Season 35 Flashcards
215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier
the Carpathia
Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had “the best and worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock” was an “unflattering portrait of the milieu”
Hotel California
This author and illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the “Picasso of children’s books”
Maurice Sendak
The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexico
Scrabble
David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, “Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight”
Victoria Falls
It’s the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 and 2015
Arizona
The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law–in 1962, for this man
Adolf Eichmann
This noble gas is the second-lightest element
Helium
In the 1670s English author Charles Cotton built a fishing cabin on the banks of the River Dove to honor this friend and author
Izaak Walton
Resolving a decades-long dispute with its neighbor to the south, in 2019 this 28-year-old republic added “North” to its name
North Macedonia
An award for works of horror, dark fantasy and psychological suspense honors this author who came to fame with a 1948 short story
Shirley Jackson
19th c. boots made with India rubber made one quieter, leading to this slang term for one whose job involves surveillance
gumshoe
This character featured in a 1992 Time magazine cover story on “Hollywood and Politics” returned to television in 2018
Murphy Brown
For help with research, the author of this 2003 novel acknowledged the Louvre, Catholic World News and “five members of Opus Dei”
The Da Vinci Code
In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C.
Leonidas
In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday and the 50th anniversary of an event that made it an international tourist destination
Montreal
Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics
Martin Luther
This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character
Amadeus
In Homer there’s only one of these, from the Greek for “terrible”; later they became 3 scary sisters
the Gorgons
Meaning cobbled together, it once referred to a temporary fix replacing a broken mast on a ship
jury-rigged or jerry-rigged
9-letter name for an area of 10 million square miles–4/5 the size of Africa–but only about 120,000 square miles of it is dry land
Polynesia
The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes’ 12th century poem “Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart”
Camelot
The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001
NATO
“Hard and sharp as flint…he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas”
Ebenezer Scrooge
Types of it you could find in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773 included Souchong & Bohea
Tea
This nation’s 1st 8 presidents were all born in the U.S.; the 1st local-born president came in 1884, 37 years after independence
Liberia
Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, “The children of California shall be our children”
Leland Stanford
This 8-letter word can follow nuclear to refer a dangerous accident, or mean a total loss of emotional control
meltdown
“Essays to Do Good” by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man
Benjamin Franklin
If you were using an alternate name, the title of this work could be translated as “Troy Story”
the Iliad
17 U.S. presidents served all or part of their terms during the reign of this British monarch
Queen Victoria
Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights
Salem, Massachusetts
For the first time, the FDA approved a drug for the treatment of this, though there hadn’t been a new case in 40 years
Smallpox
This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book “into orbit” by the mercury astronauts
Glitch
This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015
View-Master
Poet Rabindranath Tagore compared this landmark to a teardrop glistening on the cheek of time
Taj Mahal
The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line “He had the wrong dreams
Death of a Salesman
City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street
Regina
Steinbeck called him “just a voice and a guitar” but said his songs embodied “the will of a people to endure and fight against oppression”
Woody Guthrie
This discovery of November 8, 1895 by a German physicist represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet
X-Ray
This European country is still an hour ahead of GMT, a move made in 1940 to be on the same time as Nazi Germany
Spain
The line “a great reckoning in a little room” in “As You Like It” is usually taken to refer to this author’s premature death
Kit Marlowe
It’s the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family
Newman
Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis
Austria
The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father
Frankenstein
This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic “The Intertidal Zone”
SpongeBob SquarePants
When this game was introduced in 1860, it had squares like Intemperance & Poverty & if you hit the Suicide square your game was over
The Game of Life
Astronomy buffs visit Idaho for the USA’s first dark sky reserve; oddly, part of it is this resort area with a bright name
Sun Valley
In one account, this song began as directions written out for composer Billy Strayhorn to Duke Ellington’s home in Harlem
Take the A-Train
In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state’s legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863
Virginia
Robert Lowell’s “For the Union Dead” honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars
Glory
“I am making myself liable to Articles 30 & 31 of the law of 29 July regarding the press, which make libel a punishable offense”
Emile Zola
Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on Instagram
National Geographic
He once said, “In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage…who we are and where we have come from”
Alex Haley (author of Roots)
A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled “Great Sacrifice”
Igor Stravinsky
In 2006 Arizona State University renamed its college of law in honor of this history-making woman & longtime Arizona resident
Sandra Day O’Conner
John & Priscilla Alden lie in the USA’s oldest maintained cemetery, which like a poem about the couple, is named for this person
Myles Standish
This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters
Maine
The Cold War became entrenched in the mid-1950s after the formation of these 2 rival military alliances
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Used to describe secrecy during WWII, this 2-word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles Schulz
security blanket
As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882
Annie Sullivan
A poem by him includes, “It was grassy and wanted wear;/
though…the passing there/
had worn them really about the same”
Robert Frost
In 2008 Time Magazine described this new practice as “one part social networking and one part capital accumulation”
Crowdfunding
A character in this 1944 play is said to be like a piece in her own collection, “too exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf”
The Glass Menagerie
Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named
Death
Founded, according to tradition, in 11 B.C., this former capital lies about halfway between Paris & Berlin
Bonn
The oldest of these business booster groups, formed in Marseille in 1599, uses “de” instead of “of” in the name
Chamber of Commerce
The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people
The Deerslayer
Oddly, mining of this rare earth element with a geographic name, atomic no. 63, is mostly in Asia & with some in South America & Australia
Europium
This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine
the Bermuda Triangle
On May 1, 1869 these 2 men met at the White House, 4 years & 3 weeks after a more historic meeting between them
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a “plunderer”
Lord Elgin
A “VI” has followed these 3 royal names of English kings
George, Edward, Henry
During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity “C. King”
Aquaman
His first name refers to the ancient district in which you’d find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird
Atticus Finch
In 2014 this 10,000-square-mile region moved its clocks forward 2 hours to Moscow Standard Time
Crimea
Living people are rarely seen on a stamp, but in July 1945 the USPS issued one depicting this military event
raising the flag on Iwo Jima
The director of the 2018 TV version of this 1953 classic said, yes, books were harmed in the making of this motion picture
Fahrenheit 451
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982
Jane Fonda
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths
the Romanovs
Ironically, it’s a metaphor meaning a huge step forward, but this 2-word process only occurs on a subatomic scale
a quantum leap
On June 6, 2018 the Chinese Theatre dimmed its lights to honor Jerry Maren, who lived to the greatest age of any of this 1939 group
the Munchkins
Remove 2 letters from within the 6-letter name of this capital & you get the name of a capital from a neighboring country
Berlin (to Bern, Switzerland)
The Jordan, Bear & Weber Rivers deposit over a million tons of minerals into it annually, much of that chloride & sodium
The Great Salt Lake
From the name of the world capital it serves, DEL is the 3-letter code for the Asian airport named for her
Indira Gandhi
These 2 “monarchs” of popular culture both passed away on August 16, one in 2018, the other 41 years earlier
Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin
In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including “The Cretan Bull” & “The Girdle of Hyppolita”
Hercule Poirot
This 1883 classic ends with the words “A well-behaved little boy!”
Pinocchio
One theory says a phrase for euphoria comes from plate No. 9 in an 1896 meteorological “atlas” of these
Clouds
In 1943, millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale
I shall return
Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its “awkward, fishy” sound
Salmon P. Chase
