World Literature
In 1929 Russia banned this Conan Doyle collection because of its references to spiritualism
the Sherlock Holmes stories (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Largest island off Alaska's Pacific coast; the largest bear on Earth lives on & is named after it
Kodiak
The Louisiana Purchase stemmed from U.S. efforts to buy this port city
New Orleans
S. Farrell made a triumphant 1988 return to this Manhattan ballet company after having a hip replaced
the New York City Ballet
One of the very 1st telegrams of this kind was sent to Rudy Vallee
singing
A nightmare gave Mary Shelley the idea for this novel
Frankenstein
Papuans call this large island home
New Guinea
Elected governor of N.Y. at only 37, he later became the Secretary of State who bought Alaska
(William) Seward
Highest-ranked Soviet ballerina is Maya Plisetskaya, the prima ballerina of this company
the Bolshoi
It's a tropical or subtropical grassland, & it doesn't have to be in Georgia
a savannah
After the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale died, she & Pearl went abroad, but the story doesn't say where
Hester Prynne
Site of heavy action in WWII, the very small island of Corregidor is part of this country
the Philippines
In 1858, at Mozart Hall in New York City, she presided over the National Women's Rights Convention
Susan B. Anthony
She was already in her 40s when she became Rudolf Nureyev's most famous partner
Margot Fonteyn
From the French for "to watch over", it's the close observation of a person under suspicion
surveillance
The pen name of Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith, creator of Horatio Hornblower
C.S. Forester
European country whose explorers discovered Borneo & the Madeiras about 500 yrs. ago
Portugal
This Pennsylvania city was the center of U.S. steel making at the time of its famous 1889 flood
Johnstown
Herbert Ross directed his goddaughter, Leslie Browne, to an Oscar nomination in this 1977 ballet film
The Turning Point
Found on beaches, the skeletons of these disc-like cousins of sea urchins look like money
sand dollars
Though some credit him as author, Turoldus was probably just the scribe who copied this French epic poem
The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland)
The island of Eniwetok & the Bikini Atoll are part of this Pacific island group
the Marshalls
Shouting. "Remember the Alamo." Sam Houston's men defeated Santa Anna at this battle
(the Battle of) San Jacinto
In her native Leningrad she was nicknamed "The Giraffe"; maybe that's why she defected
Natalia Makarova
Type of coffin often decorated with sculpture whose name comes from the Greek for "flesh-eating
a sarcophagus