WARS & BATTLES
IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
IT'S A SIGN
NOT LIKE US
OPPOSITES
SESAME STREET
200
Don't get your history from ABBA: Napoleon didn't surrender until 4 weeks after this disastrous battle
Waterloo
200
The "Eliot Indian" this, the first version printed in America, was translated into an Algonquin dialect by a Puritan clergyman
a Bible
200
This Los Angeles landmark situated on Mount Lee was originally built as an advertisement for real estate
the Hollywood Sign
200
The Test Device for Human Occupant Restraint, or THOR, is commonly called this; prior to its development cadavers were used
a crash test dummy
200
Benjamin Moore sells these 2 opposite paint types, one for indoors, one for outdoors
interior & exterior
Triple Stumper
200
Elmo is best friends with Zoe, but not her pet; Zoe thinks this pet is alive--it's not alive, it can't talk or do anything
Rocco
400
A turning point of this war was the 11-month Siege of Sevastopol, which ended in September 1855
the Crimean War
400
A reconstruction of this man's library includes 2,000 volumes he sold to Congress in 1815
Jefferson
400
The iconic arch in the heart of downtown this Nevada city welcomes visitors to "The Biggest Little City in the World"
Reno
400
In a 1987 film Andrew McCarthy falls in love with Kim Cattrall, one of these figures that's come under an ancient spell
a mannequin
400
Put these 2 words together to get a type of dark chocolate & a commonly cited oxymoron
bitter & sweet (bittersweet)
400
Throughout the years, lots of people have stopped by to visit Sesame Street, like Alex Trebek & Ken Jennings--why can't they leave a grouch alone?!--but the very first was this guy, who recited the alphabet for us
James Earl Jones
Triple Stumper
600
George Orwell fought on the Aragon front of this war & recounted his experiences in "Homage to Catalonia"
the Spanish Civil War
600
A 1906 proclamation by this city's mayor says police "have been authorized by me to kill any & all persons found engaged in looting"
San Francisco
600
As part of a 2001 restoration, the sign outside this city's Ebenezer Baptist Church was fixed & lit for the first time in years
Atlanta
600
Ryan Gosling falls in love with a life-size doll named Bianca who is not under an Egyptian curse in this film
Lars and the Real Girl
600
Referring to Ursa Major, these 2 opposite geographic regions derive their names from Greek for "bear" & "opposite the bear"
Arctic & Antarctic
600
Oh, hello there, me, Alistair Cookie, host of this segment where me present drama for viewers to devour, like "Me, Claudius" & "Chariots of Fur"
Monsterpiece Theater
Triple Stumper
800
At the Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great delivered a devastating blow to the Persian forces of this king III
Darius (III)
Triple Stumper
800
A 1928 Northwest Airways ad offered early passenger service between Minneapolis-St. Paul & Cicero Field in this city
Chicago
Triple Stumper
800
In Paris' Montmartre neighborhood, the sign & red windmill atop this cabaret were first illuminated in 1889
the Moulin Rouge
800
Japanese roboticist Masahiro Miro first proposed this phenomenon where not quite human likeness gives us the creeps
the uncanny valley
800
This pair of adjectives can describe 2 types of sentences or 2 kinds of carbohydrates, based on their molecular structure
simple & complex
800
We know that on "Jeopardy!" you like for the answer to be a question, so here goes; a song we love starts "Sunny day, sweepin' the clouds away" & ends with this question
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street?
1000
This leader of Germany's Afrika Korps was called der Wüstenfuchs at home
Rommel
1000
A 1776 broadside is the first printed report of Washington's crossing the Delaware to attack this N.J. town
Trenton
1000
A relic of its manufacturing heyday, a light-up Domino Sugars sign has graced this city's Inner Harbor since 1951
Baltimore
Triple Stumper
1000
John Donne, Percy Shelley & Goethe all claimed to see these German-named ghostly doubles of loved ones
Doppelgängers
1000
The word piano is a shortening of pianoforte, meaning these 2 opposites
loud & soft
1000
(Bert: With all due respect to Ken Jennings, over here on Sesame Street, this is our favorite game show host.) (Ernie: He's hosted such classics as "Name That Sound" & "Mystery Mix-Up".)
(Guy) Smiley