Women Writers
In 1918 Columbia U. student Minna Lewinson became the first woman to win this journalism award
a) Pulitzer
b) Nobel
c) Booker
a) Pulitzer
Shark Valley, which has no sharks but plenty of gators
a) Florida
b) Louisiana
c) South Carolina
a) Florida
Dionysus granted this king any wish; he regretted getting the golden touch when his food became gold and he nearly starved
a) Agamemnon
b) Midas
c) Menelaus
b) Midas
This "Queen of the Danube" is found where the hills of western Hungary meet the nation's eastern plains
a) Vienna
b) Bratislava
c) Budapest
c) Budapest
In addition to having a pretty nifty weapon as its long upper jaw, this toothless fish can swim up to 60 mph
a) Marlin
b) Sailfish
c) Swordfish
c) Swordfish
She wrote the screenplay to 7 of the 8 films she directed, including "You've Got Mail" & "Julie & Julia"
a) Nancy Meyers
b) Nora Ephron
c) Greta Gerwig
b) Nora Ephron
1.5 million-acre Mark Twain National Forest
a) Illinois
b) Missouri
c) Louisiana
b) Missouri
Laocoon, a priest of Apollo, meant this object when he said, "I fear the Greeks, especially when they bring gifts"
a) Pandora's box
c) a pomegranate
b) the Trojan horse
b) the Trojan horse
If you like cold beet soup & stuffed potato dumplings, you will enjoy Vilnius, the capital of this Baltic nation
a) Lithuania
b) Latvia
c) Riga
a) Lithuania
The bluefin variety of this food fish can weigh half a ton
a) Mahi mahi
b) Tuna
c) Mackerel
b) Tuna
"The Minister's Wooing" & "Dread" are lesser-known novels written in 1850s by this American
a) Louisa May Alcott
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
c) Frances Hodgson Burnett
b) Harriet Beecher Stowe
The cold, clear waters of 1,900-foot deep Crater Lake
a) Utah
b) Idaho
c) Oregon
c) Oregon
The sculpture of this huntress is also known as "The Diana of Versailles"
a) Artemis
b) Athena
c) Atalanta
a) Artemis
In its long history, the Zytglogge Clock Tower in this Swiss capital has also served as a guard tower & a women's prison
a) Zurich
b) Geneva
c) Bern
c) Bern
You'd have me down, down, down on my knees now, wouldn't you, this predatory fish?
a) barracuda
b) shark
c) piranha
a) barracuda
This Ayn Rand book ends with the line "Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark"
a) Anthem
b) Atlas Shrugged
c) The Fountainhead
c) The Fountainhead
The Sawtooth Mountains, one of Hemingway's favorite playground
a) North Carolina
b) Idaho
c) Montana
b) Idaho
Mercury was the Roman messenger of the gods; he was the Greek equivalent
a) Hephaestus
b) Apollo
c) Hermes
c) Hermes
You'll find NATO's world headquarters on Boulevard Leopold III in this capital city
a) Amsterdam
b) Brussels
c) Prague
b) Brussels
This "body organ" fish breathes out of water using its swim bladder; if held underwater, some will drown
a) gar pike
b) bowfin
c) lungfish
c) lungfish
An auction of this poet's possessions included her copy of "Joy of Cooking" with "Ted likes this" next to a veal recipe
a) Sylvia Plath
b) Anne Sexton
c) Adrienne Rich
a) Sylvia Plath
The ice falls of Starved Rock State Park, west of Joliet
a) Illinois
b) Michigan
c) Wisconsin
a) Illinois
He solved the riddle of the Sphinx
a) Perseus
b) Oedipus
c) Heracles
b) Oedipus
The eventful history of this Balkan city includes being sacked in a Mongol invasion in the 13th century
a) Zagreb
b) Belgrade
c) Sarajevo
a) Zagreb
The "compleat" male type of this fish permanently attaches itself to a female to obtain nutrients and to reproduce
a) anglerfish
b) monkfish
c) seahorse
a) anglerfish