Monday December 31st
Category: Composers' Birthplaces
A: The town where he was born in 1911 is now in far eastern Austria; when he was born there it belonged to another country.
Q: Who is Franz Liszt?
Friday December 28th
Category: American Authors
A: In 1886 he wrote, "My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water".
Q: Who is Mark Twain?
Thursday December 27th
Category: Fighting Monarchs
A: Seen here is a suit of armor worn by this monarch at the Siege of Boulogne in 1544 when he was 53. (there was a picture of a really big set of armor)
Q: Who is Henry VIII?
Wednesday December 26th
Category: Literary First Lines
A: "You better not never tell nobody but God", begins this 1982 novel, whose film version garnered 11 Oscar nominations.
Q: What is The Color Purple?
Friday December 21st
Category: World Capitals
A: One of the 3 national capitals made up of 2 words that begin with the same letter.
Q: What is Addis Ababa, San Salvador, or Phnom Penh?
Thursday December 20th
Category: Dog Breeds
A: Alphabetically, this breed is last on the recognized list of the American Kennel Club.
Q: What is the Yorkshire Terrier?
Wednesday December 19th
Category: Shakespeare
A: The last speech in this play says, "No graves upon the Earth shall clip in it a pair so famous".
Q: What is Anthony and Cleopatra?
Tuesday December 18th
Category: People in British History
A: In 1805 the second in command to this hero said, "I wish (he) would stop signaling. We all know what we have to do".
Q: Who is Horatio Nelson?
Monday December 17th
Category: 19th Century Inventions
A: Thoreau noted in 1854, it "Resounds at every post. It is a harp with one string--the first strain from the American lyre".
Q: What is a Telegraph?
Friday December 14th
Category: States' Highest Points
A: This state's highest peak is 13,796 feet high & only about 15 miles from the ocean.
Q: What is Hawaii?
Thursday December 13th
Category: Olympic Gold Medalists
A: Before Michael Phelps in 2008, he was the last American to win 5 Individual Golds in one Olympics; he did it at Lake Placid.
Q: Who is Eric Heiden?
Wednesday December 12th
Category: Fashion Designers
A: In 1986 her company, now associated with JC Penney, became the first founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500.
Q: Who is Liz Claiborne?
Tuesday December 11th
Category: Businessmen
A: Thomas Watson Jr. appeared on the March 28, 1955 cover of Time with the caption "Clink. Clank." This.
Q: What is Think?
Monday December 10th
Category: 1920's Literature
A: The collapse of this title structure causes the death of Esteban, Uncle Pio, Don Jaime, Pepita, & a Marquesa.
Q: What is The Bridge of San Luis Rey?
Friday December 7th
Category: 20th Century Plays
A: This 1962 play takes place beginning at 2 a.m. in the living room of a house on a New England college campus.
Q: What is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Thursday December 6th
Category: World Geography
A: Though it consists entirely of islands, this populous country borders 3 other nations.
Q: What is Indonesia?
Wednesday December 5th
Category: U.S. Presidents
A: This man is the only U.S. President since Hoover not named Time Magazine's Man or Person of the Year.
Q: Who is Gerald Ford?
Tuesday December 4th
Category: American Icons
A: He has a Medal of Freedom, a Pulitzer Citation & membership in the Rock & Roll and Minnesota Music Halls of Fame.
Q: Who is Bob Dylan?
Monday December 3rd
Category: Phrase Origins
A: This 2-word adjective for "going against accepted speech or conduct" first appeared in a 1933 translation from Izvestia.
Q: What is Politically Correct?
Friday November 30th
Category: 20th Century American Writers
A: A publisher's note on one of his books called him "The terror of typesetters" & "An enigma to book reviewers".
Q: Who is E.E. Cummings?
Thursday November 29th
Category: Religious Symbols
A: The rooster atop many church weather vanes is there to remind us of a story involving this apostle.
Q: Who is Peter?
Wednesday November 28th
Category: Countries
A: It was created in the early 1700s from 2 counties purchased by an Austrian prince; he named the nation for his family.
Q: What is Lichtenstein?
Tuesday November 27th
Category: Billboard No.1 Albums
A: The soundtrack for this film based on a play holds the record for the most weeks at no.1, 54 weeks in 1962 & '63.
Q: What is West Side Story?
Monday November 26th
Category: Place Names
A: Built in 1911, this Wisconsin home was named for a Welsh bard associated with King Arthur.
Q: What is Taliesin?
Friday November 23rd
Category: Biographies About Authors
A: Chapters in a biography on this author include "Declaring His Genius" & "A Late Victorian Love Affair".
Q: Who is Oscar Wilde?
Thursday November 22nd
Category: Nutrition
A: The word coined for these substances in 1912 was meant to suggest they were essential to life & contained nitrogen.
Q: What are Vitamins?
Wednesday November 21st
Category: Opera
A: In 1900 the first La Scala performance of this opera was conducted by the man whose last name began with the opera's title.
Q: What is Tosca?
Tuesday November 20th
Category: The U.S. Constitution
A: Found in Article 3, Sec. 3, & requiring the testimony of 2 witnesses to prove, it's the only crime defined in the constitution.
Q: What is Treason?
Monday November 19th
Category: European Authors
A: Amazon said this author who died in 2004 was the first to sell a million Kindle E-books.
Q: Who is Stieg Larsson?
Friday November 16th
Category: Classical Music
A: This 1890 piece was named for a Verlaine Poem that begins, "Your soul is as a moonlit landscape fair".
Q: What is Clair De Lune?
Thursday November 15th
Category: Math Men
A: In 1880 he wrote, "We draw two circles, and make them include or exclude or intersect one another".
Q: Who is John Venn?
Wednesday November 14th
Category: U.S. Presidents
A: The only 2 Presidents never to present a State of the Union Address are William Henry Harrison & this man.
Q: Who is James Garfield?
Tuesday November 13th
Category: Born & Died
A: He was born in 1728 in Yorkshire, England & died in a skirmish February 14, 1779 in Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii.
Q: Who is Cpt. James Cook?
Monday November 12th
Category: National Songs
A: First publicly performed in 1745, this song sometimes has its pronouns changed.
Q: What is "God Save The Queen/King"?
Friday November 9th
Category: Disasters
A: In 2012 the Natl. Postal Museum marked the 75th & 100th annivs. of these 2 disasters with an exhibit called "Fire & Ice".
Q: What is the Hindenburg Crash and the Titanic Sinking?
Thursday November 8th
Category: U.S. Cities
A: The seal of this historic New England city has the phrase "What A Glorious Morning For America" & the date "April 19".
Q: What is Lexington, MA?
Wednesday November 7th
Category: Plays
A: Referring to its 2 acts, an Irish critic described it as "A play in which nothing happens, twice".
Q: What is Waiting for Godot?
Tuesday November 6th
Category: Cabinet Departments
A: "Si Ve Algo, Diga Algo" was part of a 2011 Spanish-language TV campaign by this cabinet department.
Q: What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Monday November 5th
Category: Broadway Musicals
A: Based on a 1926 play & real-life events, it's now the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.
Q: What is Chicago?
Friday November 2nd
Category: College Football Team Nicknames
A: The team known as these since 1895 plays its home games on top of the Hayward Seismic Fault.
Q: Who are the California Golden Bears?
Thursday November 1st
Category: The 50 States
A: Gambling as a commercial enterprise is some form is legal in all states except Hawaii & this state.
Q: What is Utah?
Wednesday October 31st
Category: The Constitutional Convention
A: New York's delegates were John Lansing, Robert Yates & this founding father, the only one of the 3 who signed.
Q: Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Tuesday October 30th
Category: 20th Century Books
A: "A Cry of Children" & "Nightmare Island" were proposed titles for this novel.
Q: What is Lord of the Flies?
Monday October 29th
Category: Mammals
A: Ancient Romans knew this animal featured in their circuses as a Hippotigris.
Q: What is a Zebra?
Friday October 26th
Category: 21st Century Games
A: The villains in this game were inspired by the Swine Flu epidemic scare.
Q: What is Angry Birds?
Thursday October 25th
Category: World Languages
A: Of the romance languages, it has the greatest number of native speakers in a single country.
Q: What is Portuguese?
Wednesday October 24th
Category: The Elements
A: This element was discovered extraterrestrially in 1868; it took 27 more years until someone isolated it on Earth.
Q: What is Helium?
Tuesday October 23rd
Category: Children's Rhymes
A: Oddly, this mammalian character with a rhyming name suffers from alopecia.
Q: Who is Fuzzy Wuzzy?
Monday October 22nd
Category: Kings
A: The last British monarch to be buried outside the U.K., he was interred in 1727 in the land where he was born.
Q: Who was King George I?
Friday October 19th
Category: Cable TV Firsts
A: When Turner Classic Movies began broadcasting on April 14, 1994, the first movie shown was this one.
Q: What is Gone With The Wind?
Thursday October 18th
Category: Place Names
A: From 1953 until 1990 Chemnitz, Germany was named for this man.
Q: Who is Karl Marx?
Wednesday October 17th
Category: Countries & Population
A: If it were a nation, a state with a 2-word name in this country would be the world's 6th most-populous at 200 million.
Q: What is India?
Tuesday October 16th
Category: Americana
A: The creator of this comic strip did not like its 1950 change in title, believing it suggested insignificance.
Q: What is Peanuts?
Monday October 15th
Category: Fiction
A: A proposed title for this novel sounded too much like a Vegas heist movie, so the number in the title was doubled.
Q: What is Catch 22?
Friday October 12th
Category: Oscar Nominees
A: One of his first Oscar nominations was for Best Actor; none of his 22 other Oscar nominations was for acting.
Q: Who is Woody Allen?
Thursday October 11th
Category: Nonfiction
A: In an 1854 work, this title body of water was compared with the proportions of Loch Fyne.
Q: What is Walden Pond?
Wednesday October 10th
Category: Historic Rulers
A: This ruler of a new world country was born in Vienna's Schonbrunn Palace in 1832 & executed far from home in 1867.
Q: Who is Maximilian the First?
Tuesday October 9th
Category: Stores
A: These stores first launched in 2001 take in more money per sq. foot than any other U.S. retailer, almost doubling Tiffany's.
Q: What are Apple Stores?
Monday October 8th
Category: War Novels & Movie Titles
A: Its title phrase traces back to a stand by heavily outnumbered British infantry against a cavalry charge.
Q: What is The Thin Red Line?
Friday October 5th
Category: Poetry
A: Her most famous poem was written for a December 1883 Art & Literary Auction to benefit the Pedestal Fund.
Q: Who is Emma Lazarus?
Thursday October 4th
Category: Authors
A: In 1890 he captained the stern-wheeler Roi des Belges on a voyage down the Congo River.
Q: Who is Joseph Conrad?
Wednesday October 3rd
Category: Modern Opera
A: This opera begins with Air Force One landing at Beijing.
Q: What is Nixon In China? (That's an opera? Weird.)
Tuesday October 2nd
Category: Familiar Phrases
A: OED's earliest citation of this 5-word phrase is "Now, Monsieur Poirot, You Would Without Doubt Like To Visit" this place.
Q: What is The Scene of the Crime?
Monday October 1st
Category: Singers & Albums
A: She's the only artist to have No. 1 albums in 5 consecutive decades, from the 1960's to the 2000's.
Q: Who is Barbra Streisand?
Friday September 28th
Category: Toys & Games
A: When Milton Bradley released this home game in 1966, competitors accused it of selling "Sex in a Box".
Q: What is Twister?
Thursday September 27th
Category: Phrase Origins
A: On Feb. 22, 1918 Warren Harding said it is good to drink "At The Fountains of Wisdom Inherited From" this alliterative group.
Q: Who are the Founding Fathers?
Wednesday September 26th
Category: TV Animation
A: This teen duo debuted in a 1992 animated short in which they played baseball with a frog.
Q: Who are Beavis and Butthead? (I kid you not, this was on Jeopardy!)
Tuesday September 25th
Category: The Bible
A: This term for a final resting place got its name because clay was dug up there for craftsmen.
Q: What is a Potter's Field?
Monday September 24th
Category: State Capitols
A: Seen here is the seal of this New England city that got its current name in 1637. (the picture has a stag in it, sorry)
Q: What is Hartford?
Friday September 21st
Category: The Oscars
A: The only remake of a U.S. film to win Best Picture; the original was made in the 1920s, the Oscar-winning remake in the 1950s.
Q: What is Ben-Hur?
Thursday September 20th
Category: 8-Letter Words
A: This word that means "Freedom From Narrow Restrictions" can also refer to one of a range of imaginary lines.
Q: What is Latitude?
Wednesday September 19th
Category: Presidential Children
A: 1 of his 5 sons was born in New Brunswick, Canada.
Q: Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Tuesday the 18th
Category: Historic Firsts
A: On July 31st, 1971 Air Force Colonel David Scott became the first person to drive one of these.
Q: What is the Lunar Rover?
Monday the 17th
Category: Islands
A: Of the World's 5 largest islands by area, the 2 with territory of more than 1 country are Borneu & this one.
Q: What is New Guinea?
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