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Laertes, a hotheaded Dane |
William Shakespeare
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These oral receptors are divided into 4 types: acid, salty, bitter & sweet |
taste buds
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Many universities have this type of association; the U. of Minnesota's has over 50,000 members worldwide |
alumni association
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Britannica states that Michel-Louis-Etienne Regnault was the man who talked this emperor into abdicating again |
Napoleon
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The person who presides over a debate or over the discussion on "Meet The Press" |
moderator
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2 years after his death he won a 1990 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance for a live version of "Oh, Pretty Woman" |
Roy Orbison
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The unimaginative Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard |
(Elayna: Who is Poe?)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Of Canis lupus, Lupus canis, or Canup lipus, the scientific name for the timber wolf |
Canis lupus
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The humanitarian initials RI stand for these displaced people, numbering in the millions, "International" |
Refugees
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Pretending to be a high-ranking French official, Victor "The Count" Lustig sold this to scrap dealers -- twice |
Eiffel Tower
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This band's "Bridges to Babylon" tour video featured performances by Dave Matthews & Joshua Redman |
The Rolling Stones
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Topsy, an impish black girl |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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From the German for "spark", the variety of metamorphic rock pronounced "nice" is spelled this way |
(Danny: What is K-N-E-I-S-S?)
G-N-E-I-S-S
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In 1941 80,000 Ford workers voted to be represented by this union rather than the AFL |
(Andy: What is the UAW?)
CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)
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Sheep farmer Jose Bove got 3 months for ransacking this restaurant in southern France in August 1999 |
McDonald's
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Winston Churchill said that political rival Clement Attlee was this, & had much to be this about |
(Danny: What is moderate?)
modest
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An early version of this David Byrne group was called The Artistics |
Talking Heads
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The ambitious Sammy Glick |
Budd Schulberg
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Over 26,000 attended this association's annual meeting in Atlanta, but we're sure they kept each other quiet |
(Danny: What are librarians?) .... (Alex: Be more specific.)
American Library Association
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Henri Charriere, nicknamed this (the title of his 1968 book), always denied his guilt for murder |
(Alex: Back to you, Danny, with a minute to go.)
"Papillon"
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A token expected amount of some quality, often decency |
modicum
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1989's top album, "Don't Be Cruel", wasn't released by Elvis, but by this man |
Bobby Brown
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The fashionable but suffering Clarissa Dalloway |
Virginia Woolf
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This gas in Uranus' atmosphere is what causes it to appear bluish-green |
methane
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These organizations, like the Hip Sing, once fought "wars" in NYC's Chinatown |
tongs
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This founder of modern chemistry was guillotined May 8, 1794 |
Antoine Lavoisier
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Put this word before "vivendi" to get a phrase meaning "way of living" or "arrangement" |
modus
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This drummer's autobiography is titled "Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors" |
(Danny: Who is Ray Manzarek?)
John Densmore
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