Musicals
This 1956 Lerner and Loewe musical featuring 'On the Street Where You Live' was based on the 1913 George Bernard Shaw play Pygmalion.
What is My Fair Lady?
French traders & natives dubbed these large antlered animals "orignal", a name still used by French Canadians
What are moose?
His last play was 2004's "Finishing the Picture", a story of the making of "The Misfits"--though he's probably most famous for "Death of a Salesman", or being married to Marilyn Monroe
Who is Arthur Miller?
"GAO" stands for "Government Accountability Office"; it used to stand for this
What is General Accounting Office?
Women should have this test regularly to screen for cervical cancer
What is a Pap test?
This 1946 Irving Berlin musical about a sharpshooter starred Ethel Merman, and let the world know there's no business like show business.
What is Annie Get Your Gun?
The tiny eyes of this insectivore are hidden in its fur
What is a mole?
He won a Hugo Award for a 1973 novel, and co-wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey with Stanley Kubrick
Who is Arthur C. Clarke?
Adjective for all courts that review the decision of a trial court if requested by the losing party
What is appellate?
A 2008 Toronto study found that doctors are more likely to recommend replacing this joint in men
What is the knee?
Both the stage and film versions of this musical star Zero Mostel fantasizing about what life would be like if he were a rich man.
This amphibious rodent is named in part for the odor produced by its perineal glands
What is a muskrat?
In 1890 he gave up practicing medicine for full-time writing; in 1902, he was knighted, after introducing one of the most iconic literary detectives of all time
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
When it comes to congress, if the U.S. population of 300 million were simply divided by 435, Nebraska, for example, would have 2.48 congressmen; so a complex formula covers this process of handing out seats
What is apportionment?
Normally, the spine is pretty straight from the neck to the tailbone; in this condition the spine curves in an "S" or a "C" shape & may require surgery
What is scoliosis?
In 1927, this musical introduced the song Can't Help Lovin Dat Man.
What is Show Boat?
These crow relatives got their name from a girl's name, Margaret
What is a magpie?
He won a Pulitzer for "A Thousand Days", his book on the JFK presidency
Who is Arthur Schlesinger?
In the U.S. Senate, this many votes are needed to end a filibuster
What is 60 (3/5ths)?
It's estimated that 1 in 150 children in the U.S. have this disability whose name is partly from the Greek for "self"
What is autism?
This 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical set in San Francisco was adapted into the first Hollywood film to feature a majority Asian-American cast.
What is Flower Drum Song?
This ferretlike carnivore that has a bird in its name subsists on snakes & rodents
What is a mongoose?
The name of this French poet, a subject in Verlaine's "the damned poets", sounds like a Stallone role
Who is Arthur Rimbaud?
There might be $300 million in production at a given time in the D.C facility of this bureau
What is the Bureau of Engraving and Printing?
This diagnostic procedure uses ultrasound to image the heart; a "stress" one is done after some form of exercise
What is an echocardiogram?