Survivor
The weather upped the stakes for "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". The castaways had to be temporarily evacuated from their camps due to Zena, this tropical storm that can also be called a hurricane or a typhoon
Cyclone
"Algorithm" came from Al-Khwarizmi, the name of the Arab mathematician who named this strand of math
Algebra
Bilbo's surname in the Lord of the Rings trilogy
Baggins
In 1882 Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy formed a secret pact called the Triple this. On the first season of "Survivor", Richard formed a quadruple one with Sue, Rudy & Kelly in which the four voted as a bloc, a wildly successful strategy that set a precedent for the series
Alliance
A man who was raised Quaker & sang the blues with Lead Belly, Bayard Rustin drew from Gandhi's example to help inspire MLK to follow this 11-letter form of peaceful resistance
nonviolence
From Greek words for "first" & "actor", it's the main character in a story
Protagonist
Of Stacey, Sonja or Ramona, the very first person voted off the very first "Survivor"
Sonja
Chemist Rosalind Franklin's work showed the double helix structure of this, even before Watson & Crick
We find out a surprise about the narrator at the end of her 1926 mystery "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"
Agatha Christie
A fan favorite from "Survivor: The Australian Outback", she went on to co-host "The View" & "Fox & Friends"
Hasselbeck
"The Immortal Life of" this woman tells how her HeLa cells aided medical research, without her knowledge or consent
Henrietta Lacks
Epic Norse narratives
Sagas
The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today
The Art of War
Benito Juarez, of Zapotec ancestry, established land reforms & fought against French rule in this country
Mexico
The musical Kismet opens at dawn in this ancient city
Baghdad