In a book by this man, The Hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo
Who is Tolkien
A huntsman cuts into a wolf’s stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives! OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Who is Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering
What is Caltech
Prancer & Cupid were famous ones
What are reindeer
The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of “riding, roping, and shooting” as a famous one of these
What is a cowboy
Talent runs in the family; here’s Dionne with this 1st cousin whom Dionne said had “a voice like none other”
Who is Whitney Houston
“Five golden rings” is a line from this holiday song
What is "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Let’s thumb through this tale.. Title girl swims well, gets human legs… Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
What is The Little Mermaid
The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country’s Shaanxi province in 1556
What is China
In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters
What is a tweet
The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West
What are trails
In 1982 Dionne joined forces with Barry Gibb of this trio who produced her “Heartbreaker” album & backed her on the title track
Who are the Bee Gees
In the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles
What is Jupiter
A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves in this big river run backwards
What is the Mississippi
A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book
What is a blurb
In 1985 “That’s What Friends Are For”, recorded by Dionne & friends, raised money for amfAR, for research to battle this disease
What is AIDS
As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies"
Who is Lily Tomlin
…& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch’s house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G’Night!
What is Hansel and Gretel
A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints’ Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone
What is Lisbon
Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum
What is a Celtic
Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona
What is Tombstone
Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, “The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup”
What is I Say A Little Prayer For You
When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world’s foremost" magazine about this sport
What is boxing
Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing… sounds more like Stephen King
Who is Old Mother Hubbard
In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities
What is the San Andreas
A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing
What is a monogram
Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her
Who is Calamity Jane
Dionne had a long time working relationship with this composer who co-wrote many of her hits with Hal David
Who is Burt Bacharach