Geography
When N.Y.C. was a Dutch settlement, this street got its name because it was a wide thoroughfare for wagons.
Broadway
The word “library” comes from the Latin “liber,” which means this.
Book
This common expression of distress comes from an English representation of the French word for “help me.”
Mayday
In Mark 1, he says, “There cometh one mightier than I after me.”
John the Baptist
Term for what occurs when an older brother fights for the attention given to his little sister.
Sibling rivalry
This territory was formally transferred to the U.S. at Castle Hill in Sitka.
Alaska
4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 novel.
The Joy Luck Club
"Genu" is the Latin word for this part of the body that is easily injured in sports that involve running and jumping.
Knee
According to the book of Psalms, these objects “have ears, but they hear not.”
Idols
The molecular structure of salt allows it to dissolve in water; pepper however will only disperse, creating this type of mixture.
A suspension
Edward Kemeys designed the lions that guard the entrance to the Art Institute of this American city.
Chicago
Washington Irving’s tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale.
Rip Van Winkle
Derived from the Latin for “faith.” I pledge you my everlasting "blank".
Fidelity
“A Christian hymn and a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical.”
Rock of Ages.
Invented in 1929, the government began buying this machine to help prevent any more of a series of Army Air Corps fatalities.
The flight simulator.
Some of the finest singing canaries are bred in the Harz Mountains of this country.
Germany
In 1937 his sister said he had “hats of every description,” which he would use as a “foundation of his next book.”
Dr. Seuss.
Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer commands and you get this violent reaction to social change.
Backlash (from “backslash”)
This community outside Washington, D.C., is named after a Presbyterian church built there in 1820.
Bethesda, Maryland
One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks.
Julius Caesar
In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.
Catherine (Kathryn) the Great