HISTORY, OVER ON THE LEFT
MNEMONICS
"AINT", NECESSARILY SO
LITERATURE
AN ALBUM COVER
100

Since China was mostly peasants, its 1st translation of this 1848 Marx-Engels work used "common people", not "workers"

The Communist Manifesto

100

"One big T equals teaspoons three" when that big T is one of these

a tablespoon

100

Barely perceptible, like a pale outline on paper

faint

100

George Orwell based Room 101 in 1984 on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting

the BBC

100

Its cover has a lot of folks plus the fab 8–4 wax figures of The Beatles as well as the real-life ones

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

200

From 1919 to 1925 moderate socialist Friedrich Ebert led the German government known as this

the Weimar Republic

200

To distinguish these 2 cave formations:
the one containing a "C" hangs from the ceiling, the one with a "G" rises from the ground

stalactites and stalagmites

200

Something that holds you in place to protect you–or others

a restraint

200

Kate Bush's song "Wuthering Heights" is based on a novel by the same name by this Brontë sister

Emily

200

A 1969 cover featuring the Hindenburg disaster was this band's visual introduction to the world

Led Zeppelin

300

In April 1965 this international pot stirrer left Cuba to try to bring revolution to Africa

Che Guevarra

300

In a mnemonic for lines of the treble clef, these 3 words precede "does fine"

every good boy

300

Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way

quaint

300

In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries

(Herman) Melville

300

On this 1984 soundtrack album, the artist is dressed in the title color, aboard a motorcycle of the title color

Purple Rain

400

In 1948, Henry Wallace got 2.4% of the vote as the pres. candidate of the party with this forward-looking name

the Progressive Party

400

It has atomic number 19, it's essential to life, but how to spell it? Oh yeah, "one tea, 2 sugars"

potassium

400

To make someone aware of something

acquaint

400

Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land"

(T.S.) Eliot

400

The cover of her 1995 album "Post" represents postcards home to Iceland; she even has airmail-color trim on her jacket

Björk

500

Among 1980s leaders, Ferdinand Marcos was right-wing; over on the left of the "F.M." dial was this president of France

François Mitterand

500

buzzfeed.com listed "Prime ministers can't eat any nachos" for Canada's time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, this

Newfoundland

500

A statement of dissatisfaction; Shakespeare wrote a poem called "A Lover's" one about a wronged woman

a complaint

500

Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay

the Spanish-American War

500

Billboard noted that only 40% of Fleetwood Mac's then-lineup is on the front cover of this, their biggest-selling album

Rumours

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