20TH-CENTURY PERSONALITIES |
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Born in Russian Poland in 1886, he became the first prime minister of Israel |
David Ben-Gurion
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Non-flyer John Madden travels on this, the "Maddencruiser," complete with bed and shower |
(P: What is a train?)
Bus
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She joined the Ballets Russes at 14 and was still a teenager when she married her ballet teacher, Nico Charisse |
Cyd Charisse
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Canada's best-known theatrical event is the annual festival here featuring plays by Shakespeare |
Stratford, Ontario
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Some call it the island continent |
Australia
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The name of this lakeside Swiss city is believed to be from the Celtic word for "water" |
Zurich
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Use of the term "psyche" for the whole personality was begun by this great Swiss psychiatrist |
Carl Jung
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Doing this comes from the Roman custom of offering a drink to the gods when launching a ship |
[Christening a ship]
breaking champagne on the Prow
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This tiny star of "Good News" learned to dance by watching a Fred Astaire movie 17 times |
(R: Who was Alice Faye?)
June Allyson
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The ghost of his wife, Anne, haunted him at Bosworth Field |
Richard III
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A roofed Hawaiian porch, or the Hawaiian island called "The Pineapple Island" |
Lanai
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Sergeant Preston's beat |
The Yukon
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Jackie Kennedy authorized him to write "The Death of a President", but later sued to stop publication |
William Manchester
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In addition to a rudder and oars, most keelboats were equipped with these to aid travel |
(B: What is a retractable keel?)
Sails
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This ballerina was born on an Indian reservation in Fairfax, Oklahoma, in 1925 |
Maria Tallchief
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Not only was this king slain by Macbeth, but rumors said his horses ate each other |
Duncan
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This island, called "The Rock," had the first lighthouse on the West Coast |
Alcatraz
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Though Dobie Gillis didn't particularly care for it, she kept calling him "Poopsie" |
Zelda Gilroy
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Sun Yat-sen was trained as and practiced this profession before entering politics |
Physician/Doctor
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Until 1937 the Lakehurst, New Jersey, naval air station was the U.S. transatlantic terminal for these craft |
Dirigibles
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She was a modern dancer in New York long before playing Cinnamon on "Mission: Impossible" |
Barbara Bain
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Rejected lover whose last words are "If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet" |
(R: Who is Mercutio?) (B: Who is Romeo?)
Paris
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There are islands with this name in Massachusetts, Washington state, Wisconsin, and Maine, but the biggest is in New York |
Long Island
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This Michigan city was settled in 1825 and named for a nineteenth-century Greek patriot |
Ypsilanti
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Like Churchill, this British prime minister, chosen in 1957, had an American mother |
Harold Macmillan
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Bells were rung across the U.S. as telegraphers relayed news of this event on May 10, 1869 |
the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (the driving of the golden spike accepted)
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This ballerina wrote a biography of George Balanchine after taking off her "red shoes" |
Moira Shearer
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The title character of this tragedy is governor of Cyprus, where much of the play is set |
"Othello"
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Island group owned partly by Britain and partly by the U.S. |
(B: What is Samoa?)
Virgin Islands
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After his forces were defeated by the Greeks, this Persian king was murdered by his own nobles |
Xerxes
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