CISTERN CITIES
IT'S HYPHENATED
SUN SALUTATIONS
FANTASY ISLAND
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
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Ancient cisterns were basically rainwater barrels; in 79 A.D., some Pompeiians tried to hide in them from this disaster
the eruption of Vesuvius
200
It's a synonym for carousel
merry-go-round
200
Playing hooky, George Harrison wrote this Beatles song on a warm day in Eric Clapton's garden
"Here Comes the Sun"
200
This titular tank engine & his friends inhabit the island of Sodor
Thomas
200
In Cuba
Spanish
400
Located near the Hagia Sophia, the Basilica Cistern is a huge one Justinian I built under this city
Istanbul
400
It takes about a week to travel the 9,200-km route from Moscow to Vladivostok on this railway
Trans-Siberian
400
An optimistic tune from this Broadway show promises that "the sun'll come out tomorrow"
Annie
400
Peter Pan can bring visitors to this island, home to the Lost Boys
Never-Never Land
400
In Egypt
Arabic
600
This tippy-top area of Athens employed wells & cisterns
the Acropolis
600
According to the Flag Code, for 30 days after the death of a president, the flag should be flown this way
half-staff
600
Ernest Hemingway took the title of this novel about a group of expatriates from a passage in Ecclesiastes
The Sun Also Rises
600
This title character travels to the islands of Laputa & Lilliput
Gulliver
600
On Cyprus, these 2 languages
Greek and Turkish
800
Seen here are the cisterns of Carthage, which you can now see when you visit this country
Tunisia
800
Like the platypus, dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs have this descriptive facial adjective applied to them
duck-bill
800
This Thoreau work ends, "There is more day to dawn. The Sun is but a morning star"
Walden
800
The temple of Poseidon was on this legendary island that was said to lie west of the Strait of Gibraltar
Atlantis
800
In Benin
French
1000
This western U.S. city, fire-prone since the Shades Hotel burned in 1849, still has around 200 buried cisterns
San Francisco
1000
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had many of these confidential assistants including Alexander Hamilton
aide-de-camp
1000
A poem by him asks, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"
(Langston) Hughes
1000
In one version of the legend, King Arthur was offered Excalibur when Merlin brought him to this island
Avalon
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In Brunei, this language of a nearby peninsula
Malay