Other Things That Happened in 1776
In Salzburg that summer, he composed his "Serenade No. 7" for a wedding
Mozart
In this film, the first in a series, Shailene Woodley stars as Tris, who discovers that she's not like the others
Divergent
Before it referred to 2 baseball games played on the same day, it was a train pulled by 2 locomotives
a double-header
It's the elected medical official whose job it is to investigate deaths not due to natural causes
a coroner
Yes, you can stay at a Hilton resort on this island on South Carolina's Port Royal Sound
Hilton Head
In 1776 he captained the Resolution in search of the NW Passage but later should not have taken a Hawaiian vacation
Captain Cook
In "Her", Joaquin Phoenix falls in love & has a relationship with a computer operating system voiced by her
Scarlett Johansson
"Keeping up with" this family dates back to a 1913 comic strip
the Joneses
This emblem of death is used as a warning sign on poisons, ya scalawag!
skull and crossbones
With a Celtic heritage, the "Isle of" this off the northwest coast of England has its own kilt with a national tartan
Man
In a work by Edward Gibbon from 1776, this pair of problems precedes "of the Roman Empire"
The Decline and Fall
This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as the mariner became a Universal Studios "tidal wave of explosive action"
Waterworld
This word comes from the Latin for "little book"; when a Roman wanted to defame another, he issued a book of his foe's misdeeds
libel
Someone who dies intestate does so without one of these at the time of death
a will
DAILY DOUBLE : Gomera in this Spanish group was the last stop for Columbus before he headed across the Atlantic to the New World
the Canary Islands
The Treaty of Purandar was signed by the Maratha & the "Supreme Government" of this U.K. company
the (British) East India Company
NTIs, or non-terrestrial intelligences, live very, very deep in the ocean in this 1989 James Cameron film
The Abyss
One of the 2 blacksmith tools used in an expression that means to fight with all one's resources
hammer or tongs
One kind of muscle stiffness you don't want is this 2-word Latin type that happens soon after death
rigor mortis
In 2009 Boggy Peak on this companion isle to Barbuda was renamed Mount Obama
Antigua
Founded in 1775 but soon abandoned, this mission north of San Diego named for St. John was re-founded for good in 1776
San Juan Capistrano
The name of this title substance combines the 2 legumes that it's said to contain
Soylent Green
This word for a gin cocktail comes from a tool used for boring holes
a gimlet
This ultimate accounting of souls is a common subject in European art; here's Hans Memling's take
the Last Judgment
It's the largest permanently populated Mexican island
Cozumel