Warriors
Thracian soldier who trained as a gladiator, famous for leading a slave rebellion against the Romans. Ask Kirk Douglas.
Who was Spartacus?
Nebraska orator famous for the "Cross of Gold" speech and prosecuting the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
..."Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Who was Emma Lazarus?
Doomed teenage lovers from "fair Verona", as told by the Bard.
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
Blondie's husband in the long-running comic strip.
Who is Dagwood Bumstead?
According to legend the only vulnerability of the nearly invulnerable warrior who led the Greek Army at Troy and killed Hector.
What is Achilles' Heel?
Short but "Notorious" SCOTUS Justice who once headed the Women's Rights Project at the ACLU.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
"A Bird, came down the Walk -
He did not know I saw -
He bit an Angle Worm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw..."
Who was Emily Dickinson?
Who the narrator was kissing "by a crystal blue Italian stream", in a dream, as related in a song by The Bangles.
Who was Valentino?
The original "lonesome traveler", "highly educated from history", responsible for many of the biggest things that "man had ever done", according to Woody Guthrie.
Who is the Great Historical Bum?
Lakota war leader instrumental in victory at Little Bighorn, with a hug, still incomplete memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Who was Crazy Horse?
Fictional defense lawyer in works by Erle Stanley Gardner, and eponymous TV show from the '50s & '60s, starring Raymond Burr.
Who is Perry Mason?
"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk."
Who was Ogden Nash?
Built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his favorite wife, this World Heritage Site is frequently considered a memorial to undying love.
What is the Taj Mahal?
"Third boxcar, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine
Old worn-out suits and shoes; I don't pay no union dues
I smoke old stogies I have found, short, but not too big around..."
Who is the King of the Road?
The eponymous title of the epic film about at British officer who helped lead an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during WWI, starring Peter O'Toole.
What is Lawrence of Arabia?
Who is Atticus Finch?
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise..."
Who is Maya Angelou?
Mortal man and elven princess in J.R.R. Tolkien's universe, great grandparents of Elrond, a posthumous Tolkien book, and literary avatars for Tolkien and his wife, Edith.
Who are Beren and Luthien?
Hyacinth's slovenly, unemployed brother-in-law in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, played by Geoffrey Hughes. "Oh, Nice!"
Who is Onslow?
Kensei and author of the Japanese feudal era said to have fought 60 sword duels without ever losing and invented the two-sword kenjutsu technique.
Who is Musashi?
The oldest serving Supreme Court Justice in history (Jr.), appointed by Teddy Roosevelt, a Bostonian Civil War Veteran; or his father (Sr.), who briefly studied law before becoming a well-known medical doctor.
Who was Oliver Wendell Holmes?
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea..."
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The ACLU case in which an inter-racial couple, Richard and Mildred ________, contested miscegenation laws in a southern state; on appeal to the Supreme Court it resulted in all US miscegenation laws being struck down, and established freedom to marry as a right.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
Red Skelton's hobo clown character.
Who was Freddie the Freeloader?