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The largest peninsula on earth is mostly made up of this middle eastern country
Saudi Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world, covering 1,250,006 square miles. It is located in the Middle East and includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The Arabian Peninsula is connected to the Asian continent and is surrounded by the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea
Jacques Cartier’s exploration of this 800-mile-long river laid the basis for French claims on the region
St. Lawrence River (through Canada)
It’s the element whose magnetic properties have been known and studied the longest
Iron
Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe (from Latin ferrum ‘iron’) and atomic number 26. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth’s outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust, being mainly deposited by meteorites in its metallic state.
This 2012 reanimated dog movie is a longtime pet project of director Tim Burton
Frankenweenie
An old French dance from a German folk dance, or a square dance move
Allemande
Definition:
-any of a number of German dances, in particular an elaborate court dance popular in the 16th century.
-the music for an allemande, especially as a movement of a suite.
“the deep and moving Allemande which opens Suite No. 20”
-a figure in country dancing in which adjacent dancers link arms or join or touch hands and make a full or partial turn.
““Pass through, ends crossfold, left allemande.””
Category: songs from musicals (have to identify the musical)
“I Could have Danced All Night”
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her.
Some blamed this president’s death on an Indian curse put on him because of the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
9th president. Only served a month in office
He wrote his 1914 poem “Chicago” while working as a newspaper writer in that city
Carl Sandburg
“Chicago” is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry, March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled “Chicago Poems”. It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg’s first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems.
In religious writing, the symbol of the Greek letter Chi represents Christ
X
It’s the official language shared by Rwanda and Senegal
French
Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula, was a prince in what’s now this country
Romania 
In 1878-79 Baron Nordenskjold became the first to traverse this route along Europe and Asia’s Arctic coast
The Northeast Passage
This Spanish conquistador served as governor of Peru from 1531 until his murder in 1541 
Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475–1541)
Pizarro was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and conquistador who is best known for conquering the Inca Empire and founding the city of Lima. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro arrived in northern Peru in 1531 with a small force and took advantage of a civil war to overthrow the ruler, Atahualpa, in 1532. Pizarro defeated a 30,000-strong Inca force with fewer than 200 troops and claimed the Inca’s territories for the Spanish crown. Pizarro’s Spanish rivals assassinated him in 1541 in Lima, the city he founded in 1535.
Home state:
Kurt Vonnegut, David Letterman, Dan Quayle
Indiana
Spins performed in this include the sit spin, the camel spin, and the Biellman spin
Figure skating 
It’s highest peak is Slieve Donard, which rises 2796 feet in the Mourne Mountains of County Down
Northern Ireland 
Kiev remembers Khmelnitsky—a leader of these mounted warriors of Ukraine and Russia
The Cossacks
Close relative of the pig, though it’s name means “River Horse”
Hippopotamus 
Dickens novel with the line “it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”
A Tale of Two Cities 
This “guard” of Roman Emperors was abolished in the fourth century
Praetorian guard
Nathan Drake is the globe hopping treasure hunter in this series of video games
Uncharted 
He was the USA’s third vice president
Aaron Burr
This tabloid style paper from News Corp. was founded by Alexander Hamilton
New York Post 
Begun in 1788, this is at the western end of Berlin’s Avenue Unter Den Linden
Brandenburg gate 
This is the king depicted in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s series of poems “Idylls of the King”
King Arthur 
This military leader took control of Panama in 1983
Manuel Noriega 
This notorious prison island is politically part of the Bronx but connected by bridge to Queens
Rikers Island
We hope you are not a loess for words & can tell us that loess is a type of this deposited by the wind
Soil
Telling the love story of two divorcees in 1988, what Nicholas Sparks novel is set at an Inn in a small coastal town in North Carolina?
Nights in Rodanthe
Published in 2002
Category: peop”l”
Richard Nixon’s running mate in 1960, this republican lost his senate seat 8 years earlier to John F. Kennedy
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President on a ticket with Richard Nixon, who had served two terms as Eisenhower’s vice president. The Republican ticket narrowly lost to Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; Lodge later served as a diplomat in the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Gerald Ford and was a presidential contender in 1964.
Who wrote the Tattooist of Auschwitz?
Heather Morris
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp.
Category: “E” ography
Cast in a battle scene in “Lord of the Rings”, NZ’s army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province
East Timor
East Timor was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it declared independence. Indonesia invaded and occupied East Timor nine days later, and incorporated it as the province of Timor Timur in July 1976. In 1999, a UN-supervised referendum resulted in an overwhelming majority of the people of East Timor voting for independence from Indonesia. The United States recognized East Timor’s independence on May 20, 2002.
The first LOTR movie was the Fellowship of the Ring and came out in 2001
Category: businessmen
In 1913, he spent some of those nickels and dimes to build in NYC what was then the world’s tallest building
F. W. Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes”
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, and remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as of 2024.
Architectural style: Neo-Gothic
Word for a series of four connected works (such as operas or novels)
tetralogy
The original tetralogies were sets of four plays (three tragedies and a comedy) performed serially on the Athenian stages of ancient Greece. These sets of plays were similar to the “trilogy,” a group of three serial Greek tragedies. The word tetralogy is from the Greek combining form tetra-, meaning “four,” joined with the combining form “-logia,” which in turn comes from logos, meaning “word.” Other “tetra-“ words include “tetrahedron” (a solid shape formed by four flat faces) and “tetrapod” (a vertebrate with two pairs of limbs).
Category: 60s sitcoms
Senior counselor Spiffy at Camp Runamuck, Dave Ketchum was also agent 13 on this show
Get Smart
Camp Runamuck is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1965–66 television season. The series was created and executive produced by David Swift, and aired for 26 episodes.
Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It stars Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, “the two biggest things in the entertainment world today”.
The name of this popular Italian dish of braised veal shanks means “bone hole”
Osso Buco
What does a millibar measure?
Barometric or atmospheric pressure
This Canadian province has the longest border, including water, with United States
Ontario
Common bonds
Also a large city in Iowa, what name can refer to a type of desk and is used as a synonym for sofa or couch
Davenport
A Davenport desk is a small desk with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements
The first time African-Americans marched in the inauguration parade was at Lincoln’s second inauguration, in this year
1865 
