RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF
Natasha Rostov & Pierre Bezukhov are characters in this Tolstoy masterpiece
War and Peace
There are a limited number of I's--3--in this word meaning endless... or unlimited...or...
infinite
One of my heroes is Wild Bill Hickok, who before moving west & becoming a legendary lawman & gunfighter helped escaping slaves at his family's Illinois farm, which served as a stop on this
the Underground Railroad
NFL quarterback Jon Kitna traded Xs & Os for the Xs & Ys of this branch of math with a name from Arabic
algebra
Travel from Colombia to Jamaica across this sea
the Caribbean Sea
Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital"
Doctor Zhivago
This adjective meaning warmly appreciative is in the name of Bob Weir's band
grateful
New York statesman DeWitt Clinton promoted the idea of this waterway & was the commissioner who oversaw its construction
the Erie Canal
In 2012 Ken Dryden began teaching a course at McGill in these national "Studies"
Canadian
Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs
the Black Sea
This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature
Alexander Pushkin
DAILY DOUBLE
Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek
bleak
The only clue to this colony's disappearance was the word "Croatoan" on a post; hasn't helped much
Roanoke
The first woman to win three gold track medals in a single Olympics, 1960, she taught second graders in Tennessee
Wilma Rudolph
DAILY DOUBLE
The Germans call this bordering sea Ostsee; the Swedes', Ostersjon
the Baltic
Woody Allen's film "Love and Death" parodies Russian novels & its title echoes "Crime and Punishment" & this 1862 Turgenev title
Fathers and Sons
If you're this "fallacy" of attributing emotions to objects, you're this, & there's no "em-" at the start of the word
pathetic
This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest
Manifest Destiny
This former Knick & onetime presidential candidate taught at Maryland & Stanford
Bill Bradley
In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer
the Bering Sea
This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974
Solzhenitsyn
Though it sounds like 5 things you really require, it actually describes the perfect embodiment of something
quintessential
This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery
Horace Mann
Mike Doleac went to the Final Four with this state U., won an NBA title & came home to teach physics at Park City High
Utah
On the other side of Greece from the Aegean, this sea is the Mediterranean's deepest, maxing at more than 16,000 feet
the Ionian