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African-American writer Chester Himes exploded with "A Rage in" this section of Manhattan |
Harlem
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The length of these ladylike accessories is denoted by buttons; 16-button ones are formal length |
(Bob: What are shoes?)
gloves
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This man who found Livingstone also helped spread Congolese sleeping sickness while establishing trading stations |
(Doug: Who is, uh, Dr. [*]?) (Alex: Yes. No, wait a minute! No.) … (Alex: He wasn't a doctor; he was a journalist. Dr. Livingstone, but not Dr. [*].)
Stanley
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Golfer Greg Norman was born in this country |
Australia
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A former school librarian, she helped organize the Texas Book Festival to raise money for local libraries |
Laura Bush
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If you want to show off your bronco riding & calf roping skills enter this public exhibition, hombre |
a rodeo
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John Steinbeck describes this title fish processing area in Monterey, Ca. as "A poem, a stink, a grating noise" |
Cannery Row
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Prince William's alma mater, this school known for its "playing fields" had a jacket named for it |
(Doug: What is St. Andrews?)
Eton
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The first recorded epidemic of this salivary gland-swelling disease was described around 410 B.C. in Greece |
mumps
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Germany's Jan Ullrich gained glory through this pursuit |
bicycle racing
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This first lady was all smiles in the photo seen here, taken at her surprise birthday party in 1954 |
Mamie Eisenhower
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My wife claims I am muy this, manly & assertive, just like the Village People song |
macho
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In an Erich Maria Remarque novel, "The army report confined itself to a single sentence"--this, the book's title |
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Causing thousands of deaths, abnormally high temperatures in 1803 led to Spanish outbreaks of this colorful fever |
yellow fever
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Sport that made Jean-Claude Killy famous |
skiing
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Born Elizabeth Bloomer, she sprang up in Chicago in 1918 |
(Doug: Who is Bess Truman?)
Betty Ford
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These irregular soldiers who harass the enemy have a type of warfare named for them |
guerrilla
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Machines are forbidden in this remote land, the subject of an 1872 satire by Samuel Butler |
Erewhon
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People magazine said this rock star's daughter Jade launched her line of jewelry in a see-through dress |
Mick Jagger
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Deadly outbreaks of cholera & typhus struck British, French & Russian soldiers equally in this 1853-56 war |
the Crimean War
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Auto racer born in Dunbartonshire, Scotland in 1939 |
Jackie Stewart
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Her feelings about thespians might have been improved when Sarah Bernhardt reportedly saved her life in 1880 |
(Alex: You are on a roll, Brad, with $2,800.) (Brad: Uh, let's make it a True Daily Double.) (Alex: Hello! All right. You will have $5,600 if you are correct, and you will have complicated the lives of Doug and Bob.)
Mary Todd Lincoln
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Lorne Greene & his amigos could find this source of great & sudden wealth near the Ponderosa |
a bonanza
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The high-spirited mistresses Ford & Page are the title married women of this place in a Shakespeare play |
(Alex: The Merry Wives of [*] is correct.)
Windsor
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In the 1800s it was fashionable to wear a cap named for this woman who stabbed Jean-Paul Marat |
Charlotte Corday
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A devastating 17th c. plague epidemic on this island 58 miles south of Sicily killed 1 in 7 people |
Malta
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This British-born boxer won the WBC heavyweight title in 1992 |
Lennox Lewis
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Largely an invalid, Eliza, wife of this "Tennessee Tailor", made only 2 public appearances as first lady |
(Alex: Boy. I think Bob and Doug are happy that we're going to take our first commercial break right now so they can regroup!)
Andrew Johnson
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This type of person is a fan of a hobby or activity, con mucho gusto |
an aficionado
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