Retired
With 23, this NBA team has retired the most uniform numbers, including Kevin Garnett's No. 5 & Larry Bird's No. 33
Who are the Boston Celtics?
Idiomatically, you don't wanna be naked like this feathered fellow
What is a Jaybird?
This Beatles song has a lot of levels, but it's "a girl with kaleidoscope eyes" rather than "a girl with colitis goes by"
What is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds?
Aileen Wuornos, the first woman to fit the FBI profile of this type of multiple murderer, called jurors "scumbags"
What is a Serial Killer?
This empire of the Andes had some 25,000 miles of roads & a relay system that was like the Pony Express but on foot
Who are the Inca?
Marine biologist Sylvia Earle's work with these creatures was documented in the film "Gentle Giants of the Pacific"
What are Humpback Whales?
The 2017 edition of this reality competition had designers working with models from size 2 to size 22
What is Project Runway?
LANDMARKS:
During Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to Los Angeles, pranksters covered up this letter in a local landmark
What is "L" on the Hollywood sign?
This Ben & Jerry's flavor, vanilla ice cream with a nutty brittle, was sent up the Amazon river in 1999
What is Rainforest Crunch?
There's a body part in this term for a legislative provision directing funds to specific projects
What is an Earmark?
Many have sung along to the radio, "I left my brains down in" here
What is Africa?
The 1884 trial in Russia of Ekaterina Semenova introduced to law this "psycho"logical type who lacks any remorse
What is Psychopath?
Canada's biggest city, Toronto once had this name, in honor of the same noble title as the USA's biggest city
What is York?
Captain Robert FitzRoy had doubts inviting this naturalist aboard an 1831 voyage due to the shape of his nose
Who is Darwin?
Paddy's Pub is the fictional bar in this sitcom whose title is a weather forecast
What is It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
THOSE ZANY ANCIENT ROMANS:
In the 20s B.C. the emperor's sister Octavia had a sitcom-worthy home including the boy & girl twin children of this man & woman
Who are Antony & Cleopatra?
In 1990 Crayola's first group of crayons to be permanently retired included lemon yellow & this "raw" brown
What is Umber?
Going all the way from A to C, this scientific term means not associated with living organisms
What is Abiotic?
A classic by this singer turns out not to be about a hip minister called "the reverend blue jeans"
Who is Neil Diamond?
As well as high this crime, there's petty this, like by a wife against a husband; Catherine Bevan was tried for it in 1731 Delaware
What is Treason?
In 1590 one of the only traces of the "Lost Colony" on this island off North Carolina was the word "Croatoan" carved on wood
What is Roanoke?
In 1843 this genetics pioneer awoke & found himself transformed into a novice in an Augustinian monastery in Brno
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Iain Armitage played Ziggy, the son of Miss Shailene Woodley's character, on this HBO miniseries that won 8 Emmy Awards including 1 for Miss Nicole Kidman
What is Big Little Lies?
FAMOUS NAMES:
In 2023, shortly after his death, his name was added to a Brazilian dictionary to describe one who's superior or out of the ordinary
Who is Pele?
2 of the 3 Space Shuttles that were retired in 2011, ending the 30-year Space Shuttle program
What are Endeavour, Discovery & Atlantis? (2 of the 3 needed for points)
This murder tool, a thin wire with handles, allows one to get up close & personal when strangulation is the goal
What is a Garrote?
We're glad to say that in a 2008 hit, this band did not sing about "dyslexics on fire"
Who are Kings of Leon?
Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73
Who is Charles Manson?
In 1899 an intl. ruling gave the oil-rich Essequibo region to Britain; now it's part of this country & some Venezuelans covet it
What is Guyana?
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered that stars are made primarily of these 2 elements
What are Hydrogen & Helium?
This 2017 series is set 10 years before Kirk, Spock & the rest of the Enterprise crew
What is Star Trek: Discovery?
THE 20TH CENTURY:
On July 19, 1940 Hitler called this man a warmonger & wrongly predicted he would flee to Canada
Who is Winston Churchill?
Alphabetically, the list of retired hurricane names in the Atlantic runs from Agnes (1972) to this "W"oman (2005)
What is Wilma?
"U" do this & you howl like a wolf or hoot like an owl
What is Ululate?
This Juice Newton plea to a departing lover does not ask, "Just brush my teeth before you leave me, baby"
What is Just Call Me Angel of the Morning?
In 1993 Dorothea Puente was convicted of killing tenants at her boarding-house for these, which arrived in the mail monthly
What are Social Security Checks?
El Pípila is the nickname of a Mexican folk hero who was said to have aided this revolutionary priest in 1810
Who is Miguel Hildalgo y Costilla?
Born into freedom in Maryland, this surveyor & astronomer successfully calculated a solar eclipse in 1789
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
In 2017, she could be seen on TV on "Atypical" as well as on "Twin Peaks"
Who is Jennifer Jason Leigh?
FROM THE FRENCH:
With murder, shadows, a nosy reporter & Peter Lorre, 1940's "Stranger on the Third Floor" is the first example of this, some say
What is film noir?