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It's the only 5-letter Great Lake |
Huron
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Sir Clifford was paralyzed in WWI soon after he married this D.H. Lawrence heroine |
Lady Chatterley
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The pa'o style robe, worn in China from the 3rd century B.C., inspired this robe worn by Japanese women |
a kimono
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Reigning from 1166-86, the last independent king of this country was Rory O'Connor |
Ireland
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Because it is white, snow does this to most solar radiation, thus keeping its cool |
reflect it
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Jim Morrison & The Doors sang about this "Century Fox" |
Twentieth
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Lewis & Clark Lake, on the border between Nebraska & South Dakota, is part of this river |
the Missouri
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His 1st novel, "The Cabala", is about pagan gods, but his most famous novel is about "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" |
Thornton Wilder
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3 cheers for the Mesopotamians--they dressed mainly in wool in these 3 colors |
red, white & blue
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Pepi II, who ruled this ancient country for 94 yrs., supposedly had the longest reign recorded in history |
Egypt
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Of the top, the bottom or the shoreline, part of the river that freezes 1st because of low velocity |
the shoreline
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It was Hawkeye Pierce's M*A*S*H unit |
the 4077th
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Costa Rica's coasts border on these 2 bodies of water, one an ocean, one a sea |
(Joel: What is the [*] and the Mediterran--[Snaps finger] [**].) (Alex: Hmm, okay, you got it in just in the nick of time.)
the Pacific Ocean & the Caribbean Sea
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In "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", she's the 1st character to speak--& Tom ignores her |
(Maurice: Who is Becky?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Aunt Polly
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Women beatniks favored leotards of this color |
black
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Having become a Catholic, Queen Christina moved to Rome in 1654, giving up this country's throne |
Sweden
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91% of the world's glacier ice, 5,330,000 square miles of it, is found in a single ice sheet there |
Antarctica
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Something that happens at the very last minute is said to happen at this "hour" |
the 11th hour
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The Denmark Strait doesn't border Denmark but separates Greenland & this island |
(Marianna: What is the Faroe Island?)
Iceland
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Not counting Adam & Eve's fig leaves, the earliest known garments were made of this material |
(Marianna: What is wool?)
animal skins (leather)
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In 1724 this Russian leader saved sailors drowning in the Gulf of Finland, caught a chill & died |
Peter the Great
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A snowflake crystal has this many sides |
6
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1 of 2 anniversaries considered the diamond anniversary |
(1 of) the 75th (or the 60th)
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2 directions that complete the names of China seas |
(Marianna: What is the North China Sea and the South China Sea?)
South China Sea & East China Sea
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This murder mystery about monks & monkey business was Umberto Eco's 1st novel |
The Name of the Rose
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Colonists in Mass. dressed like Roundheads while colonists in Va. dressed like this opposing group |
the Cavaliers
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This Restoration monarch reigned while London burned in the Great Fire of 1666 |
(Marianna: Who is James II?) ... (Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
Charles II
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Bovine term describing an iceberg tip breaking off a glacier & falling into an ocean or lake |
a calve
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If & when a new amendment is added to the Constitution, it will carry this number |
(Joel: What is 27? [Faintly] Th.) (Alex: No.) ... (Alex: I think in your stuttering moment, Joel, you realize why I had to rule against you; you did not give me the ordinal number--you said, "What is 27?", not [*].) [Joel was ruled incorrect and it was changed to correct before revealing the Final Jeopardy clue because upon replay the judges could hear Joel add the "th".]
the 27th
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