ENGLISH "T"
She broke the glass ceiling on May 4, 1979 when she was sworn in as the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Thatcher
This semiconducting element, a crucial ingredient in computer technology, is one of the most abundant substances on earth, making up nearly 30% of the earth’s surface.
Silicon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “There was a little girl, who had a little curl …” Where?
“… right in the middle of her forehead.”
… the first First Lady born in Texas?
Lady Bird Johnson
He wrote the acclaimed saga Roots, the story of seven generations of his own family.
Alex Haley
This English “T” is 215 miles long. It begins in the Cotswold Hills and flows southeast to the North Sea, passing along the way some of the well known sights of London, including the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.
The Thames River
Most everyone has sodium chloride in the kitchen … but what do we call it?
Salt
John Milton: “They also serve, who only stand and …” What?
“ … wait.”
… the first First Lady elected to public office?
Hillary Clinton
This 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, written mostly in the form of letters from Celie to her sister and to God, has also made into a movie by Steven Spielberg and a Broadway musical.
The Color Purple
Most Londoners refer to the London Underground by this nickname.
The Tube
Both coal and diamonds consist of this basic chemical element.
Carbon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Water, water everywhere, nor any …” What?
“ … drop to drink.”
… the first First Lady to give birth to twins?
Laura Bush
This poet and author called the first volume of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
Over the centuries, this famed English castle has also served as a royal residence, a prison, a choice execution location for some of Henry VIII’s wives, an armory, the Royal Mint, and it now houses the Crown Jewels of England.
The Tower of London
Take your pick to answer: What type of alcohol is used as a household antiseptic also called rubbing alcohol? Or: What type of alcohol is used in alcoholic beverages?
Rubbing alcohol contains Isopropyl alcohol (or propan). Alcoholic beverages use ethyl alcohol (or ethanol).
John Greenleaf Whittier: “For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are …” What?
“ … It might have been.”
… the first (and only) First Lady to serve as a delegate to the UN?
Eleanor Roosevelt
The 1953 novel Go Tell It On The Mountain is based on this author’s own experiences as a teenage preacher.
James Baldwin
This global marketer of tea holds the world’s oldest continuously used company logo. It is also London’s longest existing taxpayer, having occupied the same tea shop on the Strand in central London since 1706.
Twinings (pronounced TWY•nings)
All substances on earth, from copper to water to oxygen, can be classified into one of these three states.
Solid, liquid, or gas
Robert Frost: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that had made …” What?
“ … all the difference.”
… the first First Lady not born in the United States? (Hint: she was the wife of the sixth president of the US.)
Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, was born in London. Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia, is the only other First Lady born outside the US.
Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like …?“ What?
“… a raisin in the sun?” The phrase was later used by author Lorraine Hansberry – the first African American woman to write a play produced on Broadway – as the title of her 1959 drama