Churches & Cathedrals
The word “church” can be traced back to “Kyros”, meaning “power” in this language.
What is Greek?
As stars are on celestial navigators’ chart, so these are on charts for piloting.
What are landmarks (buoys)?
Letter referring to string originally used to hold up Indian’s loincloths.
What is a G?
Eons of wind & rain have worn away ancient mountains, making this smallest continent the flattest too.
What is Australia?
It’s said he turned down Pulitzer for “Arrowsmith” because he felt he was due one sooner.
Who was Sinclair Lewis?
A church is called a “cathedral” when this official’s chair, a “cathedra” in Latin, is there.
What is a bishop?
This hard yellowish tartar found on teeth sounds like a mathematical matter.
What is calculus?
How Mr. Roger’s sweaters “suit him”.
What is to a T?
Of 4, 12, or 20, the number of independent counties in Africa before WWII.
What is 4?
In 1895, this 67-year-old count learned to ride the bicycle he received from Moscow admirers.
Who was Tolstoy?
Traditionally, the entrance of a cathedral faces this direction.
What is west?
In 1857, William Kelly convinced U.S. Patent Office to give him, not Bessemer, rights to make it.
What is steel?
Links “the wisp” & “will”, or McDonald’s “filet” & “fish”.
What is O?
Mountain range that’s the accepted dividing line between Europe & Asia.
What are the Urals?
From age 19 on, he had a platinum kneecap to replace one shattered in WWI.
Who was Hemingway?
Where the altar & seats for the choir are located, it’s a semicircular area at the end of nave.
What is apse?
Septicemia & sapremia are 2 types of it.
What is blood poisoning?
Strung together for snoring sleepers.
What are Z’s?
Besides the Amazon, 1 of the other 4 river systems that drain South America.
What is the River Plate (Orinoco, San Francisco, or Magdalena)?
Don’t wait for the miniseries of “My Antonia”, this author’s will forbids screen adaptations.
Who was Willa Cather?
Most famous feature of this Spanish city’s cathedral is the Giralda Tower, which used to be a Minecraft.
What is the Seville?
The Mock Turtle said its 4 branches were “ambition, distraction, uglification, & derision”.
What is arithmetic?
When doubled, this letter can be shot from a gun.
What is a B?
The continental drift theory says that all the continents once formed a giant land mass called this.
What is Pangaea?
It’s said this author of “The Human Factor” 200 words a day then stopped, even in mid-sentence.
Who was Graham Greene?