Season 35 Flashcards
1
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215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier
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the Carpathia
2
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Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had “the best and worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock” was an “unflattering portrait of the milieu”
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Hotel California
3
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This author and illustrator who won the 1964 Caldecott Medal was dubbed the “Picasso of children’s books”
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Maurice Sendak
4
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The prototype for this game that was introduced in 1948 was called Lexico
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Scrabble
5
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David Livingstone wrote of this discovery of his, “Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight”
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Victoria Falls
6
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It’s the only state to have had 4 female governors, 3 of whom served consecutively between 1997 and 2015
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Arizona
7
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The death penalty has been carried out only once under Israeli law–in 1962, for this man
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Adolf Eichmann
8
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This noble gas is the second-lightest element
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Helium
9
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In the 1670s English author Charles Cotton built a fishing cabin on the banks of the River Dove to honor this friend and author
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Izaak Walton
10
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Resolving a decades-long dispute with its neighbor to the south, in 2019 this 28-year-old republic added “North” to its name
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North Macedonia
11
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An award for works of horror, dark fantasy and psychological suspense honors this author who came to fame with a 1948 short story
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Shirley Jackson
12
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19th c. boots made with India rubber made one quieter, leading to this slang term for one whose job involves surveillance
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gumshoe
13
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This character featured in a 1992 Time magazine cover story on “Hollywood and Politics” returned to television in 2018
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Murphy Brown
14
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For help with research, the author of this 2003 novel acknowledged the Louvre, Catholic World News and “five members of Opus Dei”
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The Da Vinci Code
15
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In 1955 King Paul of Greece unveiled a statue of this hero near the cliffs where he died in the 5th century B.C.
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Leonidas
16
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In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday and the 50th anniversary of an event that made it an international tourist destination
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Montreal
17
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Hoping to stop Dominican friar Johannes Tetzel from preaching for indulgences, in 1517 he wrote a series of debate topics
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Martin Luther
18
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This play opens in Vienna in 1823, 32 years after the death of its title character
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Amadeus
19
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In Homer there’s only one of these, from the Greek for “terrible”; later they became 3 scary sisters
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the Gorgons
20
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Meaning cobbled together, it once referred to a temporary fix replacing a broken mast on a ship
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jury-rigged or jerry-rigged
21
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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
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Polynesia
22
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The first mention of this locale is in Chretien de Troyes’ 12th century poem “Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart”
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Camelot
23
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The first time this organization invoked Article 5 was on September 12, 2001
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NATO
24
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“Hard and sharp as flint…he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn’t thaw it one degree at Christmas”
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Ebenezer Scrooge
25
Types of it you could find in Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773 included Souchong & Bohea
Tea
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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
27
Starting a university after his only son died in 1884, this man said, "The children of California shall be our children"
Leland Stanford
28
This 8-letter word can follow nuclear to refer a dangerous accident, or mean a total loss of emotional control
meltdown
29
"Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man
Benjamin Franklin
30
If you were using an alternate name, the title of this work could be translated as "Troy Story"
the Iliad
31
17 U.S. presidents served all or part of their terms during the reign of this British monarch
Queen Victoria
32
Neighborhoods in this city include Federal Street, Gallows Hill & Witchcraft Heights
Salem, Massachusetts
33
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
34
This word for a bug or malfunction was popularized in the 1962 book "into orbit" by the mercury astronauts
Glitch
35
This product that brought virtual tourism into homes in 1939 introduced its first virtual reality device in 2015
View-Master
36
Poet Rabindranath Tagore compared this landmark to a teardrop glistening on the cheek of time
Taj Mahal
37
The final scene of this play takes place by a grave & includes the line "He had the wrong dreams
Death of a Salesman
38
City Hall in this Western provincial capital is on Victoria Avenue near the corner of Albert Street
Regina
39
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
40
This discovery of November 8, 1895 by a German physicist represents a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet
X-Ray
41
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
42
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
43
It's the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family
Newman
44
Its anthem was adopted in 1947 to replace one by Joseph Haydn that had been tainted by association with Nazis
Austria
45
The author of this tale dedicated the novel to British philosopher William Godwin, her father
Frankenstein
46
This cartoon character was based on a character in the educational comic "The Intertidal Zone"
SpongeBob SquarePants
47
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
48
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
49
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
50
In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863
Virginia
51
Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead" honored the 54th Massachusetts, the infantry unit in this 1989 film that won 3 Oscars
Glory
52
"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
53
Publishing its first photo in 1889, today it has more than 4 billion likes & 100 million followers on Instagram
National Geographic
54
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)
55
A 1913 piece by him was conceived of as the symphonic equivalent of a pagan ritual, to be titled "Great Sacrifice"
Igor Stravinsky
56
In 2006 Arizona State University renamed its college of law in honor of this history-making woman & longtime Arizona resident
Sandra Day O'Conner
57
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
58
This state entered the Union in 1820 after separating from another state that began with the same 2 letters
Maine
59
The Cold War became entrenched in the mid-1950s after the formation of these 2 rival military alliances
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
60
Used to describe secrecy during WWII, this 2-word term had its psychological meaning popularized by Charles Schulz
security blanket
61
As a teenager this woman regained her sight thanks to 2 surgeries in 1881 & 1882
Annie Sullivan
62
A poem by him includes, "It was grassy and wanted wear;/
though...the passing there/
had worn them really about the same"
Robert Frost
63
In 2008 Time Magazine described this new practice as "one part social networking and one part capital accumulation"
Crowdfunding
64
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
65
Of the 4 riders mentioned in Revelation 6, only this one is explicitly named
Death
66
Founded, according to tradition, in 11 B.C., this former capital lies about halfway between Paris & Berlin
Bonn
67
The oldest of these business booster groups, formed in Marseille in 1599, uses "de" instead of "of" in the name
Chamber of Commerce
68
The title character of this 1841 novel says he got his name because he kills bucks & does, but not people
The Deerslayer
69
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
70
This term for an area of the Atlantic originated in 1964 in Argosy, a pulp magazine
the Bermuda Triangle
71
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
72
In a poem Lord Byron, a lover of Greece, calls this diplomat & fellow lord a "plunderer"
Lord Elgin
73
A "VI" has followed these 3 royal names of English kings
George, Edward, Henry
74
During his years with the Justice League of America, this superhero sometimes used the secret identity "C. King"
Aquaman
75
His first name refers to the ancient district in which you'd find the Greek capital; his surname is a bird
Atticus Finch
76
In 2014 this 10,000-square-mile region moved its clocks forward 2 hours to Moscow Standard Time
Crimea
77
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
78
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
79
This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982
Jane Fonda
80
In 2000 the Russian Orthodox church canonized 7 members of this family, 82 years after their deaths
the Romanovs
81
Ironically, it's a metaphor meaning a huge step forward, but this 2-word process only occurs on a subatomic scale
a quantum leap
82
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
83
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)
84
The Jordan, Bear & Weber Rivers deposit over a million tons of minerals into it annually, much of that chloride & sodium
The Great Salt Lake
85
From the name of the world capital it serves, DEL is the 3-letter code for the Asian airport named for her
Indira Gandhi
86
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
87
In a 1947 collection he solved 12 mysteries, including "The Cretan Bull" & "The Girdle of Hyppolita"
Hercule Poirot
88
This 1883 classic ends with the words "A well-behaved little boy!"
Pinocchio
89
One theory says a phrase for euphoria comes from plate No. 9 in an 1896 meteorological "atlas" of these
Clouds
90
In 1943, millions of matchbooks were distributed in the Philippines with this 3-word quote to boost morale
I shall return
91
Though he became a Cabinet secretary & chief justice, once he wanted to change his name because of its "awkward, fishy" sound
Salmon P. Chase
92
Operating for only one week a year, a train line to this city moves over half a million people a day
Mecca
93
This day created in the U.S. in 1872 is observed in Florida & Louisiana in January, but Maine & Alaska hold it in May
Arbor Day
94
Alfred Hitchcock wrote, "It's because I liked" his "stories so much that I began to make suspense films"
Poe
95
Family name of Bonnie Prince Charlie's brother Henry, whom his supporters called Henry IX of England
Stuart
96
Because its overseas empire was dwindling, Spain declared war on this much closer country across the water on October 22, 1859
Morocco
97
These 2 films, recent back-to-back winners, both have 9 letter titles that end with the same 5 letters
Moonlight and Spotlight
98
In 1854 he became official musical instrument maker to Emperor Napoleon III; an instrument he invented is named for him
Adolphe Sax
99
The last 2 letters of this city's name are the U.S. postal abbreviation for the state that it's the capital of
Albany
100
A boy at the end of this 1952 novel says to the main character, "Say it ain't true, Roy"
The Natural
101
Constructed in the 1930s, it extended from La Ferté to the Rhine River, though it also had sections along the Italian frontier
The Maginot Line
102
Before his death in 2018 at age 91, he received 4 Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize & was nominated for 4 Oscars
Neil Simon
103
In 1982 a probate judge in his home state of Michigan declared him legally dead
Jimmy Hoffa
104
This famous work of art was damaged in 1652 when a door was cut into a wall, removing Jesus' feet
The Last Supper
105
This 8-letter word for a reaction against a trend comes from an engineering term for a jolt caused by a gap in machine parts
backlash
106
Total of the numbers of the amendments banning state-sponsored official religion, ending slavery & repealing Prohibition
1+13+21= 35
107
Its principles still used today, this treatise has chapters called "Weak Points & Strong" & "Tactical Dispositions"
The Art of War
108
Prior to 2016 it was the last election year in which the winning candidate had never held public elected office
1952
109
A chapter of "The Jungle Book" has this double-talk title, echoing the opening line of a Brit's poem some 100 years prior
"Tiger! Tiger!"
110
Interpreting for Vaclav Havel, future ambassador Rita Klimova gave us this phrase for a smooth change of government
the velvet revolution
111
His seldom-used last name reflects his birth near the mouth of a river that flows from the Alps to the North Sea
Rembrandt van Rijn
112
In 1901 this activist was jailed for inspiring the assassination of William McKinley, but the charge was later dropped
Emma Goldman
113
AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY- The 7-letter names of these western- & easternmost mainland countries begin with the same letter
Senegal & Somalia
114
The title of this musical that opened in 1956 came from the last line of a nursery rhyme about a structure that spanned the Thames
My Fair Lady
115
Born in 1866, he has been called "the Shakespeare of science fiction"
H.G. Wells
116
He spent his life improving a plant-based substance he described as a "vegetable leather" or "elastic metal"
Charles Goodyear
117
Named for a soldier killed in 1846 at the start of a war, it was in the news again as a port of entry to the U.S. in 2018
Brownsville
118
He gave his pets names like Wiscus, Pettipaws, George Pushdragon & Jellylorum, the last of which he used in a poem
T.S. Eliot
119
650 miles off the U.S., it was the site of a 1609 shipwreck of colonists bound for Jamestown that may have inspired "The Tempest"
Bermuda
120
"Complications" was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018
Grey's Anatomy
121
At the end of this play: "Why are our bodies soft & weak...but that our...hearts should well agree with our external parts?"
The Taming of the Shrew
122
3 presidential films, all directed by Oliver Stone, have a total of only 9 letters in their titles--"Nixon" & these 2
W and JFK
123
Germany has land borders with 9 countries & only maritime boundaries with 2 countries, the U.K. & this one across the Baltic
Sweden
124
In his autobiography, Buffalo Bill Cody remembered this venture as "a relay race against time"
the Pony Express
125
An 1890 resolution by Senator Aldrich was killed by this, the very technique it sought to limit; a 1917 rule set some boundaries on it
filibuster
126
For a while in the 1840s, the French wanted to name this new discovery "Le Verrier" & the British wanted "Oceanus"
Neptune
127
In the 1990s this New York native had 8 of her first 10 Billboard Top 40 hits reach No. 1
Mariah Carey
128
One of her circle described her as "a lacy sleeve with a bottle of vitriol concealed in its folds"
Dorothy Parker
129
On the radio in 1937 this 3-word exclamation came after "the smoke and the flames now...not quite to the mooring mast"
"Oh, the humanity!"
130
Ambrose Bierce, a Civil War veteran, said of this 1895 book, the author "knows nothing of war, yet he is drenched in blood"
The Red Badge of Courage
131
This U.S. group was formed to protect settlers in an area that had recently gained independence from Spain
the Texas Rangers
132
He was the first U.K. prime minister born after Elizabeth II became queen
Tony Blair
133
The writing of this novel, the author's first with no Canadian setting, appropriately began in 1984
The Handmaid's Tale
134
These 2 comic strip title characters were named for a European "theologian who believed in predestination" & a "philosopher with a dim view of human nature"
Calvin & Hobbes
135
Broadway Musical- Premiering in 2005, its story is divided into spring, summer, fall & winter, each narrated by one of the 4 male leads
Jersey Boys
136
In 2000 this man was the host of a No. 1 rated network show & a No. 2 rated syndicated talk show
Regis Philbin
137
Art - After it was auctioned in 2018, a work by this artist was renamed "Love is in the Bin"
Banksy
138
In 1790, Thursday October Christian became the first child whose birth was recorded on this remote island
Pitcairn Island
139
He said, "Victory over (the) Depression will be...by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their own communities"
Herbert Hoover
140
Originally a folk term for a chronic rash, this phrase got a new meaning as a title for a 1952 stage comedy & later a movie
seven year itch
141
Not an artist himself, he inspired the Surrealists but thought them "absolute cranks" until he met Dali in London in 1938
Sigmund Freud
142
Eyewitness Jose Marti wrote, "Luckless Irishmen, Poles, Italians... run toward the wharves" to see its dedication
the Statue of Liberty
143
So that viewers wouldn't think it was about opera, the "R" in this show's logo was turned into a gun
The Sopranos
144
In March 1958 Hilton opened a hotel in this Western Hemisphere capital but 2 1/2 years later was out of business there
Havana, Cuba
145
When he died in Samoa in 1894 his obituary said, "He loved Samoa better than any other place, except Scotland"
Robert Louis Stevenson
146
Carretera Transistmica, AKA the Boyd-Roosevelt highway, runs parallel to this waterway
the Panama Canal
147
Air Force pilot Gail Halvorson earned the nickname "Candy Bomber" for his actions during this 1948-49 event
the Berlin airlift (or Berlin air drop)
148
Before his death in 1996, this famous son wrote the memoirs "The Enchanted Places" & "The Hollow on the Hill"
Christopher Robin Milne
149
"Peace through strength" is the motto of the U.S. aircraft carrier named for this man who professed the same policy
Ronald Reagan
150
Before she was 25, she became the youngest performer to receive a second Best Actress nomination
Jennifer Lawrence
151
The first novelist on Forbes' list of billionaires, this author fell off in 2012 after giving an estimated $160 mil. to charity
J.K. Rowling
152
At 3,700 miles, the longest ocean trench is named for these 2 nations that share most of South America's Pacific coast
Chile and Peru
153
Most of the land fighting in the first Punic war between Rome & Carthage was on this island
Sicily
154
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes once referred to this 1857 decision as the court's first self-inflicted wound
the Dred Scott decision (Dred Scott v. Sanford)
155
The last name of this 17th c. baronet who held many offices is synonymous with the govt. & especially the PM's residence
Downing
156
Named the first U.S. national monument in 1906, it was featured prominently in a blockbuster movie 71 years later
Devils Tower
157
Composed in 1791, the year Mozart died, & last in the Kochel catalog of all his works, K. 626 is this work
Requiem
158
5 Cwmdonkin Drive was the address of the family home where he was born in 1914
Dylan Thomas
159
The 1st segment of this was dedicated on July 4, 1930; the next, August 30, 1936; section 3, on September 17, 1937 & the last, on July 2, 1939
Mt. Rushmore
160
After turning himself into a mare, he gave birth to an 8-legged horse that was later the prized steed of Odin
Loki
161
After it stopped U.S. operations in 2018, its website said, "Promise us just this one thing: don't ever grow up"
ToyRUs
162
In the preface to a book of his stories, he thanks a herpetologist of upper India & an elephant named Bahadur Shah
Rudyard Kipling
163
TV - One of the twin planets this alien race called home was Remus
the Romulans
164
The title of this Old Testament book is from the Greek for "song sung to a harp"
Psalms
165
From 1936 to 1941 this city was the capital of Italian East Africa
Addis Ababa
166
In Act I of this opera, a messenger says, "Barbarous Ethiopians" have invaded & "are already marching on Thebes"
Aida
167
In 2018, An Arab League summit final statement rejected "interference" by this country often mistakenly called an Arab land itself
Iran
168
In 1999 the U.S. government was ordered to pay his family $16 million for less than 30 seconds of film
Abraham Zapruder
169
For the 2018 draft this team tried to use a parrot to make a pick; the bird got stage fright
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
170
Last name of John, Daniel, Elisha & Edward, whose firm turned 200 in 2018 & has dressed 40 U.S. presidents
Brooks (Brooks Bros.)
171
On October 27, 1881 this town's local newspaper reported on "a day when blood flowed as water"
Tombstone, Arizona (the Battle at O.K. Corral)
172
A liturgical year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, which is the Sunday closest to the feast day of this "first apostle"
St. Andrew
173
In a tribute with no precedent, the band played this at the Buckingham Palace changing of the guard on September 13, 2001
"The Star-Spangled Banner" (or the U.S. national anthem)
174
In 1997 she became the first to win an Oscar for a film directed by her husband; her brother-in-law produced the film
Frances McDormand (Fargo produced by the Coen bros)
175
The 1877 novel "Garth", about a New Hampshire family cursed by an ancestor's crime, is by Julian, son of this novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne
176
Of the 4 "M" cities that consecutively hosted Summer Olympics in the 20th century, these 2 aren't national capitals
Munich and Montreal
177
This film "works as science fiction, it's sometimes as scary as a monster movie & at the end...not a dry eye in the house"
E.T.
178
1 of the 2 presidents who offered Daniel Webster the VP slot; he declined both, thinking the job went nowhere
Zachary Taylor or William Henry Harrison
179
It's the official fruit of the District of Columbia
Cherry
180
In a twist of irony, he accidentally set fire to some 300 acres of woods at Fair Haven Pond near the Concord River in 1844
Henry David Thoreau
181
Scientific name Mellivora capensis, this 2-word weasel family member was named "most fearless mammal"
Honey Badger
182
She was disowned by the Quakers after marrying an Episcopalian upholsterer in 1773 & later took over his business
Betsy Ross
183
In the 1870s he wrote that "man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits"
Charles Darwin
184
Chapter 1 of this 1954 British novel is entitled "The Sound of the Shell"
Lord of the Flies
185
The economic bloc known as the G8 became the G7 in 2014 upon the expulsion of this country
Russia
186
Puebla is the only Mexican state that officially celebrates this spring holiday that is now more popular in the U.S.
Cinco de Mayo
187
One of his many horses was named Roitelet & was ridden on the way home from Russia in 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte
188
Winner of 6 Tonys in 2017, it's the first Broadway musical to focus on the subject of teens & social media
Dear Evan Hansen
189
Alphanumerically, it's at the top of the spine & lets you nod
C1
190
Memories of refugees in British train stations before & after WWII helped inspire the creation of this character
Paddington Bear
191
Evoking speed & luxury, this one of the 10 most common Italian surnames goes back to the Latin word for iron
Ferrari
192
A northern limit of the Roman Empire was a fortified road in Germany stretching 350 miles between these 2 rivers
the Danube and the Rhine
193
Chocolate syrup, casaba melon & Playboy model Marli Renfro were enlisted to create an iconic scene in this film
Psycho
194
The Ballbarrow was an early invention by this British man who's had greater success with sophisticated household devices
James Dyson
195
Aptly, Shakespeare used "moon" & "moonlight" more times in this play than in any other
A Midsummer Night's Dream
196
Legend says this, weighing 336 lbs., came from the Holy Land & Kenneth MacAlpin brought it to Perthshire c. 840
Stone of Scone
197
The 2-word name of this black & orange or black & golden state bird derives in part from the Latin for "golden"
Baltimore oriole
198
Also a judicial capital in Africa, this aptly named city is known for an annual rose festival that began in 1976
Bloemfontein
199
This "creature of evil, grim and fierce, was quickly ready, savage and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes"
Grendel
200
In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned
Mar-a-Lago
201
A low center of gravity is a key to success in this sport with moves including gaburi-yori & uwate-dashinage
sumo wrestling
202
This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named "because she mends the pots and kettles"
Tinker Bell
203
The northernmost city with a population over 5 million, it was founded in 1703 & its name was changed 3 times in the 20th century
St. Petersburg
204
Features on this body include Tombaugh Regio & Sleipnir Fossa, named for a horse that carried Odin to the underworld
Pluto
205
In March 1933 CBS Radio's Robert Trout said, "The president wants to come into your home... for a little" this
Fireside Chat
206
Both "Barnaby Rudge" & this other famous Charles Dickens novel begin in 1775 & deal with mob violence
A Tale of Two Cities
207
The second half of his service to Eurystheus took him to 6 different places, like Crete, Thrace & the Underworld
Hercules
208
He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice & the Literature Prize 7 times, winning for the latter in 1953
Winston Churchill
209
Of the 23 lawgivers depicted on marble portraits over doors in the U.S. House chamber, he's the only one in the Bible
Moses
210
Prepared by the Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, the "COSSAC Plan" outlined the details of this
D-Day
211
Italy's Agromafia enriches itself through counterfeit versions of this "liquid gold" mentioned by Homer & Plato
olive oil
212
The Cathedral of St. Pierre was the center of the Calvinist Reformation in this lakeside city
Geneva
213
This actor has never been nominated for acting--he won, though, as a writer for 1997 & as a producer for 2012
Ben Affleck
214
In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time
Anna Karenina (by Leo Tolstoy)
215
In this '70s Oscar-winning film, the title character's 1st words are "Why did you go to the police? Why didn't you come to me first?"
The Godfather
216
In 1883 a Catholic diocese sold this to the state of Texas for $20,000
The Alamo
217
After this woman's death, her daughter wrote, "As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends at Y"
Sue Grafton
218
From its preface:
| "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman...hate him"
Pygmalion
219
In Sept. 2017 Prince Charles became the longest-serving Prince of Wales, passing the man who became this king
Edward VII
220
This word for a gem & a shade of blue derives from the name of a Eurasian country from which gems came to Western Europe
Turquiose
221
n legend, he called all the animals together but only 12 came, including a rat & a dragon
the Buddha
222
In a famous 1775 speech, he said, "Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston!"
Patrick Henry
223
Animal Character- Items bought by this predator:
| iron bird seed, an iron carrot, earthquake pills & dehydrated boulders
Wile E. Coyote
224
"I've killed my brother" is said near the end of this 1952 book with a Biblical title & a plot echoing a Biblical story
East of Eden
225
Posthumously, Axel Paulsen was among the first group of inductees into the World Hall of Fame for this in 1976
Figure skating
226
On October 4, 1940, for the premiere of what's been called his most famous movie role, Ronald Reagan was in this city
South Bend, Indiana
227
In 1789 this doctor proposed 6 articles on penal reform to the French Assembly, including one on capital punishment
Joseph Guillotin
228
Switching the syllables in the German word for building of a home gave this design & architecture school its name
Bauhaus
229
To set a record for longest solo journey by kayak, 2,010 miles, Helen Skelton traveled through this nation for a month
Brazil
