Wrecks
In 1997, Princess Diana was killed in a car crash while fleeing paparazzi in this European capital.
What is Paris?
In 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people confirmed to reach the summit of this mountain
What is Mount Everest?
Arthur Ernest Fitzgerald sued this Watergate president, leading to a 1982 Supreme Court finding that a president cannot be sued for actions taken while he was president
Who is Richard Nixon?
One of the Fitzgerald's nicknames was an allusion to this large, famously doomed vessel
What is the Titanic?
Lightfoot wanted to make his song historically accurate, but his lead guitarist told him, "Just tell a story," quoting this author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Who is Mark Twain?
Among the people killed on the Titanic was Isidor Straus, a co-owner of this department store with a famed location on New York's 34th Street.
What is Macy's?
Edmund Pevensie is first introduced in this 1950 novel, the first book in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series
What is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald was the Boston-born mother of this American president
Who is John F. Kennedy?
On November 9, 1975 at 2:15 p.m., the Fitzgerald left this Wisconsin port city, the "twin" of Duluth
What is Superior?
The song reached this position on the Canadian charts on November 20, 1976, almost exactly a year after the sinking
What is number one?
The 2015 movie Trainwreck stars Amy Schumer, with this current "King" of the NBA in a supporting role.
Who is LeBron James?
Edmund Reid, head of London's Criminal Investigation Division in the 1880s, believed that this famed and still-unknown serial killer was simply a local drunk who didn't remember his crimes
Who is Jack the Ripper?
Security guards Jeremy Fitzgerald and Fritz Smith need to defend themselves from a fictional pizzeria's hostile animatronic mascots in the 2014 installment of this survival horror video game
What is Five Nights at Freddy's?
Flying two red pennants indicates a warning for what, the term for winds between 34-47 knots, or 39-54 miles per hour
What is a gale?
In the song, Lake Superior is periodically referred to by this name, the Anishinaabe name for the lake, also famously used in the beginning of the poem "The Song of Hiawatha"
What is Gitche Gumee?
This NASCAR driver, father to another famed NASCAR driver, was killed during the last lap of the Daytona 500 in 2001.
Who was Dale Earnhardt?
Edmund G. Brown Jr., commonly known as Jerry Brown, served as governor of this state from 1975-1983, and again from 2011-2019
What is California?
This jazz singer is known for songs like "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" and "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
The son of this famed sea explorer was involved in the first manned submersible dive to the Fitzgerald, in 1980.
Who is Jacques Cousteau?
Beginning in 2010, in live performances Lightfoot began using the word "rustic" instead of this original lyrical word to describe the Maritime Sailors' Cathedral
What is "musty?"
This train engineer, killed in a fatal collision in 1900, was immortalized in an eponymous ballad sung by Johnny Cash, among others.
Who was Casey Jones?
Edmund Blackadder is the protagonist of the British historical sitcom Blackadder, starring this Mr. Bean actor
Who is Rowan Atkinson?
St. Paul's Fitzgerald Theater served as the home for this longtime Garrison Keillor radio show
What is A Prairie Home Companion?
In 1995, this part of the Fitzgerald was recovered from the wreck and is now on display at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.
What is the bell?
The 1975 article "The Cruelest Month," from this news magazine, provided Lightfoot with many details for the song
What is Newsweek?