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?
"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 the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles
What is Jupiter?
A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
What is The Cat in the Hat?
A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on 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?
Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie
What is a stagecoach?
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!
Who are Hansel & 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?
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?