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Classes at the University of Quebec are taught in this language, Quebec's official one |
French
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Named for singer Ray Charles, this boxer retired in 1991 for the fourth time |
Sugar Ray Leonard
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This largest Nevada city has a museum dedicated to Mormon pioneers |
Las Vegas
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It was Samuel Clemens' middle name |
Langhorne
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On the Great Seal of the U.S. there are 13 stripes, 13 stars & 13 of these weapons |
arrows
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Freestyle, Greco-Roman, Sumo |
kinds of wrestling
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Anguilla & Antigua are in this sea |
the Caribbean
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In Oct. 1991 sports fans bade farewell to this baseball great nicknamed "The Lip", who died at 86 |
Leo Durocher
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This Confederate president's Richmond, Virginia residence contains more than 2,000 Civil War relics |
Jefferson Davis
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"The American Woman's Home" was co-written by Catharine Beecher & this famous sister |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The Great Smokies are part of this larger system |
the Appalachians
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Tuxedo, Williams, Ernie Ford |
Tennessees
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It's believed that Cadiz, a city in this country, was once Gadir, a Phoenician settlement |
Spain
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In 1982, 1985 & 1990, this 49ers quarterback won the Super Bowl's MVP award |
Joe Montana
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When opened in 1819, this Madrid museum consisted of art collections of the Hapsburg & Bourbon kings |
the Prado
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While serving as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in World War I, he was wounded in Italy |
Hemingway
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Playwright who wrote, "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em" |
(Bernard: Who is Shaw?)
William Shakespeare
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Carl "Cubby" O'Brien, Karen Pendleton, Annette Funicello |
(the original) Mouseketeers
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Most gem-quality topaz is mined in this South American country |
Brazil
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A 7-mile strip of highway near Wilmington, N.C. was recently dedicated to this Chicago Bulls star |
Michael Jordan
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It's Russia's largest museum |
the Hermitage
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A 19th century Boston Unitarian minister, he was the grandnephew of Nathan Hale |
Edward Everett Hale
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The marine life in this U.S. lake is pretty thin: Colonial Algae & Brine Shrimp |
the Great Salt Lake
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Ted Lapidus, Guy Laroche, Christian Lacroix |
(Alex: They are all well-known [*].)
fashion designers
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It's Hawaii's "Pineapple Island" though it could be called the "Patio Island" |
Lanai
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After retiring from tennis, he wrote "A Hard Road to Glory", a study of African-American athletes |
Arthur Ashe
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Modern art can be seen at this odd-shaped NYC museum on Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets |
(Bernard: I have always wanted to say this, Alex, let's make this a true Daily Double.) ... (Bernard: What is the Whitney?) (Alex: Oh, sorry. You picked the wrong one. That's not an odd-shaped museum. [*], however, is an odd-shaped museum.)
the Guggenheim
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Though completed almost 60 years earlier, this English novelist's "Maurice" was not published until 1971 |
E.M. Forster
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Term for the Boer migration in the 1830s & 1840s, it comes from an Afrikaans term for a trip by ox wagon |
the Great Trek
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"Les patineurs", "Le spectre de la rose", "Les sylphides" |
ballets
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