It's All Greek to Me!
This goddess, also called Kore, was abducted by Hades to be his Queen of the underworld.
Who is Persephone.
The length of time it took for the Titanic to sink after it hit the iceburg, which is also the length of time of the film of the same name.
What is 2 hours and 40 minutes.
This fruit was the last thing that Jon Benet Ramsey ate before her murder.
What is Pineapple.
This is the state that the Lost Colony of Roanoke was established in.
What is North Carolina.
This ice skater's ex-husband planned and executed an attack on her competition Nancy Kerrigan to keep her out of the Olympics in 1994.
Who is Tonya Harding.
This princess of Troy was astonishingly beautiful and blessed with the gift of prophecy, but cursed so that no one would believe her.
Who is Cassandra.
This company conspired to build a ship bigger and more luxurious than its rival company. Thus the plans for the Olympic, Titanic, and Gigantic (later renamed the Britannic) were created.
What is White Star Line.
Elizabeth Short was an american woman who was found murdered in Los Angeles, California in 1947. Her case became highly publicized due to the graphic nature of the crime and she was known posthumously as this.
What is the Black Dahlia.
John White found this word carved into a tree on his search for the settlers.
What is CROATOAN.
Canada's Women's Hockey team celebrated their third consecutive gold medal with champagne and cigars, which was considered scandalous since they went back out on the ice and partied while wearing this.
What is their uniforms.
This hunter was lured to a pool by Nemesis, the goddess of revenge after rejecting the advances of a mountain nymph named Echo. He fell deeply in love with his own reflection and wasted away from starvation and thirst staring at himself in the pond.
Who is Narcissus.
Isidor Strauss, the owner of this famous department store perished on the Titanic after refusing to get in a life boat before women and children, along with his wife, Rosalie Ida Strauss, who refused to leave without him.
What is Macy's.
The music world was rocked in the late 1990's when these rap superstars were gunned down about six months apart. The killings came at a moment marked by intense rivalry between their competing record labels. Many said that the murders were a sign that music feuds had gone too far.
Who are Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.
On August 18th, 1587, Eleanor Dare gave birth to a daughter, christened what in honor of being "The first Christian born in Virginia"
What is Virginia.
While working as a security guard at the Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics held in this city, Richard Jewell discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs on the park grounds.
What is Atlanta.
After the titan Cronos (or Kronos) learned that he was destined to be overcome by his own sons, he did this to keep the prophecy from happening.
What is ate them whole.
Violet Jessup, nicknamed the "unsinkable woman" survived not only the sinking of the Titanic, but this many other maritime disasters as well.
What are two.
She was aboard both the Britannic and the Olympic when they sank/had major damage.
This famous author left N.Y.C. in 1849 bound for Richmond, but only made it as far as Baltimore, where a passerby noticed the delirious and incoherent writer slouched in front of a bar on October 3rd. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died 4 days later. The death certificate, if it ever existed, cannot be found.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe.
This delayed the return of John White to Roanoke until 1590.
What is the Anglo-Spanish War.
Snowboarding made a controversial debut as an Olympic sport when its first gold medalist, Ross Rebagliati, was disqualified following a routine drug test where he tested positive for this drug.
What is Marijuana.
This goddess was "born" from Zeus's forehead as a result of him having swallowed her mother Metis.
Who is Athena.
The novella "Futility" written by Morgan Robertson and published in 1898 seemingly foretold the sinking of the Titanic. It had this many similarities with the actual sinking 14 years later.
Bonus if you can name the similarities.
What are 8 similarities.
Name (Titan/Titanic)
That it was a British Ocean Liner
Sank in the North Atlantic
Hit an Iceberg
In April
Not enough lifeboats
Size of Ship
Speed
Marilyn Monroe was found locked in her bedroom unresponsive on August 5th, 1962. No evidence of foul play was found, and an accidental overdose was ruled out because of the large amount of barbiturates found she had ingested. Despite the coroner's findings, several conspiracy theories suggesting murder have been proposed, many of which involve union leader Jimmy Hoffa, mob boss Sam Giancana, and this former president and his brother.
Bonus if you can name the baseball player who organized her funeral.
Who are John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.
Who is Joe DiMaggio.
During his first transatlantic voyage in 1595, Sir Walter Raleigh used the search for the lost colonists as a cover to search for this instead.
What is El Dorado.
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius became an instant inspiration in 2012 as the first double amputee to compete against able bodied athletes at the summer Olympics. That reputation was erased when he was found guilty of this crime.
What is Murder.