Season 2, 1986-04-29 | |
WORLD GEOGRAPHY |
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Capital of this English-speaking country is southernmost national capital in the world | NEW ZEALAND |
Season 37, 2021-02-24 | |
BUSINESS HISTORY |
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David McConnell's cosmetics & perfume co. was rebranded in 1939 with this name, honoring the home of his favorite playwright | Avon |
Season 35, 2019-05-22 | |
19th CENTURY AMERICAN HISTORY |
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In 1832, by a narrow margin, this state's legislature rejected considering abolition; a split was completed in 1863 | Virginia |
Season 12, 1995-09-18 | |
WORLD WAR II |
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On Jan. 29, 1944 Margaret Truman, accompanied by her senator father, christened this battleship | USS Missouri |
Season 23, 2007-03-26 | |
U.S. CONGRESS |
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This state has the largest congressional district in area | Alaska |
Season 12, 1996-02-16 | |
ACTORS & ACTRESSES |
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This actor's first name is Hawaiian for "cool breeze over the mountains" | Keanu Reeves |
Season 35, 2018-10-18 | |
CHARACTERS IN CHILDREN'S LIT |
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This winged character from an early 20th century work is so named "because she mends the pots and kettles" | Tinker Bell |
Season 31, 2015-04-16 | |
WORLD LEADERS |
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On the occasion of this late leader's visit to the U.S. in 2009, ABC News listed 112 various spellings of his name | Muammar Gaddafi |
Season 17, 2000-12-13 | |
MUSICAL THEATRE |
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Currently, this show is performed by 3 troupes; the Liffey & Lagan Companies on tour & the Shannon Company on B'way | "Riverdance" |
Season 27, 2010-10-20 | |
COUNTRY DEMOGRAPHICS |
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Because of a policy adopted in 1979, this country's young people are collectively referred to as "little emperors" | China |
Season 26, 2010-03-05 | |
PLAYS |
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Dialogue from this play: "He didn't say for sure he'd come." "And if he doesn't come?" "We'll come back tomorrow" | Waiting for Godot |
Season 28, 2012-07-24 | |
'80s SITCOM CHARACTERS |
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Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable | Alex Keaton |
Season 31, 2015-03-23 | |
U.S. CITIES |
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Kipling wrote of this city, "If a car" can "run up & down a slit in the ground... why shall I seek the reasons of the miracle?" | San Francisco |
Season 35, 2019-05-24 | |
AROUND THE USA |
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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 |
Season 24, 2008-05-30 | |
WWII |
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FDR liked to rest near water, but because of fears after Pearl Harbor, this inland place was created for him | Camp David |
Season 31, 2014-11-25 | |
PEOPLE IN THE ARTS |
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He once said, "It is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things" | Maurice Sendak |
Season 26, 2009-11-24 | |
COMPOSERS |
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In 1928, the 100th anniversary of his death, a $10,000 prize was offered for the completion of his 8th Symphony | (Franz) Schubert |
Season 35, 2019-04-02 | |
MUSIC LEGENDS |
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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 |
Season 2, 1986-04-11 | |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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Title of O. Henry's collection of short stories, "The Four Million" refers specifically to this | the population of New York (the citizens of N.Y.C.) |
Season 18, 2001-10-31 | |
WORDS IN POETRY |
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The 2 "oo" 4-letter words in the poem inscribed in the base of the Statue of Liberty | poor & door |
Season 16, 2000-06-08 | |
THE BIBLE |
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According to the King James Version of the Bible, the number of people on Noah's Ark | 8 |
Season 29, 2013-03-06 | |
U.S. HISTORY |
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Congress has passed 11 of these: the first in 1812, the last in 1942 | declarations of war |
Season 19, 2003-02-13 | |
FIRST NAMES |
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Once considered too sacred to use, it was later the top girl's name from 1880 to the 1940s | Mary |
Season 7, 1990-11-22 | |
TRAVEL & TOURISM |
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In 1841 his 1st package tour took 570 people from Leicester to Loughborough for a temperance rally | Thomas Cook |
Season 21, 2004-12-22 | |
19th CENTURY SPEECHES |
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At Harvard, this writer proposed that we work 1 day & leave 6 free for the "sublime revelations of nature" | Henry David Thoreau |
Season 25, 2009-02-05 | |
AMERICAN FICTION WRITERS |
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He was also the U.S.'s best-paid sportswriter, with stories of people like Chicago O'Brien & Jack the Bookie | Damon Runyon |
Season 14, 1998-02-09 | |
THE SMITHSONIAN |
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Displayed in a new case in September 1997, it's the centerpiece of the Harry Winston Gallery | the Hope Diamond |
Season 28, 2011-10-18 | |
FOREIGN-BORN INVENTORS |
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His 1922 New York Times obituary mentions that his patent No. 174,465 "has been called the most valuable patent ever issued" | Alexander Graham Bell |
Season 12, 1995-11-15 | |
SCULPTORS |
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This American remarked, "Disparity in form, color, size, weight, motion is what makes a composition" | Alexander Calder |
Season 21, 2004-10-18 | |
FAMOUS FIRSTS |
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In 1876 this man became the first person not to get a busy signal on the other end of a phone line | Alexander Graham Bell |
Season 23, 2007-03-07 | |
BRITISH NOVELISTS |
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In 1946 he wrote, "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful & murder respectable" | George Orwell |
Season 4, 1988-03-11 | |
WORLD POLITICS |
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After a 9/25/87 coup, this South Pacific island severed its 113-year link with the British crown | Fiji |
Season 17, 2000-12-06 | |
AMERICAN HISTORY |
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In 1939 this state finally finished paying off a $12.4-million debt to the state from which it had separated | West Virginia (paid debt to Virginia) |
Season 12, 1996-05-16 | |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
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On February 6, 1996 Binney & Smith produced its 100 billionth one of these | a crayon |
Season 15, 1999-01-15 | |
FAMOUS ARTISTS |
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In 1909 he exhibited a group of his paintings entitled "Nympheas: Series de paysages d'eau" | Claude Monet |
Season 12, 1995-11-09 | |
NAMES IN THE NEWS |
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He's the co-founder & editor-in-chief of a new magazine that hit the stands on September 26, 1995 | John F. Kennedy, Jr. |
Season 8, 1992-07-06 | |
SHAKESPEARE |
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The play in which a fool says, "This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen" | King Lear |
Season 7, 1990-11-14 | |
U.S. HISTORY |
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After Virginia, more Civil War battles were fought in this state than in any other | Tennessee |
Season 32, 2015-09-14 | |
AMERICAN POEMS |
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The title of this poem that begins the 1916 book "Mountain Interval" was inspired by long country walks | "The Road Not Taken" (by Robert Frost) |
Season 27, 2010-10-12 | |
SHAKESPEARE |
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These 2 "King Lear" characters, 1 male, 1 female, both represent truthfulness; one disappears when the other returns | Cordelia and the Fool |
Season 15, 1999-05-07 | |
FROM BOOK TO FILM |
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This recent hit film was based on the book "Gesundheit: Good Health is a Laughing Matter" | Patch Adams |
Season 39, 2023-01-19 | |
NOTORIOUS PLACES |
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Al Capone played banjo in a band called the Rock Islanders at this notorious spot | ALCATRAZ |
Season 13, 1997-05-08 | |
ROYAL COUPLES |
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Princess Sophia of Greece gave up her right of succession to Greece's throne before marrying him in 1962 | King Juan Carlos of Spain |
Season 8, 1992-04-20 | |
MONARCHS |
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After more than 40 years in exile, King Michael returned to this country in 1990 only to be expelled again | Romania |
Season 30, 2014-04-16 | |
TV MUSIC |
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"Crystal Blue Persuasion" by Tommy James & the Shondells was heard in this drama's "Gliding Over All" episode | Breaking Bad |
Season 18, 2002-04-15 | |
AMERICANA |
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Appropriately, the Salem Witch Trials Memorial was unveiled by this playwright | Arthur Miller |
Season 26, 2009-11-16 | |
CLASSIC SONGS FROM MOVIES |
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6-word title of the song that says, "For the house fell on her head & the coroner pronounced her dead" | "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" |
Season 19, 2002-11-29 | |
AFRICA |
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1 of the 2 current African nations that were independent at the start of the 20th century | Liberia or Ethiopia |
Season 27, 2011-01-11 | |
20th CENTURY ARTISTS |
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In 1950 he answered a Time magazine article on him, & a common criticism, with a telegram reading, "No chaos damn it" | Jackson Pollock |
Season 39, 2022-12-16 | |
COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD |
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It's home to 58 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, more than any other country; the sites include a volcano & a lagoon | ITALY |
Season 5, 1988-12-30 | |
EXPLORERS |
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Puerto Rico's 2nd largest city is named for this explorer, its 1st governor | Ponce de Leon |
Season 34, 2017-12-21 | |
ADVERTISING CHARACTERS |
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This brand was looking for a Hemingway type when it hired Jonathan Goldsmith for its commercials | Dos Equis |
Season 4, 1988-03-28 | |
TELEVISION HISTORY |
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2 of only 3 women who have been inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame | (2 of) Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett & Mary Tyler Moore |
Season 9, 1993-06-07 | |
19th CENTURY ELECTIONS |
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In 1836 Van Buren ran against Harrison for U.S. president & these 2 ran for president of Texas | Sam Houston & Stephen F. Austin |
Season 6, 1990-02-09 | |
SHAKESPEARE |
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Tho Shakespeare wrote many plays about kings, she is the only title character who is a queen | Cleopatra |
Season 8, 1992-03-03 | |
COMPOSERS |
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The Royal Liverpool Harmonic marked its 150th anniversary by premiering his oratorio | Paul McCartney |
Season 30, 2014-04-23 | |
HOLIDAYS IN OTHER COUNTRIES |
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William Tubman's nearly 3 decades of leadership is celebrated on his birthday, November 29, in this country | Liberia |
Season 25, 2008-09-22 | |
SYMBOLS |
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This symbol incorporates the semaphore signs for the letters N & D, for nuclear disarmament | the peace symbol |
Season 15, 1999-02-05 | |
AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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The book of Jonah is quoted before Chapter One of this 1851 novel | Moby-Dick |
Season 16, 1999-09-20 | |
POLITICIANS |
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He began his political career by defeating Jerry Voorhis in 1946 for a California house seat | Richard M. Nixon |
Season 12, 1996-05-13 | |
CEREMONIES |
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At the coronation of a British monarch, this person presides over the ceremony | Archbishop of Canterbury |
Season 29, 2013-07-11 | |
CLASSICAL MUSIC |
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This piece that premiered in Moscow in 1882 includes strains from "God Save the Czar" & "La Marseillaise" | the 1812 Overture |
Season 17, 2001-03-06 | |
PEOPLE ON POSTAGE |
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In 1893 this 15th century monarch became the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp | Queen Isabella |
Season 4, 1987-09-11 | |
U.S. LANDMARKS |
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When he left to fight Civil War, the U.S. took his family's land & established Arlington Nat'l Cemetery on it | Robert E. Lee |
Season 21, 2004-10-15 | |
FAMOUS PAIRS |
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They first teamed up in 1974; one a quiet Latin teacher & the other a former clown college student | Penn & Teller |
Season 34, 2017-11-29 | |
FAMILIAR PHRASES |
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In the 1870s this phrase meant a hairdo, using a British word for bangs; now it's an extreme group on the edge of a cause | a lunatic fringe |
Season 37, 2020-11-04 | |
COUNTRY NAMES |
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5 U.N. member countries have one-syllable names: Chad, Laos & these 3 in Europe | Spain, France & Greece |
Season 22, 2006-05-31 | |
AFRICA |
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In January 2006 this country swore in Africa's first elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia |
Season 18, 2002-07-19 | |
FAMOUS AMERICANS |
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"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof" is from this man's 1800 prayer | John Adams |
Season 22, 2006-07-13 | |
U.S. HISTORY |
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He was the commanding Union general at Bentonville, site of the last major Confederate offensive | William Tecumseh Sherman |
Season 7, 1991-03-29 | |
WOMEN IN HISTORY |
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Her 1st husband, Alexandre de Beauharnais, fought in both the American & French Revolutions | Empress Josephine |
Season 11, 1995-02-10 | |
WORD ORIGINS |
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This word for sudden, wild fear comes from the name of a god who was believed to cause it | panic |
Season 29, 2012-11-09 | |
DISASTERS |
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In 2012 the National Postal Museum marked the 75th & 100th anniversaries of these 2 disasters with an exhibit called "Fire & Ice" | the Titanic sinking & the Hindenburg |
Season 15, 1999-04-06 | |
20th CENTURY WOMEN |
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She titled her Ph.D. thesis "An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia" | Margaret Mead |
Season 18, 2002-02-22 | |
SPORTS TEAMS |
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This pro sports team has 3 official mascots: Edgar, Allan & Poe | Baltimore Ravens |
Season 32, 2015-11-19 | |
FRENCH NOVEL TITLE HEROES |
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He "looked as if he had been shut up for a long time in a tomb and... been unable to recover the... complexion of the living" | the Count of Monte Cristo |
Season 23, 2007-02-08 | |
NOVELS |
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It was partly inspired by Owen Chase's narrative of the shipwreck of the whale-ship Essex | Moby-Dick |
Season 29, 2012-09-25 | |
THE BIBLE |
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This term for a final resting place got its name because clay was dug up there for craftsmen | potter's field |
Season 6, 1989-11-03 | |
PRESIDENTS |
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The last president who did not serve in the armed forces | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Season 15, 1999-02-11 | |
MEDICAL HISTORY |
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In the 1850s he held the posts of demonstrator of & lecturer on anatomy at St. George's Hospital | Henry Gray ("Gray's Anatomy") |
Season 9, 1992-12-14 | |
ROMAN EMPERORS |
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In 54 A.D., as the result of his mother's scheming, he became the first teenage emperor of Rome at age 16 | Nero |
Season 7, 1990-09-20 | |
BUSINESS & INDUSTRY |
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In the 1890s this company introduced the pneumatic tire for cars; in 1948 the steel-belted radial tire | MICHELIN |
Season 11, 1994-12-21 | |
U.S. ISLANDS |
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Mount Ada on this island is named for the wife of chewing gum magnate William Wrigley | Catalina Island |
Season 22, 2005-11-22 | |
20th CENTURY BOOKS |
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This 1972 book, a bestseller in 2005, begins, "We were somewhere around Barstow... when the drugs began to take hold" | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by Hunter Thompson) |
Season 3, 1986-09-29 | |
INVENTIONS |
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The "gin" in Eli Whitney's cotton gin is a variant of this common English word | engine |
Season 36, 2020-05-27 | |
FAIRY TALES |
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A familiar chant in this fairy tale continues, "Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread" | "Jack and the Beanstalk" |
Season 17, 2000-09-22 | |
THE THEATRE |
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The inspiration for this 1913 play was taken in part from the life of an Edwardian philologist named Henry Sweet | Pygmalion |
Season 19, 2003-04-17 | |
CELEBRITY RELATIVES |
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Over the end credits of "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" she sings "There's No Business Like Show Business" | Rosemary Clooney |
Season 34, 2018-03-26 | |
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE |
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The illustration seen here appeared in the second printed edition of this book, published in England in 1483 | The Canterbury Tales |
Season 22, 2006-06-01 | |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
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In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored | August Wilson |
Season 12, 1995-11-20 | |
BESTSELLING NOVELISTS |
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From 1979 to 1986, he was dean of the college of business administration at the University of Northern Iowa | Robert James Waller ("The Bridges of Madison County") |
Season 33, 2017-03-09 | |
NATIONS OF THE WORLD |
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A 2011 report said the citizenry of this country included a total of 32 women | the Vatican |
Season 31, 2015-05-19 | |
EUROPEAN CITIES |
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The European Central Bank is based in this city sometimes called "Mainhattan" | Frankfurt |
Season 31, 2015-05-11 | |
THE OSCARS |
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Last name of the only family to have a father & daughter receive Academy Award nominations for Best Director | Coppola |
Season 35, 2019-07-08 | |
NORTH AMERICAN CITIES |
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In 2017 this city celebrated its 375th birthday & the 50th anniversary of an event that made it an international tourist destination | Montreal |
Season 25, 2009-07-23 | |
FOOD |
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This cheese was created in 1892 by Emil Frey & named for a New York singing society whose members loved the cheese | Liederkranz |
Season 26, 2009-10-27 | |
LANDMARKS |
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Operation Felix, a planned 1941 Nazi action to seize this territory, was never carried out because Spain wouldn't go along | Gibraltar |
Season 31, 2015-02-23 | |
2014 EVENTS |
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To prepare venues hosting this event, 12 billion perennial ryegrass seeds were imported from Manitoba, 5,000 miles away | the World Cup |
Season 4, 1988-06-03 | |
THE CABINET |
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The State Dept. helps Americans abroad, while this department urges foreigners to visit the U.S. | the Department of Commerce |
Season 20, 2004-07-06 | |
HISTORIC ENGLISHMEN |
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Ironically, he might have saved himself from death in 1779 if he had known how to swim | Captain Cook |