Russian Literature
The last words spoken in this novel are "Hurrah for Karamazov!"
The Brothers Karamazov
In physics it's the rate of change of velocity with respect to time, not necessarily an increase in speed
acceleration
This deep lake in the Alps shares its name with a Swiss city on its shores
Lake Geneva
1930s PM Richard Bennett established the commission that became this radio and TV entity
CBC
In 1979, 35,000 guests attended his 89th birthday party, and the food was certainly finger-lickin' good
Col. Harlan Sanders
In the year 33, according to tradition, this man had his famous final meal
Jesus Christ
In this 1866 Fyodor Dostoevsky novel, a student named Raskolnikov murders an elderly pawnbroker & her sister
Crime and Punishment
To remove the active stimulant from coffee or tea
decaffeinate
This Asian desert's name is Mongolian for, well, desert
Gobi
John Turner is the only 20th century PM not born in Canada; he was born in this country across the pond
Great Britain (accept England)
Peter the Great's 51st birthday party included mandatory drinking of this from a barrel; Peter died at 52
vodka
Thirty-three was the name of the final single from this alt-rock band's 1995 album, Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Not as much of a jam as 1979, apparently.
Smashing Pumpkins
Boris Pasternak, who wrote this novel about a Russian physician, was forced to turn down a Nobel Prize in Literature
Doctor Zhivago
From Latin for "heap" & "rain cloud", this mushroom-shaped cloud brings the thunder
cumulonimbus
Every African nation that begins with "G" is on the Atlantic coast: name one
Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
During Joe Clark's tenure (1979-80), 6 Americans trapped in this country were able to escape using fake Canadian papers
Iran
In 1996, the Sultan of Brunei's 50th birthday included a concert by this "bad" pop star; I guess he really did care about him
Michael Jackson
Arsenic
This Tolstoy epic of Russian society between 1805 & 1815 contains more than 500 characters
War & Peace
This adjective means complicated & difficult to find your way through, like confronting an ancient Cretan maze
labyrinthine
This South Asian river's delta is the largest in the world.
Ganges
This 1870s PM had the same last name as the Scottish explorer who mapped the longest river in Canada
Alexander MacKenzie
This famous man's 46th, and last, birthday in 1963 saw a performance by Marilyn Monroe in an iconic dress.
JFK
U.S. Route 33 stretches from northern Indiana to Richmond, Virginia, passing through this place; the largest city in Ohio
Columbus
DAILY DOUBLE
This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974.
This 12-letter synonym for sleepwalker sounds a lot fancier
somnambulist
According to Plato, Atlantis was located just west of these straits
Gibraltar
In Halifax's Holy Cross Cemetery, you can visit Sir John Thompson, who in 1892 became the first PM of this Christian denomination
Catholic
This rock-and-roll pianist is known for his lavish birthday parties, especially his 50th in 1997. His costume for the evening included a three-foot tall wig with a silver miniature ship at the top, complete with a working cannon.
Elton John
The city Treinta y Tres (that's 33 if you don't speak Spanish) are named for the founders of this South American nation, who fought for independence from Brazil
Uruguay