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A party of this leader's so-called friends conspired to kill him, & did, in March 44 B.C. |
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If you're a half pint, you've got this many ounces |
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A land game with cars on a collision course, or a safer water game in which players sit on others' shoulders |
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Hercule Poirot sups at the Savoy in this woman's novel "Lord Edgware Dies" |
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This Irish stone gives you the power of persuasion |
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It had an interesting casting choice, Madonna as the first lady of Argentina |
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Pliny the Elder died at Stabiae Aug. 24, 79 A.D. as a result of breathing noxious fumes from its activity |
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In 2003 AMD introduced its 64-this chip; that's a lot of personal computing power & beats the standard 32 |
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The Prestige, this type of ship, made news in 2002 when it sank off Spain |
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When Jonathan Harker leaves the Golden Krone Hotel in this novel, an old woman gives him a crucifix to wear |
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Luncheon meat named for a city in Italy |
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In 1960 it was let my people go to this film in which Paul Newman helps establish the state of Israel |
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This emperor who lived from 37 to 68 A.D. has a line of CD-burning software named for him |
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On the menu, "on the half shell" usually refers to a way of serving these, raw or Rockefeller |
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Fans of this author love to stay at Les Trois Couronnes in Switzerland, the setting for his "Daisy Miller" |
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A bed built on a shelf over another bed |
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Judy Garland & Fred Astaire joined forces for this holiday classic |
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This mad emperor (37-41 A.D.) often had dinner with Incitatus, his favorite horse, who lived in a marble stable |
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If something is 50% gold, it has this many karats |
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Ahoy! It's another term for the principal mast aft of the mainmast |
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Even in this film, his debut as a director, you could tell David Lynch was weird |
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This orator wrote, "Let arms yield to the toga, the laurel crown to praise" |
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We guess it would take 2 of this rapper's "Get Rich or Die Trying" CDs to equal 1 Buck Owens |
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Sylvia Plath once stayed at NYC's Barbizon, & fictionalized it as the Amazon in this autobiographical novel |
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Helium or this can be used to raise a balloon from which a gondola is suspended |
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In this 1988 film director John Sayles cast himself as sportswriter Ring Lardner |
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