THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH
While a British electrician "earths" a wire, an American electrician does this to it
he grounds it
The answer to his motto "How am I doing?" was positive enough to reelect him several times as NYC's mayor
Ed Koch
Wallets made from slime eels may do this to your bank cards
desensitize (demagnetize)
It's the only continent where monotremes, egg-laying mammals, are found
Australia
The largest indoor set ever built was the UFO landing site for the climax of this '77 blockbuster
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
An apartment house in London would be referred to as "a block of..." these
flats
Carrie's famous father
Eddie Fisher
Of spit, spat or sput, the proper term for a young oyster
a spat
Of 3, 6, or 10, the number of mainland countries on North America
10
The hills of Cardiff, Wales are alive with the fact that Myra Franklin has seen this movie 940 times
The Sound of Music
Type of vehicle christened a dustcart in Britain
a garbage truck
The 2 Massachusetts senators who served together from the late '60s to the late '70s
Edward Kennedy & Edward Brooke
This cephalopod is sometimes called "pearly" & sometimes called "chambered"
a nautilus
The 12 countries that signed the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 represent this many continents
6
A Shelley Duvall scene in this Stanley Kubrick 1980 thriller, set the record for most takes in a talkie--127
The Shining
While a Democrat "runs" for office in the U.S., in Great Britain a Tory does this
stands for office
He signed with Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Really Useful Company" to be a theatrical P.A.
Prince Edward
When a coelacanth fish was caught near Africa in 1938, scientists were interested for this reason
because it was thought to be extinct
It's the continent with the greatest population density
Europe
"Lights of New York", which came out a year after "The Jazz Singer", was the 1st one
all talking film
An American worker receives his pay in an envelope while a British labourer gets his wages in one of these
a wage packet
Though his play "Seascape" had only 65 B'way performances, it ran long enough to win him a 2nd Pulitzer Prize
Edward Albee
Some folks call this mollusk the devilfish, perhaps because of its scary-looking appendages
the octopus
Though basically centered in 1 country, it has the most adherents of any religion in Asia
Hinduism
This spaghetti Western starring Henry Fonda & Jason Robards had the longest screen credits, 12 minutes
Once Upon a Time in the West