Shakespeare
Alas, you don't need an actor to play this character in "Hamlet"; All you need is a skull.
Who is Yorick?
Legend says this October 8, 1871 event began in a stable at Jefferson & DeKoven streets in Chicago.
What is the Great Chicago Fire?
This "lazy" animal of South America eats, sleeps & travels upside down in trees.
What is a sloth?
Napoleon's occupation in 1812, the Khodynka tragedy.
What is Moscow? (Russia)
The clock didn't run out for this Ke$ha hit, the first Billboard #1 of the 2010's, until it had topped the charts for 9 weeks.
What is "TikTok"?
This historical play dramatizes the events which led to England's break with the Roman Catholic church.
What is "Henry VIII"?
Andrew Jackson was fighting against 50 ships commanded by Edward Pakkenham when he won this 1815 battle.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
The giant variety of this sea mollusk may grow to 55 feet long.
What is a squid?
Sacked in 390 B.C., 455 A.D., 1527 A.D.
What is Rome? (Italy)
This movie comedy premised on a malfunction at a ski resort includes the name of advice that could apply to the entire category.
What is "Hot Tub Time Machine"?
In this play's first scene, dastardly deeds are done at the tomb of the Andronici.
What is "Titus Andronicus"?
In 1831, the anti-masonic party held the first of these ever, to prepare for the 1832 election.
What is the nominating convention?
Europeans know this largest member of the deer family as the elk; We call it this.
What is a moose?
Oil discovered there in 1901, the Black Wall Street massacre in 1921.
What is Tulsa? (Oklahoma)
Known to sing a bit themselves, the cast of this hit TV show presented a trophy at the MTV Video Music Awards.
What is "Glee"?
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He has 3 sons-in-law: The Duke of Albany, The Duke of Cornwell & the King of France.
Who is King Lear?
The plant amendment of 1901 provided for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from this country.
What is Cuba?
Some perfumes are made from the musk of this catlike animal found in Africa & Asia.
What is a civet?
The Beer Hall Putsch, a massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games.
What is Munich? (Germany)
This rap single by Far East Movement, the first #1 by Asian-American group, has a title that refers to a private jet.
What is "Like a G6?
The renouncing of magic in this play is believed to be the Bard's symbolic farewell to the stage.
What is "The Tempest"?
William Jennings Bryan was elected to his first public office in this state.
What is Nebraska?
Found in Africa, this giraffe relative has a reddish-brown body, white face & striped legs.
What is a okapi?
A more than 1,400-day siege from 1992 to 1996, an assassination of a man born in Graz, Austria.
What is Sarajevo? (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
HBO debuted this drama series set in & named for one of New Orleans' oldest neighborhoods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
What is "Treme"?