Proverbs
What is the early bird?
Translated from Latin, "Gladiator" mean a " Man of this weapon"
What is a sword?
The "con" in "con man" is short for this
What is confidence?
"The Cast of Amontillado" is among this macabre masterpieces
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
It's "the shortest distance between two points"
What is a straight line?
There's not only one "to every rule" it also "proves the rule"
What is The exception?
What is a Thumb?
Pyrite got his name when many prospectors mistook it for a more valuable mineral
What is "Fools Gold"
Mark Twain's tale of switched identities in Tudor England
What is "The Prince and the Pauper"?
It's where something embarrassing is swept
What is under the rug?
Proverbially, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't" do this
What is "make him drink"?
It's the better known name for this flavian amphitheater where gladiators fought
What is the Colosseum?
Posting as arabs with lost of cash, the fbi caught 7 members of congress in this 1970's sting operation
What is abscam (arab scam)?
Starting in 1914 he wrote 26 Tarzan books
Who is Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Pool table piece you don't what to be "behind"
What is the 8 ball?
George Bernard Shaw was the first to observe that "he who can does; he who cannot" does this
What is Teaches?
This 3-pronged gladiatorial weapon was a favorite of the god neptune
what is a trident?
He served time for fraud after writing a fake Howard Huges biography
Who is clifford irving?
James Fenimore Copper wrote 5 of these 'tales' name for an alias of Natty Bumppo
What are leatherstocking tales?
Shifting your debts is "robbing peter to pay" this saint
Who is Paul?
The saying "Ther is nothing new under the sun" is a variation of a proverb from this Old Testament book
what is Ecclesiastes?
Before he led a slave revolt in the 70's bc, he was a gladiator in training
Who is Spartacus?
Dummkopfs! This German news magazine paid millions for forged diaries of Adolf Hitler in 1983
What is Stern Magazine?
He combined fantasy & satire in words like "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Who is Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)?
Alexander Pope criticized those who claimed to be authorities with "fools rush in where angels" do this
What is "fear to tread"?