Canadian Places
Women's First
Song Sung Blue
Shakespeare
Schoolhouse Rocks
E_I_E_I_ Uh Oh!
400
Completed in 1818, Province House in Halifax in this province is Canada's oldest parliament building
Nova Scotia
400
She's the woman being sworn into her new post in 1981
Sandra Day O'connor
400
In 1986 she had a Top 10 hit with the title track to her "True Blue" album
Madonna
400
Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia is the wife of this villain
Iago
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I tried to lather up with this soft greasy stone that's mostly talc, but teacher said not to use it as shampo
Soapstone
400
Traditional number of piano keys, or mph needed for time travel in "Back to the Future"
Eighty-eight
800
Mount Robson and Mount Columbia are the highest peaks in the Canadian section of this mountain range
The Rockies
800
Elizabeth Blackwell made history in 1849 when she became the first woman in the U.S. to receive a degree in this
Medicine
800
Isabella Rossellini sings this song in the 1986 David Lynch film of the same name
Blue Velvet
800
In "Henry IV, Part 2", Doll Tearsheet calls this knight a "sweet little rogue"
Falstaff
800
Today's lesson is that marble is this class of rock whose name also starts with "M"
Metamorphic
800
This hyphenated "aural" term can describe a very harsh type of scream
Ear-piercing
1200
In the 1950s & '60s I played many parts at the Shakespeare Festival in this Ontario town; in 1998 Christopher Plummer celebrated the festival's 40th anniversary with a one-man show which he calls "A Word or Two"
Stratford
1200
In 1924, long before Ann Richards, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson was elected this state's first woman governor
Texas
1200
That Dishwalla song from the '90s that says, "Tell me all your thoughts on god" is actually titled "Counting Blue" these
Cars
1200
King Lear's daughters are Regan, Cordelia & her
General
1200
We learned that this rock is pretty cool, like the recent Eddie Murphy movie character with the sound-alike name
Dolomite
1200
Presidents may invoke this 2-word right to withhold information from Congress & the courts
Executive Privilege
1600
"Man and His World" was the theme of Expo 67 in this city
Montreal
1600
In 1988 she became the first woman in modern times to lead a majority Muslim nation--Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
1600
In a 1984 top 10 hit, he "Just met a girl named Blue Jean"
David Bowie
1600
This cousin of Juliet kills Mercutio
Tybalt
1600
We also learned that this 5-letter rock is a major source of the world's natural gas & oil deposits
Shale
1600
2-word term for the state's legal ability to take private property for public use
Eminent Domain
2000
Look above the Arctic Circle to find most of this largest Canadian island, which shares its name with a large bay
Baffin Island
2000
Depicted in "Hidden Figures", she was the 1st woman in the NASA flight research division credited as an author on a research report
Katherine Johnson
2000
E.L.O. asked this title guy, "Tell us why you had to hide away for so long... where did we go wrong?"
Mr. Blue Sky
2000
Dogberry is a constable in this comedy set in Messina
Much Ado About Nothing
2000
Today we learned about thisalliterative rock noted for this beautiful color
Lapus Lazuli
2000
What's called photographic memory may actually be this type of "imagery", the ability to describe an image no longer present
Eidetic