AMERICAN HISTORY | SHAKESPEARE PLAYS BY CHARACTER | FAMOUS LASS WORDS | "D" IN SCIENCE | PRONOUNS |
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What is steam?
In 1899 President McKinley took a turn in the Locomobile, a car made by Stanley & propelled by this
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What is Romeo and Juliet?
Benvolio,
Balthasar, Mercutio |
What is radium?
Marie Curie said, "The importance of" this element "from the viewpoint of general theories has been decisive"
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What is Detox/detoxification?
To remove poisonous substances, or to purge an addict's body of harmful substances
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What is any (from Albany)?
The pronoun that is formed by the last 3 letters of New York's capital
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What is Memphis?
Andrew Jackson was one of the landowners who founded this Tennessee town overlooking the Mississippi in 1819
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What is Macbeth?
Hecate,
Caithness, Donalbain |
Who was Marie Antoinette?
She said, “I am sorry sir, I did not mean to put it there” (she had trodden on the executioner's foot).
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What is a Dynamo?
A direct current generator, or a person with lots of energy
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What is his (from Hispaniola?
The pronoun that is formed by the first 3 letters of the island where you'll find Haiti
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What is Delaware
Victor Marie du Pont served as a captain of this state's volunteers in the War of 1812
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What is Hamlet?
Valtemand,
Osric, Horatio |
What is Buckingham Palace
In 1940 the future Queen Mother said she was almost glad this building was bombed; "I can look the East End in the face"
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What is Deciduous?
The mountain ash & honey locust trees share this quality, as becomes evident in autumn
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What is she (from shekel)?
The pronoun that is formed by the first 3 letters of the current monetary unit of Israel
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What is the Constitutional Convention?
When this convened in May 1787, Adams was in London, Jefferson was in Paris & Patrick Henry refused to attend
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What is Twelfth Night?
Olivia,
Viola, Sir Toby Belch |
Who is Mary Baker Eddy?
Explaining Christian Science, she wrote, "Disease is an experience of... mind. It is fear made manifest"
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What is the Distance between them?
Coulomb's law says the force between 2 charges is inversely proportional to the square of this
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What is this (from Thisbe)?
Take 2 letters off Pyramus' lover & give this demonstrative pronoun found in many "Jeopardy!" clues
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What is Alaska?
Americans began to occupy this even before we could send Russia the $7.2 million we paid for it
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What is Much Ado About Nothing?
Don Pedro,
Don John, Dogberry |
Who is Phyllis Schlafly?
This anti-ERA crusader said, "The claim that American women are downtrodden... is the fraud of the century"
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What is Deuterium?
About 1 hydrogen atom in 6,500 is this isotope
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What is you (from bayou)?
Take 2 letters off a marshy outlet of a Louisiana lake to get this personal pronoun
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