World Geography
Less than 5,000 square miles in area, the Gambia is the smallest independent mainland country on this continent.
What is Africa?
When we first meet this character, she reads a letter from her husband about his supernatural experience with 3 weirdos.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
Cowboy vocabulary from Spanish includes stockade & this other word for an enclosure for horses or cattle.
What is a corral?
It's the term for pouring a wine from its bottle into a container such as a carafe.
What is decant?
The 1999 New Jersey state quarter includes a depiction of this president on the reverse.
Who is Washington?
The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea.
What is the Dead Sea?
With & without "monster", it's how Shakespeare described jealousy.
What is green-eyed?
It can be an internal organ or part of a book; it's from Latin for "to hang."
What is appendix?
In a TV ad, Leslie Nielsen called this company's light beer "the official beer of the '90s."
What is Coors Light?
8 presidents were born in this state, more than in any other.
What is Virginia?
On Jamaica a more than 7,400-foot peak is named for this "colorful" range.
What are the Blue Mountains?
The title guys of this Shakespeare play leave home & head to Milan; various love plots ensue.
What is The Two Gentlemen of Verona?
This psych term means a persistent idea--it once meant control by demons outside you, the opposite of possession.
What is obsession?
Peppermint & root beer are popular flavors of this strong potable, from the German for "mouthful."
What is schnapps?
His only surviving child, Robert, served as Secretary of War from 1881 to 1885.
Who is Lincoln?
Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.
What is New Zealand?
Shakespeare's 10 history plays about kings of England include one about this son of Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Who is King John?
If you're reading the writing on the wall & it's there illegally, it's this, from Italian for "scribblings."
What is graffiti?
In Spanish, the name of this cocktail means "daisy."
What is margarita?
By 1905 football had gotten so violent that this U.S. president urged rule changes.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
Varna & Burgas are leading Bulgarian ports on the western coast of this body of water.
What is the Black Sea?
This idiom from Shakespeare means all at once or with a single, quick effort, like a hawk diving for prey.
What is one fell swoop?
This adjective for mocking laughter comes from a word describing something from Sardinia.
What is sardonic?
Norse king Fjolne is said to have been drowned in this honey-based drink.
What is mead?
His tenure as president from 1817 to 1825 is often referred to as the "Era of Good Feeling."
Who is James Monroe?