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COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS |
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This Steinbeck novel begins, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came..." |
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Hilal, a pre-Islamic deity of Arabia, was god of one phase of this heavenly body |
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This colorful river emptied into the sea until 1853, when its course shifted to empty into the Gulf of Chihli |
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Franz Reichelt died after a 1912 jump from this tall Parisian structure testing his parachute-overcoat combo |
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Tulane's football team plays its home games off campus at this facility that has a 9.7-acre roof |
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Innocent & naive? You must be "wet behind" these |
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A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man |
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The Hindu goddess Shatarupa was so beautiful, this creator god grew 4 heads so he could view her in all directions |
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The border formalized between Mongolia & China in 1962 includes a 900-mile stretch through this desert |
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Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell |
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Built in 1914, Palmer Stadium at this New Jersey university was the home of its football team for 82 years |
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To pay or settle; it often precedes "the bill" |
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In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved" |
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A sabine god of war, Quirinus gave his name to one of the fabled hills of this city |
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The Turfan Depression is China's lowest point; in 1951 this peak became its highest point |
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Plutarch says that this king who lent his name to a type of costly victory died from being struck by a tile |
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Fittingly, $57 million is what this food company is paying over 20 years to have its name on the Pittsburgh Panthers' field |
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It can be a dialect or a bell clapper |
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Perhaps the effort killed him--he died not long after completing his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov" |
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Invoked by seal hunters, Nerrivik is the mother of all sea creatures as a goddess of this North American people |
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China's Fertile Triangle lies between Nanjing, Hangzhou & this, the country's leading seaport |
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In an automated factory in 1979, Robert Williams became one of the first men killed by one of these (shades of Asimov) |
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This South Carolina school's Tigers play their home game in Memorial Stadium, aka "Death Valley" |
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Your messy room at home might be one of these "of contention" with your parents |
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The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic |
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Covering a lot of ground, this Greek counterpart of Diana was the goddess of childbirth & chastity |
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This gulf is bordered by Luichow Peninsula & Hainan Island on the east & Vietnam on the west |
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This playwright choked to death in 1983 at NYC's hotel Elysee; a character of his exits a streetcar at "Elysian Fields" |
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Rupp Arena is the home court to this school's Wildcats basketball team |
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A rounded mass of radicchio, for example |
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