Australia
Set in Australia, this torrid tale starred Richard Chamberlain & Rachel Ward.
What is The Thornbirds?
Very large ships are steered by using this, not a steering oar.
What is a rudder?
Verdi's "Aida" was written in connection with opening of this waterway.
What is the Suez Canal?
When copper corrodes, it turns this enviable color.
What is green?
Ency. Britannica called his recording of "Blue Suede Shoes" a "rhythmic monstrosity".
Who is Elvis Presley?
By royal proclamation, she created the new nation of Australia on the 1st day of the 20th century.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This country is the world's #3 auto maker, after the U.S. & Japan.
What is Germany?
It can take 2 evenings to perform this Prokofiev opera based on similarly lengthy Tolstoy novel.
What is War & Peace?
Member of carbon family so vital to electronics a high-tech "valley" bears its name.
What is silicon?
While blonde pinup Diana Dors visited the U.S., she went to England to make a film with Olivier.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
These trees help fill both the country's newsprint needs & koalas' stomachs.
What is eucalyptus?
1st appearing in Europe around 900 A.D. they allowed horses to travel faster & farther.
What are iron horseshoes?
2 of 3 languages in which Mozart wrote operas.
(2 of) German, Latin, or Italian?
To change from solid to liquid state; it happens to women’s hearts on seeing Rob Lowe.
What is melt?
Denouncing this past Russian leader, Khrushchev attacked & ridiculed his accomplishments.
Who was Stalin?
About 40% of all Australians live in these 2 state capitals.
What is Melbourne & Sydney?
The cheapest way to transport freight, usually limited to petroleum & natural gas.
What is pipeline?
There's some clowning around in this opera meaning "the clowns" until people start getting killed.
What is I Pagliacci?
Of acidic, alkaline, or neutral, what a 7 indicates on the numerical pH scale.
What is neutral?
With Congress opposing Red China's admission to U.N., Ike gave support to this leader's Taipei government.
Who was Chiang Kai-shek?
Among the 1st 1487 British settlers, 759 had this distinction in common.
What is that they were prisoners?
Levitation trains use this force to travel 4 inches above the rail.
What is magnetism?
In "Rigoletto", the Duke's famous lament that the lady is fickle.
What is “La donna e mobile”?
Branch of chemistry that studies compounds obtained from minerals.
What is inorganic chemistry?
For Jan. 1956, they were "Our Miss Brooks", "Edgar Bergen", "2 for the Money" & "Dragnet".
What is the top radio shows in 1956?