Europe
1st nation to "break" from Soviet bloc, its name means "land of the southern Slavs".
What is Yugoslavia?
The original quantity of this unit of measure was 480 sheets of paper; now some round it to 500.
What is a ream?
He wrote that "persons attempting to find a plot" in "Huck Finn" "will be shot".
Who is Mark Twain?
With "rings on her fingers & bells on her toes, she shall have" this "wherever she goes".
What is music?
Rounding this in 1616, Dutch explorer Willem Schouten named it after his home town of Hoorn.
What is Cape Horn?
Bonny Ben Nevis, highest peak in the United Kingdom is in this country.
What is Scotland?
In the Greek system of telling time, this was the length of an "Olympiad".
What is 4 years?
This author's son Jack wrote "Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With & Without Papa.".
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
He "kissed the girls & made them cry," but "when the boys came out to play," he ran away.
Who is Georgie Porgie?
Canadian province found by John Cabot in 1497, which may be how it got its name.
What is Newfoundland?
Soviet rejection of this 1947 plan marked end of efforts to achieve total European economic unity.
What is Marshall Plan?
1 of 2 units of measure whose names are from the Latin "uncia", meaning "twelfth part".
What is ounce (or inch)?
So no one would read it, this Atlanta belle had her novella about interracial lovers destroyed.
Who is Margaret Mitchell?
After "Jack fell down & broke his crown", he "went to bed to mend his head" using brown paper & this liquid.
What is vinegar?
In 1520, he found the strait at 52 deg. 30' south that now bears his name.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This river & its tributaries carry more traffic than any other river system in Europe.
What is Rhine?
A measure in music or a measure by which gold is sold.
What is a bar?
Encyclopedia Americana calls him the "1st great dramatist" in American literature.
Who is Eugene O’Neill?
"With silver bells, & cockle shells, & pretty maids all in a row".
What is Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary how does you garden grow?
He discovered Lake Tanganyika with John Speke, but translated "The Arabian Nights" by himself.
Who is Sir Richard Burton?
The 3 capital cities of Scandinavia.
What are Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen?
Swedish astronomer who developed the centigrade scale.
Who is (Anders) Celsius?
This short novel, Melville's last, wasn't published until 33 years after his death.
What is Billy Budd?
One theory says "Ring-A-Ring-A-Roses" refers to this medieval disaster.
What is the plague (black death)?
In the 16th century, area Tycho Brahe was noted for exploring.
What is the solar system (space, the heavens)?