LITERATURE
In 1850 he pitched his publisher a romance based on legends from southern sperm whale fisheries
Herman Melville
Peter Pan’s home island … or, Michael Jackson’s former California ranch.
Neverland
Since China was mostly peasants, its 1st translation of this 1848 Marx-Engels work used "common people", not "workers"
The Communist Manifesto
Though sounding a bit RuPaul-ian, "Roll away to a half sashay" is actually a call made during this "shapely" dance
The Square Dance
In ancient times, this killer reptile was used to execute criminals; in Cleopatra’s case, it allegedly helped her commit suicide.
The asp
George Orwell based Room 101 in "1984" on a real boardroom at this broadcast network where he spent many a long meeting
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)
In addition to “The Badger State,” another nickname for Wisconsin is “America’s …” what?
Dairyland
From 1919 to 1925 moderate socialist Friedrich Ebert led the German government known as this
The Weimar Republic
This "avian" party dance topped a 2017 list of what brides told DJs not to play
The Chicken Dance
Some Native Americans used the 2- to 3-inch-long teeth of this fierce fish as arrow heads.
The great white shark
The name of this Moliere character was based on a word for "truffle"
Tartuffe
This is what the Germans call Germany.
Deutschland
In April 1965 this international pot stirrer left Cuba to try to bring revolution to Africa
Che Geuvara
"They all want me, they can't have me" in this '90s hit song that became its own dance craze; hey!
The "Macarena"
According to the San Diego zoo, this ferocious 2,000-pound animal can smell its prey as far as 20 miles away on the ice.
The polar bear
Stephen Crane's "War Memories" were not about the Civil War but this later war, including the taking of Guantanamo Bay
The Spanish-American War
This kid’s game contains a winding track with 134 colored spaces, including pink spaces with location names such as Gumdrop Mountain, Licorice Castle, and Lollipop Woods.
Candy Land. Candy Land has been a best selling game since 1949.
In 1948 Henry Wallace got 2.4% of the vote as the pres. candidate of the party with this forward-looking name
The Progressive Party
A song that was No. 1 in the summer of 1960 begins, "Come on, baby, let's do" this dance
The TWIST
This is the smallest killer animal around. It carries diseases such as malaria and yellow fever, and is responsible for a quarter-million human deaths every year.
The mosquito
Mentor Ezra Pound convinced this poet to cut half of "The Waste Land"
T. S. Eliot
This South Dakota national park is named after its rugged terrain with deep canyons, eroded buttes and pinnacles, and other inhospitable conditions, including extreme temperaturres, lack of water, and minimal vegetation.
Badlands National Park
Among 1980s leaders Ferdinand Marcos was right-wing; over on the left of the "F.M." dial was this president of France
François Mitterrand
Introduced to the U.S. from Cuba around 1914, this dance is done quick-quick-slow in 4/4 time; let's get ready to...!
Rumba
It may surprise some people to learn that this mammal has been responsible for more human deaths than any other, killing an estimated 500 million to 1 billion people over the last 10,000 years of human history.
Humans. Most of the deaths are attributed to war, genocide, and gun violence