MYTHS & LEGENDS
Around 400 B.C. the Greek Ctesias described it as having a white body with a straight cubit-long horn
What is a Unicorn?
This 2003 Lord of the Rings installment has Frodo & Sam approaching Mount Doom to destroy the one ring
What is Return of the King?
Hitting a speed of about 800 miles per hour, Chuck Yeager broke this barrier in October 1947
What is the speed of sound?
This U.S. commonwealth lies about 70 miles across the Mona Passage from the Dominican Republic
What is Puerto Rico?
Don’t be embarrassed to use the Cargo Beach or Suede type of this cheek makeup
What is blush?
Hemi-
What is half?
The earliest ballads of this outlaw say that his activities took olave in the South Yorkshire, not Nottinghamshire
Who is Robin Hood?
James Cameron also won an Oscar for editing this 1997 blockbuster
What is Titanic?
August 1983 saw the first night launch of this reusable U.S. orbital vehicle
What is the space shuttle?
Russia’s Wrangel Island and Canada’s Prince Patrick Island lie in this ocean
What is the Arctic Ocean?
Spanish for “mask”, this cosmetic is used to color the eyelashes
What is mascara?
Di-
What is two?
This steel drivin’ man beat a steam drill in a race to make a railroad tunnel but died with his “hammer in his hand”
Who is John Henry?
Jack-Jack Parr is the baby of the family of superheroes in this animated film
What is The Incredibles?
Taking 16 hours, in 1919 British aviators Alcock & Brown became the first to cross this large body of water nonstop
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A chain of shoals known as Adam’s Bridge stretches between India & this island nation
What is Sri Lanka?
Talk about killer looks- Egyptians used toxic plants called fucus on this facial part; Lancome’s Juicy Wear is safer
What is on the lips?
Contra-
What is against?
In some legends it’s the influence of the full moon that changes a man into one of these, also called a lycanthrope
What is a werewolf?
The title guys of this 1997 sci-fi comedy are “protecting the earth from the scum of the universe”
What is Men-in-Black?
In 1909 Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly a plane over this between Great Britain & France
What is the English Channel?
This large island’s 2 highest peaks lie in the Maoke Mountains on the Indonesian side
What is New Guinea?
In the 1930s Max Factor introduced pan-cake, which was this makeup base
What is foundation?
What is around?
This hero of mythology cleaned the Augean stables by diverting the courses of 2 nearby rivers
Who is Hercules?
“I see dead people” is a line from this Bruce Willis film
What is Sixth Sense?
In 1907 Paul Cornu became the first man to fly freely in one of these horizontally rotored aircraft
What is a helicopter?
This large Italian island in the Mediterranean lies just 7 miles south of Corsica
What is Sardinia?
Some makeup shades come in one of these containers named for a board on which artists mix paints
What is a palette?
Dys- (of several definitions, give us a simple 3-letter word)
What is bad?