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Who served as secretary of commerce under Warren Harding before becoming President in 1928?

Herbert Hoover

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Category: who’s on first?

Yankees, 1923-1939

Lou Gehrig

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Mets, 1983 to 1989; “Seinfeld”beginning in 1992

Keith Hernandez

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Category: who’s on first?

A’s 1987-1997; Cardinals 1998-2001

Mark McGwire

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The blue mosque in this Turkish city gets its name from the 20,000 blue tiles that line it’s ceiling

Istanbul

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Category: computer lingo

The HT in both HTTP an HTML stand for this

Hypertext

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Category: computer lingo

Send me that report as a PDF this “format “

Portable document format

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Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband)

Katharina

Petruchio

In Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, a mercenary (or money-hungry) suitor seeking a wealthy bride, proposes marriage to Katherine, a woman with a horrid temper (as described by Hortensio, Petruchio’s friend).

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Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband)

Octavia

Mark Antony

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The basic monetary unit and official currency of Poland

zloty

The word “zloty” means “golden” in Polish, as the old gold coins which were firstly called like that.

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Category: G.I. Joes

This general dubbed “fighting Joe” briefly commanded the army of the Potomac

Joe Hooker

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Category: movie directors

His voice is heard in the opening narrations for his films, Mean Streets and The Color of Money

Martin Scorsese

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Category: 60s music

Before founding Led Zeppelin, he was a session guitarist on such pop hits as Petula Clark’s “Downtown”

Jimmy Page

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Category: digital music

In 2006, this bands “Speed of Sound”became the billionth song purchased on the iTunes store

Coldplay

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Category: TV actors

Not believing his Star Trek character would use a weapon to knockout someone, he instead created the “Vulcan nerve pinch “

Leonard Nimoy

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Category: the Oscars

He won a record 22 Academy Awards from the years 1932 to 1969

Walt Disney

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Category: Bridges

The Øresund bridge connects Sweden to this country

Denmark

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Category: politics

“Unbought and Unbossed” was her campaign slogan when she became the first black woman elected to US Congress

Shirley Chisholm

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Category: New York City landmarks

It open to the public on December 27, 1932 with a performance featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham

Radio city music Hall

Martha Graham was a dancer

Bolger was a dancer and actor- played the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz

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Category: southern food

Along with onions and bell peppers, it’s part of the holy trinity of Cajun cooking

Celery

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Category: human anatomy

There are five metatarsal bones in this part of the human body

Foot

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Category: the military

Semper supra is the motto of this branch of the US Armed Forces

The space force

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Category: urban planning

He first presented his Broadacre City development concept in the 1932 book “The Disappearing City”

Frank Loyd Wright

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Category: jazz legends

He dropped out of Juilliard in 1945 and join Charlie Parker’s bebop quintet on trumpet

Miles Davis

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Category: explorers He detailed the payments he believed the Spanish crown owed him in the 1502 work Book of Privileges

Christopher Columbus

Category: “O” My! It’s the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet

Omicron

Category: world geography This country claims Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land region as a dependent territory

Norway

Category: science He wrote the Annus Mirabilis papers while living in a second-floor apartment in Bern

Albert Einstein

When JFK gave up his House seat to run for Senate in 1952, this man who said, “All politics is local” won and kept it until 1987

Tip O’Neill

Who wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?

Zora Neale Hurston

Jade Dragon Snow Mountain overlooks Tiger Leaping Gorge, a canyon carved by this Chinese river

The Yangtze

In 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s obsession with lenses paid off; he discovered these from the Latin for “first animal “

Protozoa

In 2005 and 2006, Tony Shalhoub won Emmys for this starring role

Monk

Fernando Sor was best known for his compositions for this instrument that would later be recorded by Andrés Segovia

The guitar

It’s a large, two edged Scottish broadsword

A Claymore

Formed as a result of World War II this think tank took its name from “research and development “

The RAND corporation

In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon and 13 stars; now it uses its initials

Proctor & Gamble

“Weekend” slang name for a cheap and easily obtained handgun

Saturday night special

Red Adair mastered extinguishing oil and gas fires by setting off these to suck the oxygen from the blaze

Explosions

Also called the Isthmus of Panama, it connects the American continents within Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest, and mountains in Panama and Colombia. This “Gap" interrupts the Pan-American Highway.

Darién Gap While the Darién Gap has been considered to be essentially impassable, in the 2010s thousands of migrants, primarily Haitian—and in the 2020s, thousands of Venezuelans—crossed the Darién Gap to reach the United States. There have been numerous fatalities.

Company whose slogan, “the beer that made Milwaukee famous”, was introduced in 1895

Schlitz

Category: we’ve hit bottom July 1932 was a good time to buy stocks low. This market indicator bottomed out at 41.22.

A Dow Jones

Category: it happened in the 1200s This English king died the year after he granted the Magna Carta

King John

Category: 4-letter “K”ross world clues Narcotic herb of the Middle East

Kaht

Category: it happened in the 1200s This family gained sovereignty over Austria, beginning a dynasty that would last in Europe until 1918

The Habsburgs

The vagrant species of this tiny mouselike insectivore uses echolocation to find its prey

A shrew

Category: classic jazz songs The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for “time out” the album on which it first appeared

Take Five "Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.

Actor Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), was known professionally by this name and nicknamed The Latin Lover.

Rudolph Valentino an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.

Category: plays In act II of this Chekhov play, Treplev enters, carrying a dead bird

The Seagull

Category: poetry Robert Browning poem about him, contains the line “rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats”

The Pied Piper

The worlds tallest building from 2004 to 2010 the, Taipei 101 is located in this country

Taiwan

Category: geograph-“e” This country’s capital and most populous city is Asmara

Eritrea

It’s the only great lake located entirely within the United States

Lake Michigan

The United States was one of 65 countries to boycott when this city hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics

Moscow

He was the only member of Apollo 11 crew not to walk the moon

Michael Collins

This bank was founded by and named after the two founders of American Express

Wells Fargo

Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of this country’s royal family

Sweden

Nearly 1/3 of interstate 10 is located in this US state

Texas

He was the first “Weekend Update” anchor on Saturday night live —-and you weren’t

Chevy Chase

He drew the inkblots for his original psychological tests by hand

Herman Rorschach

In 1860 this man released his first board game hit, The Checkered Game of Life, which was the first ever board game for his own company

Milton Bradley Later called The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, was sold by the Milton Bradley Company. The Game of Life was US's first popular parlour game.

Jaipur is the capital of India’s Rajasthan state. It is also known by this colorful nickname

“Pink City” “Pink City” due to its distinctive pastel-pink buildings. This nickname originated in 1876 when Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had the entire city painted pink as a symbol of hospitality to welcome Prince Albert of England.

Where the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located

Cooperstown, NY

Onions, bell peppers and this vegetable are considered the holy trinity of Cajun cooking

Celery

Category: sports homophones NHL team that left Hartford in 1997 or Bob Marley’s band

The Whalers

Category: books in the series Philip Pullman: “The Golden Compass”; “The Subtle Knife”; “the Amber Spyglass”

His Dark Materials

Though not in the constitution these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office

So help me God

According to “Le Morte D’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory, this group was required to take what we know as the Pentecostal oath

Knights of the round table

Tetanus is an infectious bacterial disease also known as this seven-letter “L” word

Lockjaw

Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus in the century

17th century

Portland Maine’s historic Abyssinian meetinghouse was a hub for this secret 19th century network

The underground railroad

The Agojie, an all female army corps in the kingdom of Dahomey is at the center of this Viola Davis film

The Woman King

Galileo’s name is repeated in a hit by this band, whose guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist

Queen

Category: tiny desk concerts This singer opened her 2020 tiny desk concert with “Show me Love”; she closed it with “Fallin’”

Alicia Keys

Category: know your -ologies If your PhD is in the similarities of folk songs from Bhutan and Cameroon, you’re an expert in “ethno” this

Musicology

Her 2019 Oscar win and 2021 Emmy win were both for portraying a British queen

Olivia Colman For her portrayal of Anne, Queen of Great Britain in the period black-comedy film The Favourite (2018), Queen Elizabeth II from 2019 to 2020 in the Netflix period drama series The Crown

James Madison’s two vice presidents

1. George Clinton 1809-1812 2. Elbridge Gerry - 1813-1814 Gerry was former MA governor who signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a salamander. Gerrymander is a portmanteau of his name and salamander

Produced by the Ford Motor Company from the 1958 to the 1960, this product had the most expensive advertising promotion of any product up to that time but sold poorly and was considered a failure

The Edsel

Category: who’s on first? Cubs 1898 - 1912, the third of this famous trio

Frank Chance With Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers, Chance formed a strong double play combination, which was immortalized as "Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance" in "Baseball's Sad Lexicon", which is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams

Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband) Calpurnia

Julius Ceasar

A Harvard professor, this brother of novelist Henry is known as the “father of American psychology“

William James

This brother-sister duo’s 1978 million-selling LP “Christmas Portait” featured “Merry Christmas, Darling”

The Carpenters

This holiday is celebrated from December 26 to January 1, since 1966:

Kwanzaa

Ted Koppel anchored this late show for 25 yeas

Nightline

Check out the glistening dunes at White Sands National Monument in this state

New Mexico

Category: D- day The deepest ground penetration on June 6 was not by Americans or Brits, but by this country’s forces at Juno Beach

Canada

A traditional Portuguese drink made from maidenhair’s leaves, with a touch of orange blossom essence, and served with cold water, ice and lemon peel.

Capilé Maidenhair is a fern

Category: names in American lore Known as “the king of the Keelboatmen” he was a leading pilot on the Mississippi River

Mike Fink

On September 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander for the allies, he accepted Japan’s surrender

Douglas MacArthur

Category: royal weddings “as marriage must sooner or later come to pass” this King chose Princess Charlotte sight unseen and wed her September 8, 1761

King George III

Although 500 miles from the Pacific, Lewiston, Idaho is an ocean port thanks to this river’s connection with the Columbia

Snake river

Dubuque, Iowa lies at the junction of three states: Illinois, Iowa, and this one

Wisconsin

Category: director’s big screen farewell His second and last talkie 1931’s “The Struggle”

DW Griffith

Category: director’s big screen farewell The epic “A Passage to India”

David Lean

Category: director’s big screen farewell Filmed in the 40s about a fellow Russian “Ivan the terrible part two “

Sergei Eisenstein

Category: Russian history Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger

The five year plan

What is the river that flows through the Grand Canyon?

The Colorado river

Introduced in 1964, the Xerox LDX was the first commercial version of what technology

Fax machine

He played Shakespearean title characters four times, receiving best actor nomination for each one

Laurence Olivier “Henry V” “Hamlet” “Othello” “Richard III”

Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring” had the working title “Ballet for Martha”, Martha being this dancer

Martha Graham TIME magazine named Martha Graham “Dancer of the Century,” and People magazine named her among the female “Icons of the Century.” As a choreographer, she was as prolific as she was complex. Graham created 181 ballets and a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude.