BIO 101
Robert K. Massie drew a "Portrait of" this Russian empress who led 14,000 soldiers in overthrowing her husband
Catherine the Great
"Moon" adjective
(5 letters)
Lunar
"Let It Go" & name this soundtrack album, No. 1 for 2014
Frozen
"When life gives you lemons..."
make lemonade
Look it up online: a 9-year-old boy came up with this word for 1 followed by 100 zeroes
a googol
He "peppered Wozniak with questions: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?"
Steve Jobs
"Flesh devouring" adjective
(11 letters)
Carnivorous
No. 1 for 2016 was this Adele number featuring "Hello"
25
"I came, I saw, ..."
I conquered
Frank Epperson was 11 in 1905 when he accidentally invented this frozen summer treat
a popsicle
A David McCullough presidential bio says on the first page, "He was... of Braintree and he loved to talk"
John Adams
"Before the war"
(10 letters)
antebellum
Having 2018's No. 1 just added to her superstar "reputation"
Taylor Swift
A legal principle:
"Ignorance of the law is..."
no excuse
12-year-old Kokona Hiraki medaled in 2021 in this new Olympic event's park discipline, held in what looks like an empty pool
skateboarding
"The Mayor of Castro Street" examines "The Life & Times of" this politician & activist who was assassinated in 1978
Harvey Milk
"Underground"
(12 letters)
subterranean
Fans sure weren't "Allergic" to his "Hollywood's Bleeding", tops for 2020
Post Malone
Among AFI's 100 Greatest Movie Quotes of All Time:
"E.T. ..."
phone home
He figured out a system of writing & printing for the blind when he was about 15 & a student at a Paris school for blind children
Braille
Les Payne worked for 30 years on "The Dead are Arising", a 2020 bio of this man who joined & broke with the Nation of Islam
Malcolm X
"The knowledge of laws"
(13 letters)
jurisprudence
This singer/pianist's "As I Am", featuring her hit "No One", was 2008's No. 1
(Alicia) Keys
A principle often attributed to Hippocrates & followed by doctors:
"First do..."
no harm
At age 5 Mozart composed one of these dance pieces with a name from a French word for "small"
minuet