Dealing with Things Diplomatically
Jefferson sent James Monroe to France to buy this port city & West Florida for $10 mil, max; Napoleon said how about all of Louisiana for 15?
What is New Orleans?
The climax of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show is this award
What is Best in Show?
Those on the Big Island of Hawaii are familiar with the basaltic lava whose name consists of just this letter twice
What is A?
Jackson Browne's "The Load-Out" is a thank you to these folks who move & set up equipment--"Let" them "Take the Stage"
What are Roadies?
US PRESIDENTS:
BEFORE CLINTON, HE WAS THE LAST U.S. PRESIDENT WHO WAS A LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE
Who is Gerald Ford?
The 6th century Peloponnesian League was a coalition of city-states led by this one big on the military
Who is Sparta?
Max Dale Cooper got a Robert Koch Award & 100,000 euros in part for figuring out how leukocytes, also called these cells, work & fail
What are White Blood Cells?
Don't be stingy with the Cabernet at one of these parties of mass revelry named for everyone's favorite wine god
What is Bacchanal?
Before he was infamous, Phil Spector was famous for this elaborate production style of many '60s hits
What is The Wall of Sound?
AFI LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
THEY'RE THE ONLY FATHER & SON TO RECEIVE THE AFI's LIFE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD-- DAD IN 1991, SON IN 2009
Who are Kirk and Michael Douglas?
In 1994 U.S. diplomats got this country's deposed President Aristide reinstated just in time to head off an invasion
What is Haiti?
In the early 20th c. these were given out for literature; Baron Pierre de Coubertin won one under a pen name for "Ode to Sport"
What are Olympic Medals?
You'll need 3 "F"s to spell this word for a disorderly confusion given to us by the Scots
What is Kerfuffle?
The many Grammys of this legendary musician & producer include Best R&B Song for "Cuff It" in 2023
Who is Nile Rodgers
SIGNS OF THE TIMES:
FIRST TURNED ON IN 1989 IN TIMES SQUARE, THE "CLOCK" MEASURING THIS RAN OUT OF DIGITS IN OCTOBER 2008
What is the National Debt?
In 2023 Saudi Arabia resumed diplomatic work in this other Arab country a decade after ending it due to the long Civil War
What is Syria?
In 2023 Paul Giamatti, a graduate of this university & son of its 19th president, got an honorary doctorate there
What is Yale?
Giant monsters like Rodan or Mechagodzilla are these creatures in Japanese
What is Kaiju?
A 2008 documentary tells the story of the legendary group of L.A. studio musicians known by this destructive nickname
What is the Wrecking Crew?
US TOWNS:
THIS STATE WITH SEVERAL HUNDRED GHOST TOWNS WAS ADMITTED TO THE UNION ON HALLOWEEN IN 1864
What is Nevada?
In 1956 this U.N. Secretary-General from Sweden worked with Canada's Lester Pearson to resolve the Suez Crisis
Who is Hammerskjold?
As is often said when a Tony Award is given out, they're from this "American" organization
What is The American Theater Wing?
Something that moves counterclockwise or off course is said to have gone this manner that ends with some leg parts
What is Widdershins
The Beatles were just one of many artists with whom this legendary English producer crafted hit after hit
Who is George Martin?
ONE OF IOWA'S TOP TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IS A SET FROM THIS 1989 MOVIE
What is Field of Dreams?