A Short Story Category
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Cat Idioms
400
Surprisingly, a Richard Russo tale about a dismal road trip is titled this happy "Ride"
What is Joy Ride?
400
It's believed that Scandinavians built the first log cabins in America on the Delaware River at Nya Sverige, or New this country
What is Sweden?
400
A statue of a seated Genghis Khan graces an entrance to the government palace in Ulaanbaatar in this nation
What is Mongolia?
400
When entering a Japanese house, you traditionally leave these paired items in the genkan near the door
What are shoes?
400
It's from the Latin for "careful" but it's what "killed the cat" who wasn't careful enough
What is Curiosity?
800
Alice Munro set many stories like "Royal Beatings" in small towns in this country
What is Canada?
800
Proof the U.S. had secretly bombed Cambodia was in these "Papers" that were first leaked on June 13, 1971
What is the Pentagon Papers?
800
This Israeli city was founded in 1909 as a suburb of the ancient Mediterranean port of Jaffa
What is Tel Aviv?
800
In Andalusia Arabic calligraphy represents this style named for medieval visitors from Africa
What is Moorish?
800
To appear bedraggled is to look like something that arrived this way
What is like something the cat dragged in?
1200
"A Boring Story" is by this Russian playwright/story master
Who is (Anton) Chekhov?
1200
In 1976, more than 175 years after his death, this man was promoted by Congress to general of the armies of the United States
Who is George Washington?
1200
The only big city in a nation of small towns & villages, this Asian capital is located on the delta of the Chao Phraya River
What is Bangkok?
1200
Former Yankee catcher Jorge could tell you this Spanish word means "inn"
What is posada?
1200
If a secret has been exposed, it's where "the cat" is
What is out of the bag?
1600
Competes the title of Susan Glaspell's 1917 tale with a feminist angle, "A Jury of..."
What is of her peers?
1600
In 1904 Oklahoma City policeman Joe Burnett killed Ed O'Kelley, who had killed Robert Ford, who had killed this outlaw
Who is Jesse James
1600
Also famous for its textiles, this traditional center of Japanese culture & Buddhism was the capital for 1,000 years
What is Kyoto?
1600
Isfahan in this country is renowned for its religious architecture, like the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque
What is Iran
1600
A fleeting rise in a stock's price after a fall is this type of "bounce"
What is dead cat?
2000
J.D. Salinger paired "Franny" with a story about him
Who is Zooey?
2000
As a young man Frederick Douglass heard if he learned to do this "it would forever unfit him to be a slave"--so he did
What is read and write?
2000
Bishkek, which began as a fortress in 1825, is today the leading city of this "stan"
What is Kyrgyzstan
2000
Lukovitsa is the Russian name for this vegetable-shaped style of tower dome
What is Onion?
2000
Act assertively! "A cat in gloves" has this inability
What is a cat in gloves catches no mice?