Hey, What Year Is It?
The country gets re-hitched at Appomattox Court House; "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" begin.
1860
1865
1876
1865
Regular visitor that got its name in 1759.
Borrelly Comet
Halley's Comet
Hyatutake Comet
Halley's Comet
This 2009 movie won Oscars for art direction, cinematography & visual effects.
Amelia
Adventureland
Avatar
Avatar
With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he's the longest-ruling king in European history.
Henry IV
Louis XIII
Louis XIV
Louis XIV
"Phileas Fogg had, without suspecting it, gained one day on his journey, and this merely because he had traveled constantly eastward".
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the World in Eighty Days
Two Years' Vacation
Around the World in Eighty Days
The stock market crashes; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre goes down; Trotsky gets exiled from Russia... man, that's a rough year.
1925
1929
1932
1929
An unusual object known as 288P has a tail so it's classed as a comet, but it's basically a binary this, also called a minor planet.
an Asteroid
a Star
a Dwarf
David Koechner was quirky sportscaster Champ Kind in this 2004 comedy.
A Cinderella Story
Anchorman
Along Came Polly
Anchorman
The great earthquake of this European capital that took place in 1755.
Lisbon
Madrid
Stockholm
Lisbon
"No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal".
Animal Farm
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Down and Out in Paris and London
Animal Farm
John Kerry is nominated for president; the Spirit Rover lands on Mars.
2004
2006
2009
2004
The 4 visible parts of a comet are the nucleus, coma, ion tail & this tail that sounds like a bottle of Pledge will get rid of it.
Powder
Draft
Dust
Dust
It won the Oscar as the best film of 2012.
Argo
The Avengers
Anna Karenina
Argo
After the second of these wars between Carthage & Rome, Spain was divided into provinces called Hispania Ulterior & Citerior.
The Roman-Parthian Wars
The Punic Wars
The Sicilian Wars
The Punic Wars
"We would not talk of Manderley, I would not tell my dream. For Manderley was ours no longer".
My Cousin Rachel
The Scapegoat
Rebecca
Rebecca
The American Revolution ends; Washington Irving begins; Russia annexes Crimea, not for the last time.
1779
1783
1787
1783
In 1997 the world caught sight of this comet named for 2 amateur astronomers.
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Hale-Bopp
Holmes
Hale-Bopp
This 1997 thriller about President Marshall was set largely on the title transport.
Amistad
Absolute Power
Air Force One
Air Force One
In 2011, Czechs observed a period of mourning after the death of this president, poet & playwright.
Vaclav Havel
Ariel Dorfman
Norman Manea
Vaclav Havel
"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought".
Frankenstein
The Last Man
Lodore
Frankenstein
Burr kills Hamilton non-musically; Lewis & Clark set out; Friedrich Schiller tells the tale of William Tell.
1801
1804
1807
1804
The source of many observable short-period comets is the belt beyond Neptune named for this Dutch-American astronomer.
Jan Hendrik Oort
Christiaan Huygens
Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Kuiper
The title of this 2007 film starring Saoirse Ronan is a synonym for expiation.
American Gangster
Atonement
Awake
Atonement
A famous one of these groups assembled at Worms in 1521.
Council
Diet
Cabinet
Diet
"I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel".
The Invisible Man
War of the Worlds
The World Set Free
War of the Worlds