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This metal musical instrument is called the lo & when struck its sound often is |
Gong
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Coretta Scott King was among the speakers at the 1997 funeral of Betty Shabazz, this man's widow |
Malcolm X
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In 1899 Sudan came under a condominium, not an apartment but joint rule by this neighbor & Britain |
(J: What is Ethiopia?)
Egypt
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It's a random sample "poll" to determine the public's opinion of hay... or anything else |
(J.J.: What is Gallup?)
a straw poll
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Hail, hail! The tune of Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" was used by Theodore Morse in 1917 for this tune |
"Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here"
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A common regular verb is conjugated amo, "I love", amas, "You love" & this, "He loves" |
Amat
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In 1946 the late Mother Cabrini became the first U.S. citizen to be designated this |
Saint
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The main natural cause of famine, it struck the Sahel region from 1968 to 1985 |
Drought
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Songs about people who move at random include this singer's "The Wanderer" & "Lovers Who Wander" |
Dion
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1977's "Night On Disco Mountain" was a reworking of this Mussorgsky hit |
Night On Bald Mountain
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In carpentry it's "serra seco"; in a Caesar quote it's "Vidi" |
"I saw"
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This French director's early films starred his wife, who also modeled for his father, Pierre |
(J: Who is Godard?)
Jean Renoir
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One of the few stimulants allowed in Islam, this soft drink "nut" was a cash cow for Medieval Guinea |
(H: What is coca?)
Kola nut
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On Dec. 1, 1969 the first of these random drawings since 1942 took place |
Draft
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1963 novelty song that used the "Dance Of The Hours" from "La Gioconda", heard here: |
(J.J.: What is "Camp Granada"?)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp)"
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Descartes thought therefore he knew this first person singular form of the verb "to be" |
(J: What is cognito?)
Sum
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Bertolt Brecht adapted the Yuan dynasty play "The Chalk Circle" & gave it this longer title |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Chairman of the Bank of Sweden in the 1940's, in 1953 he became Secretary-General of the U.N. |
Dag Hammarskjold
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In 1994 Rwanda's Hutu people carried out genocidal attacks on this minority |
Tutsi
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This method of solving problems with a random number generator is named after the casino city of Monaco |
Monte Carlo
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Echoes of Mendelssohn's violin concerto haunt this song, Yvonne Elliman's hit from "Jesus Christ Superstar" |
"I Don't Know How To Love Him"
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Gender of nouns Vir & Rex |
Male
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A master of female roles, Mei Lanfang was the most famous actor in this form developed in the capital |
Peking opera
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This caustic critic & expert on "The American Language" was associated with The Baltimore Sun for over 40 years |
H.L. Mencken
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Leaders in this movement to unite the continent included Kwame Nkrumah & W.E.B. Du Bois |
Pan-Africanism
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Colorful name given the random movement of tiny particles suspended in a gas or liquid |
Brownian motion
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Songs from this musical, including "Stranger In Paradise", come from Borodin pieces |
Kismet
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Degrees of the word for "great" are "magnus", "maior" & this superlative applied to a circus |
(less than a minute...)
Maximus
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