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2 days after celebrating her 92nd birthday, she welcomed a new great-grandson, Prince Louis Arthur Charles |
Queen Elizabeth
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Australian cane growers are grateful to the bandicoot, one of these indigenous mammals that eat cane pests |
a marsupial
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Opera singer Elisabeth Thible is the first woman on record to fly, in one of these in France in 1784 |
a hot air balloon
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"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" in this musical? You sure can, ever since Oct. 15, 1997 |
The Lion King
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All of his "Commentaries on the Gallic War" are divided into 7 parts |
Julius Caesar
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The totality of actual things & events, or a TV genre |
reality
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In her 90s, she played Aunt March in a 2017 TV adaptation of "Little Women" |
Angela Lansbury
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Cuba is known as the "Isle of Rum" largely thanks to this explorer who introduced sugarcane to the island in 1493 |
(Lonnie: Who is Ponce de León?)
Christopher Columbus
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In 1889 Anna Bissell helped America clean these as the USA's first female CEO |
carpets
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"Super Sea Star Savior" & "Bikini Bottom Day" are tunes in the musical with this title guy |
SpongeBob SquarePants
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Virgil spent more than a decade on the 12 books of this poem but left it unfinished |
The Aeneid
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Muhammad Ali's was 78 inches |
reach
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His "Power of Positive Thinking" & "Positive Living" helped this minister & author live to the age of 95 |
(Norman Vincent) Peale
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The sugarcane plantation in Puunene closed in 2016, bringing an end to decades of sugar production in this state |
Hawaii
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In 1976 Sarah Caldwell became the first woman to conduct at this NYC opera house |
the Met
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More than a mere apparition, this Hal Prince-directed classic celebrated 30 years on Broadway in January |
Phantom of the Opera
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Books 16-30 of Livy's history of Rome cover the first 2 of these wars |
(Lonnie: What are the Etruscan Wars?)
the Punic Wars
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Generic term for handcuffs or leg irons |
restraints
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In 2018 the people of this country on a peninsula & on Borneo got a new/old leader, 92-year-old Mahathir Mohamad |
(Lonnie: What is Indonesia?)
Malaysia
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Sugarcane grows well in volcanic soil & in this grade "A" type of soil found in river floodplains |
alluvial
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Some first female mayors are Joan Wagnon (Topeka), Lila Cockrell (San Antonio) & this current U.S. sen. (San Francisco) |
(Dianne) Feinstein
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broadway.com said it best about this show: "Tina Fey's fetch movie is, like, now on Broadway" |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
Mean Girls
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In his "Satire X", Juvenal derided Rome's populace for trading freedom for "panem et circenses", these |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
bread and circuses
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As a noun, it started up in a 1980 computer handbook |
reboot
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In 1971, just shy of his 95th birthday, this Spanish cellist performed a special concert at the United Nations |
(Pablo) Casals
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Louisiana farmers raise lots of cane for the Chalmette refinery of this sugar company that now owns C&H |
Domino
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Vigdis Finnbogadottir of this nation, the world's 1st elected female president, served from 1980 to 1996 |
Iceland
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Matt Bomer, Zachary Quinto & Jim Parsons were some of the "Boys" in this revived Mart Crowley play |
(Mary Ann: What is Jersey Boys?) (Chloe: What are The History Boys?)
Boys in the Band
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Something that slows a process, like the stuff being dropped here |
a retardant
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