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Few have heard of his first novel, "The Snake's Pass", but everyone knows his "Dracula" |
Bram Stoker
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"Fly The Friendly Skies..." |
United Airlines
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Elementary, my dear Watson: "Baker Street" was a musical about this detective |
Sherlock Holmes
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Christian tradition says this archangel will blow his trumpet to announce the Second Coming |
Gabriel
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Jura, Schweitzer, Lucerne & Berner are the 4 types of this country's laufhund |
Switzerland
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This contagious viral disease can occasionally cause sterility in males |
Mumps
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His first novel, "The Town And The City", might be good to read while you're "On The Road" |
Jack Kerouac
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"We Bring Good Things To Life" |
General Electric
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"Comin' Uptown" moved this classic tale to Harlem; it starred Gregory Hines as a slumlord named Scrooge |
A Christmas Carol
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South America's southernmost point, its rocky terrain rises to a height of 1,391 feet |
Cape Horn
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Seen here, it's named for a peninsula shared by Quebec & Newfoundland |
a Labrador retriever
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...I said it's to utter something quietly & unclearly! |
mumble
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This "Brideshead Revisited" author's career was ascendant when he published his first novel, "Decline And Fall" |
Evelyn Waugh
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"Tastes So Good Cats Ask For It By Name" |
Meow Mix
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Danny Kaye's career "ark" included this Biblical role in "Two By Two" |
Noah
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All species of this large land creature, whose name is from the Greek for "nose-horned", are nearly extinct |
Rhinoceros
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If this Norwegian breed had originated in North America, it would be called the moosehound |
Elkhound
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This 2-word term for confusing language may come from a Mande phrase for "ancestor wearing a pompom" |
mumbo jumbo
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Sadly, the manuscript of her very first novel was destroyed in a fire in Nanking |
Pearl S. Buck
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"The Power To Be Your Best" |
Apple Computer
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Bully for Len Cariou, who played this famous man in the musical "Teddy And Alice" |
Theodore Roosevelt
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This "continental" wind instrument is played with one hand inside the bell to control its tone |
French horn
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This dog once prized by the Aztecs is sometimes called perro pelon, "bald dog" |
(Jeff: What is a Chihuahua?)
the Mexican hairless
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Formerly called Bombay, it's in the top 5 cities in the world in population |
Mumbai
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He was poet-in-residence at the University of South Carolina when he delivered his first novel, "Deliverance" |
James Dickey
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"When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be There Overnight" |
Federal Express
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Shaun Cassidy was 10 years old when these actors, his parents, starred in the 1968 musical "Maggie Flynn" |
Jack Cassidy & Shirley Jones
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According to mythology, this horn of plenty is the horn of the goat Amalthea |
Cornucopia
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The Australian cattle dog was first bred in the 19th century from collies, kelpies & this wild canine |
Dingo
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You'll see this group parading through Philly each New Year's Day |
Mummers
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