Legal Lingo
Court Decree, often acknowledging fraud, declaring that a marriage never existed.
What is an annulment?
Year the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded & the United States entered WW1.
What is 1917?
Contrary to popular legend, “mush!” isn’t a command usually used in these races.
What is dogsled races?
Female equivalent to a knight in English, there’s nothin’ like one.
What is a dame?
Because the only building material available was mud, Sumerians began baking these.
What are bricks?
Paired with “aid”, it means to incite someone to commit a crime.
What is abet?
Before he died in 1547, this Tudor king weighed over 400 pounds.
Who was Henry VIII?
In six of the first seven Winter Olympics, Canadian teams took gold in this sport.
What is ice hockey?
Piece of knight’s weaponry upon which his pennon is displayed.
What is his lance?
Albert Speer was his chief architect.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Surrender of an accused criminal by one country or state to another.
What is extradition?
A 6th-century monk originally established the first day of the Christian era not as January 1st, but this holiday.
What is Christmas?
Participants can “sail” through this sport at speeds of over 100mph.
What is ice sailing (or boating)?
Legendary knight of Charlemagne, his tale is told in an epic written about 1100.
Who was Roland?
Features of one often include a nave, transept, & apse.
What is a church?
Term for international waters not within any one nation’s jurisdiction, but open to all.
What are high seas?
This term first applied only to manners & conduct at royal courts.
What is etiquette?
The first artificial bobsled run was built in 1904 at this Swiss resort town.
What is St. Moritz?
To belong to this U.S. order, you have to be at least 18 and a practicing Roman Catholic.
What is the Knights of Columbus?
Reburial of this architect’s remains, from Taliesin to Arizona, touched off stormy debate.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
Some are released from jail on bail, but lucky ones can be released on this.
What is by their own recognizance?
Once France’s richest colony, this now-impoverished country was 2nd in the New World to gain independence.
What is Haiti?
A rink of players- it’s the number of persons on a curling team.
What is 4?
The Poor Knights of Christ were called this because their quarters were on the site of Solomon’s Temple.
What is the Knights Templar?
This Roman site, Latin for “large circle” sat 250,000 people.
What is the Circus Maximus?