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He was the last vice president to become president |
George Bush
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This tempestuous diva made her U.S. debut in 1954, in the role of Norma |
Maria Callas
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The Krishna River, which originates near Mahabaleshwar, flows through the southern part of this country |
India
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The largest known collection of statues of the Mesopotamian ruler Gudea is in this Paris museum |
the Louvre
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The medical center of this state's university is in Hershey |
Pennsylvania
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This former lawyer wrote 9 novels about D.A. Douglas Selby in addition to 82 about Perry Mason |
Erle Stanley Gardner
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This twice-elected man, not Taft, was called "Uncle Jumbo" |
(Chung: Who is Coolidge?)
Grover Cleveland
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This future baroness was born on a train in Austria in 1905 |
Maria von Trapp
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The Asian part of this country is called Anatolia; the European portion is known as Thrace |
Turkey
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In 1822 Delacroix painted a dramatic picture of this "Divine Comedy" author & Virgil in Hell |
Dante
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Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy is part of this Cambridge, Mass. university |
Harvard
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He had a medical practice in Southsea, England when he began writing "A Study in Scarlet" |
(Arthur Conan) Doyle
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This president's son John was the father of the 23rd president |
William Henry Harrison
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When Jerome Robbins starred in the ballet "Prodigal Son" in 1950, this ballerina played the siren |
Maria Tallchief
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Independent Haiti's first flag was modeled on the tricolor of this country |
France
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Edouard Manet's sister-in-law Berthe Morisot was the 1st woman to exhibit with this group of French artists |
the Impressionists
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This university maintains Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home |
the University of Mississippi
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This companion of Lillian Hellman was a veteran of World War I & World War II |
Dashiell Hammett
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Campaigning for president in 1928, he described the American way of life as "rugged individualism" |
(Joe: Who is Franklin Roosevelt?)
Herbert Hoover
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She barraged her daughter Marie Antoinette with letters that predicted a dire future--she was right |
Maria Theresa
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This Asian city-state's Haw Par Villa boasts statues depicting Chinese folklore |
Singapore
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In 1732 this British engraver & satirist created a series of prints called "A Harlot's Progress" |
(Chung: Who is, um... Horbuss?)
William Hogarth
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Furman University offers a cooperative forestry program with this Durham, N.C. school |
Duke
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Although known for his Father Brown mysteries, this author wrote studies of Dickens & Robert Browning |
G.K. Chesterton
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This president who died almost penniless on July 4, 1831 saw the U.S. through the Panic of 1819 |
Monroe
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In 1865 Maria Mitchell became the first professor of this science at Vassar |
(Joe: What is medicine?)
astronomy
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Suva, the capital of this country in the South Pacific, lies on the island of Viti Levu |
Fiji
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Painted in 1866, "Prisoners from the Front" was one of the first major works by this American artist |
Winslow Homer
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United & Presbyterian are theological colleges affiliated with this Montreal university |
McGill
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The title of each of his Travis McGee novels contains a color |
John MacDonald
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