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NYC's borough of Brooklyn & Queens are on this large island |
(Peji: What is, uh, Manhattan Island?) (Stacey: What is Staten Island?)
Long Island
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This model & wife of Billy Joel says she was a chubby & self-conscious teenager |
Christie Brinkley
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She's called Joan la Pucelle in Shakespeare's "King Henry VI, Part I" |
Joan of Arc
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New Jersey greenhouses surpass all others on the mainland in growing these corsage flowers |
orchids
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The reign of the Guptas, when Sanskrit lit. flowered, has been called the classical age of this country |
India
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When a triumvirate rules, this many people are in charge |
3
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This Texas city & island is named for a viceroy of Mexico, Bernardo de Galvez |
(Peji: What is uh...sorry?)
Galveston
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In 1984 she became the first woman nominated by a major party for Vice President of the U.S. |
Geraldine Ferraro
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This was the only published work by Jonathan Swift for which he received payment -- £200 |
Gulliver's Travels
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To grow this fruit in California, at least 1 male palm is planted in each acre of 49 female palms |
(Jamie: What is a coconut?)
date
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Eamon de Valera, who was born in New York City, was prime minister & president of this country |
Ireland
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Number of miles in the annual race held on Memorial Day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
500
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The 3 largest islands in this sea are Sicily, Sardinia & Cyprus |
Mediterranean Sea
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Lynne Cheney chairs the Nat'l Endowment for the Humanities, & her husband, Richard, holds this cabinet post |
Secretary of Defense
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This author was knighted in 1908 for his work in the Boer War, not for Sherlock Holmes |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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When a seed sprouts, the first thing to break out of the coat is this part of the plant |
(Peji: What is the stem?)
root
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He was killed in the Philippines, but his ship went on to circumnavigate the earth |
Magellan
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A sonnet is a poem of this many lines, usually written in iambic pentameter |
14
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The island on which this 1945 event took place: |
(Alex: The raising of the American flag.)
Iwo Jima
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She was the Ghostbusters' receptionist on film & plays cute little Mary Jo on TV's "Designing Women" |
Annie Potts
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He also wrote "The Charge of the Heavy Brigade" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In 1960 this green plant pigment was produced in the laboratory for the first time |
chlorophyll
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It was only after the Yalta Conference in 1945 that this country agreed to enter the war against Japan |
Soviet Union
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Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron", which literally means this many days' work |
(Stacey: What is 100?)
10
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Now part of Papua New Guinea, this archipelago was named for the chancellor of Germany in 1884 |
Bismarck
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Appointed by Ronald Reagan, she was the first woman to head the U.S. delegation to the U.N. |
(Jeane) Kirkpatrick
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Charlotte Cradock, this novelist's wife, was the inspiration for "Amelia" & Sophia in "Tom Jones" |
Henry Fielding
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A 4,600-year-old bristlecone variety of this tree is thought o be the world's oldest living thing |
pine tree
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After killing the defenders of the pass at Thermopylae, the Persians destroyed this city in 480 B.C. |
Athens
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If you know the First Congress met in 1789, you can figure out this is the number of the current one |
101st
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