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This bird is renowned for its unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly colored objects in an attempt to attract a mate.
Bowerbirds
This bird is in the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae.
Although their distribution is centered on the tropical regions of New Guinea and northern Australia, some species extend into central, western, and southeastern Australia. They occupy a range of different habitats, including rainforest, eucalyptus and acacia forest, and shrublands.
What was the name of the plane that Amelia Earhart used in the trans Atlantic flight that occurred in 1928 in which she was the first woman to make the voyage (as a passenger)
The chosen aircraft was a tri-motor Fokker F7 named “Friendship.”
Amelia had made it clear from the start that the role of mere passenger just for the purposes of publicity did not appeal to her and she requested an active role in the actual flight. She had no experience with multi-engine flying or with instrument flying, so it was agreed that, weather permitting, she would be allowed to fly part of the time.
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, but only as a passenger. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon did the actual piloting. The trio made their crossing in a Fokker F.VII Tri-Motor named Friendship. Their successful flight took them from Trepassey Harbour, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, South Wales, in 20 hours and 40 minutes.
Category: Opera
We hope you don’t sleep through this Reginald deKoven folk opera based on an American story from 1820
Rip van Winkle
On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend the major league baseball game while in office
Benjamin Harrison 
A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, at time the hottest new communication technology
The telegraph
It could be the art of carving on whalebone, or the finished works themselves
Scrimshaw
In the 15th century, the emblem of the house of York was a white this Lancaster’s was red
Rose
Historically, reindeer herders in this group are free to move across Scandinavian borders
Sami
The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and they live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000.
The Spanish name of these islands is Islas de Sotavento; their French name is Îles Sous-Le-vent
The Leeward Islands
a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico, they extend southeast to Guadeloupe and its dependencies. In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. The more southerly part of this chain, starting with Dominica, is called the Windward Islands.
Essays making up this 1854 work include “reading”, “solitude” and “the pond in winter”
Walden
Book by Henry David Thoreau
Name of the Italian cruise ship that crashed on 13 January 2012 in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.
Costa Concordia
The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. Francesco Schettino, the ship’s captain at that time, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship.
In 1899 the Bloemfontein conference didn’t prevent this South African war
Boer war
The Waters of the Palk Straight separate India’s Tamil Nadu state from this island nation
Sri Lanka 
2011 the city of Savannah granted an exemption, allowing the sale of these items outside Juliette Gordon Low’s birthplace
Girl Scout cookies
The hair of Ötzi, the iceman showed high levels of this poisonous element, number 33, but that’s not what killed him
Arsenic
Where is Lady Bird Lake
Austin, Texas
This influential figure in tech, as CEO of OpenAI, played a key role in bringing technologies like GPT, revolutionizing chat interactions.
Sam Altman
In Japan, these succulent chicken skewers are grilled over a smokeless type of charcoal called Binchotan
Yakitori
Movie goers were snack-shamed for chewing popcorn too loudly during this mostly silent film directed by John Krasinski
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film
Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to “ 60 million and more” the number of African victims claimed by slavery
Beloved 
For their hit song, DNA, this K-pop band, released a video in which they dance and form a double helix
BTS
Category: Islands’ Countries
Komodo and Java
Indonesia
Category: by any other name
From 1963 to 1973 this cape on Florida’s space Coast was known as “Cape Kennedy “
Cape Canaveral
Category: mythological morals
Don’t get lost in the labyrinth are you encounter this half-man/ half-bull
The Minotaur
Category: baseball Hall of Famers
He got his first MLB hit on August 2, 1973 and his 3154th (and final) hit on September 29, 1993
George Brett 
an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals.
Category: poets
Before they hit Broadway, Rum Tum Tugger and Bustopher Jones first appeared in a 1939 collection of his poems
TS Eliot 
Category: YouTube
These animals are seen in the background of “me at the zoo” the first video ever uploaded to YouTube
Elephants
Category: late night TV
He temporary quit as host of the Tonight Show in 1960 over a dispute with networks sensors
Jack Parr 
Category: social media
From 2006 to 2017, it was the character count limit on a tweet
140
Category: American authors
“ I had every detail clear in my mind before I sat down to the typewriter” she said of writing Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 
Category: the wild West
His brothers, Virgil, and Morgan were wounded in the gunfight at the OK corral, but he emerged unharmed
Wyatt Earp 
Category: Cuban Americans
Her song “Reach” was one of the two official songs of the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gloria Estefan 
During his speech, he joked, “ if I had have known that I would’ve put that patch on 35 years earlier”
John Wayne
The 1969 academy awards for the film “true grit”
Category: unusual casting
He played a young Colonel Sanders in the tongue-in-cheek Lifetime movie A Recipe for Seduction
Mario Lopez
Category: name the year
Happy Days premieres; Nixon resigns; Hank breaks Babe’s record
1974
Category: art
He painted Guernica in response to the 1937 bombing of a town in northern Spain
Pablo Picasso
Category: rock bands
This band’s name was taken from the names of two blues musicians found in Syd Barrett’s record collection
Pink Floyd
Injecting fluids into the body, or removing them often uses this type of needle, whose name means under the skin
Hypodermic
Category: big screen ballads
When she performed “Crazy for You” in the high school wrestling film “Vision Quest” this pop star was virtually unknown
Madonna
Vision Quest is a 1985 American coming-of-age romantic drama film starring Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling and Ronny Cox.
Organization whose symbol is a candle surrounded by barbed wire
Amnesty international
Category: rising up
Mahsa Amini’s death inspired protest against headscarves and the government in this Middle Eastern country
Iran
an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE.
Doggerland
The flooded land is known as the Dogger Littoral.Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from what is now the east coast of Great Britain to what is now the Netherlands, the western coast of Germany and the Danish peninsula of Jutland. It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period,although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final submergence
This Swedish automaker’s museum features a full size XC90 SUV made from Legos
Volvo 
Category: wine biz
This meringue ingredient is sometimes used to clarify the end product
Egg whites
Category: rallying cries
Don’t mess with Texas: Sam Houston’s troops shouted this three word battle cry, while attacking Santa Anna’s army at San Jacinto
Remember the Alamo
Category: historical markers
A marker in Martinez, California hails the town as the “birthplace of the martini “; it recommends 2/3 gin and 1/3 this
Vermouth 
What is the last entry in the OED? (Oxford English Dictionary)
zyzzyva
It’s a noun, pronounced “zih-zih-vah” and defined as “a genus of tropical weevils (family Curculionidae) native to South America and typically found on or near palm trees.”
For the uninformed, a weevil is a sort of beetle, generally small and herbivorous. The most familiar is a small brown variety referred to as a rice weevil. As its nickname suggests, these are often found in stored rice.
Category: advertising
In an 1898 ad this company’s mascot, Bibendum was depicted drinking a glass filled with nails
Michelin
Category: US presidents
At 5’,4”. He was the shortest US president; his wife, Dolley was 3 inches taller.
James Madison
Category: Show Tunes
Sung by the characters, Max and Elsa “no way to stop it “was not included in the 1965 film version of this musical
The sound of music
Category: planets
It’s four Galilean moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
Jupiter
Category: supergroups
This Beatle formed the supergroup the Traveling Wilburys in the 1980s
George Harrison
Guitarist
Category: autobiographies
She dedicated her 1903 autobiography The Story of my Life to Alexander Graham Bell
Helen Keller 
Category: voice actors
Per his wishes, his gravestone in Hollywood is inscribed with the phrase “That’s All Folks”
Mel Blanc
Category: sports
In 1956 she became the first African-American tennis player to win a grand slam title
Althea Gibson 
Category: celebrate good times
She was the first British monarch to celebrate a sapphire jubilee
Queen Elizabeth II
Category: musical instruments
In 1857, clockmaker Matthias Hohner began mass-producing these instruments
Harmonicas
Category: rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame
She was inducted into the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame in 1998 with a band and in 2019 as a solo artist
Stevie Nicks
Category: 20th century novels
The literal English translation of the German title is “Nothing New in the West”
All quiet on the western front 
Category: 1940
Shortly before his assassination in August 1940, he wrote an article titled “Stalin Seeks my Death”
Leon Trotsky 
Category: monuments
No need to grade on a curve: it’s the tallest man-made monument in the western hemisphere 
The gateway arch
Category: song lyrics
It’s the first country mentioned in the lyrics of The Beach Boys classic Kokomo
Aruba
Category: that crazy 14th century
1370: the first stone of this is laid in Paris, where it stood for 419 years
The Bastille 
Category: Geogra “P”
In the 17th century its location at England’s southwest tip made it the target of pirate raids
Penzance
During his long association with the New York City ballet, he choreographed “West side story “and other musicals
Jerome Robbins
Category: repetitive song titles
Say the name of Buffalo’s NFL team three times and you’ll say the title of this Destiny’s Child song
Bills, bills, bills
Category: other words for doin’ it
Austin Powers movie pop-culture’s greatest champion of this Randy British verb; it even made the title of his sequel
Shag
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Category: Denzel Washington
“No one would take on his case… until one man was willing to take on the system” was a tagline for this 1993 Washington film
Philadelphia
Also starred Tom Hanks
Category: historic quotes rephrased
John Paul Jones, 1779: “surrender? I’m just getting started “
I have not yet begun to fight
Category: middle “man “
In 2021 Daniel Craig was given this honorary rank of the British royal navy. The same rank as James Bond.
Commander 
Category: podcasts
Including an episode on petrochronology “Gneiss Chats” is a podcast Who’s host has a PhD in applied this.
Geology
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock. It is formed by high-temperature and high-pressure metamorphic processes acting on formations composed of igneous or sedimentary rocks. Gneiss forms at higher temperatures and pressures than schist.
Who coined the phrase, “The Shot Heard Round the World”
Ralph Waldo Emerson in the poem “Concord Hymn”
Although in recent history, the term “Shot Heard Round the World” is attached to the game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson to win the National League Pennant in 1951, and synonymous with the shot that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand at the beginning of World War I, Emerson did not write this famous ode to baseball, nor did he live to see the wars of the Twentieth Century. Instead, he penned these few lines about the famous Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first official engagement between Britain and the Colonies in the American Revolutionary War.
The clash began on April 19, 1775
Reptile found in New Zealand whose name is a Maori word meaning “peaks on back” or “spiny back.”
The eggs incubate in the covered burrow for 12 to 15 months before hatching, possibly the longest incubation period of any reptile
Tuatara
Tuataras have no external ears as lizards do; they enjoy cooler weather, while lizards like it warm; and, unlike lizards, tuataras are nocturnal.
But their most curious body part is a “third eye” on the top of the head. The “eye” has a retina, lens, and nerve endings, yet it is not used for seeing. It is visible under young tuataras’ skin but becomes covered with scales and pigment in a few months, making it hard to see. The unique eye is sensitive to light and may help the tuatara judge the time of day or season.
2023 American science fiction romantic drama film directed and co-written by Christos Nikou. The film stars Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, and Luke Wilson
The film follows a woman who starts working at an institute that tests whether the love between two people in a couple is real.
Fingernails, 2023. Apple Original
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE IS SET IN THIS INDIAN CITY
Mumbai
Published under the pseudonym, Richard Saunders, what was the best selling book for the 25 years it was printed in colonial America second only to the Bible?
Poor Richard’s Almanack.
On December 19, 1732 Benjamin Franklin published his first almanac. The almanac was published for the year of 1733 and was published once a year for the next 25 years.
Category: name droppers
Turns out, trimming 17 nonessential letters from your name will increase sales just ask retailer RH formerly called this
Restoration hardware 
Category: above, below, or intersected by the equator
India
Above
Category: pride and POTUS
Historic year gay activists picketed outside of LBJ’s White House; MLK’s march on Washington was two years earlier
1965
Category: sneaker brands
Sk8-hi and Old Skool
Vans
Category: sneaker brands
Stan Smith, and Samba Classic
Adidas
Category: oh, brother
Famously feuding brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher Don’t look back in anger at 1991, the year they formed this band.
Oasis 
Category: Sigmund Freud
From the Latin for “desire” or “lust”,Freud used this word to refer to a person’s sex drive
Libido
Which Midwestern state has the motto “the crossroads of America “
Indiana

Robert De Niro and Al Pacino had no scenes together in the Godfather. the first time they acted together was in this 1995 film
Heat 
Master criminal Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro) is trying to control the rogue actions of one of his men, while also planning one last big heist before retiring. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Hanna (Al Pacino) attempts to track down McCauley as he deals with the chaos in his own life, including the infidelity of his wife (Diane Venora) and the mental health of his stepdaughter (Natalie Portman).
Category: marriage story
1945: “Eva Duarte! Que Pasa? “”I just got married” “who is the hombre?” “His last name is” this
Peron
better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita, was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her death in July 1952, as the wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974).
Category: marriage story
1985: “Phylicia Ayers-Allen! How’s TV?” “I just got married” “who is the groom?” “His last name is” this
Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress. She is dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University and best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show
Category: hail to the chef
A distillery at this historic Virginia state makes whiskey based on George Washington’s own recipe
Mount Vernon
Category: “Brown” out
Typing this sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet is a tried-and-true method of testing out your keyboard
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Category: best picture winners in a nutshell
1971: a pair of NYPD Detectives attempt to intercept a large drug shipment coming from Marseille
The French connection 
The US Constitution originally set Congress should meet every year on the first Monday in December in Article I. This constitutional congressional start date was changed in 1933, in Section 2 of the Twentieth Amendment to this date:
“noon on the 3d day of January”
Category: years that end in zero
Nat King Cole hits number one with “Mona Lisa,” NATO turns one year old
1950
What event is said to have inspired Francis Scott Key in writing the words to the national anthem?
The bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor during the war of 1812
Category: TV dramas in a nutshell
MI6 agent and a wily assassin known as “villanelle” have it bad for each other
Killing Eve
Category: for the love of Pete
He’s the wholesome comic known for his HBO series “Crashing” and the podcast “you made it weird “
Pete Holmes 
Category: the wardrobe department
The sumptuous pastel gowns in this director’s Marie-Antoinette, were inspired by a box of French macaroons
Sofia Coppola
An American expression that comes from a jocular abbreviation for “all correct.”
OK
“Oll Korrect”
First appeared in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, as a jocular abbreva
“Oll Korrect.”
At the time there was a fashion for such, and often intentionally illiterate, concoctions -K.Y. for “Know Use,” R.T.B.S. “Remains to Be Seen,” K.G. for “Know Go,” In 1840, when Martin Van Buren ran for President, the Democratic O.K. Club was formed to promote his election, evidently helping to consolidate O.K. in the national consciousness. Almost overnight the term raced into general usage, where it’s remained ever since.
Christmas Movie
2005 movie where Dermot Mulroney’s character brings home his girlfriend played by Sarah Jessica Parker with the intention of proposing. Parker ends up with the brother played by Luke Wilson instead!
The Family Stone
The only clergyman who signed the Declaration of Independence and became President of Princeton
John Witherspoon
Category: human body classified ads
Butterfly shaped gland seeks iodine for critical hormone production in goiter free work environment
Thyroid
