OPPOSITES
Benjamin Moore sells these 2 opposite paint types, one for indoors, one for outdoors
interior & exterior
In the words of Joyce Kilmer, "Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can" do this
make a tree
Why do we have this small dead-end tube that connects to the colon? A study said having one may reduce recurring intestinal infection
This state's geographic center is 3 miles north of Pierre
South Dakota
Dante used this hellish word as a title for the first part of "The Divine Comedy"
inferno
Put these 2 words together to get a type of dark chocolate & a commonly cited oxymoron
bitter & sweet (bittersweet)
This 1830 poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes helped save the title warship from being dismantled
"Old Ironsides"
On Dec. 5, 1945, the 5 Navy planes of Flight 19 took off from Ft. Lauderdale but disappeared in this "geometric" area of the Atlantic
the Bermuda Triangle
"Valley Isle" is a nickname for this second-largest Hawaiian island
Maui
Latin for "fiery" gives us this term for a basic classification of rock
igneous
Referring to Ursa Major, these 2 opposite geographic regions derive their names from Greek for "bear" & "opposite the bear"
Arctic & Antarctic
A fan of repetition, she began her poem "Susie Asado", "Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea"
Gertrude Stein
If no one's in the room to hear this guy whisper "Rosebud", how do any of the other movie characters know his last words?
Citizen Kane
This fertile & scenic valley covers much of Northern Virginia & a little bit of West Virginia
Shenandoah
A Christian rite begins this phrase for a severe introductory trial
baptism by fire
This pair of adjectives can describe 2 types of sentences or 2 kinds of carbohydrates, based on their molecular structure
simple & complex
In this famous anthology, Edgar Lee Masters gave voice to some 200 residents at rest, including Isa Nutter & Anne Rutledge
Spoon River (Anthology)
In 2023 the kids of convicted skyjacker Richard McCoy II gave evidence to the FBI that pointed at dad being this 1971 criminal of mystery
D.B. Cooper
This lake whose name comes from Seminole words for "big water" is located at the northern edge of the Everglades
Okeechobee
A conflation fuses things; this word that adds a few letters to the middle burns things
conflagration
The word piano is a shortening of pianoforte, meaning these 2 opposites
loud & soft
In the 1950s, he launched the "City Lights Pocket Poet Series" with his own "Pictures of the Gone World"
Ferlinghetti
The location of "The Concert", a painting by this 17th century Dutchman stolen from the Gardner Museum in 1990, remains a mystery
Vermeer
It's the snow-covered volcanic peak in Northern California seen on soda cans
Mount Shasta
Now an idiom for any irreversible course, this was suggested by Sun Tzu after an army crossed hostile borders
burning your bridges