Explorers
On his third voyage in 1778, he reached the Hawaiian Islands & named them the Sandwich Islands, after one of his patrons.
James Cook
George Vancouver
Roald Amundsen
James Cook
Universal Music Group owns this word when applied to music; when applied to the city of Detroit, it's fuzzier.
Funk
Deep Soul
Motown
Motown
This iconic Tchaikovsky piece commemorates the Battle of Borodino, not the war between the U.S. & Great Britain.
Marche Slave
The 1812 Overture
Capriccio Italien
The 1812 Overture
Weighing nearly 3,000 pounds, the third of these Soviet satellites was launched on May 15, 1958.
Sputnik I
Vanguard I
Sputnik II
Sputnik I
In 2020, a life-size bronze statue of this U.S. first lady was unveiled near her hometown of Sevnica.
Dr. Jill Biden
Melania Trump
Michelle Obama
Melania Trump
Pedro Cabral was on his way to India when he somehow landed on the coast of South America & claimed this country for Portugal.
Colombia
Bolivia
Brazil
Brazil
Adobe does not want you to use this imaging term as a verb or noun -- try "airbrush".
Photoshop
Canva
Procreate
Photoshop
"The Red Priest" wasn't just a cool nickname; this composer had a shock of red hair & was ordained in 1703.
Marcello
Bach
Vivaldi
Vivaldi
In 1867 Czar Alexander II sold Alaska to the U.S. & sweetened the deal by throwing in these islands.
Kuril Islands
Kamchatka Peninsula
Aleutian Islands
Aleutian Islands
Rocking out in a square named for him in Johannesburg, this figure perpetually dances the Madiba Jive.
Ayanda Mbatyothi
Roger Federer
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
A statue on the grounds of Minnesota's state capitol honors this Viking, who reached North America around 1000.
Leif Erikson
Thorfinn Karlsefni
Thorvald Eiriksson
Leif Erikson
This word is trademarked both for a "desk-top...card file" & for electronic use.
CamCard
Rolodex
Pipedrive
Rolodex
Arnold Schoenberg & his pupils Alban Berg & Anton Webern are the modernist pillars of the "second school" of this city.
Vienna
Salzburg
Munich
Vienna
Stalin laid down the law with what's called "The Great" this, which found many old Bolsheviks jailed & executed.
Eviction
Purge
Terror
Purge
At the southeast corner of Central Park, this man rides on a horse perpetually trampling a branch symbolizing Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman
Ulysses S. Grant
Philip Sheridan
William Tecumseh Sherman
In 1960 this Kiwi organized & led an expedition in the Himalayas to do high altitude research & to search for the Yeti.
Reinhold Messner
Edmund Hillary
Tenzing Norgay
Edmund Hillary
Sheetrock is a trademark of USG, United States this mineral -- "drywall" is OK.
Fiber Cement
Plywood
Gypsum
Gypsum
This avant-garde Stravinsky opera about puppets come to life features a novel chord, which is named for the piece.
The Rite of Spring
The Golden Age
Petrushka
Petrushka
In 1613 Mikhail became the first czar of this dynasty that would rule Russia for 300 years.
Rurikids
Godunov
Romanov
Romanov
In Syracuse, a statue of him holds a model of a mirror "heat ray" meant to burn Roman warships.
da Vinci
Galilei
Archimedes
Archimedes
Panama's currency is named for this explorer who crossed the isthmus & sighted the Pacific in 1513.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando de Soto
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
In Canada, Loblaws Market owns this alternative 2-word term for "generic" -- it's their generic brand.
Brand Name
White Label
No Name
No Name
This German composer of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is also responsible for renewing interest in the works of Bach.
Dvorak
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Mendelssohn
Russian for "restructuring", this policy was launched by Gorbachev to "borscht up" the economy.
Perestroika
Demokratizatsiya
Glasnost
Perestroika
This person got a huge statue in Moscow -- not in the city they founded -- for the 300th anniversary of the Russian navy.
Catherine the Great
Peter the Great
Ivan the Terrible
Peter the Great