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| In the "Aeneid", Virgil wrote, "I fear" them "even when they bring gifts" |
Greeks
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| A clause in Orson Welles' RKO contract prevents Ted Turner from colorizing this 1941 film |
"Citizen Kane"
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| According to ancient rumor, Mark Antony donated 200,000 books to this city's library |
Alexandria
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| The mother of a mule |
(Chris: What is a donkey?)
Horse (Mare)
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| These 7 characters received their names from the Disney studios, not from the Brothers Grimm |
The Seven Dwarfs
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| It's a prefix meaning "former" but it's also used alone to describe a former spouse |
Ex
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| England's James I called it "Hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs" |
Tobacco
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| It was the 2nd film in the "Star Wars" trilogy |
"The Empire Strikes Back"
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| When the Library of Congress bought this president's private library, it doubled its collection |
Thomas Jefferson
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| It's another name for your coccyx |
Tailbone
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| The Pied Piper was hired by Hamelin to rid the town of these pests |
Rats
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| It is I, royally speaking |
We
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| 19th C. German chancellor who spoke of "Blut und Eisen", meaning "blood & iron" |
Otto von Bismarck
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| Vangelis' theme from this 1981 British film took a record 21 weeks on the charts to reach No. 1 |
"Chariots of Fire"
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| In 1757 King George II gave his royal library to this London museum's library |
The British Museum
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| Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol |
Antifreeze
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| This author was born in a slum in Odense, Denmark on April 2, 1805 |
Hans Christian Andersen
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| Freudian component of personality that seeks immediate gratification |
Id
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| Longfellow called it "The Universal Language of Mankind" |
(Cathy: What is love?)
Music
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| Herbert Marshall played this author in "The Moon & Sixpence" & "The Razor's Edge" |
Somerset Maugham
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| This D.C. Shakespeare library is named for the oil executive who founded it |
Folger Library
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| This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb |
Millibar
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| In this tale, the heroine is named for the rampion her father stole from the witch's garden |
Rapunzel
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| Originating in China c. 2300 B.C., it's still the most popular board game in Japan |
Go
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| Pascal said if her "nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed" |
Cleopatra (of Egypt)
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| It completes the title of the 1973 film "No Sex Please,..." |
"We're British"
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| Pope Clement VII commissioned him to design the Medicean-Laurentian Library in 1523 |
(Cathy: Who is da Vinci?)
Michelangelo
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| Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity |
Pierre Curie
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| She wrote 6 sequels to "Anne of Green Gables", but her adult fiction never sold well |
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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| A girlfriend of Zeus, or a moon of Jupiter |
Io
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