First Lady
Dolly, the wife of this president, is credited with saving the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington from the white house before its burning during the war of 1812.
James Madison
The father of the modern science of genetics, Mendel, was an Augustinian friar in this country.
Austria
One of the most notorious horror-creatures, Frankenstein's monster, is basically entirely the creation of this English author.
Mary Shelley
This holiday, literally translating as "Head of the Year," is considered the Jewish new year.
Rosh Hashanah
Some Hebrew words came to English through Greek intermediaries or vice versa, such as this word for the ruler of Egypt.
Pharaoh
The drafting committee of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights was chaired by this first lady.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pea plant
This author began her career as a writer for multiple Nickelodeon television series, before creating this trilogy partially inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
Suzanne Collins
This holiest day of the year for Jews is also known as the "Day of Atonement," and was also the day that an Arab coalition launched an attack on Israel.
Yom Kippur
The word for this originally Turkish delicacy came to English through modern Greek, and reflects modern Greek culture more than ancient culture.
Baklava
While living with her married sister, this first lady was courted by her future husband's chief political opponent at the time, Stephen Douglas.
Mary Todd Lincoln
Mendel was the first to coin these two terms for particular traits. For example, 'true-breeding' yellow peas always made yellow pea offspring when crossed with 'true-breeding' green peas.
Dominant and Recessive
This author, born 1775, found success with her novels criticizing the landed-gentry society of England, and women's dependency on marriage.
Jane Austen
DAILY DOUBLE
Known as "Pesach" in Hebrew, and marks the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egyptian slavery.
The ancient Greek concept of imagining your body of knowledge as a physical place (a la Sherlock Holmes' Mind Palace) lends itself to this English word deriving from the Greek word topos.
Topic
Non-presidential-spouses have served in the position of First Lady several times in history, such as the niece of this President who had no wife, (and was probably gay.)
James Buchanan
It is postulated that the science of genetics would have taken hold far earlier if this scientist knew of Mendel's paper "On Plant Hybridization," which by all accounts he never saw.
Charles Darwin
This woman pursued but did not finish her doctoral dissertation at Radcliffe University, but was nonetheless extremely successful with her novels "The Handmaid's Tale," and "The Blind Assassin."
Margaret Atwood
Yom Yerushalayim means this, and marks the reunification of the titular city after the Six-Day War.
Day of Jerusalem
Many English words come from Greek through Latin, such as "priest," which traces back to the Greek word meaning "elder." The name of this Christian denomination draws from the same root.
Presbyterian
DAILY DOUBLE
The oldest living former First Lady is this woman, who served as an honorary chairperson for the Special Olympics.
Mendel also worked with these insects, which he was particularly fond of, but he was forced to cease work with them since they aggressively annoyed the rest of his monastery.
Bees
This early 20th century author is considered a feminist inspiration, known for novels like "To the Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway," but struggles with mental health caused her suicide.
Virginia Woolf
Hebrew names for days of remembrance for the Holocaust contain this word, which is the Hebrew word for it.
Shoah
The term for this subatomic particle comes from the Greek for "large" or "massive."
Hadron