Historical Women
Called the ‘Lady with the Lamp’, she was a British nurse who is credited as the founder of modern-day nursing.
Florence Nightingale
Including the area code, the typical one of these is ten digits long.
Phone number
Saying you'll ‘avoid me like the plague’ is a bit of a this–a French-derived word for an overused phrase.
Cliché
At 26.2 miles, it's the longest running event in the Summer Olympics.
The marathon
This animated Disney “tail” was first released in 1961.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
The 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license, she became the first female pilot to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928.
Amelia Earhart
A shape with ten sides is called this.
A decagon
It's a combination of 2 contradictory terms used together, like “sweet sorrow.”
Oxymoron
Throwing events include this one that involves the hurling of a spearlike shaft.
Javelin
Clark Gable won his only Oscar for this 1934 comedy.
It Happened One Night
She dramatically changed the role of the First Lady, advocating for human rights, women's rights, and children's causes. In 1945, she became chair of the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The FBI introduced this compendium in 1950 to publicize dangerous fugitives in the United States.
Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
This is a deliberate exaggeration that adds emphasis, urgency, or excitement to a statement.
Hyperbole
Before the advent of the Winter Olympics in 1924, this winter event was part of the programs for the 1908 and 1920 Summer Olympics.
Figure Skating
“Get off my plane,” says an irate Harrison Ford to a soon-to-be-ejected hijacker in this 1997 thriller.
Air Force One
This Polish scientist's work led to the discovery of two new elements (polonium and radium), and championed the use of radiation in medicine. She also became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in 1903, then she won again in 1911.
Marie Curie
One of the 2 books of the Bible that list the 10 commandments.
Exodus or Deuteronomy
Saying “That went well” after a disaster is an example of the verbal type of this.
Irony
Host of the 2008 Summer Games, this city hosted the 2022 Winter Games, becoming the first city to host both.
Beijing
“A Star Wars Story” is the subtitle of this 2016 release.
Rogue One
Daughter of the poet Lord George Byron, this woman is widely considered to be the first author of a computer program despite having lived long before the invention of the modern computer.
Ada Lovelace (Augusta Ada Byron or Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace)
Introduced in 1921, this psychological test uses 10 standard inkblots.
Rorschach Test
An example of this, also called meiosis, is Kathy Bates’ line as the Titanic sinks, “Now there’s something you don't see every day.”
Understatement
In the 1904 St. Louis Games, George Eyser, who lost his left leg as a youth after it was run over by a train, won 6 Olympic medals. How many of them were gold?
3 (parallel bar, long horse and rope climbing events–he also won silver in the side horse and all-around competitions and bronze on the horizontal bar)
Steven Spielberg directed this 2018 movie about the hunt for an "Easter egg" in a virtual reality called OASIS.
Ready Player One