20th-Century "G" Men
Time in Spanish
Obfuscated Cliches
Nelson Mandela
4-Letter Literature
The Pentateuch
600
This jazz trumpeter and bandleader was famous for his puffed out cheeks when he blew into his instrument
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
600
A day of the week: Miercoles
What is Wednesday?
600
The male sibling of a Simian's parent
What is a monkey's uncle?
600
Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in the Eastern Cape province of this nation
What is South Africa?
600
An adage from Romeo and Juliet states that one of these "by any other name would smell as sweet"
What is a rose?
600
The first three words of the Pentateuch in English
What is "In the beginning?"
1200
This composer wrote the Broadway songs "I Got Rhythm" and "The Man I Love," and also wrote the libretto to his brother's Porgy and Bess
Who is Ira Gershwin?
1200
A month: Enero
What is January?
1200
Wallop an equid whose life has ended
What is beat a dead horse?
1200
This second wife of Nelson Mandela took part in the torture of pro-Apartheid officials, executing them using a method called necklacing
Who is Winnie Madikizela-Mandela?
1200
Thoreau's Walden was this type of body of water
What is a pond?
1200
A total of 603,550 Israelites are found to be fit for military service according to this book of the Pentateuch
What is Numbers?
1800
This propagandist was to succeed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany according to his will; he served one day before committing suicide with cyanide
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
1800
A time of day: Tarde
What is afternoon?
1800
The tertiary attempt will yield the optimum outcome
What is third time's the charm?
1800
Apartheid ended in this year, the same year Nelson Mandela was elected president
What is 1994?
1800
This "Venerable" 8th-century Anglo-Saxon monk wrote An Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Who is Bede?
1800
This type of animal belonging to Balaam spoke to him after he beat it three times
What is a donkey?
2400
The "Service to Magic" society named this Israeli-born mentalist seen here the greatest illusionist of the 20th century
Who is Uri Geller?
2400
A holiday: Víspera de Todos los Santos
What is Halloween?
2400
Pulchritude is dependent on the ocular organ of that who appraises it
What is beauty is in the eye of the beholder?
2400
Mandela spent 27 years imprisoned on this island north of Cape Town
What is Robben Island?
2400
Citizens are kept docile using this drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopia Brave New World
What is Soma?
2400
Deuteronomy 29 tells of the cities of Admah and Zeboiim which suffered the same fate as these two cities from Genesis 19
What are Sodom and Gomorrah?
3000
He famously died when the Mi6 Jet he was piloting crashed near Kirzhach, Russia in 1968
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
3000
A year: Dos Mil
What is 2000?
3000
Transport cured porcine abdomen to one's domicile
What is bring home the bacon?
3000
Mandela is seen here with this President with whom he shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end Apartheid
Who is F.W. de Klerk?
3000
This term is poetically the color black in traditional French poetry
What is ebon?
3000
The name of the Levite woman who sets her baby adrift in an ark of bulrushes according to Exodus 2
Who is Jochebed?