Sydney, You Say?
Out of Africa, Tootsie, and Cold Mountain are just a few of the movies directed by this actor/director, whose name sounds like a variety of white fish.
Who is Sydney Pollack?
If you _________ some cheese on top, it's going to taste __________.
What is grate/great?
In 1969 she published an article called "After Black Power, Women's Liberation", and was still active for the cause in the 1990s when she initiated "Take Our Daughters To Work Day".
Who is Gloria Steinem?
The Incas of Peru believed that their dragons had two heads, one a puma (mountain lion) and the other this long-necked pack animal.
What is a llama?
It is the opposite of horizontal.
What is Vertical?
"To err is human, to forgive __________"
What is divine? (Alexander Pope)
"Fly like and eagle to ________ __________" is the chorus of the 1976 Steve Miller Band hit song.
What is the sea?
The name Sydney is a shortened version of Saint Denys (St Denis), a 3rd-century Christian martyr from this European country. It first emerged as a name in English in the 1600s.
What is France?
The captain was aghast to find that worms had ______ through the ________ at his dinghy's stern.
What is bored/board?
With only five days to plan and publicize it, the first Women's rights convention (in the USA) was held in July of 1848 in Seneca Falls, in this northern state.
What is New York?
During the Tri-Wizard Tournament, this fictional English schoolboy had to steal an egg from a mama dragon.
Who is Harry Potter?
This fortified wine is used in martinis.
What is vermouth?
"That Which Does Not Kill Us Makes ________ _______."
What is "Us Stronger"?
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
How many "Little Birds" did Bob Marley sing about on his doorstep in the morning? (Released in 1977)
What is three?
Sydney McLaughlin Levrone is the world-record holder in this track event which involves leaping barriers along the 400 meter raceway.
What is the hurdles? (400 meter hurdles)
How does the ivory-_________ woodpecker _________ it's nest?
What is billed/build?
Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) was an American attorney and activist who spoke and lobbied against this proposed constitutional law.
What is the Equal Rights Amendment?
In this Asian country dragons are considered auspicious symbols of wealth, power and leadership.
What is China?
The Motto of Harvard University is "Semper ________", meaning always truth.
What is veritas?
"There's no use in _________ over spilt milk"
What is Crying?
(anonymous- from Faery lore)
The chorus of Stevie Nicks' 1981 hit Edge of Seventeen mentions this "white-winged" relative of the pigeon.
What is a dove?
In 1788 Sydney, Australia was founded when a fleet of rough men led by Arthur Philip landed to create the first European settlement in the continent, specifically a __________ colony.
What is penal?
There are many excellent ___________ to find out how much your pet _________.
What are ways/weighs?
Betty Friedan published a book "The ___________ Mystique" in 1963, which described a stultifying lack of purpose in the lives of many post-WWII American women, and became an instant best-seller.
What is "Feminine"?
Tiamat was a Mesopotamian goddess who took dragon form to sew chaos, until the god, Marduk, defeated her, bringing order to this ancient city, famous for its marvelously high tower.
What is Babylon?
There is only one of these instruments in a string quartet.
What is a viola?
"If you want something done right, _________ ________ ____________.
What is "do it yourself"?
(Charles-Guillaume Etienne)
Bobby Day had a 1957 hit with this tune about a "Rockin'" bird.
What is a robin?
In 1964 he became the first person from the Bahamas to win an Academy Award for best actor in the USA. (He was born in Florida, but raised in the Bahamas with his family.)
Who is Sydney Poitier? (He was also the first black man to win an Oscar.)
He nearly _________ the gate, since the _________ had turned to fog by the time he reached the inn.
What are missed/mist?
The grandmother of Gloria Steinem, Pauline Perlmutter Steinem, was a delegate to the 1908 International Council Of Women, and worked to get for US women the right to vote, also known as ___________.
What is suffrage?
The Norse Dragon, "Nidhoggr", gnaws on the roots of the tree of life from his subterranean abode in one of these called "Verger", where local people quench their thirst using a bucket on a chain.
What is a well?
The seat of Clay County, South Dakota shares a name with this red-orange pigment, produced from powdered cinnabar.
What is vermillion?
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and ______ _________ _________."
What is "remove all doubt"?
(Abraham Lincoln, OR Maurice Switzer)
He wrote the lyrics to the hit song Blackbird about young women in the struggle for civil rights in the 1960s.
Who is Paul McCartney of the Beatles? Song was released in 1968.