Sports Across America
Most remember him as baseball player but the Rose Bowl statue of this multi-sport star reminds people he played football as a UCLA Bruin.
Who is JACKIE ROBINSON?
His Green Hills of Africa is an account of big game hunting in Tanganyika in the 1930s.
Who is HEMMINGWAY?
In Wagner's Ring Cycle a coveted ring made of this allows its owner to rule the world.
What is GOLD?
Herman Long committed 1045 more than any other player in professional baseball history.
What is ERRORS?
Ermine explodes after chase by Capuchin in shoe repair shop.
What is POP GOES THE WEASEL?
Pimlico is home to this horse race the second of the Triple crown.
What is THE PREAKNESS?
The Times They Are A-Changin' from his 1964 album of the same name became an instant anthem.
Who is BOB DYLAN?
Of tragic, comic or dramatic the style of Opera Buffa.
What is COMIC?
In 1977 suicidal T. Helms jumped off the 86th floor of this building only to land on the 85th floor ledge.
What is THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING?
Lass's lost lambs found in mutilated condition.
What is LITTLE BO PEEP?
At the Bank of America Stadium the Carolina Panthers led by this quarterback qualified for the Superbowl in 2016.
Who is CAM NEWTON?
She penned Fighting Angel a biography of her father Absalom Sydenstricker a missionary in China.
Who is PEARL BUCK?
La Sonnambula is about a lady whose presence in the wrong man's bedroom is merely a case of this.
What is SLEEPWALKING?
In 1967 in England 16 months after being sterilized a woman went back to the same hospital to do this.
What is TO GIVE BIRTH?
Panic a palace: king's pastry contains 2 dozen birds that survived baking.
What is SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE?
This 7-footer from Nigeria was the MVP of the finals for both of the Houston Rocket's NBA titles.
Who is (HAKEEM)OLAJUWON?
This colorful Toni Morrison work follows a black girl's struggle to achieve white ideals of beauty.
What is THE BLUEST EYE?
At the end of Mozart's opera of the same name this famous lover is dragged to hell by a statue.
What is DON JUAN (DON GIOVANNI)?
Anatomically incorrect the Lacoste shirt logo was supposed to be R. Lacoste's nickname.
What is THE CROCODILE?
Handicapped rodents mutilated by farmer's wife.
What is THREE BLIND MICE?
In the first regular-season NFL game at U.S. Bank Stadium the Vikings beat this team that plays its home games closest to Minneapolis.
What is THE GREEN BAY PACKERS?
The 2nd & 3rd books of Faulkner's trilogy about this family were published almost 2 decades after the first.
Who is THE SNOPES FAMILY?
NBC's Italian Maestro who at the age of 19 replaced an unpopular conductor & did Aida from memory.
Who was ARTURO TOSCANINI?
Soft drink company whose Come Alive slogan in China meant ..it brings your ancestors back from the grave.
What is PEPSI?
Young couple in hiking tragedy; boy sustains grave head injury.
What is JACK & JILL?