Labor Unions
In 1857, 100 educators decided to organize and create an organization in the name of public education. This group has grown to the largest labor union and professional interest group in the United States. In 1910, they elected a their first female president, a full decade before the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the NEA?
Twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded this book in August 1954, in hopes that it would be used to settle pub disputes.
What is the Guinness Book of World Records?
Similar to an underdog, this kind of story, named for a fairy tale, refers to situations in which competitors achieve far greater success than reasonably expected.
What is a Cinderella story?
This layer of the Earth is composed mostly of molten rock.
What is the Mantle?
Jeff Bridges played Rooster Cogburn in the Coen Brothers' 2010 remake of 1969's True Grit. This actor originated the role.
Who is John Wayne?
This shoe and orthopedics brand with a blue-and-white logo was founded in 1906 by a Chicago shoemaker's apprentice who was in medical school at the time.
What is Dr Scholls?
"Goodbye, please don't cry. We both know that I'm not what you need"
What is I Will Always Love You?
In her Oscar acceptance speech for her role as Nurse Ratched in this film, Louise Fletcher said "All I can say is I've loved being hated by you."
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was founded in 1935. It split from this union in 1937 before reuniting in 1955. Together they are the largest voluntary federation of labor unions in the United States.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
Subtitled "The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," this is a 2003 non-fiction book by science writer Mary Roach that explores the strange, fascinating, and often humorous history of how human bodies are used by science after death.
What is Stiff?
This kind of rule ends a two-competitor sports competition earlier than the scheduled endpoint if one competitor has a very large and presumably insurmountable scoring lead over the other.
What is a Mercy or Slaughter rule?
This type of rock is formed by minerals piling up in layers and pressed together over time.
What is sedimentary?
Cary Grant climbs on Mount Rushmore in the climax of this 1959 Hitchcock film.
What is North By Northwest?
This medical term comes from the Greek word for “without breathing” and is included in the name of a condition that effects sleep.
What is Apnea?
“They just use your mind and you never get the credit. Its Enough to drive you crazy if you let it."
What is 9 to 5?
The Leaning Tower of Pisa leans in this cardinal direction.
What is South?
Following an economic depression in 1893, the Pullman company dropped wages for their workers without lowering the rent in their employee housing, leading to a strike and boycott that crippled this industry.
What is the Railroad industry?
This influential book by Stephen Hawking, released in 1988, explores complex concepts of the universe, including black holes and the Big Bang.
What is A Brief History of Time?
Soccer, Cricket and Rugby use this 5-letter word to describe their playing field. In baseball, football and horseshoes, they use the same word as a verb for throwing.
What is PITCH?
These icicle-shaped mineral deposits that hang from the ceilings of caves, hot springs, or man-made structures.
What are stalagtites?
Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan's 1998 film, You've Got Mail was a remake of this film from 1940. It's also the name of her bookstore in the film.
What is The Shop Around the Corner?
In 1974 this American physician from Delaware developed a special treatment for choking.
Who is Henry Heimlich?
“You do something to me that I can't explain, hold me closer and I feel no pain. Every beat of my heart. We got something going on.
What is Islands in the Stream?
This tennis event, third in the Grand Slam calendar, hosted the longest match ever in 2010, at 11 hours and 5 minutes.
What is Wimbeldon?
Founded in 1903 as a merger of horse-drawn cart driver unions, this organization has grown to cover freight drivers, warehouse workers, flight attendants, and public employees. Jimmy Hoffa served as their president from 1957 until 1971.
Who are the Teamsters?
When this writer and historian's book The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America — and it remains a beacon in the fight for civil rights.
Who is WEB Dubois?
This three-letter word occurs when a player or team is not scheduled to play a match, at a time when other opponents are playing or when a match would otherwise be expected to occur.
What is a BYE?
These are bowl-shaped, amphitheater-like depressions that glaciers carve into mountains and valley sidewalls at high elevations.
What is a Cirque?
Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton co-starred in 1966 film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, based on this writer's 1962 play of the same name.
Who is Edward Albee?
This is the only bone in the body not attached to another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
"Here I am feeling everything but sorry."
What is Two Doors Down?
Aside from the tail, the feathers on Sesame Street's Big Bird costume come from this kind of bird.
Known for his roles in The Lord of the Rings and The Goonies, this actor is the president of SAG-AFTRA (the union for film, tv and radio artists), as well as the first second-generation president. His mom, Patty Duke, was president from 1985-1988.
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. This memoir from 2018 chronicles her unconventional upbringing to her doctorate from Cambridge in intellectual history.
What is Educated?
Always fun to watch, this alliterative form of fighting occurs most notably baseball and ice hockey, where most or all players on both teams leave their spaces and charge onto the playing area in order to fight one another (or try to break up a fight.)
What is a bench-clearing brawl?
Trace amounts of this element substitute for carbon in the crystal lattice, giving blue diamonds their rare and stunning color.
What is Boron?
In this classic adventure movie, Alfonso Bedoya deliver the line "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
What is The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
This obstetrical anesthesiologist gave her name to a score that evaluated the health of newborns point by point.
Who is Virginia Apgar?
"All you got to do is smile that smile, and there go all my defenses."
What is Here You Come Again?
"On the shore, dimly seen thro' the mist of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep.
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?" is the less heard second verse to this song.
What is the Star Spangled Banner?