Literary First Lines
A satirical fable: Mr. Jones of the Manor Farm had locked the hen-houses for the night...
Animal farm
Though he didn't live to complete it this Portuguese explorer's 1520s expedition proved that the earth is round
MAGELLAN
The structural formula for water is HOH; HOOH is the formula for this solution that you might keep in your bathroom or first aid kid
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
On Seinfeld he said You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect
GEORGE COSTANZA
n 1961 Nikita Khrushchev changed its name to Volgograd; this name had lasted almost 40 years
STALINGRAD
1854:When I wrote the following pages or rather the bulk of them I lived alone in the woods...
WALDEN; OR LIFE IN THE WOODS
Frozen in for 9 months on an 1821 search for this route Sir William Parry began the Royal Arctic Theatre to entertain his crew
THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
This elementary particle that makes up light has no mass or electric charge
PHOTON
On an episode of Seinfeld Jerry's alarm clock fails making an elite runner late for this race
MARATHON
An island off the north coast is named for this majority group in revolutionary circles
THE BOLSHEVIKS
Marley was dead, to begin with.
A Christmas carol
In 1770 this British captain's ship the Endeavour almost sank when it got stuck on the Great Barrier Reef
Cook
Lava & igneous rocks form from this molten rock
MAGMA
On Seinfeld Jerry is compelled to wear one of these after an encounter with a low talker
A PUFFY SHIRT
This region's West Plain one of the world's largest flatlands is over 1 million square miles of steppe & tundra
SIBERIA
Someone must have slandered Josef K. for one morning without having done anything wrong he was arrested
THE TRIAL
This Frenchman, the 1st European to journey down the Mississippi to its mouth, was killed by his own men in what's now Texas
LA SALLE
It's the special field of computer science trying to come up with machines that think for themselves
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Kramer's first name
COSMO
Kaliningrad a small piece of Russian territory sits between Poland & Lithuania on this sea
The mole had been working very hard all the morning spring cleaning his little home
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
On June 22 1611 he was set adrift in Canada's James Bay an arm of the bay named for him, he was never seen again
Henry Hudson
Metaphase is the third stage of five stages of the production of two cells from an existing one a process known by this term
MITOSIS
The Seinfeld holiday Festivus employed one of these instead of a tree
A POLE
This Muslim republic where much fighting has taken place contains Russia's southernmost point
CHECHNYA