt packages

Wings

In 1929 this film about 2 WWI fighter pilots in love with the same girl won the first Best Picture Oscar

The Long March

In 1930 Mao married He Zizhen, who accompanied him on this famous trek

Howard Hughes

In 1938 this future billionaire flew around the world in the then-record time of 3 days & 19 hours

Rhesus monkey

In 1940 a protein substance in red blood cells was discovered in & named for these monkeys

New Mexico

In 1945 the first atomic bomb was exploded in this state; how enchanting

Ed White

In 1965 became first man to do a spacewalk

Queen Margrethe

In 1977 this Danish queen, an artist & a Tolkien fan, illustrated an edition of "The Lord of the Rings"

Central High

In 1998 Congress designated this Little Rock high school a National Historic Site

Jezebel

In 2 Kings 9 she's thrown out of the window by eunuchs, trampled & then eaten by dogs. Israel queen who goes against Yaweh.

Marion Jones

In 2000 this sprinter who was going for 5 golds finished with a respectable 3, plus 2 bronze all in different events.. Later lost them for using steroids.

David Stern

In 2012 he stated that Feb. 1, 2014, the day he marks 30 years as NBA commissioner, would be his last day on the job

Nokia

In 2013 Microsoft agreed to buy this Finnish company's mobile phone business for $7.2 billion

Iguazu Falls

In Argentina + Brazil, largest waterfall system in the world.

Hayden Planetarium

In NY, planetarium, Neil Tyson is its head astronomer

El Alamein

In October 1942 General Bernard Montgomery defeated the Germans and the desert Fox at this Egyptian city

Spanish Riding School

In Vienna a famous equestrian school, they use lipizzan horses.

Caesar's wife

In an old saying, this Roman person "must be above suspicion"

antecedent

In grammar, an ________ is an expression (word, phrase, clause, sentence, etc.) that gives its meaning to a pronoun.

Juarez

In population, this city on the Rio Grande is the largest Mexican city on the border with the U.S.

Dervish

In the 16th century, Suleiman constructed a semahane, or whirling hall, for these people known for their extreme poverty and austerity

Verdun

In the 1916 battle of this French fortress city, France had more than half a million casualties. De Gauile fought in it too.

Angles

In the 400s the Saxons began migrating to Great Britain & soon got mixed up with these people who had a geometric name

Seth

In the Bible, he's the third son born to Adam & Eve

Brahma

In the classic Hindu trinity, this divinity is the creator of the universe

Mamluk

In the middle ages group of former slaves who established a caliphate in Cairo Egypt, also controlled Syria. Napoleon beat them in Egypt too.

Clipping

In this illegal block, a football player hits an opponent from behind, below the waist, resulting in a 15-yard penalty

Thus spoke Zarathustra

In this work, Nietzsche introduced the concepts of the Ubermensch, or superman, & the will to power

Marconi

Invented the radio

Rupee

Indian currency

Indra Ghandi

Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party. She was the first and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Ordered an attack on Amristar. 1980-84. She was assassinated.

Narraganset

Indian tribe from Rhode Island, also a town in the state.

Wampanoag

Indian tribe of Mass, this tribe was the tribe of King Phillip and his war.

Topaz

Individual crystals of this yellow November birthstone can weigh hundreds of pounds. Its used in Telescopes.

Kevlar

Individual fibers are twisted to increase density in this "five times stronger than steel" DuPont material; bullets deform or mushroom on impact, dispersing & reducing energy

Borneo

Indonesian island that has part of Malaysia and Brunei.

Grant Wood

Iowan painter who painted American Gothic

Claddagh Ring

Irish ring with two hands clasping a heart.

Mauna Kea

Is a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. Standing 4,207 m (13,802 ft) above sea level, its peak is the highest point in the state of Hawaii

May Day

Is a public holiday usually celebrated on May 1. It is an ancient northern hemisphere spring festival. It is also a traditional spring holiday in many cultures. Dances, singing, and cake are usually part of the celebrations that the day includes. Commies now use it too.

P.T. Barnum

Life was a circus for this "Prince of Showmen" aka "Prince of Humbugs" also ran "The greatest show on earth."

Crete

Island that is the southern most point of Europe.

Ulster

It comprises all 6 counties of Northern Ireland & the counties of Donegal, Monaghan & Cavan in the Republic of Ireland

Amethyst

It is one of several forms of quartz. Is a semiprecious stone and is the traditional birthstone for February, it is purple.

Staunch

It means to stop the flow of blood, especially from a wound

Lietchenstein

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

Bundler

It's a fundraiser who gathers lots of smaller donations into a big package of money for a candidate

Photosensitivity

It's abnormal susceptibility to stimulation of the skin by ultraviolet light

Dextrose

It's the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise

It's the highest point in Pakistan & the second-highest mountain in the world

Declension

It's the listing of the different cases of nouns, more complex in Latin than English

Fulcrum

It's the point or support on which a lever pivots

Sequoia

It's the tallest type of tree named for a Cherokee

Imago

It's the term for an adult insect after metamorphosis

Polenta

Italian cornmeal dish, can be mushy or like a loaf of bread.

Lira

Italian currency before euro also Turkish currency

Francis of Assisi

Italian patron saint of Animals and nature.

Jainism

Like Hinduism, uses swastika, all about non-violence

Hungary

Its first king is known in English as St. Stephen & locally as Szent Istvan

Panko

Japanese bread crumbs

Gyoza

Japanese dumplings

Soba

Japanese for buckwheat

Udon

Japanese for wheat

Inazagi

Japanese god who fathered the other gods

Shiatsu

Japanese massage same principles as acupuncture.

Tsukuyomi

Japanese moon god

Susano

Japanese storm God

Amaterasu

Japanese sun goddess

Onyx

Jet black gemstone, used for cameos in ancient times, Romans liked to carry amulets of them with mars engraved on it.

Passover

Jewish holiday that commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites were freed from slavery in Egypt.

Algonquin Round Table

Ny actors and writes meet up, supposed to be a joke.

Calypso

Nymph that abducted Odysseus for 7 years.

Edwin Booth

John Wilkes Booth's actor brother.

Six Day War

June 5-10, 1967 War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

Sleep and Poetry

Keats Poem that contains these lines: "Life is but a day long, A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way from a tree's summit"

Endymion

Keats Poem: "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Its about a handsome Greek whose youth was preserved by eternal sleep

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Keats Poem: beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Ode to a nightingale

Keats Poem: called this bird immortal; "Thou wast not born for death"

Charles I

King executed during the English civil war.

Punjabi

Language in Northern India/Pakistan

Gaelic

Language of Ireland before English

Tamil

Language of Southern India and Sri Lanaka

Shannon River

Large Irish River

Claymore

Large Scottish sword

Orinoco

Large Venezuelan River

Lake Maracaibo

Large brackish lake in Venezeula

Lake geneva

Large lake shared by France and Switzerland

Mt. Hood

Large volcano in Oregon

Mount Pinatubo

Large volcano in the Philippines, on Luzon

Beersheba

Largest city in southern Israel's Negev region.

Empty Quarter

Largest continual part of the Arabian desert

Great Victoria

Largest desert in Australia

Cullinan Diamond

Largest diamond ever found

Lake Nasser

Largest lake in Egypt

Mount Sidley

Largest volcano in Antarctica

Cretaceous Period

Last Period of dinosaurs, mammals came on the scene. T-Rex and raptors lived. Name comes from chalk.

Paul Von Hindenburg

Last President of Wiemar Republic, and WWI hero who gave power to Hitler.

Habeas Corpus

Latin Phrase: "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine if the detention is lawful

Wyatt Earp

Lawman who played key role in shooting at the O.K corral, in tombstone Arizona.

John Pershing

Leader of U.S forces in WWI, first general to lead forces in Europe.

Richard Leaky

Leaky couples son who is also a paleontologist

Bibliothèque nationale

Library in Paris France that contains all French books.

Kuiper Belt

Like the asteroid belt but past pluto

Eon

Longest geological time?

Orange River

Longest river in South Africa

George McGovern

Lost the 1968 election to Nixon. Was from South Dakota had a phD. filled in for Robert Kennedy After his assassination

Huey Long

Louisiana Gov (Democrat) was assassinated in 1935.

Bavaria

Ludwig I's infatuation with the dancer Lola Montez helped ensure his loss of this German kingdom

Laconic

The Spartans' region, Laconia, & their dislike of wasting words gave us this English adjective

Sikhism

Made in 1520's, has gurus, Punjab region (North india) and Golden Temple is main place of worship.

Bermuda

Made up of 1 large & many smaller islands, it's the most populous of Britain's remaining overseas territories

El Al

Main airline of Israel

Holden Caulfield

Main boy protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye."

Hindi

Main language of India

Rhett Butler

Main male lead character in "Gone with the wind"

montesquieu

Man who came up with the concept of the separation of powers.

Stephen Douglass

Man who defeated Lincoln in the 1858 senate race in Illinois but lost to him for the Presidency. Man person behind Kansas-Nebraska act.

Kevin Bacon

Man who played Jack Swigert in Apollo 13

Joseph Heller

Man who wrote "Catch 22"

Joseph Conrad

Man who wrote "Heart of Darkness" and "Lord Jim."

William Golding

Man who wrote "Lord of the Flies."

Herman Melville

Man who wrote "Moby Dick"

J.D Salinger

Man who wrote "The Catcher in the Rye."

Westminster Abbey

Many kings & Queens of England, including James I, are buried in this church

Little Red Book

Many of Mao's sayings & beliefs were collected in this diminutive book for easy dissemination

Georgia

Margaret Mitchell's home state.

WD-40

This lubrication product "stops squeaks" & "loosens rusted parts

Schnitzel

Meat, usually thin slices by tenderization that is fried in oil or fat.(German-Austrian)

Pariental Lobe

Middle brain lobe that controls sensory information.

Pupa

Middle stage of metamorphosis in insects

Gypsum

Mineral that is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer, and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, blackboard chalk and wallboard

100 years war(1337-1453) then war of the roses (1455-1487)

Which was first 100 years war or war of the roses?

Nelson's Column

Monument in Trafalgar square for the navy commander who died during the same-named battle.

Girodins

More moderate group of the left during French revolution. they were killed by the Jacobins.

Parris Island

Most U.S. Marine Corps recruits east of the Mississippi train on this island off the coast of South Carolina

Sashimi

Most people don't know that it's the seasoned rice that's known as sushi; the raw fish is properly called this

Jeopardy

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