At -109 F°., solid carbon dioxide is more commonly called this
What is dry ice?
This Verdi work is partly based on a synopsis by Egyptologist Auguste Mariette
What is Aida?
The name of this elementary school official is from the Latin for "first person"
What is the principal?
This man was the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
This author of "Burr" & "Lincoln" has also written detective stories under the name Edgar Box
Who is Gore Vidal?
The temperature at this center region of the Sun is about 27,000,000° F.
What is the core?
This English queen appears in Donizetti's "Maria Stuarda" & "Roberto Devereux, Conte d'Essex"
Who is Elizabeth I?
This type of teaching aid includes filmstrips, slides, graphs & recordings
What is audiovisual?
James Bay in Canada honors English navigator Thomas James, who, like Hudson, searched for this route
What is the Northwest Passage?
Early in his career, this "Dracula" author was encouraged to write by Henry Morton Stanley
Who is Bram Stoker?
Changes in the Earth may eventually cause igneous & sedimentary rocks to become this type
What is metamorphic?
Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street" is set in this city
What is New York City?
From 1826 until his death, this French educator taught at the Nat'l Institute for Blind Children in Paris
Who is Braille?
In 1500 Bartolomeu Dias perished near this African cape that he'd discovered years earlier
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
This poet wrote Old Possum's Guide to Practical Cats, upon which the musical Cats was based.
Who is TS Eliot?
It's a branch of math or, in dentistry, a hardened plaque on the teeth
What is calculus?
First performed in 1983, "A Quiet Place" was this "West Side Story" composer's only full-length opera
Who is Bernstein?
This president's 3 Secretaries of Education were Terrel H. Bell, William Bennett & Laura F. Cavazos
Who is Reagan?
Porcelain believed to be from his Golden Hind has been recovered from a bay near San Francisco
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
This prolific Lost Generation author famously headbutted his way out of a crashed helicopter.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
Atoms with the same atomic number but different mass numbers are termed this
What are isotopes?
Bizet's 1860s opera about this cruel czar wasn't performed until 1946
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
This teachers' union affiliated with the AFL-CIO has more than 2,000 locals
What is the American Federation of Teachers?
In his teens this discoverer of Florida fought with the troops that drove the Moors from Granada
Who is Ponce de Leon?
He spent 20 years researching "Queen", & wrote a 700-page outline, but didn't live to write the book
Who is Alex Haley?