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Among the people who live within this "Circle" are the Yakuts of Siberia & the Lapps of Scandinavia |
Arctic Circle
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This son of Lamech "was 600 years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth" |
Noah
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He composed scores for "On the Waterfront" & "West Side Story" & later conducted the N.Y. Philharmonic |
(Leonard) Bernstein
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"The" is the definite article, & these 2 words are the indefinite articles |
a & an
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She became Queen of the UK & Ireland in 1837 but wasn't Empress of India until 1876 |
Victoria
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In the Tales of Beatrix Potter, it's the species of the animal known as "Nutkin" |
squirrel
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Collective name of American Indian tribes like the Hopi & Zuni, it comes from the Spanish for "village" |
Pueblo
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He told King Darius, "My God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions' mouths" |
Daniel
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He composed "An American in Paris" in Paris, but the first performance of it was held at Carnegie Hall |
Gershwin
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To convert to simple past tense, change bite to bit, fight to fought & go to this |
went
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To escape Chiang Kai-shek's forces, he led his followers on a 6,000 mile "long march" in 1934-35 |
Mao Tse-tung
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Lewis Carroll created the White Rabbit, & he created White Fang |
Jack London
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An overwhelming majority of its population are members of the Han nationality |
People's Republic of China
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He told the lad who led him, "Suffer me that I may fall the pillars whereupon the house standeth" |
Samson
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Composer of the following famous work: [instrumental music plays] |
(Dionne: [Shakes head no]) (Alex: Dionne?) (Alex: The theme used by The Lone Ranger, it's the "William Tell Overture" by [*].)
Rossini
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In the phrase "half-baked idea", "half-baked" is this part of speech |
adjective
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In November 1974 he became the first U.S. president to visit Japan while in office |
Gerald Ford
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In the title of Albert Payson Terhune's 1919 story, "Lad" was one of these |
dog
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The term "Caucasian" is properly applied to people who live in the Caucasus of this country |
Soviet Union
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Jesus told this apostle, "Before the cock crows twice, thou shalt deny me thrice" |
Simon Peter
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He used the piccolo & trombone for the first time in his Fifth Symphony |
Beethoven
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It gives the gist of the paragraph & it doesn't necessarily come first |
topic sentence
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In 1967 & 1974 Greece & Turkey almost went to war over this country |
Cyprus
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Napoleon's rival in "Animal Farm", his name is the same as a wintertime projectile |
Snowball
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More familiar name of the San people, the hunters & gatherers of the Kalahari Desert |
Bushmen
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Though dead for 4 days, this man of Bethany was brought back to life by Jesus |
Lazarus
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He composed 6 concertos for orchestra & dedicated them to the Markgrave of Brandenburg |
Johann Sebastian Bach
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To work correctly, a transitive verb needs one of these |
(Chris: What is a helping verb?)
direct object
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Following WWI, Namibia, formerly German Southwest Africa, was turned over to this country |
South Africa
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Among the characters in this Richard Adams work are Hazel, Fiver & Blackberry |
Watership Down
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