Genre Fiction
AUTHORS - In addition to knowing many languages & making up his own, he also taught language at the Universities of Leeds & Oxford
Who was Tolkien?
LANDLOCKED COUNTRIES - Losing its ocean access in 1993, this African Union member is the most populous landlocked nation, with 110 million people
What is Ethiopia?
POP MUSIC - First released as a single in 1982, this song was re-released & charted again 17 years later & 17 years after that
What is "1999"?
U.S. HISTORY - On April 7, 1789 Charles Thomson & Sylvanus Bourne left New York City to tell these 2 men the results of a vote taken the day before
Who were Washington and Adams?
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES - In 2019 this public university attempted to trademark the word “The” for use on clothing & hats
What is "(The) Ohio State University?"
FICTIONAL FAMILIES - Introduced in the 1930s in The New Yorker, they’ve appeared on TV & Broadway & in live action & animated films
Who are the Addams Family?
CONTINENTAL GEOGRAPHY - Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea & Somalia make up this region named for its resemblance to a part of a native animal
What is the Horn of Africa?
MUSIC LEGENDS - Of their July 1957 first meeting at a church fair, one of this pair recalled: "I was a fat schoolboy and… he was drunk"
Who are Lennon & McCartney?
ASIA - This country became independent in 1946; in 1964 it officially switched its independence day from July 4 to June 12
What is the Philippines?
WOMEN WHO WRITE - Mimicking her style, a 1912 rejection note read: “Only one look, only one look is enough. Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one"
Who was Gertrude Stein?
LITERARY THRILLERS - The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it’s narrated by one of 007’s paramours
What is the Spy Who Loved Me?
AFRICAN MONARCHS - Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
Who was Haile Selassie?
1960s SINGERS - In 2002 Macon, Ga., where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit
Who was Otis Redding?
NOTORIOUS - In 1897 she was accused of a much lesser crime, shoplifting in Rhode Island
Who is Lizzie Borden?
WORLD CITIES - This Colombian port of 1 million people gets its name from Phoenician for “New Town”
What is Cartagena?
FICTIONAL PLACES - Introduced to readers in 2008, its name comes from a Latin phrase for “bread and circuses”, offerings used to appease the masses
What is Panem?
AFRICAN SURNAMES - Adetokunbo, "the crown has returned from overseas", is fitting for the Adetokunbo family who left Nigeria for this country in 1991
What is Greece?
CLASSIC ALBUMS - The title of this huge hit 1977 album was the idea of the bass player, who specified it should be spelled the British way
What is Rumours?
NOTABLE BRITS - On this man's death in a 1935 motorcycle accident, Churchill said, his "pace of life was faster & more intense than the ordinary"
Who is T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
WORLD CITIES - From Sydney, Australia go 7,000 miles east & less than 1/2 degree of latitude north to this capital also near the Pacific
What is Santiago?
LITERARY INSPIRATIONS - The now-debunked theories of Luigi Galvani influenced the science in this 1818 novel
What is Frankenstein?
COUNTRIES OF AFRICA - Old maps depicting what’s now this 125,000-square-mile country labeled the area with the French word for “teeth”
What is Côte d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast?
1970s SONGS - In 1976 “Bohemian Rhapsody” was replaced at No. 1 on the U.K. charts by this Europop song whose title is heard in Queen’s lyrics
What is "Mamma Mia"?
19TH CENTURY AMERICANS - In 1869 he moved to Yosemite Valley & was the first to say the area was formed by glacial erosion, a theory generally accepted today
Who is John Muir?
HISTORIC CALENDARS - Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th-century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning “heat gift”
What is Thermidor?