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One of the smallest of these "white" diminutive stars is Van Maanen's Star at 7,800 miles in diameter |
white dwarf
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This international newsmaker was on the cover of the May 29 issue in all her crowning glory |
Queen Elizabeth II
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Just across the Mexican border, Tijuana is the cuate, or twin, of this U.S. city |
San Diego
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Hearsay & leading the witness are grounds for this during testimony |
(Russ: What is dismissal?)
objection
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When Lorenz Hart declined to work on the show that became "Oklahoma!", Richard Rodgers partnered with him |
Oscar Hammerstein
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A small earthquake or tremor that occurs following a major one |
aftershock
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Crickets "hear" via highly sensitive membranes on these body parts |
their legs
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Was he on the cover of the July 24 issue? "You Bet Your Life" he was |
Groucho Marx
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Go up the north face of Mount Everest & down the south face & you'll cross from Tibet into this country |
Nepal
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Personal injury lawyers may work on this type of fee, a percentage of the money awarded |
contingency fee
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"Rhapsody in Blue", a piece by this composer, was used as the title of a 1945 movie biography of him |
George Gershwin
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Tim Burton's spooky stop-motion animated feature from 1993 |
The Nightmare Before Christmas
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In 1857 this French chemist's theory of fermentation was first presented in a paper "on Lactic Fermentation" |
Louis Pasteur
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Just the facts, Ma'am: he missed being on the first cover by 1 week & was back the end of the year on the Dec. 11 cover |
Jack Webb
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The problem with the Maginot Line was it covered France's border with Germany, but not with this country |
(Lynne: What is Switzerland?) (Alex: The Germans went around it.)
Belgium
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If you fill out lots of EOIR-40s, applications for suspension of deportation, this area of law is your specialty |
immigration law
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He wrote the words & music to "I Happen to Like New York" & "I Love Paris" |
Cole Porter
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Antebellum |
before the war
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This whale, whose name is from Russian for "white", is born grey or brown; it turns a milky white by age 5 |
beluga
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An investigative report in the November 6 issue looked into why this man "Fired Julius La Rosa" |
Arthur Godfrey
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Argentina's border with this country is 3,200 miles long, about the same as its coastline |
Chile
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Some firms require lawyers to amass a minimum weekly number, like 40, of these, for which a client can be charged |
(Russ: What are hours?) (Alex: What kind of hours?) (Russ: Working hours.) (Alex: Working hours or billable hours; we'll accept that.) .... [buzzer sounds to end the round]
working hours/billable hours
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He collaborated with Yip Harburg on "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" & "Over the Rainbow" |
Harold Arlen
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1840 Richard Henry Dana memoir that became one of the most popular tales of life at sea |
Two Years Before the Mast
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Seed plants are divided into 2 main groups: angiosperms & these, which include the conifers |
gymnosperms
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The cover story on this actor was subtitled "Man and Superman" |
(Alex: A minute to go now, Lynne.)
George Reeves
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A monument at Pervoururalsk in the Ural Mountains marks this geographic border |
the border between Asia & Europe
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This "Moon River" lyricist has been called "The Sentimental Gentleman from Georgia" |
Johnny Mercer
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It's the title of the 1894 "Prelude" heard here |
"Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun"
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