JEOPARDY! & THE 10 RINGS
In a book by this man, the hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo
Tolkien
A huntsman cuts into a wolf's stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives!
OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Little Red Riding Hood
Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering
Caltech
Prancer & Cupid were famous ones
reindeer
The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of "riding, roping, and shooting" as a famous one of these
cowboy
"Five golden rings" is a line from this holiday song
"The Twelve Days of Christmas"
Let's thumb through this tale... Title girl swims well, gets human legs... Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
"The Little Mermaid"
The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country's Shaanxi province in 1556
China
In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters
a tweet
The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West
trails
In the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles
Jupiter
A Seussian home invasion, now that's what he'll do! / He'll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
the Cat in the Hat
A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves on this big river run backwards
the Mississippi
A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book
a blurb
As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies"
Lily Tomlin
...& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch's house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G'night!
Hansel & Gretel
A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints' Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone
Lisbon
Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum
a Celtic
Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona
Tombstone
When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world's foremost" magazine about this sport
boxing
Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing... sounds more like Stephen King
Old Mother Hubbard
In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities
the San Andreas
A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing
a monogram
Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her
Calamity Jane