Anatomy
This fibrous tissue that connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.
What is the Achilles Tendon?
Who is Jane Austen?
This 19th century breakthrough method of communication could be described as "Here Come Dots"
The Morse Code
This term, derived from Latin, refers to a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
What is a palindrome?
Grandma Bev's hometown
What is Pine City?
These tiny structures are, at between five and ten micrometers in diameter, the smallest blood vessels in the human body
What are capillaries?
He was condemned to death for being a member of a literary society in the 1840s whose ultimate purpose was social revolution, but was saved by royal decree even as he stood in front of the firing squad.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
"He Bugs Gore", especially when it comes to the Supreme Court
Who is George Bush?
The name of this extinct bird is a musical note said twice
"Ap Rhys", the name of the Welsh House from which the "Price" line is traced, translates to this in English.
What is "son of Rhys"?
This is the largest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
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He wrote his published work, a short story titled "The Boarding House", under a pseudonym "Boz", a name inspired from a childhood rendering of the character Moses from Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith's 1776 novel The Vicar of Wakefield
Who is Charles Dickens?
He starred in "Old West Action" movies
Who is Clint Eastwood?
Its plural is beeves
What is beef?
Great-Grandpa George Bernard Gallagher served as an officer in the NYPD for this precinct, the "Old Slip Station House".
What is the 1st Precinct?
This finger contributes over 50% of the hands strength
What is the little finger?
This Transcendental essayist and author became good friends with Napoleon's nephew Prince Achille Murat despite stark political disagreements in part because Murat did not recognize him, since he went by his middle name.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
"Monkeys Write" at this prominent publication
What is the New York Times?
In 1961 Newton Minnow described television as a vast this
What is a wasteland?
Realto Charles Price, who graduated from Cooper Union in New York City, served in the US Army during World War I, and helped create characters like "Popeye" and "Betty Boop" as a cartoonist for Paramount Pictures, was known by this four-letter nickname
Who is "Jeff"?
As far as we can tell, Michael Jordan, Gene Simmons, and Miley Cyrus all have very active hypoglossal nerves, which is responsible for the movement of this muscular organ
What is the tongue?
This author's list of pseudonyms included, but was not limited to, Martha Careful, Busy Body, Alice Addertongue, and Polly Baker
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This iconic American monument is "Built to Stay Free"
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Malcolm X often used the device called chiasmus as in We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was this
What is "the rock was landed on us"?
Upon leaving Long Island in 1666-7, Benjamin Price reestablished his family in this town in New Jersey, which bears the same name as someone in the Schierl family.
What is Elizabeth, New Jersey?