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| You'll find an abundance of this element in limestone & marble, & in your bones |
calcium
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| Lake Garda, this country's largest lake, lies about halfway between Venice & Milan |
Italy
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| Bronze vessels with animal motifs typify this country's Shang Dynasty sculptures |
China
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| Lyndon proposed marriage to her the day of their first date |
Lady Bird Johnson
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| Pennsylvania's Swarthmore College was established in 1864 by this religious denomination |
the Quakers
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| The 1st theatrical "entertainment" Harriet Beecher Stowe saw was a version of this novel she wrote |
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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| In 1993 the EPA advised that people buying a house should check for this gas, symbol Rn |
radon
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| Punta Arenas, Chile is the chief port on this strait</td>
| the Strait of Magellan
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| Appropriately, he painted the "Blue Room" during his Blue Period, in 1901 |
Picasso
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| Elizabeth Monroe ended many of this predecessor's practices, such as constant open houses |
Dolley Madison
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| Under Apartheid universities in this country were divided into Afrikaans- & English-speaking |
South Africa
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| Thornton Wilder's 1943 Pulitzer for "The Skin of Our Teeth" came 5 years after he won for this play |
Our Town
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| The anesthetic known as laughing gas is an oxide of this element |
nitrogen
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| The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake into the Mississippi River basin |
Lake Michigan
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| She painted the "Purple Hills Near Abiquiu", New Mexico in 1935 |
Georgia O'Keeffe
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| After her release from a mental hospital in 1875, she moved to France & lived there until 1880 |
Mary Todd Lincoln
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| Bernard M. Baruch is one of the colleges of this, CUNY for short |
(Andrew: What is the New York college system?) (Alex: No.) (Andrew: [*]?)
City University of New York
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| This Goethe play opens with Mephistopheles in Heaven |
Faust
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| Making up the iron family on the periodic table are iron, nickel & this blue-tinged metal |
cobalt</em>
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| This bay off France & Spain is sometimes called the Gulf of Gascony |
the Bay of Biscay
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| A famous Delacroix painting shows her "Leading the People" 28 July 1830 |
Liberty
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| Her ill appearance on June 18, 1881 kept Charles Guiteau from shooting her husband for 2 weeks |
(Lucretia) Garfield
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| In 1869 the University of California moved from Oakland to this neighboring city |
Berkeley
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| Galsworthy wrote "The Skin Game" & D.L. Coburn wrote this "Game" that starred Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy |
The Gin Game
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| Einsteinium & this element, symbol Fm, were first produced in a 1952 thermonuclear explosion |
fermium
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| This Siberian lake contains more than 1/5 of the world's unfrozen fresh water |
Lake Baikal
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| Andrea del Verrocchio, one of this city's finest sculptors, may have been a pupil of Donatello |
Florence
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| Visiting San Jose in the last year of her husband's presidency, she was given a banner by the WCTU |
(Andrew: Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?)
Lucy Hayes
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| Most of this D.C. university's undergraduate courses are open to hearing-impaired students only |
Gallaudet
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| One critic called "A Streetcar Named Desire" a rewrite of this author's "Miss Julie" |
(Andrew: Who is Tennessee Williams?)
August Strindberg
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