Season 34 Flashcards
1
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The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 and more men marched at his funeral than fought with him
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the Battle of Lexington
2
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Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol
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Billy Graham
3
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In 1990 the Yalu River Bridge was renamed the “Friendship Bridge” between these 2 nations; one is the other’s best friend
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North Korea and China
4
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Debuting in 1946, it was deemed “four triangles of nothing”; some critics even found it sinful
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Bikini
5
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Paramnesia is another term for this French-named phenomenon–sound familiar?
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déjà vu
6
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Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel
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Brave New World
7
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Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title “Watch the Skies”
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8
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The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year
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1980 - Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan
9
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The unfinished Victory over America Palace and the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city
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Baghdad
10
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In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, “You shall see another sea”
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa
11
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This slang term for an environmentalist is literally true of groups that used passive resistance vs. deforestation, as in India in 1973
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tree hugger
12
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The author of this novel thought of calling it “Silence in the Water”
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Jaws
13
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“Son of a Witch” and “A Lion Among Men” are sequels to the book that inspired this musical
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Wicked
14
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Turkey is the world’s largest producer of these fruits; its town of Cerasus was famous for them
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Cherries
15
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Of the presidents who served more than 4 years, but less than 2 full terms, he served the longest:
7 years, 9 months, 8 days
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Harry Truman
16
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Promising “value”, which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986
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QVC
17
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Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her “the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned”
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
18
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25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again and ended the set with a tune about the 1st show
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Crosby, Stills and Nash
19
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Like UNESCO, the EU has heritage sites; 2 of the first 4, a WWII internment camp and a Peace Palace, were in this occupied country
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Netherlands
20
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In a 1989 novel, Jing-Mei Woo says, “My father has asked me to be the fourth corner” in this title group
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the Joy Luck Club
21
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Researchers in London and Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
22
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The prologue of this tragedy is a sonnet whose rhymes include dignity and mutiny; scene and unclean; and life and strife
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Romeo and Juliet
23
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This annual event first held in 1934 includes play in areas named Pink Dogwood, Flowering Peach and Azalea
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the Masters Tournament
24
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Getting its nickname from a capital, Dhallywood is the name for the film industry in this Asian country
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Bangladesh
25
Though this state doesn't have "island" in its name, it's named after a European island
New Jersey
26
Vestibular rehabilitation is one treatment for a condition that is also the title of this 1958 suspense film
Vertigo
27
Australia's fourth-largest city, it's at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive
Perth
28
Not in the initial score, the feature giving this symphony its byname was a whim added by the composer close to its 1792 debut
the "Surprise" Symphony
29
On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, "I was just as surprised as you"
Thomas Dewey
30
This toy was patented in the 1960s as a "liquid filled die agitator"
Magic 8-Ball
31
A Portuguese explorer gave this name to an island he sighted off Africa's coast 40 days after Easter
Ascension Island
32
This Zodiac constellation includes 2 lines (or strings) that terminate in a star called Alrescha, the knot
Pisces
33
Though it draws elements from "Hamlet", Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story
The Lion King
34
In 2017 the Maine farm and barn that inspired this classic 1952 novel were put up for sale
Charlotte's Web
35
In playing this instrument whose early version was called a sackbut, it's about 6" from A to B, about 7" from C to D
trombone
36
Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children
the Hundred Acre Wood
37
13th c. Emperor Frederick II's "De Arte Venandi cum Avibus" was the first work written about this -ology
ornithology
38
Names used in other languages for this chess piece include malka, rainha and rouva
Queen
39
He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore "false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity"
Hercule Poirot
40
In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new constitution to these 2 things
death and taxes
41
Born the farthest west in the continental U.S. of any president, he would later die farthest from his birthplace
Richard Nixon
42
20-euro notes available in 2015 fittingly feature this mythological mother to some of Zeus' kids
Europa
43
His works are the only ones in the National Recording Registry that are preserved on piano rolls
Scott Joplin
44
Of the 16 Commonwealth nations with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, this one is farthest from the United Kingdom
New Zealand
45
This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a "miracle worker"
Mark Twain
46
He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners--a real one in a 1992 biopic and a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy
Robert Downey Jr. in:
| Chaplin and Tropic Thunder.
47
For a link between oceans, the U.S. signed an 1859 treaty with Mexico giving us rights to this 2-syllable strip of land "of Tehuantepec"
isthmus
48
This pair who accompanied their father into battle were called Timor and Formido, "Fear" and "Terror", by the Romans
Phobos and Deimos
49
In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead
Alexander Pushkin
50
In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory
Harpers Ferry
51
230 miles long, it defined a boundary between a colony founded by Quakers and one founded by Catholics
Mason-Dixon line
52
Adding "P" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead
plumbago
53
Ulysses and Menelaus were among those who emerged from the "womb" of this, called "tall as a mountain, ribbed with pine"
the Trojan Horse
54
Of the 6 official U.N. languages, it's the one that is written in a cursive form only
Arabic
55
In "Gone With the Wind", Rhett Butler says this city named for a monarch "is the South, only intensified"
Charleston
56
President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn't sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned
pocket veto
57
On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as "an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold" (but funnier)
Nora Ephron
58
A 12-minute piece of music from this opera depicts Alpine dawn, a storm and the calm, and ends in a section called a galop
William Tell
59
Built in the 1990s, it's the only permanent structure permitted in London with a thatched roof since the Great Fire of 1666
the Globe Theatre
60
This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th c. transportation
Fargo
61
Passepartout, whose name means "go everywhere", is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author
Jules Verne
62
The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place
Casablanca
63
On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to "my dearest Theodosia"; he lived until 1836
Aaron Burr
64
Translated from Roman numerals, "55" appears in luggage and watch product names from a company founded by this man
Louis Vuitton
65
Whitman said this man's poetry has "a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page"
Edgar Allan Poe
66
Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter
Guinevere
67
This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company
Babe Ruth
68
In 1871 the official addition of this as a province gave Canada coasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
British Columbia
69
Markers for this geog. designation are on Lake Victoria's Lwaji Island and at Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equator
70
Congress met in June 1778 to sign these but found errors in the official copy; it had to reconvene with a new set in July
the Articles of Confederation
71
He declares that one of the people he is trying to emulate is a medieval knight known as Amadís of Gaul
Don Quixote de la Mancha
72
Its official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag and a scroll inscribed "our most sacred shrine"
Arlington National Cemetery
73
In Latin Jesus says, I am "via et veritas et vita"--in English, these 3 words
way, truth, life
74
This work was over 50 years old and excerpts had been popularized when it had its first full U.S. performance on Christmas Eve 1944
The Nutcracker
75
In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh
Achilles
76
It's the only state named for a woman and whose capital is also named for a woman
Maryland
77
In 1546 architect Pierre Lescot began rebuilding King Francis I's palace, which is now this museum
the Louvre
78
The deepest part of the Mariana Trench and a submersible that went there share the name of this space shuttle
Challenger
79
This Cabinet department traces its roots back to the Manhattan Project and efforts to develop the atomic bomb
the Department of Energy
80
He took the Oath of Office twice 14 months apart
Lyndon B. Johnson
81
One active, one dormant, Madera and Concepcion are volcanoes in this body of water that shares its name with a country
Lake Nicaragua
82
Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for this movie based on a TV series that premiered in 1963
The Fugitive
83
The father of this future composer was a French teacher at the Warsaw Lyceum, where the child would later attend
Frederic Chopin
84
In 1899, a reunion of this alliterative squad took place, with the governor of New York fittingly on horseback
the Rough Riders
85
During Ulysses Grant's 2-term presidency, only one state joined the Union: this one
Colorado
86
In 2017 this govt. agency dedicated a new computational facility named in honor of 99-year-old ex-employee Katherine Johnson
NASA
87
This show has songs that weren't in the 1992 film it's based on, like "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" and "How Will I Know"
The Bodyguard
88
Complaints about heavy workloads inspired the titles of 2 songs by this group, No. 1 hits 7 months apart
The Beatles
| "It's A Hard Day's Night" and "Eight Days A Week"
89
Some of the features of this title place of an 1883 novel are Mizzen-Mast Hill and Captain Kidd's Anchorage
Treasure Island
90
The Greek islands of Lesbos and Rhodes are each about 10 miles from the mainland of this other country
Turkey
91
Bernard Herrmann scored this 1960 black and white thriller using only the string section of an orchestra
Psycho
92
Of this battle in 31 B.C., Virgil wrote, "Neptune's fields grow red with fresh slaughter"
Battle of Actium
93
Before signing the bill creating this, President George W. Bush noted its "nearly 170,000 employees" and "a new kind of war"
the Department of Homeland Security
94
Hesiod said it fawns on all who enter "with actions of...tail and both ears", but when people try to exit it "eats them up"
the hound of Hades or Cerberus
95
Of the 10 countries the Danube touches, this one is alphabetically last and is the only one that doesn't end in "Y" or "A"
Ukraine
96
Each state has as many electors as its total of senators and reps.; D.C. has this many, the minimum for any state
3
97
The New York Times called this 1,000-page novel by a woman "one of the most influential business books ever written"
Atlas Shrugged
98
In 1982, when Bess Truman died, she had been enrolled in this government program for about 17 years, longer than anyone else
Medicare
99
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
100
This 1990 novel made into a blockbuster film says the Hammond Foundation "has spent $17 million on amber"
Jurassic Park
101
The 3 U.N. member states that begin with the letter "J"; 2 are island nations and one is nearly landlocked
Jamaica, Japan, and Jordan
102
A preface to this novel calls it "a loud hee-haw at all who yearn for utopia...and a pretty good fable in the Aesop tradition"
Animal Farm
103
In the 1940s he became the first person to receive nominations as actors, director and writer for the same film
Orson Welles
104
Echoing a rock band with 8 platinum albums, the teams of the Ark. School for the Deaf are named for this animal
a leopard
105
Her April decision to call a snap parliamentary election proved less than brilliant on June 8
Theresa May
106
Once known as the Norman Isles, per the British government this group is "not part of the U.K." and has "never been colonies"
Channel Islands
107
Poet and translator Anne Carson addresses her: "Your name in Greek means something like 'against birth'"
Antigone
108
A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this "weighs 600,000,000 pounds (and)... contains 37,000,000 cubic feet"
the Empire State Building
109
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet" comes from this novel.
Frankenstein
110
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
111
Already an Emmy winner, in 2017 she won an Oscar for the same role that had won her a Tony
Viola Davis
112
Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for "beautiful city"
Gallipoli
113
In Portuguese this bird is known as beija flor, or "flower kisser"
a hummingbird
114
In the 1966 case of this man, Earl Warren wrote of eliminating "evils in the interrogation process"
Ernesto Miranda
115
Some residents of the place with this name came from Kensington Gardens, where they had fallen out of their perambulators
Never Never Land
116
Though it means "one who serves", in medieval Japan it was a property holder who received rent from serfs
samurai
117
The title of this dance hit, No. 1 for 14 weeks in the '90s, can refer to a Seville, Spain neighborhood or a woman from there
Macarena
118
in 2017 the Bel-Air estate used in this '60s TV show was listed for $350 million
The Beverly Hillbillies
119
A 2007 headline said after being ridiculed since the 1950s, it "takes its victory lap" and noted the auction of one for $184,000
the Edsel
120
An "ineffable quality", this 3-word title represents "the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery" day after day
The Right Stuff
121
Famed for its health care system and medical school, it also sold 15 acres for $10 in 1947 to build CDC headquarters
Emory University
122
They're the 3 colors of New York City's flag and of the Knicks and Mets teams; 2 are on the Dutch flag and 1 used to be
blue, white, and orange
123
Despite the title, in this Plato work, Socrates says, "I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times"
Apology
124
"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
125
Composers of this state's various official songs include Richard Rodgers and Woody Guthrie
Oklahoma
126
In his 1958 essay "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose", he compared a writing technique to a jazz musician's style
Jack Kerouac
127
The "very name embodies the idea of flight", says one analysis of a 20th century novel in describing this main character
Stephen Dedalus
128
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
129
Introduced in 1945, she claimed to have the middle names Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim's Daughter
Pippi Longstocking
130
In an 1889 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I wouldn’t exactly have chosen madness if there had been a choice”
Vincent van Gogh
131
This company's first mailers in 1953 offered 20 different magazine subscriptions--prizes came 14 years later
Publishers Clearing House
132
This character first appeared in "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", an 1893 story in London's Strand Magazine
Mycroft Holmes
133
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
134
It's the only world capital whose name is derived from an Algonquin word
Ottawa
135
The name of this cracker that's been around since 1903 suggests that it was baked 3 times
Triscuit
136
A 1954 act amended a 1938 one by striking out this word and replacing it with "Veterans"
armistice
137
The line "Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face" follows this title of a 1964 novel and an action-packed 1967 film
You Only Live Twice
138
In 1915 this play opened for the last time on Broadway, ironically at the Booth Theatre
Our American Cousin
139
With more than 90 million people it's Africa's third most populous country, though it's more than 90% desert
Egypt
140
It's the first Oscar nominee for Best Picture to be distributed by an internet streaming service
Manchester by the Sea
141
The last names of these 2 current senators, one from Virginia and one from Massachusetts, are anagrams of each other
Elizabeth Warren and Mark Warner
142
Letters written by this Roman recount the events of a natural disaster, like the death of his uncle, a famous scholar
Pliny the Younger
143
He became an ex-president while flying over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri
Richard Nixon
144
In 1946, MLJ Mags. changed its name to this "Comics", incorporating the first name of its popular teenage hero
Archie Comics
145
When it was introduced in 1953, this car model's emblem had a checkered flag and a red flag with a fleur-de-lis
a Chevrolet Corvette
146
This character's famed entrance aria actually introduces him as a handyman, repeats his name and adds "la-la-la-la-las"
Figaro
147
A 2015 BBC list of the 25 greatest British novels included 12 by women, 3 of them by this woman who died in 1941
Virginia Woolf
148
Pravda reported that Khrushchev, on his way to lunch, announced his decision to give this region to Ukraine
Crimea
149
Following a show's success in 2011, this group began advertising, "You've seen the play...now read the book"
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
150
This list of 12 may have been inspired by a Biblical garment decorated in 4 rows, the top being sardius, topaz and carbuncle
birthstones
151
Originally called Rural Retreat, this 19th century presidential home has a name that's a synonym for "retreat"
Hermitage
152
As a response to new developments there, this territory was carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898
Yukon Territory
153
A prefatory poem he wrote to one of his novels tells of "the dream-child moving through a land of wonders wild and new"
Lewis Carroll
154
This label, home to U2 and Bob Marley, was created, fittingly, in Jamaica with an investment of 1,000 pounds sterling
Island Records
155
This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials
Dos Equis
156
This country's last 3 queens abdicated in favor of their children
Netherlands
157
The book "From the Volcano to the Gorge" tells the story of this World War II battle
Iwo Jima
158
The U.S. got involved in Vietnam by helping this nation try to regain control of its former colony
France
159
This period in the South can be divided into presidential (1865-1867) and Congressional or Radical (1867-1877)
Reconstruction
160
First performed in 1897, this musical work was designated the official march of the United States in 1987
"Stars And Stripes Forever"
161
In old New England a regular use of the village green was training this body of men mentioned in the Second Amendment
militia
162
In 1915 the 1st transcontinental telephone call was made when A.G. Bell called this former assistant in San Francisco
Watson
163
Perhaps bought from a Sears catalog, a window for an 1880s farmhouse inspired the name of this 1930 painting
American Gothic
164
The setting for this 1994 Oscar-winning animated film was inspired by Kenya's Hell's Gate National Park
The Lion King
165
In 2016 the Wingfoot Two, one of these, was christened near Akron
a blimp
166
In a 1967 novel this Nobel Prize winner wrote, "The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez
167
The name of this city in the Département du Nord comes from the Flemish for "church of the dunes"
Dunkirk
168
Taiji, the Great Ultimate, is the source of this pair that's represented by the colors orange and azure respectively
yin and yang
169
On the beat since 1999, she plays the longest-running female character currently on TV in a primetime non-animated series
Mariska Hargitay
170
Since "Man of the Year" became "Person of the Year" in 1999, only 1 individual woman has won: this European for 2015
Angela Merkel
171
This manual resulted from a military engineer's attendance at an unruly 1860s church meeting
Robert's Rules of Order
172
This 1814-1815 gathering of leaders prompted Beethoven to compose the cantata "The Glorious Moment"
the Congress of Vienna
173
For this series of picture books that started in 1987, each crowd scene takes about 8 weeks to illustrate
Where's Waldo?
174
Rome's Colosseum may have gotten its name because of a colossal circa 65 A.D. statue of this emperor erected nearby
Nero
175
The central image on the flag of this nation is a symbol of strength in Psalm 92 and a prized building material in I Kings 5
Lebanon
176
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
177
The desire in his childhood to catch every insect inspired Satoshi Tajiri to create this 1996 game
Pokémon
178
Of Germany's 16 states, these 2 at opposite ends of the country begin with the same letter & are the largest & smallest
Bavaria & Bremen
179
One orphan arriving before him was given the surname Swubble; some arriving later were to be Unwin & Vilkins
Oliver Twist
180
Of the 8 countries that border Turkey, these 2 extend the farthest east & west
Iran and Greece
181
November 2017 is in the year 1439 AH in the calendar that dates from an action of this religious figure
Muhammad
182
Hailed as the "greatest album of all time", in 2017 it returned to the top of the charts 50 years after its first release
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
183
She declared, "By blood, I am Albanian... as to my calling, I belong to the world"
Mother Teresa
184
A state capital since 1805, its name begins with the last 4 letters of the state's name
Montpelier
185
When Time Magazine named it Invention of the Year in 2007, it was described as too slow, too big, pretty and touchy-feely
the iPhone
186
In 2013 the village of Belrain renamed the last street in France that bore the name of this hero who became a traitor
Maréchal Philippe Petain
187
Despite objections from the playwright's estate, a 1991 French production of this 1952 play had a small all-female cast instead of male
Waiting for Godot
188
A biography of this 19th century VP traces his family to a German town made famous in a folk tale about children
Hannibal Hamlin
189
The Victoria Cross is for military bravery; this cross first given in 1940 & named for Victoria's great-grandson is for civilian bravery
the George Cross
190
A street-corner occupation that saved many in the Depression was aided by a 1930 tops-in-the-U.S. crop in this state
Washington
191
In 1824 he was refused burial in Westminster Abbey for "questionable morality"; in 1969 he got a memorial stone there
Lord Byron
192
South of the Tropic of Capricorn, this kingdom is the world's southernmost landlocked country
Lesotho
193
This 1880 piece was written more than 6 decades after the Battle of Borodino, the conflict it commemorates
the 1812 Overture
194
The world's highest international airport, at an elevation of over 13,000', serves this South American capital city
La Paz, Bolivia
195
Only 4 men have been both VP an president and served in both houses of Congress; 2 of them shared this last name
Johnson - Lyndon and Andrew (John Tyler and Richard Nixon were two of the men, but they did not share the same last name)
