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In 1967, the Constitution was amended to allow these native Australians to become citizens |
Aborigines
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His brothers sold him into slavery, telling their father he'd been devoured by wild beasts |
Joseph
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A military tribunal convened under government authority to try members of the armed forces |
(Alex: Right down the pipe for you.)
a court-martial
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"Iris", a 19th century opera set in this country, features characters named Kyoto & Osaka |
Japan
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The British Crown dismissed him as deputy postmaster general prior to the American Revolution |
Franklin
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Isaac Jaggard & Edward Blount printed the first folio of this playwright's works |
Shakespeare
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Australia has about 500 species of this tree, the most widespread on the continent |
eucalyptus
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David sent her husband Uriah into battle to die & then married her |
Bathsheba
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An infant, a child or any juvenile who has not yet reached the legal age of competence |
a minor
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"Lucia di Lammermoor" is set in this country around 1700 |
Scotland
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This Quaker abolitionist & suffragist was burned in effigy by a New York City mob in the 1850s |
Susan B. Anthony
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Don't be afraid to tell us that she's the lady who wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" & published it in 1925 |
Virginia Woolf
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Danish architect Jorn Utzon designed this Sydney landmark, which was completed in 1973 |
the Opera House
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In 2 Kings 2, he went up to heaven in a chariot of fire |
Elijah
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Toleration Acts are concerned with this freedom |
(Steve: What is the vote?) (Bruce: What is speech?)
religion
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Of Tosca, Thais or Turandot, the one who doesn't die at the end of her opera |
Turandot
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By 1902, this traditional color of U.S. Army uniforms was changed to olive drab |
blue
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He emigrated to New Zealand & grew wealthy as a sheep farmer before writing "Erewhon" |
(Samuel) Butler
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It's the only Australian state named for a man |
(Alex: Named for Abel Tasman.)
Tasmania
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Saul had this witch raise the spirit of Samuel, who then prophesied Saul's doom |
the Witch of Endor
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Literally meaning that you have the body, this writ requires an appearance in court |
habeas corpus
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The Walpurgis Night orgy scene is often omitted from productions of this Gounod opera |
Faust
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The State's Rights Democrats who opposed their party's civil rights plank in 1948 were known as this |
the Dixiecrats
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His novel "The Moon and Sixpence" is based on Gauguin, but the hero is British, not French |
Somerset Maugham
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Australia's first modern World's Fair, World Expo '88, was held in this capital of Queensland |
Brisbane
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Sorrowful prophet whose book follows Isaiah, he's also credited with the book of Lamentations |
(Steve: Who is Elijah?)
Jeremiah
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In 1969, this Supreme Court justice resigned amid criticism of his financial dealings |
(Abe) Fortas
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Composer whose 1859 opera "Un ballo in maschera" depicts an assassination at a masked ball |
Verdi
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Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president, lost to him in 1872 |
Grant
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Dinah Morris, a Methodist preacher, agrees to marry Adam Bede at the end of this author's novel |
George Eliot
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