The Sphere of Science
The hawk owl is unusual for producing almost perfectly spherical ones
eggs
JP ___ Chase or ___ Stanley
Morgan
1989:
Hoke Colburn, a chauffeur
Driving Miss Daisy
Following conflict with Parliament, this English king was beheaded in 1649
Charles I
7,300 square miles in area, it's the smallest of the Great Lakes
Ontario
In 1543 the world revolved around this man who wrote "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"
Copernicus
Mutual of this city bank
Omaha
1994:
Red Redding, a lifer at a Maine prison
The Shawshank Redemption
He was beheaded in Paris in 1793
Louis XVI
To exceed one's previous best effort is to this "yourself"
outdo
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. On a sphere, the shortest route is described as this, a term preceding "dome" in a Buckminster Fuller structure
geodesic
Goldman this son-in-law to Goldman
Sachs
2014:
Vitruvius (voice only)
The Lego Movie
Bela I of Hungary died ignominiously when this furniture symbol of his royalty collapsed, mortally wounding him
his throne
A long piece of classical music for singers & an orchestra
oratorio
Not a Dirty Harry movie, magnus force makes soccer balls curve due to this resistant force acting on 1 side of the spinning sphere
drag
In the name of TD Bank, T is this city & D is dominion
Toronto
2013:
Archie, visiting Sin City with 3 old, old pals
Last Vegas
This Zulu leader was slain by his half brothers in Southern Africa in 1828
Shaka Zulu
Often used in soups, it's a pasta shaped like grains of rice
orzo
On Aug. 15, 1934 this craft with "sphere" in its name took 2 men 3,028 feet underwater, a record that stood for 15 years
Bathysphere
HSBC stands for these 2 Chinese places Banking Corporation
Hong Kong and Shanghai
2009:
Nelson Mandela
Invictus
Bavarian King Louis II, also known by this German version of the name, mysteriously drowned soon after being declared insane
Ludwig
Early Shakespeare poems & plays were sometimes printed in this format about 5x7 inches, smaller than a quarto
octavo