Authors
First name shared by T.S Eliot & Tennessee Williams.
What is Thomas?
The only British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who was Winston Churchill?
King of Phrygia who received the golden touch from Bacchus.
Who is Midas?
63% of all college students who drop out do so due to a lack of this.
What is money?
You go there to visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
What is Arlington National Cemetery?
Named Francis Scott Key for his ancestor who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”, he was better known as this.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Ritualistic sport in which knights with blunted lances attempted to unhorse each other.
What is jousting?
As Venus was to the Romans, she was to the Greeks.
Who is Aphrodite?
In 1980, NJ passed stiff penalties for engaging in this fraternity activity.
What is hazing?
Now a restored tourist attraction, this city became Colonial Virgnia’s capital in 1699.
What is Williamsburg?
Amherst, Mass. Poetess who wrote, “I heard a fly buzz when I died”.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
On Aug. 24th 1814, the British invaded this country’s capital.
What is the United States?
Daedalus & Icarus escaped from prison this way.
What is by flying?
For some lost reason, kissing these joints was popular at Brown Uni. In the 1920s.
What are knees?
Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd’s brother was this polar explorer.
Who is Admiral Byrd?
She originally named her heroine Pansy O’Hara & her novel “Tomorrow Is Another Day”.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
Henry VIII outlawed the payment of “Peter’s pence” to him.
Who is the Pope?
The principal river of the nether world.
What is the river Styx?
This Pac-10 school has won more NCAA championships than any other college.
What is USC?
It’s 1 of America’s best-loved square dances.
What is the Virginia reel?
He usually describes the plight of the Jews, but in 1952 his 1st novel, “The Natural”, was about baseball.
Who was Bernard Malamud?
Government official & diarist who gave us 1st hand account of London’s Great Fire.
Who is (Samuel) Pepys?
Shaw named a play for this woman-hating sculptor who came to love the statue he created.
What is Pygmalion?
Cornell Uni. Plantation is home to both poisonous plants and this “Mary” plant.
What is marijuana?
In 1862, “Stonewall” Jackson fought his way through this beautiful Virginia valley.
What is the Shenandoah (Valley)?