Hard Rock Cafes
Patron Saints
Made Up Languages
Monthly Etymology
For the Last Time
People that are also places
200

Founders Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton's desire for a good burger diner caused them to create the first Hard Rock Cafe in this European capital better known for bangers and mash

London

200

St Lidwina is the patron saint of chronic illness and this winter activity approved of by Kristi Yamaguchi

Ice Skating

200

DAILY DOUBLE!!

Newspeak is the Doubleplusgood language from this book warning about totalitarianism

200

This month is named after the Second Ceasar who "found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble"

August

200

Hamida Djandoubi a Tunisian immigrant to France, was the last person to be executed by this method in 1977

Guillotine

200

Lead Singer of Weezer

Rivers Cuomo

400

The Hard Rock Cafe in this city is the tourist trap at Pier 39

San Francisco

400

St. Bibiana is the patron saint of this, which happens to morning after imbibing too much

Hangovers

400

High Valyrian and Dothraki are invented languages from this book series, later made into a TV series named after the first book

A Song of Ice and Fire

400

This month takes its name from the Goddess of Marriage, which it is the most common month for getting married

June (Juno)

400

The 9th Century Pope Adrian II, was the last to do this before priestly celibacy became the norm

Be Married

400

She almost derailed the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court with accusations of sexual harassment

Anita Hill

600

The largest Hard Rock Cafe is at Universal Studios in this Florida City

Orlando

600

One of the three wise men, St. Balthasar, would never hit on 18 as the Patron Saint of these

Card players and Blackjack dealers

600

This most spoken and developed fictional language come from the sometimes friend, sometimes foes originating on a 1970s Sci Fi TV series

Klingon

600

This month gets its name from the God of War, because it's when military campaigns would traditionally start.

March

600

The last person to die from this, the only disease to be completely eradicated by humans, was in Somalia in 1978

Smallpox

600

Australian leader of the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave

800

The Northernmost Hard Rock Cafe is in Tromsø in this country

Norway

800

St. Bernadino was said to be so persuasive with his sermons that he become the patron saint of this Don Draper approved profession

Advertisers

800

Understanding this language allowed Tom Marvolo Riddle to speak to snakes and pass that ability on through his horcruxes

Parseltongue
800

This month is from the Latin "to open" like the flowers do during this month

April

800

DAILY DOUBLE!!

"A History of Violence, staring Viggo Mortensen, was the last movie to be released in this format

800

NASCAR #3

Dale Earnhardt

1000

The Southernmost Hard Rock Cafe is in Ushuaia in this country

Argentina

1000

After following through on a vision of killing his parents amid a case of mistaken identity St. Julian the Hospitaller is the patron saint of these

Murderers (also, hospitality, entertainment workers, carnival workers, and jugglers)

1000

Arabesh is the substitution alphabet for "Basic," the language from this fictional galaxy far, far away

Star Wars

1000

This short month draws its name from a Roman cleansing festival where priests would run naked through the streets beating people with the bloody flayed skins of sacrficed rams and dogs

February
1000

Jan 1, 1971 saw this lithe brand air the last TV ad for ciggarettes in the US

Virginia Slims

1000

Trashy 90s daytime host

Ricki Lake