Unscrabbles
Tears: to look fixedly at something.
What is "Stare?"
Author Violet Jessop survived three ship disasters: the RMS Olympic when it collided with British warship HMS Hawke in 1911, the sinking of the HMHS Britannic in 1916, and this in 1912.
What is "the sinking of the Titanic"?
An oil painting "Woman-Ochre" by the famous artist Willem de Kooning was found in the bedroom of Jerry and Rita Alter after their deaths in 2017, having been stolen from this university in 1985.
What is "Arizona"?
This legendary circus leader is known for the slogan “The Greatest Show on Earth.”
Who is "P.T. Barnum"?
Legendary cowboy Pecos Bill, known for his exaggerated tales, once claimed to have ridden this natural disaster like a bronco.
What is "tornado"?
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What is "Steam"?
Trapped underwater for three days in a sunken ship, Harrison Okene tapped sent this code to rescuers in 2013.
What is "Morse"
The “Liberty Bell 7” capsule that was lost in 1961 in the Atlantic ocean but recovered in 1999 had been used to travel here.
What is "space"?
The seven-person pyramid was a famously dangerous high-wire act performed by this family.
Who are "The Flying Wallendas"?
Bass Reeves was a legendary African-Native American cowboy and US Marshall was known for his silver-mounted saddle and was the inspiration this fictional character.
What is "The Lone Ranger"?
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What is "trade"?
After a German submarine U-172 sank on 23 November 1942, sole survivor Poon Lim survived on this makeshift device until he was rescued on 133 days later, a record which still stands.
Hiker Aron Ralston amputated this part of his body with a dull knife after being pinned by a boulder in 2003.
What is "eight-foot wooden raft"?
What is "his arm"?
This string instrument, built in 1684 and is one only about 60 made by Stradivari in his Cremona, Italy, workshop, was later found in a trash can after being left in a taxi.
What is "cello"?
This circus originated in this French-speaking Canadian province of Québec.
what is "Cirque du Soleil"?
This cowboy-turned-actor often played villains but was a real-life stuntman and rodeo champion before Hollywood.
Who is "Slim Pickens"?
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What is "Later"?
Sailor and explorer Alexander Selkirk survived being marooned on this for four years in the 1700s.
Lifetime criminal Frank Morris escaped from this, and except for meetings with family members, was never to be heard from again.
What is "Alcatraz Prison"?
Stolen during a Christmas show in 1963, a 1962 Gibson J-160E acoustic guitar used by this famous musician on early including “I Want to Hold Your Hand" resurfaced in California in 2014, was authenticated, and auctioned off at Julien's Auctions in Gardena, California for 2.4 million.
Who is "John Lennon"?
The first mainstream person to perform as this role was portrayed by Joseph Grimaldi, who also created the traditional whiteface make-up design.
What is "clown"?
This former Texas Ranger turned outlaw led the infamous “Wild Bunch” gang.
Who is "Who is Butch Cassidy"?
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What is "Least"?
During World War II the group of prisoners who escaped from a German POW camp through a tunnel was called this.
This pilot survived being shot down over North Vietnam and was a prisoner of war for over five years.
What is "The Great Escape"?
Who is "John McCain"?
In 66 C.E. the occupying Roman forces began their repression of Judea, and the Essenes were forced to abandon their community at Qumran. In haste, they hid the most precious of their manuscripts, including their Community Rule, into sealed clay jars, leaving the remainder of the Library scrolls in their pigeon holes.
What are "The Dead Sea Scrolls"? This, the oldest known copies of biblical works, Translation of Scripture (תרגום מקרא) – These are translations of scriptural texts into Aramaic and Greek. The Dead Sea Scrolls, in the narrow sense identical with the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period. They were discovered over a period of ten years, between 1946 and 1956, at the Qumran Caves near Ein Feshkha in the West Bank, on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.
19th-century performer George Farini pioneered an act that uses this type of ball.
What is "human cannonball"?
This former slave became a legendary rodeo performer, earning the nickname “The Dusky Demon” and invented “bulldogging,” or steer wrestling, a rodeo event still popular today.
Who is "Bill Pickett"?