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The plane named for this “monthly” insect first took flight in that month in the summer of 1908

June Bug

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It’s the bone that runs parallel and lateral to the tibia

Fibula

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He succeeded James Madison

James Monroe

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This armless statue was discovered in pieces on Melos in 1820

Venus de Milo

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4 pounds equals this many ounces

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She was crowned on June 28, 1838

Queen Victoria

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It’s the western most of North America’s Great Lakes

Lake superior

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Much of Mexico is made up of a mountain system bearing this “motherly” name

Sierra Madre

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In 1987 AZT became the first drug approved for treating this disease

AIDS

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Serving from 1969 to 1974. She was Israel’s first female Prime Minister.

Golda Meir

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A ghillie is a shoe that originated in this UK country

Scotland

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He often dressed Jackie Kennedy: OC

Oleg Cassini

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In 2010 this war based mini series, produced by Spielberg and Hanks got 24 Emmy nominations

The Pacific

Based on the accounts of Marines in World War II, this 10-part miniseries follows the intertwined journeys of three U.S. Marines in the Pacific Theater

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This Vermont patriot lead the May 1775 capture of Fort Ticonderoga from the British

Ethan Allen

Fort Ticonderoga was built by the French near the south end of Lake Champlain, in northern New York

The capture of Fort Ticonderoga was the first offensive victory for American forces in the Revolutionary War. It secured the strategic passageway north to Canada and netted the patriots an important cache of artillery.

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Category: Abel Prize

the first prize in 2003 went to Jean-Pierre Serre, whose worked helped Andrew Wiles prove this man’s famous “Last Theorem“

Pierre de Fermat

The proposition was first stated as a theorem by Pierre de Fermat around 1637. Fermat’s Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat’s conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2. The cases n = 1 and n = 2 have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many solutions.

After 358 years of effort by mathematicians, the first successful proof was released in 1994 by Andrew Wiles and formally published in 1995. It was described as a “stunning advance” in the citation for Wiles’s Abel Prize award in 2016.

The unsolved problem stimulated the development of algebraic number theory in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is among the most notable theorems in the history of mathematics and prior to its proof was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “most difficult mathematical problem”

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Who wrote Doctor Zhivago (novel)?

Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.

Owing to the author’s critical stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event that embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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“Calculus” is Latin for a small one of these, used by the ancients in counting boards

Stone

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In 1965 this probe with a seafaring name shot Mars becoming the first spacecraft to photograph a non-earth planet

Mariner

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John Connor’s foster father comes to a stabby, milky end in this 1991 sequel

Terminator 2

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American married couple who made historical contributions to modern architecture and furniture. They also worked in the fields of fine art and film. In addition to their initial attempts in the molding of plywood into functional furniture, they also developed a leg splint for wounded soldiers during WWII

Charles and Ray Eames

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Their monster 60s hits included “She’s Not There” & “Time of the Season”

The Zombies

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Category: “hit” me

A baseball player getting a single, double, triple, and home run all in one game is doing this

Hitting for the cycle

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Javier Bardem won an oscar playing a hit man in this Coen brothers film

No Country for Old Men

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In the 1980s he and his daughter Holly hosted “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” though we don’t remember any one-armed push-ups

Jack Palance

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The little Pueblo of Ácoma has a huge church, “more like a fortress” in the novel “Death comes for” this person

The archbishop Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.

Category: we make furniture Most of the early work by this New York cabinet maker, whose name sounds like a musical instrument, was in Mahogany

Duncan Phyfe Duncan Phyfe (1768 – 16 August 1854) was one of nineteenth-century America's leading cabinetmakers.

Category: name the piano Man In 1957 he had “a whole Lotta Shakin going on”

Jerry Lee Lewis

German for “play of bells” it has two rows of metal bars with the upper row corresponding to the black keys on a piano

Glockenspiel

Category: Nominations At her death she had just completed the costumes for “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”; they did not earn her a 36th nomination

Edith Head Edith Head was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most awarded woman in the Academy's history.

It’s located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd. in Memphis

Graceland

This House was a royal dynasty that ruled England for 331 years, from 1154 to 1485 beginning with Henry II, who was crowned in 1154.

Plantagenet plan·ta·juh·nuht The dynasty is also known as the House of Anjou or the Angevin dynasty. It was originally a noble family from northwest France.

This word comes from the Greek for “star sailor”

Astronaut

In the movie “42” Chadwick Boseman is Jackie Robinson and Harrison Ford is this executive who signed Jackie to the Dodgers

Branch Rickey Rickey was instrumental in breaking Major League Baseball's color barrier by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the Major Leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, and introduced the batting helmet. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.

The Regal is a car made by this company

Buick

Two British adventurers become central Asian monarchs in this Rudyard Kipling tale

The man who would be King

This term for exclusion from a group goes back to temporary banishment in ancient Greece

Ostracism

In 1612, Japan established a silver mint in this area, today Tokyo‘s most glamorous shopping District; in Japanese name means “silver guild“

Ginza

When Curiosity touched down on Mars in 2012, its landing site was named in honor of this author, who died weeks before

Ray Bradbury

This radical professor and “people’s” historian died aged 87 in 2010

Howard Zinn

Whether dominant or recessive different forms of the same gene are called these

Alleles

Category: stuff about states It’s national monuments include the real Rainbow Bridge, natural bridges and Timpanogos Cave

Utah

Category: symbols When you’re drawing a family medical history, circles stand for these

Women

Category: nonfiction “The doors of perception” were opened for this novelist in 1953 when he wrote a true account of his drug use

Aldous Huxley

Category: theater In 2013, Scarlett Johansson starred on Broadway as Maggie in this playwright’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”

Tennessee Williams

“The union shall be preserved” is under this man’s statue in New Orleans

Andrew Jackson

The 2009 Pulitzer for history, went to Annette Gordon Reed for “the Hemingses is of” this home

Monticello

Norman Borlaug sparked the green revolution by developing a dwarf strain of this cereal grass

Wheat

This “Clerks” Director said “I’m way fat…But I’m just not there yet” after Southwest deplaned him for being overweight.

Kevin Smith

The Pythagorean theorem is the 47th proposition in the first book of his “Elements”

Euclid

If raising these in your backyard, Beware of sticktight flea attaching itself to their wattles

A turkey (or chicken)

In the movie Casablanca it’s this characters “Cafe Americain” where much of the action takes place

Rick

US Army pilot, Sam Gemar, flew on three space shuttle missions starting with this alphabetically first craft

Atlantis

There’s an egg-eating contest in this 1967 film; remember it? Or have we got failure to communicate?

Cool Hand Luke

Benjamin D. Wilson, an early mayor of Los Angeles, was grandfather of this general, “old blood and guts”

Patton

The city where the college of William and Mary is located

Williamsburg, Virginia

The longest river in Ireland, it flows 220 miles to reach the Atlantic Ocean near Limeric

Shannon

Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930-1974

Haile Selassie

What beer cocktail that includes sparkling wine shares it’s name with a 1989 Alannah Myles song?

Black Velvet

Jealous of this Prussian chancellor’s fame, Wilhelm II sank him by forcing his resignation in 1890

Bismarck

Steve Buscemi’s character in “Reservoir Dogs” got chafed after receiving this nickname

Mr. Pink

This 80s hair band from Illinois toped the charts with “keep on loving you” and “can’t fight this feeling”

R.E.O. Speedwagon

The castle and key on the flag of this British dependency symbolize its strategic position on the Mediterranean

Gibraltar

In 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Deimos and Phobos, two tiny moons of this planet

Mars

In 1978, this Spaniard became the first crowned monarch to make an official visit to China

Juan Carlos

Bruce Springsteen’s 2006 album “we shall over come” paid tribute to this folk music legend, who turned 87 that year

Pete Seeger

These nomadic people of southern Kenya built huts in a circle to create a Boma, or Village

Masai

Similar to a poncho, it’s a Spanish name for a blanketlike Shawl

A serape

In Spanish, cereza is this red fruit

Cherry

Category: all about Steve This quarterback was NFL MVP in 1992 and 1994

Steve Young

From 1935 to 1937, She worked at Purdue University as a career counselor and an advisor in aeronautics.

Amelia Earhart

This defense secretary told reporters in 1966 “the draft is the largest educational institution in the world”

Robert McNamara

It’s book 3 in the “hunger games” trilogy

Mockingjay The novels in the trilogy are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010). Each was adapted for film, establishing The Hunger Games film series, with the film adaptation of Mockingjay split into two feature-length motion pictures.

Coming from the Spanish word for box, this drum originally comes from Peru and at first was just a box or empty drawer that people played with their hands.

Cajón Later people added holes to improve the sound. It became very popular, especially in Cuba and Spain, and now is played all over the world

one of the leading muckrakers and reformers of the Progressive Era. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company.

Ida Tarbell The book was published as a series of articles in McClure's from 1902 to 1904. The work contributed to the dissolution of the Standard Oil monopoly and helped usher in the Hepburn Act of 1906, the Mann-Elkins Act, the creation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act.

The cor anglais, or English Horn, is in the family named for this double-reed instrument

Oboe

For a panoramic view of this European capital, take the funicular up to the top of Lycabettus hill, its highest point

Athens A funicular is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope.

In 1985, this state elected Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder as it’s first African American statewide office holder

Virginia

Category: That’s my job Warrener

Rabbit keeper

Category: Renaissance Her father Rodrigo Borgia, arranged her marriage at age 13 to further his own ambitions

Lucrezia Borgia 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519, was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She reigned as the governor of Spoleto, a position usually held by cardinals, in her own right.

Category: US state mottos It’s state motto is Spanish for gold and silver

Montana Oro y Plata

THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS HAS THIS MAN'S "LA FORNARINA" & IN THE 1800s THE RAA'S LOVE OF HIM MADE SOME ARTISTS RETREAT TO AN EARLIER STYLE

RAPHAEL Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

A PROTOTYPE OF THIS CRAFT WAS DEPLOYED IN AUGUST 1955; IT MADE HEADLINES IN MAY 1960

U-2 On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while conducting photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory.

Category: Place name etymologies This port city at the southeast tip of the Korean Peninsula comes from the words for “cauldron” and “mountain”

Pusan Also known as Busan, it is the country’s largest port and second largest city

What head Keebler elf can be found running the bakery known as the Hallow Tree Factory?

Ernie

Sadly, this dancer’s children drowned in the Seine years before that scarf cut her own life short

Isadora Duncan

In 1540, Pope Paul III approved this religious order begun by Ignatius Loyola

The Jesuits

Bordering Arizona, it’s Mexico second largest state in area

Sonora

U.S. GEOGRAPHY THIS SOUTHERN LAKE RANKS 2nd IN SIZE TO LAKE MICHIGAN AMONG FRESHWATER LAKES ENTIRELY WITHIN THE CONTIGUOUS 48 STATES

Lake Okeechobee Lake Okeechobee (US: /oʊkiˈtʃoʊbi/ oh-kee-CHOH-bee) is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the tenth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.

a 1995 pseudo-autobiographical novel by American writer Richard Powers and a contemporary reworking of the Pygmalion myth.

Galatea 2.2

VICE PRESIDENTS HE WAS THE FIRST REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENT

Hannibal Hamlin Hannibal Hamlin (1809-91) of Maine served as vice president to President Abraham Lincoln in 1861-65 and was the first U.S. vice president from the Republican Party.

The first major battle of the Civil War, in July 1861, was the first battle of here

Bull Run (Manassas)

His opera “Tristan und Isolde” was first performed in 1865

Wagner

The author of the play “Dr. Faustus” was killed in 1593 at age 29

Christopher Marlowe

What’s the capital of Switzerland?

Bern

This French king was also known as the sun king

Louis XIV

This Director of “the last Jedi” also directed the 2019 whodunnit “knives out”

Rian Johnson

Uluru and the Great Sandy Desert are on this continent

Australia Uluru is also known as Ayers Rock. It is a large sandstone formation in the center of Australia

He wrote the nonfiction bestseller “Catch & Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators”

Ronan Farrow

Category: ON THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE 5 ELEMENTS WITH 4-LETTER NAMES, IT'S THE ONLY ONE THAT IS NOT A SOLID AT ROOM TEMPERATURE

Neon

A group of zebras is called a

dazzle