HISTORIC LEADERS
LIT-POURRI
THAT'S PROBABLY ILLEGAL
MILD TV SPOILERS
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YAS QUEENS
200
According to his brother & successor Raúl, before his 2016 death, this man said he wanted no public memorials or tributes
Fidel Castro
200
Surrealism was inspired by the logic (or its lack) in these; poet Robert Desnos interpreted those of listeners on radio
dreams
200
Aka "false making", this crime can apply to art, like 450 pieces in Italy in 2024 that were not in fact by Klimt et al.
forgery (counterfeiting)
200
On this show Logan Roy gives control over to... cussin'! According to The Ringer, he drops the F-bomb 402 times
Succession
200
Some call it a frappe
a milkshake
200
The borough's role in history includes 1657's Flushing Remonstrance, which helped put religious freedom in this part of the Constitution
the First Amendment (the Bill of Rights)
400
Roman dictator Quintus Hortensius ended centuries of struggle between the privileged patricians & these, the general citizens
plebeians
400
In the 1930s serious poet W.H. Auden edited an anthology of light verse, including "Sing a song o' sixpence / A bagful of" this
rye
one wrong answer
400
You're indicted for this; your wives Etta, Flo, Bridget, Mindy, Nan & Gwen put up bail for you... & really prove the case
polygamy
400
On the last episode of this show, the title family meet at a New Jersey diner & the unthinkable happens--Meadow jaywalks!
The Sopranos
400
A memento
a keepsake
400
The "Miracle Mets" brought the house down in New York in 1969, but their house came down when this got demolished
Shea Stadium
600
Like the little girl here, millions of followers engaged in loyalty dances to show their devotion to this leader
Chairman Mao
one wrong answer
600
"The Sheltering Sky" is set on this continent but Paul Bowles named the hero Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea
Africa
600
This crime refers to illegally transporting booze or taping & selling that Doobie Brothers concert
bootlegging
600
In the 3rd episode of "Mad Men", we learn the true identity of this character--he's a dog lover! He gives his daughter a pooch
Don Draper
600
A ringer
a lookalike
triple stumper
600
What's been called the biggest event in the history of Queens is the 1909 opening of the Queensboro Bridge over this river
the East River
800
The support of working-class followers helped propel this man to the presidency of Argentina in 1946
Perón
800
Not a fan of her verse novel, Edward FitzGerald wrote on her death, "No more 'Aurora Leigh's, thank God", enraging her husband Robert
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
800
New York lists 5 degrees of this; 5th is a misdemeanor but 1st, with use of an incendiary device, is a felony that can get you 25 years
arson
800
Not to give too much away, but the first name of the title novelist played by Nathan Fillion on this show is Richard
Castle
800
One's wingman
a sidekick
800
This airport in Queens is named for a NYC mayor who left his seat in Congress to be a pilot in World War I
LaGuardia
1000
Her lover Grigory Orlov helped organize the 1760s coup that made her an empress
Catherine the Great
1000
One of Andrew Lloyd Webber's less successful shows was a 1975 musical about the book characters Bertie Wooster & this valet
Jeeves
1000
Thailand hands out sentences as long as 60 years for this crime, a term from the French for injuring royal dignity
lèse-majesté
1000
In Season 1, Episode 1 of "Bridgerton", this actor, as Lord Anthony, rides a horse
Jonathan Bailey
triple stumper
1000
A stevedore
a dockworker
1000
As the name says, the Kew-Forest School, where Donald Trump went from K through 7th, serves Kew Gardens & this area
Forest Hills