Stormy Weather
This term used for the likelihood for storms to form in the area of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado sounds more like an undesirable street address than a meteorological designation.
What is Tornado Alley?
Astragali, early forerunners of modern dice, were originally used for divination and were often fashioned from the talus bone in this body part of animals such as sheep and goats.
What are ankles?
This general of the Union Army during the American Civil War circumnavigated the world beginning in May, 1877, shortly after the end of his second term as U.S. president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
One of the oldest and nearly complete deck of Malmuk cards from Egypt contains this equal number of cards to our own modern decks of playing cards.
What is 52?
The British Bank of the Middle East, located in this Lebanese capital city, was robbed by the PLO in 1976 for 25 million pounds, or more than 100 million pounds today accounting for inflation.
What is Beirut?
The island nation in the North Atlantic, the windiest place on the plant according to satellite data, was thought home to explorers who are now thought to have been the first Europeans have landed in North America before Columbus.
What is Greenland
Il Ridotto, Italian for "The Private Room," is widely considered to have been the West's first legalized casino in 1638 and was built in this northeastern Italian city equally known for its canals today.
What is Venice?
The Strait of Magellan, discovered for Europeans by Ferdinand Magellan, is a sea route which goes through this most southwestern country of South America.
What is Chile?
Many of the images and suits we associate with playing cards today came from an older tradition of using these cards and decks to tell as person's fortune by dealing the cards to them.
What is Tarot?
Clyde Barrow is best known as one half of this arguably most famous pair of bank robbers in American history.
Who are Bonnie and Clyde?
The "flash-to-bang" method of quickly calculating the distance of a lightning strike by counting seconds between seeing lightning and hearing thunder and then dividing that number by 5 is based on knowing the speed of this physical phenomena is roughly 1,000 feet per second.
What is sound?
Ancient Jewish leaders and authorities considered gambling a vice, so much so that professional gamblers were considered too unreliable to do this in court proceedings.
What is give testimony/be a witness?
David Kunst was the first verified human to circumnavigate the globe by this form of transportation, although it took him over four years to do so (and he took air travel over water masses).
What is walking?
Seeking to prohibit what was seen as a link between cards and gambling, this religious leader of the West banned card games on October 17th, 1750.
What is the Pope?
Butch Cassidy's bank robbing partner was named at birth as Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, but he is better known to history today by this youthful title.
Who is the Sundance Kid?
Due to the destruction of a breeding facility for these large snakes in Florida during Hurricane Andrew in 1992, a now very large number of these snakes, better suited to Myanmar than Miami, now overrun many areas of the Sunshine State.
What are Burmese Pythons?
This gambler better known for his career middleweight, welterweight and lightweight boxing champion, placed arguably the largest bet in history of 5.9 million dollars on the outcome of a single NBA game in 2013.
Who is Floyd Mayweather?
In order to qualify for the sailing record for circumnavigation, one is required to cross this imaginary line running completely around the Earth's widest point.
What is the equator?
The novel Great Expectations by this beloved British author of the 19th century featured a character expressing surprise that a card player had referred to the "knave" card as Jacks.
Who is Charles Dickens?
A robbery on southern Stockholm, Sweden, got attention in 2009 for being the first in Swedish history to use this method of air travel during the heist.
What is a helicopter?
Thunderstorms around cities are generally more intense due to this effect named for the widespread amount of concrete and cars which help retain high temperatures in the ground and air in a relatively confined, isolated area of land.
What is the Heat Island Effect?
The fifth card played in poker hands has this aquatic name, likely stemming from the history of gambling on steamboats in the past.
What is the river?
Circumnavigation via powered air travel benefits from these fast flowing air currents sometimes responsible for getting a passenger aircraft to its destination a few minutes early.
What is a jet stream?
Direction of play is traditionally clockwise in card games played in North America or this English speaking nation in the Southern hemisphere.
What is Australia?
The Northern Bank robbery took place in this capital city of Northern Ireland in 2004 and netted its robbers 26.5 million pounds in loot.
What is Belfast?