Anagrams
A European legislature: APT IN REALM
What is Parliament?
Scotland's largest city, it's on both banks of the River Clyde
What is Glasgow?
Dry ice is what we commonly call the solid form of this gas
What is Carbon Dioxide?
It's thought Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang died after ingesting this liquid element that he believed would make him immortal
What is mercury?
Zoe and McAdams
Who is Rachel
An inferred kind of evidence: I CURST CLAIMANT
What is circumstantial?
2 promontories called the Pillars of Hercules flank the entrance to this strait
What is Gibraltar?
Before it was widely used in medicine, nitrous oxide, aka this, was used for fun & recreation
What is Laughing Gas?
Crimes punishable by death in this 282-law collection included robbery, false accusation & priestesses drinking with commoners
What is the Code of Hummarabi?
Morse and Alito
Who is Samuel?
A type of horse: TAN GUMS
Kolkata is on the Hugli River, an arm of this other river
What is the Ganges?
Because of its similar appearance, iron pyrite is also called by this two-word name
What is Fool's Gold?
In "Meditations" this Roman emperor reminds himself not to be irritated at other people's bad breath: "That's the way his mouth is"
Who is Marcus Aurelius?
Wyle and Webster
Who is Noah?
A holiday item: SEARCH, SET, TRIM
What is a Christmas Tree?
In 1900 this Texas city was devastated by a hurricane that killed more than 5,000 people
What is Galveston?
Despite its alternate name, the Seven Sisters, this cluster is actually made up of more than 1,000 stars
What is the The Pleiades?
Praising the defense of democracy, Pericles' funeral oration of 431 B.C. was given for soldiers fallen in this conflict
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Shelley and Higgins Clark
Who is Mary?
A stone home for mummy: PUSH AS CARGO
What is a sarcophagus
This country is surrounded by Senegal
What is Gambia?
Tetanus is also known as this because of what it does to muscles around the mouth
What is lockjaw?
The Pyramids of Meroë in modern-day Sudan were built in the land of this 4-letter ancient kingdom
What is Kush?
Literary Characters Marner and Lapham
Who is Silas?