Harry Potter
This spell, used to disarm an opponent, is Harry Potter's signature move
What is Expelliarmus?
In 2014 Decatur, Texas rescheduled this holiday back to the 30th, as it conflicted with Friday night high school football
What is Halloween?
One of its anthems includes the lyrics, "iwi Maori, pakeha, rupeke katoa"
What is New Zealand?
He introduced a bill to limit the death penalty while a member of the Virginia legislature
Who is Jefferson?
In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body
What is Oxygen?
The name of the Wizarding Bank in Diagon Alley, run by goblins
What is Gringotts?
Allemande left & take a chance / As you do this state folk dance / Swing yer partner & do-si-do / That's it for now, I got to go
What is the square dance?
Again the U.K.'s anthem, "God Save The King" says, "send him victorious... &" this splendid word that rhymes with victorious
What is glorious?
He was the first to breed mules in America on his farm
Who is Washington?
Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits
What is Opium?
This potion allows a witch or wizard to take on the physical appearance of another person
What is Polyjuice Potion?
This org. did not make Chuck Norris an honorary member until 2010, so could it have busted Chuck for impersonating an officer in the '90s?
What is the Texas Ranger?
Rabindranath Tagore wrote the anthems of these 2 countries, one independent since 1947, one since 1971
What is India and Bangladesh?
He was born in the British West Indies
Who is Hamilton?
Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal
What is Iron?
These magical objects contain fragments of Voldemort's soul, making him nearly immortal
What are Horcruxes?
At least 1,800 men took on about 180 at this landmark in February & March of 1836, with predictable results
What is the Alamo?
This anthem was made official in a decree of July 14, 1795 for France
What is Marseillaise?
He published a feminist tract written under the pseudonym Silence Dogood
Who is Franklin?
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive
What is Nitroglycerin?
This plant, which screams when uprooted, is used in the creation of a potion to restore people who have been petrified
What is a Mandrake?
At dusk, hundreds of thousands of bats emerge from under the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in this city
What is Austin?
The music of this country's anthem was composed by for the 1797 birthday of the Holy Roman Emperor
What is Germany?
He died on April 15
Who is Lincoln?
Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity
What is a Fruit Fly?