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Soon after her introduction in 1924, she went to live with Daddy Warbucks |
Little Orphan Annie
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Cantonese, a dialect of this language, is spoken by about 60 million people |
Chinese
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The 1993 British play "Murder Is Easy" was adapted from a 1939 story by this woman |
Agatha Christie
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This document issued by Lincoln Jan. 1, 1863 was also signed by Secretary of State William H. Seward |
the Emancipation Proclamation
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This "tyrant lizard"'s tiny but strong arms ended in 2-fingered hands |
Tyrannosaurus rex
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Chapter I of this classic begins, "In a certain village in La Mancha, which I do not wish to name..." |
Don Quixote
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Once a 97-pound weakling, he won the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" contest in 1922 |
Charles Atlas
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Of Finnish, Swedish or Norwegian, the one that isn't considered an Indo-European language |
Finnish
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Bert Convy, Jack Gilford & Lotte Lenya were in the original cast of this 1966 musical set in Berlin |
Cabaret
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This head of the Commission on Critical Choices for America was appointed Vice President in 1974 |
(Anne: Who was Gerald Ford?)
Nelson Rockefeller
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez proposed this "smashing" theory about the demise of dinosaurs |
comet theory (meteor theory)
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This Victor Hugo work is divided into 5 sections, including "Marius" & "Jean Valjean" |
Les Miserables
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Despite evidence that the murders were done by a gang, these 2 Italian-Americans were executed in 1927 |
Sacco & Vanzetti
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The Bulgarian language is written in this alphabet that may have originated in Bulgaria |
the Cyrillic alphabet
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Herman Wouk adapted his own novel "The Caine Mutiny" for the stage & gave it this slightly longer title |
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
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In 1850 this showman promoted Jenny Lind's American tour |
P.T. Barnum
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Its name indicates it had 2 fewer horns than the Pentaceratops |
a Triceratops
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St. Bernard guides Dante during the final leg of his journey in this epic work |
the Divine Comedy
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In October 1920 this country's King Alexander died after he was bitten by a pet monkey |
Greece
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Ludwik L. Zamenhof translated the entire Old Testament into this invented language |
Esperanto
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Pantalone, one of the stock characters in the Commedia dell'arte, was a merchant from this Italian city |
Venice
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The Constitution originally assigned this state the most members in the House with 10 |
(Anne: What is New York?)
Virginia
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Scientists were surprised when they found impressions of these with the skeleton of the Archaeopteryx |
feathers
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James Joyce intended to write "Ulysses" as a short story for this collection |
Dubliners
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In 1921 he was elected president of the AFL for the 40th time |
(Sandy: Who is John Lewis?)
Samuel Gompers
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The 2 official languages of the International Court of Justice |
French & English
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Her 1951 play "The Autumn Garden" has been called "a Chekhovian drama" |
Lillian Hellman
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In the 1630s America's first Baptist church was established in Providence, Rhode Island by this pastor |
Roger Williams
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The 2 major groups are distinguished by the way the bones in this part of their bodies fit together |
their hips
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"Le Temps Retrouve" or "Time Recaptured" is the 7th & last volume of this Marcel Proust masterpiece |
Remembrance of Things Past
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