Schwarzwald, also known as the black this.
What is the Black Forest?
Many Vikings wore pendants made in the form of Mjolnir, which is this symbol of Thor.
What is the hammer?
Antonym, in 7 letters
What is a synonym?
In this sci-fi novel Guy Montag is a "fireman" with a burning desire to read.
What is "Fahrenheit 451"?
Ober 600 fables are attributed to Aesop, including the one about this pair with the moral "slow but steady wins the race".
What is "the Tortoise and the Hare?"
For Yule shopping, christkindlmarkt, christkind literally meaning this little guy
What is the Christ child?
The Vikings may have been named for Viken, located in a fjord of this future Scandinavian capital.
What is Oslo?
Virtue; it's a squeezing tool, too
What is vice?
Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author.
Who is A. A. Milne?
To visit Diego Velazquez's 17th century portrait of Aesop, you'll have to visit this Madrid museum.
What is the Prado?
This river that flows past Worms and Mainz
What is the Rhine?
The need for wood in Greenland prompted visits to Markland, which today is this mainland partner of Newfoundland.
What is Labrador?
Order; Harvard's Curtis McMullen studies its theory
What is chaos?
"Four Blind Mice" by this man is an Alex Cross thriller about a series of murders with strange links to the Vietnam War.
Who is James Patterson?
By some accounts Aesop was unjustly executed in this oracle city for stealing; his death cursed the city.
What is Delphi?
DAILY DOUBLE! Please make a wager before answering.
After the split of Germany, West Germany's capital moved to here.
Under the terms of a 911 treaty, Norse leader Pollo received this region at the mouth of the Seine River.
What is Normandy?
Pleasant or easygoing; Mrs. Parker had such a "circle"
What is vicious?
DAILY DOUBLE! Please make a wager before answering.
1408 is a haunted room at NYC's Dolphin Hotel in a tale by this man.
In one fable this hungry animal concludes that some grapes must be sour when he can't reach them.
What is a fox?
This concentration camp site just north of Munich
What is Dachau?
Viking shipbuilders greatly improved the seaworthiness of their vessels by adding this piece of wood to form the backbone.
What is a keel?
Untouchable; it starts with a "T" but don't say "touchable"
What is tangible?
In a 1915 novel "it must be some place where there were several staircases, and one marked out from the others by having" this title.
What is "The 39 Steps"?
Plutarch said Aesop once worked as an advisor to this fabulously rich king of Lydia.
Who is Croesus?