HITTING A SPEED OF ABOUT 800 MILES PER HOUR, CHUCK YEAGER BROKE THIS BARRIER IN OCTOBER 1947
What is SOUND BARRIER?
HOLDING RESERVES THROUGH WINTER, THIS GLOBULAR UNDERGROUND BUDS LET FLOWERS LIKE NARCISSUS BLOOM EARLY
What are BULBS?
THE MORAY VARIETY OF THIS FISH IS SHARP TOOTHED & CAN BE VICIOUS IF PROVOKED
What is EEL?
IN CHAPTER 52 OF THIS NOVEL, A BOISTEROUS CROWD IS GATHERING FOR FAGIN'S EXECUTION
What is OLIVER TWIST?
IN 1947 HE SHATTERED BASEBALL'S COLOR LINE
Who is JACKIE ROBINSON?
IN 1907 PAUL CORNU BECAME THE FIRST MAN TO FLY FREELY IN ONE OF THESE HORIZONTALLY ROTORED AIRCRAFT
What is HELICOPTER?
THIS LARGE GROUP OF FLOWERING PLANTS ATTRACTS SERIOUS DEVOTEES, LIKE THOSE WHO PAY $10,000 FOR ONE PERUVIAN PLANT
What are ORCHIDS?
THE ABILITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY EXOCOETIDAE TO GET AIRBORNE EARNED THEM THIS 2-WORD NAME
What is FLYING FISH?
19th C. AUTHOR KNOWN FOR WRITING ABOUT A "VENERABLE MANSION" WITH "SEVEN ACUTELY PEAKED GABLES"
Who is NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE?
LIKE A FAMOUS "MR." OF SONG, IT WAS THE NICKNAME OF TAP DANCER BILL ROBINSON
What is BOJANGLES?
AUGUST 1983 SAW THE FIRST NIGHT LAUNCH OF THIS REUSABLE U.S. ORBITAL VEHICLE
What is SPACE SHUTTLE?
THIS MAY FLOWER OF THE BUTTERCUP FAMILY HAS A "SEA" VERSION, TOO
What is ANEMONE?
Who is CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?
PEOPLE FROM THE PAST APPEAR TO A BROTHER & SISTER IN "REWARDS & FAIRIES" BY THIS AUTHOR OF "THE JUNGLE BOOK"
Who is RUDYARD KIPLING?
THIS MOTOWN LEGEND CO-WROTE "MY GIRL" & "TEARS OF A CLOWN"
Who is SMOKEY ROBINSON?
TAKING 16 HOURS, IN 1919 BRITISH AVIATORS ALCOCK & BROWN BECAME THE FIRST TO CROSS THIS LARGE BODY OF WATER NONSTOP
What is ATLANTIC OCEAN?
A BOUQUET OF A DOZEN CINQUEFOILS OUGHT TO HAVE A TOTAL OF THIS MANY PETALS
What is 60?
SMALL FRESHWATER FISH OF THE FAMILY PTEROPHYLLUM ARE KNOWN BY THIS "HEAVENLY" NAME
What is ANGELFISH?
DAILY DOUBLE:
MODERN NOVELS WITH BIBLICAL TITLES INCLUDE JANE HAMILTON'S "THE BOOK OF RUTH" & TONI MORRISON'S "SONG OF" HIM
What is SOLOMON?
IN 1951 HE DEFEATED JAKE LaMOTTA TO BECOME MIDDLEWEIGHT BOXING CHAMP
Who is SUGAR RAY ROBINSON?
IN 1909 LOUIS BLERIOT BECAME THE FIRST PERSON TO FLY IN A PLANE OVER THIS BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN & FRANCE
What is ENGLISH CHANNEL?
L. VULGARE IS THE OXEYE TYPE OF THIS COMMON FLOWER
What is DAISY?
BUILT IN 1816, THE FIRST PRIVATE YACHT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC SHARED ITS NAME WITH THE BARGE OF THIS QUEEN
Who is CLEOPATRA?
EVEN GRENDEL WOULD LOVE SEAMUS HEANEY'S NEW TRANSLATION OF THE ANGLO-SAXON EPIC ABOUT THIS TITLE GEAT
Who is BEOWULF?
EMANUEL GOLDENBERG WAS THE REAL NAME OF THE ROBINSON WHO USED THIS FIRST NAME ON THE STAGE
What is EDWARD?