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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY ///// THOUGH THE 1980S AUGUSTO PINOCHET WAS THE DICTATORIAL RULER OF THIS COUNTRY
Chile
IMMIGRANTS ///// HEY PRESTO! THIS MAN WHO AMAZED MILLIONS MAGICALLY ALTERED HIS 1874 BIRTHPLACE FROM BUDAPEST TO APPLETON, WISCONSIN
Houdini
FASHION ///// VIVIENNE WESTWOOD HELPED SHAPED THE LOOKS OF THIS MUSIC GENRE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD IN THE LATE ‘70S
Punk
ESSAYS ///// “THAT GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST” IS THE MAIN PREMISE OF HIS 1849 WORK ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Henry David Thoreau
MATH ///// ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN JOHN WALLIS WAS THE FIRST TO USE WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN 8 ON ITS SIDE TO SYMBOLIZE THIS
Infinity
STARTS WITH SU ///// ADJECTIVE FOR A SPED-UP COURT MARTIAL
Summary
ROMAN GODS ///// A WINTER MONTH IS NAMED FOR THIS GOD DEPICTED WITH 2 OPPOSITE-FACING FACES
Janus
OLYMPIC EVENTS ///// THE WINNING THROW IN THIS MEN’S EVENT AT THE 2016 OLYMPICS WAS JUST OVER 296 FEET
Javelin
ART TERMS ///// ORIGINALLY A TERM FOR A FULL-SIZE SKETCH READY FOR TRANSFER TO A CANVAS OR WALL, IT NOW REFERS TO ANY HUMOUOUS DRAWING
Cartoon
WOMEN LEADERS ///// SHE WAS THE BRITISH PRIME MINESTER FROM 1979 TO 1990
Margaret Thatcher
FEMALE POETS ///// SHE WROTE “SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7-LETTER WORDS ///// JAPANESE DISH IN WHICH FISH OR VEGGIES ARE DIPPED IN BATTER & DEEP-FRIED
Tempura
BIBLICAL CREATURES ///// THIS SEA MONSTER IS MENTIONED IN PSALM 74
Leviathon
SNAKES ///// THE BOA FAMILY INCLUDES CONSTRICTORS, TREE BOAS, AND THESE LONGEST SOUTH AMERICAN SNAKES
Anaconda
BROADWAY GEOGRAPHY ///// LIKE “THE MUSIC MAN,” “THE PAJAMA GAME” TAKES PLACE IN THIS US STATE
Iowa
AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRSTS ///// IN 1989 ABOARD DISCOVERY, FREDERICK D. GREGORY BECAME THE FIRST BLACK COMMANDER OF ONE OF THESE MISSIONS
Space Shuttle
MUSIC TERMS ///// THE SYMPHONIES OF SCHUMANN & BERLIOZ TYPIFY THIS 19TH C MOVEMENT OF EMOTION AND INDIVIDUALISM
Romantic
COLD WAR GEOGRAPHY ///// WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID “FROM STETTIN IN THE BALTIC TO TRIESTE IN THE ADRIATIC,” THIS STRUCTURE “HAS DESCENDED ON EUROPE”
The Iron Curtain
US STATES ///// LOCATED ON THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, LOGAN PASS IS A REAL HIGH POINT OF THIS STATE’S GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Montana
GLANDS ///// WHEN THIS GLAND IS TOO ACTIVE OR NOT ACTIVE ENOUGH, A GOITER MAY DEVELOP
Thyroid
PUNCTUATION ///// THE NAME OF THESE PUNCTUATION MARKS IS FROM THE GREEK FOR “TO INSERT”
Parentheses
NAMED FOR A PERSON ///// THIS INSTRUMENT PLAYED BY GERRY MULLIGAN & JOHN COLTRANE WAS NAMED FOR ITS 19TH CENTURY INVENTOR
Saxophone
STATE CAPITALS ///// THIS STATE CAPICAL EXTENDS INLAND TO THE FOOTHILLS OF THE KOOLAU MOUNTAINS
Honolulu
BREAKFAST CEREALS ///// THIS MAGICALLY DELICIOUS CEREAL HAS A LEPRECHAUN FOR A SPOKESMAN
Lucky Charms
CLICHES ///// A RISING ONE OF THESE LIFTS ALL BOATS
Tide
AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS ///// THE ENSLAVEMENT OF HIS ANCESTOR KUNTA KINTE IS AT THE CENTER OF HIS BOOK “ROOTS”
Alex Haley
FOOD RHYME TIME ///// AN OVER-EATER OF SHEEP MEAT
Mutton Glutton
FEMALE POLITICAL AUTHORS ///// IN WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, THIS FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR TELLS OF HER EXPERIENCES AS U.N. AMBASSADOR
Nikki Haley
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE ///// WYOMING’S POPULATION TEMPORARILY DOUBLES AS SKYGAZERS HEADED FOR THIS EVENT’S ZONE OF TOTALITY IN 2017
Solar Eclipse
1970S FILMS ///// ORGANIZED CRIME IS THE REAL CORLEONE FAMILY BUSINESS IN THIS 1972 CLASSIC
The Godfather
VICE PRESIDENTS ///// THIS MAN FROM INDIANA WAS VICE PRESIDENT UNDER GEORGE H.W. BUSH
Dan Quayle
HOME TECHNOLOGY ///// THE COMPANY IROBOT LAUNCHED THIS REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT IN 2002
Roomba
DICKENS CHARACTERS ///// THIS ECCENTRIC OLD LADY IN GREAT EXPECTATIONS DIES AFTER HER WEDDING GOWN CATCHES FIRE
Miss Haversham
REALITY TV ///// FASHION DESIGNER CHRISTIAN SIRIANO REPLACED TIM GUNN AS THE MENTOR ON THIS REALITY SERIES
Project Runway
COINS ///// IN 2019 RUSSIA RELEASED A COIN COMMEMORATING ITS “REUNIFICATION” WITH THIS PENINSULA
Crimea
THE MIDDLE EAST ///// MECCA WAS FORMERLY A CO-CAPITAL OF SAUDI ARABIA, NOW THIS CITY IS ITS EXCLUSIVE CAPITAL
Riyadh
GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS ///// HOOVER DAM WAS BUILT USING FEDERAL UTHORITY UNDER THIS CONSTITUTIONAL CLASUE, ANOTHER WORD FOR TRADE
Commerce
TOOLS ///// THE CHAMP MODEL OF THIS HAS 33 FUNCTIONS, INCLUDING FISH SCALER AND WOOD SAW
Swiss Army Knife
ASIAN HISTORY ///// ALSO KNOWN AS THE YIHEQUAN, THIS PEASANT GROUP LAUNCHED A VIOLENT REBELLION IN CHINA IN 1900
Boxers
2019 MOVIES ///// THIS FUNNYMAN TAKES ON A MORE SERIOUS ROLE AS HOWARD IN “UNCUT GEMS”
Adam Sandler
TV WORKPLACES ///// SAM MALONE TENDED BAR WHILE CARLA & DIANE WERE WAITRESSES ON THIS BELOVED SITCOM
Cheers
TITLE OBJECTS IN PLAYS ///// IN OSCAR WILDE’S PLAY, LADY WINDERMERE THREATENS TO SLAP MRS. ERLYNNE WITH THIS TITLE OBJECT
Fan
THE GRAMMYS ///// IN 2016, HIS “TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY” WAS NAMED BEST RAP ALBUM
Kendrick Lamar
WALL STREET ///// NOW WITH 30 STOCKS, THIS INDICATOR COMMONLY KNOWN BY A 3 LETTER NAME WAS CREATED IN 1896
Dow
STATE BORDERS ///// THIS STATE’S PANHANDLE LIMITS ALABAMA’S GULF OF MEXICO COASTLINE TO THE AREA AROUND MOBILE BAY
Florida
ROCK MUSIC ///// “RADIOACTIVE” WAS A 2012 HIT SONG FOR THIS LAS VEGAS GROUP
Imagine Dragons
SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES ///// DYING IN EGYPT, HE SAYS “A ROMAN BY A ROMAN VALIANTLY VANQUISED. NOW MY SPIRIT IS GOING, I CAN NO MORE”
Antony
OUTER SPACE ///// QUASAR MSH 04-12 IS VISIBLE BY TELESCOPE AT A DISTANCE OF 5 BILLION OF THESE
Light years
EUROPEAN LANDMARKS ///// THERE’S A STATUE OF THE LITTLE MERMAID IN THE HARBOR OF THIS CAPITAL OF DENMARK
Copenhagen
THE 18TH CENTURY ///// IN 1790, PHILADELPHIA REPLACED IT AS THE CAPITAL OF THE U.S.
New York
TRIOS ///// “SABOTAGE” AND “NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN” ARE BY THIS RAP TRIO
The Beastie Boys
SYMPHONY NICKNAMES ///// SCHUBERT’S SYMPHONY NO. 8 IS KNOWNED BY THIS NA–
The Unfinished Symphony
NOTORIOUS ///// BENJAMIN WAS THE REAL FIRST NAME OF THIS MAN WHOSE FREE SPENDING TO BUILD THE FLAMINGO IN LAS VEGAS HELPED HIM GET KILLED IN 1947
Bugsy Siegel
PASTIMES ///// TRACEURS ARE THE PRACTITIONERS OF THIS FRENCH NAMED ACTIVITY OF MOVING SWIFTLY THROUGH URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Parkour
RODENTS ///// THESE LARGE AQUATIC RODENTS ARE GOOD AT CHEWING ON WOOD AS THEIR TEETH CONTAIN IRON
Beavers
STARTS WITH “Z” ///// USED AS FLAVORING, IT’S THE OUTER PART OF THE PEEL OF A LEMON OR ORANGE
Zest
SPORTS MOVIES ///// IT’S THE SPORT FEATURED IN THE MATT DAMON - MORGAN FREEMAN FILM “INVICTUS”
Rugby
POTENT POTABLES ///// THIS BOURBON COCKTAIL IS TRADITIONALLY SERVED AT THE KENTUCKY DERBY
Mint Julep
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION ///// TEDDY ROOSEVELT BECAME PRESIDENT UPON HIS ASSASSINATION
McKinley
ADVERTISING ///// “THE MOST INTERESTING MAN IN THE WORLD” PROMOTED THIS BEER
Dos Equis
TV HOSTS ///// JON STEWART HANDED OVER HOSTING OF “THE DAILY SHOW” TO THIS SOUTH AFRICAN MAN
Trevor Noah
FORMER WORLD CAPITALS ///// FEZ & MARRAKESH WERE FORMERLY CAPITALS OF THIS COUNTRY
Morocco
16TH CENTURY WRITING ///// THE RISES TO POWER OF CESARE BORGIA & FRANCESCO SFORZA, AMONG OTHERS, ARE RELATED TO THIS 1513 WORK
The Prince
VICTORIAN NOVELS ///// SHE WROTE “THE MILL ON THE FLOSS”
George Eliot
EPITAPHS ///// “THE LURE OF THE ARCTIC IS TUGGING AT MY HEART” SAYS THE HEADSTONE OF THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPLORER
Henson
INVENTORS ///// THIS SWEDE INVENTED DYNAMITE & THE BLASTING CAP
Nobel
RECENT PULITZER WINNERS ///// THIS DC PAPER TOOK THE 2018 INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PULITZER FOR A SERICS THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF A SENATE RACE
Washington Post
FILL IN THE ADVERB ///// “ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE, AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN ____ PLAYERS”
Merely
CARTOONS ///// THE THEME SONG TO THIS CARTOON WONDERS, “WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA”
Spongebob Squarepants
WOMEN IN MUSIC ///// ELLA FITZGERALD CALLED THIS JAZZ SINGER NICKNAMED “SASSY” THE GREATED SINGING TALENT IN THE WORLD
Sarah Vaughan
WOMEN AUTHORS ///// WHEN SHE DIED IN 2019, PRESIDENT OBAMA PRAISED HER “FUSION OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STORY WITHIN THE AMERICAN STORY”
Toni Morrison
WEIGHTS & MEASURES ///// A UNIT OF FAME IS WINKINGLY NAMED FOR THIS POP ARTIST WHO TALKED ABOUT 15 MINUTES OF FAME
Andy Warhol
COMPUTER TERMS ///// DRAM STANDS FOR THIS KIND OF RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
Dynamic
EXPLORATION ///// WE PRESUME THAT THIS MAN MADE THE FIRST EUROPEAN SIGHTING OF LAKE NGAMI IN 1849
David Livingstone
FROM PAGE TO SCREEN ///// THIS FILM STARRING GENE HACKMAN AS POPEYE DOYLE WAS BASED ON A NONFICTION ACCOUNT OF NYC COPS AND DRUG SMUGGLING
The French Connection
TRAGEDIES ///// BY 9AM ON APRIL 15, 1912, THIS SHIP HAD RESCUED ABOUT 705 SURVIVORS OF THE TITANIC
RMS Carpathia
EUROPEAN ART ///// THE CENTERPIECE OF THE RIJKSMUSEUM IS THIS REMBRANDT PAINTING MISNAMED AFTER VARNISH AND YEARS OF DIRT DARKENED THE PIECE
The Night Watch
CAPES ///// IF YOU’RE “ROUNDING” THIS YOU’RE GOING AROUND THE CAPE AT THE BOTTOM OF SOUTH AMERICA
Cape Horn
LAST LINES IN SHAKESPEARE ///// HE SAID “I KISSED THEE ERE I KILLED THE: NO WAY BUT THIS, KILLING MYSELF, TO DIE UPON A KISS”
Othello
CALIFORNIA ///// HOME TO DISNEYLAND, THIS CITY WAS FOUNDED BY GERMAN IMMIGRANTS IN 1857
Anaheim
BROADWAY ///// THE TKTS STAND IN THIS FAMOUS BROADWAY SQUARE SELLS HALF-PRICE TICKETS TO BROADWAY SHOTS
Times Square
SCIENTIFIC TERMS ///// NAMED FOR A PHYSICIST, THIS “EFFECT” IS A CHANGE IN THE FREQUENCY OF A SOUND DUE TO MOVEMENT OF THE SOURCE
Doppler
WEATHER IN THE NEWS ///// RECORD HOT & DRY WEATHER SET THE STAGE FOR THIS COUNTRY’S DEVASTATING 2019-20 FIRE SEASON
Australia
THE ZODIAC ///// AT HIS DEATH, CHIRON, THE WISTEST AND MOST JUST CENTAUR, BECAME THIS CONSTELLATION & ZODIAC SIGN
Sagittarius
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY ///// IN 1946 CHICAGO MAITRE D’ FRANK BROWN POSED FOR THIS RICE BRAND’S TRADEMARK PICTURE
Uncle Ben’s
4-LETTER WORDS ///// IT’S ANOTHER WORD FOR THE UTERUS
Womb
ANCIENT GREEKS ///// PLATO’S DIALOGUE “PHAEDO” IS ABOUT THE LAST HOURS OF THIS MAN’S LIFE
Socrates
GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES ///// THIS RANGE OF MOUNTAINS HAS BEEN CALLED THE BACKBONE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT
Rocky Mountains
BOOKS OF THE BIBLE ///// IT’S THE SECOND BOOK OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Exodus
REPUBLICANS ///// THIS FORMER GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA & PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE USES HIS INITIALS AS HIS FIRST NAME
Jeb Bush
MUSICAL GROUPS ///// A SIX-STRING BASS CALLED THE GUITARRON IS PART OF THIS TYPE OF BAND
Mariachi
ACTORS ///// HIS FILM ROLES INCLUDE MAVERICK, ETHAN HUNT, AND JACK REACHER
Tom Cruise
ARTISTS’ INFLUENCES ///// AS A TEENAGER, ANDREW WYETH WAS INSPIRED BY THIS AMERICAN SEASCAPE ARTIST
Winslow Homer
RHYME TIME ///// MISCHIEVOUS IMP THAT MIGHT WRECK THE MACHINERY IN A MOSCOW LANDMARK
Kremlin Gremlin
POLITICS ///// BEFORE BECOMING A REPUBLICAN, ABRAHAM LINCOLN BELONGED TO THIS POLITICAL PARTY
Whig
PHYSICS ///// NEWTON’S 1ST LAW OF MOTION IS KNOWN AS THE LAW OF THIS, THE TENDANCY OF A MOVING BODY TO MAINTAIN IT’S VELOCITY AND DIRECTION
Inertia
AMERICAN CITIES ///// IN MAY 1861, THE CONFEDERACY MOVED ITS CAPITAL TO THIS CITY 100 MILES SOUTH OF WASHINGTON DC
Richmond
OPERA SINGERS ///// THIS GREAT TENOR WAS BORN IN NAPLES IN 1873 AND RETURNED THERE TO DIE IN 1921
Enrico Caruso
COVETED HONORS ///// A 3 STAR RATING FROM THIS GUIDE IS PERHAPS THE MOST COVETED HONOR A CHEF OR RESTAURANT CAN EARN
Michelin
TV SPIN-OFFS ///// “BETTER CALL SAUL” IS A SPIN-OFF FROM THIS DRAMA
Breaking Bad
18TH CENTURY POETS ///// THIS AUTHOR OF “A POEM BY PHILLIS” COUNTED GEORGE WASHINGTON AMONG HER ADMIRERS
Phillis Weatley Peters
ROAD SIGNS ///// BY LAW IN WISCONSIN, NO TRAFFIC SIGN EXCEPT THIS “SHALL BE AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE IN SHAPE”
Yield
BOXING HISTORY ///// IN 1975 MUHAMMAD ALI TKO’D JOE FRAZIER IN THE 14TH ROUND OF WHAT WAS BILLED AS THS “THRILLA IN” THIS CITY
Manilla
FAMOUS AMERICANS ///// IN 1983 THIS ASTRONAUT BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO FLY IN SPACE
Sally Ride
MOVIE MUSICALS ///// SHE STARRED IN THE MOVIE MUSICALS “MARY POPPINS” AND “THE SOUND OF MUSIC”
Julie Andrews
ROYALTY ///// QUEEN BEATRIX OF THIS COUNTRY ABDICATED IN 2013 IN FAVOR OF HER SON WILLEM-ALEXANDER
The Netherlands
COMPUTER HISTORY ///// IN 1977, DENNIS HAYES AND DALE HEATHERINGTON INVENTED THIS, ENABLING A PC TO TRANSMIT DATA VIA PHONE LINES
Modem
ENGLISH NOVELS ///// THE WILOXES, THE SCHLEGELS, AND LEONARD BAST ARE CHARACTERS WHOSE LIVES INTERTWINED IN THIS E.M. FORSTER NOVEL
Howards End
NATIONAL FORMATIONS ///// THESE STONE FORMATIONS GIVE THEIR NAME TO A UTAH SITE THAT’S BEEN A NATIONAL PARK SINCE 1971
Arches
6-LETTER WORDS ///// AS A NOUN IT’S AN ANIMAL’S SNOUT, AS A VERB, IT MEANS TO PREVENT SOMEONE FROM SPEAKING OUT
Muzzle
WORLD WAR I ///// HE COMMANDED THE AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES IN EUROPE DURING WORLD WAR I
John Pershing
BOOK SERIES ///// IN THIS 2005 NOVEL, THE FIRST IN A SERIES, BELLA SWANN MOVES TO FORKS, WASHINGTON
Twilight
ANTONYMS ///// THIS ANTONYM OF “ATTRACTIVE” CAN REFER TO MAGNETS WHOSE FIELDS ARE PUSHING THEM APART
Repulsive
ART CONTEMPORARIES ///// IN 1888 VINCENT VAN GOGH THREATENED TO KILL THIS FRENCH ARTIST WHO WAS HIS ROOMMATE AT THE TIME
Paul Gauguin
THE PRESIDENT’S WIDOW ///// IN 1875 HIS WIDOW WAS BRIEFLY COMMITTED TO A SANITARIUM
Abraham Lincoln
20TH CENTURY HISTORY ///// ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND AND HIS WIFE SOPHIE WERE ASSASSINATED ON JUNE 28, 1914 WHILE MOROTORING THROUGH THIS CITY
Sarajevo
SPICES ///// HUNGARIAN GOULASH IS FLAVORED WITH THIS RED HUNGARIAN SEASONING
Paprika
FRANCE ///// IN 2019 A FIRE BROKE OUT AT THIS 850-YEAR-OLD CATHEDRAL
Notre Dame
TV ACTRESSES ///// SHE PLAYED THE TITLE CHARACTER ON “MAUDE” AND ONE OF THE “GOLDEN GIRLS”
Bea Arthur
NORSE MYTHOLOGY ///// NORSEMEN BELIEVED THE UNIVERSE WAS SUPPORTED BY A HUGE ONE OF THESE, YGGDRASILL
Tree
BROADWAY & LIT ///// WAR & PEACE CAME TO THE STAGE AS A SHOW TITLED “NATASHA”, HIM, AND THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
Pierre
DEBUT ALBUMS ///// “UP ALL NIGHT” FROM 2011 WAS THE DEBUT ALBUM BY THIS BOY BAND
One Direction
CITY NAME ORIGINS ///// THE SIOUX WORD FOR “WATER” AND THE GREEN WORD FOR “CITY” GIVE THIS MINNESOTA CITY ITS NAME
Minneapolis
FROM THE LATIN ///// THIS SYNONYM FOR HANDCUFFS COMES FROM THE LATIN FOR “LITTLE HAND”
Manacles
RHYME TIME ///// A TASTY TREAT FOR CHEWBACCA
Wookie Cookie
BESTSELLERS ///// DELIA OWENS’ “WHERE” THESE SMALL FRESHWATER LOBSTER RELATIVES “SING” TOPPED 2019 BESTSELLER LISTS
Crawdads
BOOK SERIES ///// STIEG LARSSON’S “MILENNIUM” TROLOGY ENDED WITH “THE GIRL WHO KICKED” THIS
The Hornets’ Nest
FOREIGN LANGUAGE MOVIES ///// BONG JOON-HO PORTRAYED CLASS WARFARE IN THIS 2019 KOREAN FILM
Parasite
EUROPE ///// TERM FOR THE PARTLY ARAB MUSLIM PEOPLE WHO RULED MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Moors
SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN ///// THE TITLE OF THIS PLAY REFERS TO THE ILL-TEMPERED KATE
The Taming of the Shrew
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS ///// A VOTE CALLED BY DAVID CAMERON IN 2016 INITIATED THE LENGTHY PROCESS KNOWN BY THIS WORD
Brexit
STARTS WITH “O” ///// THE LARGEST APE NATIVE TO ASIA
Orangutan
ANIMAL SUPERLATIVES ///// THE EMPEROR IS THE LARGEST VARIETY OF THIS BIRD
Penguin
NURSERY RHUMES ///// THIS POET USED “LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN” TO CLOSE HIS 1922 EPIC “THE WASTE LAND”
T.S. Eliot
PLAYWRIGHTS & ACTRESSES ///// VIVIEN MERCHANT WAS MARRIED TO THIS FUTURE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WHEN SHE CO-WROTE IN HIS 1965 PLAY “THE HOMECOMING”
Harold Pinter
THE BOOK OF GENESIS ///// HIS 3 SONS WERE SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH
Noah
BONES ///// THE STRONGEST & LONGEST BONE IN THE HUMAN BODY, IT’S ALSO CALLED THE THIGHBONE
Femur
BODIES OF WATER ///// MOMBASA & COLOMBO ARE PORTS ON THIS OCEAN
Indian
RELIGION ///// THE ANABAPTISTS INCLUDE MENNONITES, HUTTERITES, AND THESE EVEN MORE CONSERVATIVE BUGGY RIDERS
Amish
BUSINESS TERMS ///// A BUSINESS HAS TO CONTROL THIS PART OF ITS BUDGET, A TERM FOR FIXED COSTS LIKE RENT, ELECTRIC, AND OTHER EXPENSES
Overhead
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES ///// THIS PARISIAN SCHOOL WAS FOUNDED AS A COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY IN 1253
The Sorbonne
WORLDLY INSTRUMENTS ///// TYPICALLY, THESE LATIN AMERICAN RATTLES CONTAIN SEEDS OR BEADS
Maracas
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS ///// WRITER ZORA NEALE HURSTON WAS THE FIRST BLACK GRADUATE OF THIS COLLEGE THAT’S AFFILIATED WITH COLUMBIA
Barnard College
RECENT U.S. HISTORY ///// IN 2005, FORMER FBI MAN W. MARK FELT WAS REVEALED TO BE THE ANONYMOUS WATERGATE INFORMANT KNOWN BY THIS PSEUDONYM
Deep Throat
STARTS WITH “C” ///// HANDWRITING WHERE THE LETTERS ARE JOINED
Cursive
STATE GOVERNMENT ///// IN CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA, THE PERSON WITH THIS TITLE OVERSEES ELECTIONS
Secretary of State
DINOSAURS ///// THE NAME FOR THIS DINOSAUR WITH A ROW OF BONY PLATES ON ITS BACK COMES FROM GREEK FOR “ROOF”
Stegosaurus
EUROPEAN PAINTERS ///// A CATEGORY IN THE WORLD BEARD AND MOUSTACHE CHAMPIONSHIPS HONORS THIS 20TH CENTURY ARTIST’S STACHE
Salvador Dali
EXPLORERS ///// JOHN DAVIS, AN AMERICAN SEAL HUNTER, WAS THE 1ST PERSON KNOWN TO SET FOOT ON THIS CONTINENT
Antarctica
DESSERTS ///// BROWNED IN THE OVEN, THIS CAKE AND ICE CREAM DESSERT CAN BE SET AFLAME FOR A DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
Baked Alaska
EUROPEAN INSTRUMENTS ///// THE HIGHLAND VERSION OF THIS INSTRUMENT HAS A BLOWPIPE, A CHANTER, AND 3 DRONES
Bagpipe
EUROPEAN HODGEPODGE ///// RUEDI RYMANN WAS A GREAT SWISS MASTER OF THIS STYLE OF SINGING
Yodeling
12-LETTER WORDS ///// IT CAN BE A RELIGIOUS GROUP, OR THE VALUE OF A PIECE OF PAPER MONEY
Denomination
HISTORICAL DRAMAS ///// THE LAST SCENE OF THIS ARTHUR MILLER PLAY IS SET IN A SALEM JAIL CELL IN 1692
The Crucible
RECENT INNOVATIONS ///// IN DECEMBER 2017, ONE UNIT OF THIS CRYPTOCURRENCY WAS WORTH 15 TIMES MORE THAN AN OUNCE OF GOLD
Bitcoin
COMMUNICATION ///// IN THE OED THIS APP IS ALSO A VERB MEANING “TO COMMUNICATE WITH A PERSON… OVER THE INTERNET VIA VIDEO CHAT”
Facetime
SCIENTISTS ///// THIS PHYSICIST WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE LOS ALAMOS LABORATORY DURING WW2’S MANHATTAN PROJECT
Oppenheimer
EUROPEAN CAPITALS ///// IN 1991, TALLINN AGAIN BECAME THE CAPITAL OF THIS FORMER SOVIET REPUBLIC
Estonia
CLASSIC FOREIGN FILMS ///// A CLASSIC ITALIAN FILM IS ABOUT A “THIEF” OF THIS, WHICH A POOR MAN NEEDS FOR HIS JOB
Bicycle
US CITIES ///// EAST CHICAGO IS LOCATED IN THIS STATE, NOT ILLINOIS
Indiana
ROYALTY ///// WILLIAM OF ORANGE, LIKE HIS FATHER WILLIAM II, WED AN ENGLISH GIRL NAMED THIS
Mary
RELIGIOUS FIGURES ///// HE RECEIVED HIS DOCTORATE OF THEOLOGY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF WITTENBERG IN 1512
Martin Luther
MILITARY HONORS ///// THE ONLY WOMAN TO RECEIVE THIS FOREMOST US MILITARY DECORATION IS DR. MARY WALKER, FOR HER ACTIONS AT BULL RUN
Medal of Honor
OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE ///// IN “BEOWULF,” THIS MONSTER REGULARLY DEVOURS HROTHGAR’S SLEEPING WARRIORS
Grendel
JOINTS ///// YOUR BODY’S LARGEST JOINT IS THIS ONE THAT’S CAPPED BY A BONE CALLED THE PATELLA
Knee
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE ///// IN 1903, PANAMA BECAME INDEPENDENT FROM THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY
Colombia
HISTORIC SPORTS FIGURES ///// AS A PITCHER, HE WAS 94-46, BUT IT’S THE 714 CAREER HOMERS FOR WHICH HE’S BEST REMEMBERED
Babe Ruth