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Starred Study 21
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A carved item in relief in art (small) or a small role in a movie | Cameo |
| He wrote journals for teachers and believed in the power of public education, this education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery | Horace Mann |
| A barrow is a pig that's had certain involuntary surgery; THIS | 1 is the equivalent horse, & this |
| TV's first telethon was 1949's "Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund" hosted by this man, "Mr. Television" aka Uncle? | Milton Berle aka Uncle Miltie |
| Originally formed in 1761, was an art tutor at Versailles & was as alive as a wax figure in 1850... what did she create? | Madame Tussaud and her Chamber of Horrors |
| ANIMALS: 1. Not satisfied with your basic kitty, Salvador Dalí hadBabou, wild cats of Central & South America 2. Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat hunt big animals, | 1. Ocelot (looks like a medium sized leopard) 2. Lynx (medium-sized wild cat known for its tufted ears, short bobbed tail, long legs, and large furry paws, adapted for snowy environments in all continents). Y only vowel |
| 1. tufts on the tip of the ears small African cat ( Lynx basically) easier for it to hear its prey 2. The cougar has the record for most other names in English, over 40, including this 4-letter name 3. Big cat of Asia rarely seen in the high range | 1. Carracal (it is basically the AFRICAN LYNX!) 2. Puma aka Mountain Lion aka Panther (mostly one color and long tail, bobcat spotted with short tail) 3. Snow leopard (Himalayas) there are also clouded leopards |
| Autobiography A militant & prisoner: "Soul on Ice" also the man who said In a 1968 speech this Black Panther said, "You're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem" | Eldridge Cleaver |
| This singer has duets with Megan Trainer "Marvin Gaye" and Selena Gomez "We Don't Talk Anymore" | Charlie Puth also did "Losing My Mind" "Suffer" "Lipstick" |
| : He only had a mattress & a piano in his house when he began working on the viral hit "Beautiful Things" | Benson Boone (did a Coachella tribute to Freddie Mercury |
| This woman is known for her powerful voice, genre-blending music writing, and activism, especially for LGBTQ+ rights (lesbian); she's famous for hit songs like "The Story," her role in The Highwomen, producing for artists like Joni Mitchell, | Brandi Carlile (also did You're gonna go far, Damage gets done, crowded table, and The Joke") |
| a Disney Channel star to a Grammy-nominated R&B artist and actress. music, particularly her 2022 EP What I Didn't Tell You, which featured the hit song "ICU". She also stars as Hilary Banks in the Peacock series Bel-Air. | Coco Jones |
| Organic chem is easy once you get this concept of an atom's combining capacity, also applied to some electrons... Groups are made in the Periodic Table based on this | Valence (electrons) |
| Ernst Leitz in Germany in 1869 released the first widely available 35mm camera in 1925, to popularize street photography and the 35mm format. This revolutionary camera established what prestigious brand name, by which the company itself is now known? | Lecia |
| It's the name of a royal rowing regatta as well as a collarless shirt | Henley |
| At MLK's funeral, this gospel singer & close friend sang the hymn "Precious Lord, Take My Hand"...the "Queen of Gospel" also sang at President Kennedy's inaugural ball in 1961 | Mahalia Jackson |
| In an epic Longfellow poem, she's named for a Minnesota waterfall that now draws more than 850,000 visitors per year | Minihaha |
| This 5-star WWII general also served as the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | Omar Bradley (Marshall was first five star btw) |
| This 8-letter term refers to a metal skeleton or framework that supports the construction of a clay or plaster sculpture | Armature |
| Franz Kafka wrote three full-length novels, all of which were published posthumously: The Trial (name the MAIN CHARACTER), The Castle, and this one | Amerika (aka The Man Who Disappeared) and Josef K |
| This leg-out variation of the basic skateboard jump trick is also a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair | Ollie North (after Oliver North) |
| The formula for Pepto-Bismol is based on this metallic element | Bismuth |
| The active ingredient in Crest whitening strips is this bleaching compound | Hydrogen peroxide |
| BEFORE AND AFTER: The NYC urban planner who moved to Philly to shoot professional hoops in 1982 | Robert Moses Malone (Robert Moses very powerful NYC planner) Moses MaloneA center, he was named the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and led 76ers to championship |
| Napoleon is buried here | Hôtel des Invalides (French: French for 'House of Invalids'), commonly called les Invalides, France, containing museums and monuments, military history, hospital and an old soldiers' retirement home... golden dome area in Paris |
| BEFORE AND AFTER: A frozen potato empire becomes a First Lady known as "The Belle of Canton" | Ore Ida Mckinley (ore ida is big frozen food owned by Kraft in Pittsburgh) |
| writer-director known for critically acclaimed and commercially successful films like Fruitvale Station, Creed, and especially Marvel's Black Panther and recently SINNERS with twins/ vampires/ south Michael B Jordan | Ryan Coogler |
| this propulsive rhythmic technique of emphasizing unexpected beats; the name comes from a Latin word meaning "to swoon or faint" | Syncopation |
| After forming the People's Action Party in 1954, Lee Kuan Yew served from 1959 to 1990 as Prime Minister of what country (first as a component state with WHAT NATION, and from 1965 as a fully independent republic)? | Singapore originally with Malaysia |
| 1. In the early 1900s it began trading under a symbol using all 3 of its initials; today, it's down to one, T 2. What was it's origin company? 3. What do the initials all stand for? | 1. AT&T 2. Bell Telephone (named after inventor) 3.American Telephone and Telegraph |
| In winter, chipmunks enter this not-quite-hibernating state, from the Latin for "numbness" | Torpor |
| This group of self-governing Danish islands lies about halfway between the Shetland Islands & Iceland | Faroe Islands |
| (1803), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that established the principle of judicial review, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find to violate the Constitution of the United States | Marbury v Madison |
| In 1819 this case said the power to tax was the power to destroy | McCulloch v Maryland |
| ASSASSINS: 1. Shot Reagan 2. Shot at Ford (Manson woman) 3. Shot at Ford (hoped for anti-war Vietnam, violent revolution) | 1. John Hinckley Jr. 2. Squeaky Fromme... 3. Sara Jane Moore |
| ASSASSINS: 1. Killed John Lenon | Mark David Chapman |
| In February 1933 gunman THIS MAN tried to assassinate FDR but instead killed this city's mayor Anton Cermak | Zangara and Chicago... He was in anti-capitalist rage, anti-government sentiment, and personal bitterness stemming from chronic stomach pain, seeing FDR as the symbol of the wealthy elite and a crooked government |
| The winner of the Preakness stakes gets a blanket of THESE flowers - actually, they get a lookalike because it's out of season during the race! | Black eyed susans (roses are Kentucky Derby) |
| Despite its name, this state flower of Georgia isn't an American native; instead it originates from east Asia | Cherokee Rose |
| "FOR I HAD A STORY THAT NO ONE COULD BEAT! [BLANK] But Dad said quite calmly, Just draw up your stool And tell me the sights On the way home from school""" | And to think that I saw it on Mulberry street |
| Two opposing border towns, which sit approximately 125 miles (200km) east of San Diego, are distinctive for their portmanteau (and sort of reciprocal) names NAME BOTH CITIES AND THE MEXICO STATE | Calexico in California and Mexicali in Baja California (Mexicali is the capital of this northwestern peninsular state= Baja California) |
| We'd know this evangelist who played Major League Baseball in the 1880s any day of the week | Billy Sunday famous evangelist and religious revival guy |
| In 1967 at South Africa's Groote Schuur Hospital, THIS DOCTOR performed the first of these surgeries | Barnard first heart transplant |
| he made history in 1927 by being the first drummer to use a full kit on a recording AND With classic performances on big band tunes like "Sing Sing Sing", he introduced the extended drum solo to jazz | Gene Krupa |
| Called Baby Traps the Drum Wonder, he started at age 4, ....this man who played with Shaw, Dorsey & his own band...Albums recorded by this drummer include "Stick It" & "Buddy & Soul"... | Buddy Rich (buddy the Elf little guy with Shaw)... white guy played with Animal Muppets |
| In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra It was "wunnerful" when this bandleader known for his "Champagne Music" reached No. 1 with "Calcutta!" in 1961 NAME HIS INSTRUMENT | Lawrence Welk of the Lawrence Welk show known for accordian and polkas |
| This animated spinoff series centered on an acerbic teen who lamented life in Lawndale... she got her start on Beavis and Butthead | Daria |
| a classic roast beef sandwich from Buffalo, New York, and originally part of Buffalo Wild Wings name | Beef on Weck (Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) originally served Beef on Weck because its founders were from Buffalo, NY, and named the first location "Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck" (BW3)) |
| I say! Let's ring in & name this oblong scarf that's similar to a cravat & was sported by John Larroquette in "Stripes" | Ascot |
| This scarf worn as a tie is French for a Croatian; Croatians serving France wore them in the 30 Years' Wa | Cravat |
| This President appeared on the show "laugh-in" and said this catchphrase | Nixon appeared on Laugh in and said Sock it to me (also Aretha Franklin said it in Respect) |
| The "TL" sound was an important feature in this language of the Toltecs & Aztecs | 1. Nahuatl... Tegucigalpa means Silver Hill in Nahuatl (on the Choultec river in Honduras) |
| A food, a villain in Pinocchio, and also this volcano on an island north of Sicily is known as the Lighthouse of the Mediterranean in the Tyrennian Sea | Stromboli |
| The name of this Italian favorite, a half-moon-shaped stuffed pizza, means "pant leg" | Calzone |
| s a Canadian television sketch comedy show about a fictional television station that ran intermittently between 1976 and 1984. | SCTV (Second City Television) Second City comedy is Toronto it is set in fictional Melonville |
| Chancellor & Archbishop of Canterbury Simon of Sudbury was killed during the 1381 Peasants' Revolt led by this man | Wat Tyler |
| Players wager by choosing numbers ranging from 1 to 80 in this lottery-style casino game that dates back to ancient China | Keno |
| Once MacArthur was relieved of command by President Truman, this general assumed his role as the commander of all UN forces in Korea | Matthew Ridgeway |
| This Franz Kafka work was assembled from unfinished manuscripts and published posthumously as "Der Prozess" | The Trial |
| This Victorian era author of "Cranford" and "North and South" passed away suddenly before she could complete her final novel "Wives and Daughters" | Elizabeth Gaskell |
| The fibers of this plant, also known as linseed, are used to produce linen | Flax |
| This sturdy cotton textile used for jeans was first made in Nîmes, France | Denim |
| From the Latin for "messenger," it's a diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a foreign country or an international organization | Nuncio |
| slang for a non-Japanese person excessively obsessed with Japanese culture, particularly anime and manga, often to an awkward degree | Weeb or weeabo |
| an archway in a garden or park consisting of a framework covered with trained climbing or trailing plants. | Pergola |
| This classic doll was inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame in 2007, 5 years after his more famous sister was inducted | Raggedy Andy (Raggedy Anne was his sister) |
| Though not UN members, Niue and the Cook Islands are considered independent nations in free association with this country | New Zealand |
| These popular British snack cakes are named for a type of orange which itself is named for a historic middle eastern city | Jaffa Cakes |
| Originally known as "Old Tub", this Kentucky-based company changed its name to honour the man who rebuilt it after Prohibition | Jim Beam |
| In 1922, this magnate bought the entire island of Lanai to use as a plantation for his business | Dole |
| This two-word term refers to the end of a rope that is tied off - these days you may fight to it | Bitter end |
| Catherine Morland is one of a clergyman's ten children in this novel written in 1803 | Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen |
| The founder of monasticism, this saint founded a monastery in Italy & established his rule for the lives of monks circa 530 A.D. | Benedeict |
| This Latin phrase refers to any event or speech that justifies a declaration of war | Causus Belli |
| an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker | Thurber (also wrote Secret Life of Walter MItty)_ |
| This Baltimore Sun writer's completely fictitious history of the bathtub from 1917 was believed by many, much to his mischievous delight (he was a racist, but clever) | Mencken. Famous quotes: defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" and "no one has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses" |
| In the 1920s this cowboy humorist was honorary mayor of Beverly Hills, California / this humorist & native son lends his name to Oklahoma City's main airport as well as half an airport in Alaska | Will Rogers (Cherokee/ Oklahoma pavlovs... humorist who is also a cowboy)... Wiley-Post/Will Rogers is in Alaska |
| He was one of the greatest comic performers, seen in films like "My Little Chickadee"... funny quotes, distinct nasal voice, lover of alcohol | W.C. Fields |
| The stomach's gastric acid consists primarily of this other acid along with a few enzymes like this one that also gave name to a drink | Hydrochloric acid and Pepsin (Pepsi was originally called Brad's Drink |
| Not surprisingly, he invented the disposable blade safety razor in 1903 | King Camp Gilette |
| Longshoreman, dockworker, or this word that begins with a male name can be used for a worker who loads & unloads ships in a port | Stevedore (from Spanish from store cargo) |
| 1. Bible verse John 1:1 and 2. Shortest bible verse John 11:35 and 3: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" | 1. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" and 2. Jesus wept and 3: John 3:16 (Psalm 23 is Lord is my Shepard) |
| This word refers to the fee charged by a bookmaker for accepting a gambler's wager | VIG "vig" is short for vigorish, which is the commission or fee that a bookmaker, sportsbook, or casino charges for accepting a bet. It is essentially the "house edge" or "take" |
| The name of these paired handheld instruments used in Flamenco and other folk dances comes from the Spanish for "chestnut" | Castanets |
| Nayib Bukele, the leader of this Central American country, has referred to himself as the "coolest dictator in the world" | El Salvador |
| In 1937, thousands of Haitians were killed in the Parsley massacre under the orders of this Dominican dictator | Trujillo (Papa Doc was Haitian) |
| This end-of-the-alphabet range stretches from northwestern Iran to the Strait of Hormuz | Zagros |
| The guilelessness of Prince Myshkin, the protagonist of this novel, leads other characters to assume he lacks intelligence | The Idiot by Dostoevsky |
| This "familial" novel by Ivan Turgenev was a response to a generational schism he'd observed between the older liberals and the younger nihilists | Fathers and Sons |
| Centered in Italy 1909-1916, this art movement emphasized the dynamism of modern life & technology | Futurism |
| This steep roof named for architect François can be seen everywhere from New York’s Plaza Hotel to Paris’ Chausée d’Antin | Mansard Roof (like a rounded European roof for long buildings) |
| Because of the bulge from the Equator, the highest point above the Earth's center is the top of this mountain in Ecuador | Mount Chimborazo |
| Youngest world dart champion ever ( at 17 years old English kid champ of 2025 and 2026) nickname Nuke | Luke Littler |
| The Heinz company owns this brand, which is known for tater tots and owns nearly half of the potato market in the U.S. | Ore ida |
| Swiss four languages | Italian, French, German, ROMANSH |
| The motto of France's oldest national paper is a line spoken by this play character: "Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise" | Figaro (Le Figaro is the newspaper) and La Monde |
| Completes the last line of the novel: "He had won the victory over himself..." | He loved big brother |
| A meeting to resolve questions for a church | Synod |
| One Battle After Another movie is based on this book (and author) | Vineland by Pynchon |
| Self help book: encouraging radical acceptance of others' choices, actions, or limitations to free yourself from judgment, control, and emotional energy | Let Them by Mel Robbins |
| Named for its 2 owners, it introduced the first commercial drink mixer in 1911 | Hamilton BEach |
| Terminator actress | Linda Hamilton now in Stranger Things |
| Business meaning modernity in Korean | Hyundai |
| a German-born entrepreneur who started the news agency in London in 1851, initially using carrier pigeons to bridge a telegraph gap for stock market news | Reuter |
| As the company's headquarters, the name of this city appears on packages of Pampers, Tampax & Tide (NAME CITY AND COMPANY) also named for a candlemaker and soapmaker | Procter and Gamble Cincinatti |
| Where is My Husband! song by | Raye |
| Italian for "rising again", it was the 19th century movement to unify Italy | Risorgemento |
| Of British singer famous for "smile" from MySpace & brother Alfie from "Game of Thrones" | Lily Allen |
| Hot Ones Host | Sean Evans |
| Your pozole is chock-full of these hulled corn kernels, the basis for grits, a gift to the colonists from Native Americans | Hominy |
| a popular 2019 gay sports romance novel by Rachel Reid, | Heated Rivalry (now HBO show) from Game Changers |
| was a communist nationalist movement in Laos, founded in 1950 | Pathet Lao |
| Better known for "Faust", this French composer set his last opera, "The Tribute of Zamora", in Moorish Spain | Gonoud |
| located in the heart of the Lehigh Valley, it's nicknamed the "Christmas City"... the university of the same name is in this state | Bethlehem |
| Swiss psychologist on dying (poetry was in her work) | Kubler Ross did 5 stages of Grief |
| This bullet, or ball, was named for a Frenchman, but Civil War soldiers pronounced it to sound like it was little | Minie (Ball) |
| Known as Zaire from 1971 to 1997, a name adopted by leader Mobutu Sese Seko to shed colonial history and signify a new era, but it was originally the Belgian Congo before independence in 1960 | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Ciudad de la Paz (City of Peace), officially replacing an island capital for this nation | Equitorial Guinea |
| Name the Three Wise Men | Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar |
| In the 19th century a group of Irish radicals & a group of U.S. coal miners agitating for better conditions shared this name | Molly Maguires |
| He's the highest-ranking U.S. intelligence official ever arrested for spying and he died in January 2026 | Aldrich Ames |
| Freida McFadden wrote this book series (now a movie with Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried | Housemaid |
| Stage directions in this Shaw play based on a Roman story mention a huge thorn in a paw | Androcles and the Lion |
| Muhamad Ali fights: 1. Who did he fight in Rumble in Jungle? 2. Who did he fight (Fight of the Century in 1971, rematch in 1974, and the grueling Thrilla in Manila in 1975) | George Foreman and Frazier (Ali lost the first one but wont he next two)... Ali famous photo is Sonny Liston |
| MIDDLE EAST GULFS you mix up: 1. The gulf on the left near Yemen leading to the Red Sea 2. The gulf on the right near Indian ocean 3. Inside the red sea near Sinai you have two gulfs... name them | 1. Gulf of Aden near Yemen 2. Gulf of Oman near Oman and Persian Gulf 3. Left side of Sinai is Gulf of Suez (leading to Suez canal) where the right side is Gulf of Aqaba leading to Jordan |
| 3.Here, kitty, kitty! You no a mountain lion--you're this wildcat named for its short tail | 3. Bobcat (so it's a Lynx but distinctly North American and short tail) |
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