DONE IN BY THEIR OWN CREATIONS
QUEENS RULE!
A S.T.E.A.M. CATEGORY
MUSIC FESTIVALS
FOR THE BIRDS
GODS & GODDESSES
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Thomas Andrews was the chief naval architect for this ship & went down with it on its maiden voyage in 1912
the Titanic
400
On October 1st, 1553 this "Bloody" monarch was crowned queen of England
Mary I
400
Textile engineering includes developing new types of these to protect wounds
bandages
400
For a 2018 festival Paul McCartney & Metallica were in the "City Limits" of this Texas "Live Music Capital of the World"
Austin
400
Birds are unique in having these, the obvious characteristic that distinguished them from all other modern animals
feathers
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400
Half-man, half-goat, all musician; this Greek fertility god was said to be a son of Hermes
Pan
800
Tailor Franz Reichelt sought to invent a combination suit/this device, but died after jumping off the Eiffel Tower
a parachute
800
Joan I was a 13th c. queen of Navarre, a land that controlled vital passes in these Franco-Spanish mountains
the Pyrenees
800
Scientifically, the one that's part of your hand is the metacarpus; the tree is Nypa fruticans
palm
***
800
The 2001 edition of this city's Jazz Fest, commemorating Louis Armstrong's centennial, drew 650,000 fans
New Orleans
800
Birds do it, bees do it, it being this act that fertilizes flowers; hummingbirds & honeycreepers are noted for it
pollination
800
This Egyptian goddess was called "the female Ra"
Isis
1200
Horace Hunley pioneered this transport & during a test run of one during the Civil War perished along with his crew
a submarine
1200
She reigned as queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504
Isabella
1200
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
How far apart your eyes are is one metric of FRS, short for this tech system used by social media & law enforcement
facial recognition system
1200
At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake's shoreline
Lake Geneva
1200
Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem
an albatross
1200
Dagda, a god of these people of Iron Age Ireland, had a handy magic cauldron called Undry that could feed the planet
the Celts
1600
Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier died in 1785 attempting to cross the English Channel in one of these that he designed
a balloon
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1600
Before she married France's Louis XVI & became queen, Marie-Antoinette was an archduchess of this country
Austria
1600
In math the vertical "rise" of a line is divided by the horizontal "run" to calculate this measure
slope
1600
Tame Impala & Lauryn Hill headlined the 2018 edition of this "pointed" online music magazine's Chicago festival
Pitchfork
1600
A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak
a toucan
1600
**DOUBLE JEOPARDY**
One of Rome's oldest temples was the one of this chief god on the Capitoline Hill
Jupiter
2000
This inventor died while driving one of his "steamer" automobiles, crashing trying to avoid an obstacle on the road
(Francis) Stanley
2000
Born in Catania in the 14th century, Queen Maria of this island lost her kingdom but returned with a fleet & took it back
Sicily
2000
This American artist said his painting "Hotel Window" was "lonelier than I'd planned it"
Edward Hopper
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2000
2018 was a "fallow year" for this "G"iant English festival, skipped to give its fields time to recover from the huge crowds
Glastonbury
2000
Appropriately, the sacred type of this bird was sacred to ancient Egyptians
an ibis
2000
The Aztecs revered this feathered serpent god as the patron of priests, but his Q rating has gone down since then
Quetzalcoatl