Starts with "Rub-"
A competitive object; or multicolored desk toy.
What is a Rubix Cube?
This river flows under the Ponte Vecchio.
What is the Arno?
If you see this color smoke, a new pope has been selected.
What is white?
Any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.
What is a UFO?
Appreciation of kindness.
What is grateful?
This athlete said, "hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."
Who is Muhammed Ali?
The point of no return.
What is a rubicon?
The main river running through Rome.
What is the Tiber?
The declaration of a person as a saint.
What is canonization?
UT, AZ, NM and this state intersect at the Four Corners.
What is CO (Colorado)?
To move from one region or habitat or another, according to the seasons.
What is migrate?
This Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
ie. isopropyl and ethyl
What is rubbing alcohol?
This monument, located just north of the ancient Roman Forum, is dedicated to this 19th century King.
Who is Victor Emmanuel II?
The only pope from Argentina.
Who is Pope Francis?
Home of LAS (airport), aka "America's Playground".
What is Las Vegas?
To leave one's country of origin for another.
What is emigration?
The first African American to serve as Secretary of State.
Who is Colin Powell?
Junkluggers, trash haulers, and these.
What are rubbish removers?
The official armed force of the Holy See.
What is the Swiss Guard?
During this major battle in 1527, Pope Clement VI escaped Vatican City via the Passetto di Borgo as troops of Charles V invaded.
What is the Sack of Rome?
This disappearing NRA, located on the border of Arizona and Nevada, is fed by the also disappearing Colorado River.
What is Lake Mead?
To calculate a function of which a given function is the derivative.
What is integrating?
In 1955, this fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman.
Who is Emmett Till?
"Look at that accident, honey!", says one of these.
What is a rubbernecker?
The Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome is also known as the Mausoleum of this ancient Roman emperor.
Who is Hadrian?
The de jure language of Vatican City.
What is Latin?
If you touchdown in ABQ, you're here.
What is Albuquerque?
An ungrateful person.
What is an ingrate?
Nobel Prize winning author of "The Bluest Eye".
Who is Toni Morrison?
The second oldest currency. One of these equals 100 kopeks.
What is a Ruble?
The first de facto Lord of Florence, and second gran maestro of the Medici Bank.
Who is Cosimo?
The site of the papal conclave.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
Major festival located in Austin, Texas.
What is SXSW?
To defame or belittle.
What is denigration?
This Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?