What a Bunch of Caricatures!
The Bible
Figures of Speech
We Quote Mr. T's
Islands of the Far North
I Like American Music
100
It's not Tarzan the Ape Man, but this Brit, depicted in a satirical magazine in 1871
Darwin
100
The fifth commandment tells us to honor this duo: Nebat & Zeruah for King Jeroboam
Your Father and Mother
100
It's a combination of 2 contradictory terms used together, like "sweet sorrow"
Oxymoron
100
Alan Turing, who could do this pretty well, wrote in 1950, "I propose to consider the question, 'can machines"' do this?
Think
100
Like Antarctica, this vastest island is capped by an ice sheet; it has an average thickness of about 5,000 feet
Greenland
100
The 11 songs on "Ten" by this Seattle band include "Even Flow" & "Jeremy"
Pearl Jam
200
Here's this chairman not of the board, who's perhaps applauding himself
Mao
200
The First Book of Samuel recounts the encounter between these 2, big Philistine & smaller Israelite, in the valley of Elah
David and Goliath
200
Saying you'll avoid me like the plague is a bit of this French-derived word for an overused phrase, don't you think, darling?
Cliche
200
Who's the boss? In 1871 in NYC, it was certainly him: "As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"
Boss Tweed
200
A Russian lieutenant gave this island southeast of Anchorage its name because its outline resembled an Inuit canoe
Kayak Island
200
Chronicled in the miniseries "George and Tammy" the complex relationship of him & Tammy Wynetteproduced some country classics
George Jones
300
He's the Polish-born composer tickling the ivories
Chopin
300
While Moses was up on Mount Sinai, Aaron crafted this using earrings, angering the Lord
Golden Calf
300
Saying "That went well" after a disaster is an example of the verbal type of this
Irony
300
Harry Truman said this man's "Plan" "will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world"
Marshall
300
Spitsbergen Island in Norway's Svalbard archipelago is known for its great views of this luminous atmospheric display
Northern Lights
300
This southern city is a hip-hop mecca & one of its temples is Lenox Square Mall, where the OutKast rappers met
Atlanta
400
Hat's off to this playwright sometimes called "The Father of Modern Drama"
Ibsen
400
After the Last Supper, Jesus traveled to this garden to pray & was arrested there
Gethsemane
400
An example of this, also called meiosis, is Kathy Bates' line as the Titanic sinks, "Now there's something you don't see every day"
Understatement
400
"These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners", said this Shawnee rival of Wm. H. Harrison
Tecumseh
400
The High Arctic is home to October Revolution Island & this island, named for the party that seized power during that time
Bolshevik
400
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" propelled this rock 'n' roll legend to stardom in 1957
Jerry Lee Lewis
500
She's "The Talented Mr. Ripley" author depicted here, with one of her beloved cats
Patricia Highsmith
500
St. Paul declares himself to be from the tribe named for this younger son of Rachel & Jacob
Benjamin
500
When a part is used to represent a whole, it's this figure of speech, as in "all hands on deck"
Synecdoche
500
In "Democracy in America", he wrote that in the U.S., "everything is in constant motion & every change seems an improvement
Tocqueville
500
Canada's northernmost point, Cape Columbia is on Ellesmere Island, part of this vast territory created in 1999
Nunavut
500
An ad in the Village Voice brought drummer Clem Burke into this band he's been playing with since the '70s
Blondie