Astronomy
Common name of the Aurora Borealis.
What are the Northern Lights?
Said to have started the Great Chicago Fire.
Who is Mrs. O'Leary's cow?
The 3 groups mentioned in the 1st line of Marc Anthony’s eulogy on Caesar.
What is “friends, Romans, countrymen”?
From family Engraulidae, no real Caesar salad is complete without them.
What is anchovies?
Favorite alcoholic drink of Scotland.
What is Scotch?
Since ancient Greece, their brightness has been measured in magnitude.
What are stars?
Proceeds “Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle..”
What is the cow jumped over the moon?
Philip Roth story where Neil tells us, “The 1st time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses”.
What is Goodbye, Columbus?
A whale’s tail fin, or an unexpected stroke of good luck.
What is a fluke?
This country's highest mountain range, Macgillycuddy's Reeks, only reach to 3,419 ft.
What is Ireland?
His book “Sidereus Nuncius” on telescope use was a best seller of 1610.
Who is Galileo?
Wife of Elmer, she's the Borden cow.
Who is Elsie?
It begins, “Mr. Phileas Fogg lived in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Road, Burlington Gardens…”.
What is Around the World in Eighty Days?
Among the most beautiful & most deadly of reef fishes, it could appropriately be called “King of the Ocean”.
What is a lionfish?
Melted cheese & beer on toast dish named for country that made it famous.
What is Welsh Rarebit?
The Perseids of August & the Taurids of November are showers of these.
What are meteors?
Cow seen in Mickey Mouse cartoons who shares her name with a male Howdy Doody character.
Who is Clarabelle?
It begins, “Marley was dead to begin with”.
What is A Christmas Carol?
Named for the salad vegetable it resembles, the Chinese use it as a food called trepang.
What is a sea cucumber?
Cats, dogs & budgerigars, an Aussie variety of these, are most popular English pets.
What are parakeets?
During this, irregularities of the moon’s edge cause what are called Baily’s Beads.
What is a solar eclipse?
1 of 2 breeds named for a British Channel island on which they were developed.
What is a Guernsey (or Jersey)?
TV show whose theme begins, “Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale…”
What is Gilligan’s Island?
The sand dollar is actually a species of this with tiny spines & flattened “shell”.
What is a sea urchin?
The Capital of the island country Jersey.
What is Saint Helier?