1976
Sarah Caldwell became the 1st woman to conduct at this New York City opera house
the Metropolitan Opera House
Appropriately. Richard Belzer co-wrote a book on how to be a stand-up one of these
a comedian
The mythical beast pictured on the flag of Bhutan
the dragon
A big wheel at the fair, usually the biggest wheel there
A Ferris wheel
After he flew to Paris, he flew another 22,350 miles to campaign for air mail & more airports
Charles Lindbergh
Reclusive billionaire who died on April 5 on a chartered jet bound for Houston, Texas
Howard Hughes
He swashbuckled his way through 3 marriages: to Lili Damita,
Nora Eddington &
Patrice Wymore
Errol Flynn
The "stan" in Pakistan & Afghanistan is a Persian suffix meaning this
land
A long narrow inlet of the sea in Norway, have you driven one lately?
a fjord
This university at Chapel Hill was established as the 1st state university in the U.S.
the University of North Carolina
She became the 1st anchorwoman on nightly network news & the top-paid newscaster up to that time
Barbara Walters
An early merchandising giant, he started his 1st store at Kemmerer, Wyoming
J.C. Penney
He was India's prime minister immediately following its independence from Britain
Nehru
A fancy name for it would be the violinist crab
a fiddler crab
The 1st German settlers in America settled in this Mid-Atlantic colony
Pennsylvania
Group heard, singing the song for which they won a Grammy in 1976:
"If you leave me now /
You'll take away the biggest part of me / Ooh-ooh-hoo..."
Chicago
In 1843, 2 sisters, Sarah & Adelaide Yates, married these twins made famous by P.T. Barnum
the Siamese twins (Chang & Eng)
The predominant religion of Laos, though the Communist government discourages it
Buddhism
Canadian John McCrae wrote a poem about this American cemetery in Belgium
Flanders Fields
When the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, this Calif. city was the western terminus
Sacramento
2 of these jets, 1 from Paris & 1 from London, arrived in the U.S. for the 1st time on May 24
Concordes
This author of "Kane & Abel" was only 29 when elected to parliament
Jeffrey Archer
The mainland country closest to the international date line
the Soviet Union
Hamlet moaned, "O! that this too too solid" stuff "would melt"
flesh
This school, the oldest public school in America, opened February 13,1635 in Boston
(the) Boston Latin (School)