Alphabet Round - Letter S
An act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any listeners, especially by a character in a play.
Soliloquy
TWO-WORD ANSWER - Set of 174 steep stairs found in Rome which lies between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinita dei Monti church at the top.
Spanish Steps (TWO-WORD ANSWER)
A combination of Keith Richards and Pepe Le Pew were used as an inspiration for the characterization of what fictional character whose original appearance sees him try to regain control of the Black Pearl from Hector Barbossa?
Captain Jack Sparrow
Hermes was known to carry what staff with entwined serpents that today is used as a symbol for commerce?
Caduceus (kuh-doos-EE-us)
Either of the two times during the year, once in the summer and once in the winter, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, which marks the longest and shortest days.
Solstice
TWO-WORD ANSWER - Largest city in both the Western and Southern hemispheres as well as the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world.
Sao Paolo (TWO-WORD ANSWER)
Which key is the relative minor of B-flat major?
G
The eleven bodies of water known as the Finger Lakes are found in what U.S. state?
New York
Medical condition in which a person’s spine has a sideways curve, which is typically in a “C” or “S” shape. Although usually painless, it often requires surgery to correct.
Scoliosis
Saber-toothed squirrel who is obsessed with collection acorns in the Ice Age film series.
Scrat
What is the sum of the first five prime numbers after two?
Thirty-Nine
What man used Cesare Borgia as the inspiration for his most famous work, The Prince?
Niccolo Machiavelli (MOCK-ee-uh-vell-ee)
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I is set in this country, which today is known as Thailand.
Siam
Asian city that has the largest city proper in the world at over 26.3 million people and which is the world’s busiest container port. Due to its shape on a map, it is sometimes nicknamed “the Bottle Opener”.
Shanghai
What is the largest island controlled fully by Indonesia?
Sumatra
The majority of the Ainu peoples live on what Japanese island that is home to the city of Sapporo?
Hokkaido
Muslim Ayyubid sultan who after taking Jerusalem in 1187, fought the Christians in the Third Crusade.
Saladin
Stage name of the musician born Gordon Sumner who as part of a famous band, won a Grammy Award for “Every Breath You Take”.
Sting
Coined by John L. O’Sullivan, what two-word term was used to name the belief that the United States had a right to expand across North America to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
Charles Darwin’s theories were partly influenced by his noticing of variations among the beaks of which specific types of birds in the Galapagos Islands?
Finches