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Charles I & Juan Carlos |
Spain
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She showed up to claim her acting Razzie for "All About Steve"; she also showed up to accept an Oscar a short time later |
(Sandra) Bullock
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Thomas Jefferson planned the curriculum & hired the first faculty for this university |
University of Virginia
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Meep! Meep! The greater this (Geococcyx californianus, not Mondo speedious) runs at 15 mph |
the roadrunner
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India's Tripura Plains border the greater Ganges-Brahmaputra lowlands in this neighboring country |
Bangladesh
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Rubeola is the medical name for this disease |
the measles
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Boleslaw I & Stanislaw II August Poniatowski |
Poland
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He took Supporting Actor for "riding his daughter's coat-tails and playing her dad in 'Hannah Montana: The Movie'" |
Billy Ray Cyrus
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Founded in 1789, this Washington, D.C. school was the USA's first Catholic college |
(Alex: And it's still there, goin' strong.)
Georgetown
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This flightless forest dweller seen here went the way of itself around 1680 |
the dodo
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Located in central Honshu, the Kanto Plain covers over 6,200 square miles & includes this world capital |
Tokyo
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Plural word used since before the TV age to mean all methods of mass communication |
media
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Otto of Bavaria & Constantine II |
(Kara: What is Germany?) (Hillary: What is Austria?) (Lyssette: What is Hungary?)
Greece
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"Winning" Worst Screenplay, Director & Picture was "Transformers: Revenge of" this |
the Fallen
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A white oak on the campus of this New Brunswick, New Jersey school inspired Joyce Kilmer to write "Trees" |
Rutgers
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Its egg is not only the largest bird's egg, but also the smallest in relation to the size of the bird |
the ostrich
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Stonehenge stands out on the landscape of this largely treeless 300-square-mile area |
Salisbury Plain
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Two-word term for the event seen here |
meteor shower
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Kenneth I & James VI (as one country) |
(Alex: And that would be [*]--James VI of [*] became James I of England.)
Scotland
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Worst Actress of the Decade went to this "celebutant" for films including "House of Wax" & "The Hottie & the Nottie" |
Paris Hilton
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Both Bennett Cerf & Herman Wouk were student editors of Jester, a humor magazine of this New York City university |
(Alex: [*], yeah, good guess.)
Columbia
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Found in Kenya, Ruppell's griffons, these birds, can devour an antelope within 20 minutes |
vultures
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From the Latin for "no tree", the Nullarbor Plain extends to the Great Victoria Desert in this country |
Australia
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6-letter adjective meaning lowly & sometimes degrading |
menial
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Alfonso Henriques & Manuel II |
Portugal
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This "prehistoric" Will Ferrell film got 7 nominations but only took home "Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel" |
Land of the Lost
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Its nickname was a slave term for the most powerful woman on a plantation |
(Kara: What is Spaulding?) ... (Alex: The nickname is "Ole Miss"--[*].)
University of Mississippi
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Also known as mimic-thrushes, these birds are thought to be closely related to wrens (& thrushes, obviously) |
a mockingbird
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Drained principally by a tributary of the Mekong River, the Plain of Jars is found in this landlocked country |
(Alex: [*]--you picked the right one.)
Laos
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There's a facial feature in this hyphenated adjective for one who won't address an issue directly |
mealy-mouthed
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