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The oldest University in the world is in this European city. It is also well known for its pasta with meat sauce and for being the birthplace of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of radio transmission and recipient of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Bologna, Italy
California City: NO SERF
Fresno
Michael Phelps
A thick baseball stick
A Fat Bat
While she now holds honorary degrees from Duke and Harvard, this magnetic, daytime talkshow legend graduated from Tennessee State University. Among her much sought after recommendations and advice, she is quoted as saying "Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
Oprah Winfrey
In addition to the United States, Mexico shares a land border with these two other countries.
Belize & Guatemala
Deadly Sin: NUTTY LOG
Gluttony
Before it consisted of three colored signals, the first stoplight was a manual, gas-lit invention first deployed in this bustling European city in 1868. A redesign was desperately needed as the device exploded within one month of deployment, injuring the police officer serving as the operator.
London
An artificial sirloin
A Fake Steak
Comic actress Carol Burnett once quipped that doing this is "Like taking your lower lip & forcing it over your head"
Giving Birth
While the United States has the Bald Eagle as its national bird and the American Bison as its national mammal, Scotland has but one national animal. It is this legendary creature which is said to symbolize "purity and innocence" as well as "masculinity and power" in Celtic mythology.
Unicorn
Anthem Ender: BEHAVE HOME FORT
This type of triangle has three sides that are all different in length.
Scalene
A cruel royal matriarch
A Mean Queen
Due to her extraordinary work along the Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman was given this nickname which alluded to her leading some 70 slaves to freedom.
Moses
Though it is only the 3rd most populous city globally, this city holds the most people of any non-capital city in the world.
Shanghai, China
(Tokyo and Delhi are 1st and 2nd in population)
Renaissance Painter: HARE PAL
Raphael
At three times the speed of sound, Mach 3 fits comfortably in this regime of speed. Also the name of a now defunct basketball team from the Pacific Northwest.
Supersonic (Mach 1.3- Mach 5)
(Fastest manned aircraft recorded around Mach 6.72. Space shuttle re-entry speeds can reach Mach 25)
A liberated Stockholm resident
A Freed Swede
This country music star said she's not offended by dumb blonde jokes: "I know...I'm not dumb...I also know I'm not blonde"
Dolly Parton
Kazungula is a town in Africa at the confluence of the Cuando (Chobe) and Zambezi rivers. This is the closest point on earth to an international quadri-point, where 4 countries border each other. Equally unique, it is accepted that there are simply two separate tri-points some 150 meters apart. For 500 points each, name the four African countries that nearly form this quadri-point.
Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Winter Olympic Sport: SANDPITS GEEK
Speed Skating
Before Peter Jackson stretched The Hobbit into three bloated films, he adapted the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Return of the King became just the third film in history to win 11 Oscar awards. For 500 points each, name the other two.
Ben-Hur (1959)
Titanic (1997)
One who chooses the booze
This English author can take pride in a line taken from her novel Emma. "One cannot have too large a party"
Jane Austen