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SHORT CLUES ABOUT LONG WORDS |
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90 miles from the equator, this mile-high Kenyan capital rarely exceeds 80 degrees in temperature |
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The events in "The Da Vinci Code" are set off by the murder of the curator of this place |
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March 2: Robert McNamara announces that U.S. troops in this country total 215,000 |
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It's the adjective for tutus that fall below the calf (or for the poetry of Keats & Coleridge) |
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This U.S. president designed more than one home for himself--this is the one at Poplar Forest |
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Meaning sent on operations abroad, it's the E in AEF |
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Until 1974 much of the land in this capital belonged to Haile Selassie's family, members of the nobility & the National Church |
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Robert Langdon is a professor of religious symbology at this Ivy League university |
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August 5: This man gets hit in the head by a rock while leading a civil rights march in Chicago |
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Men in tutus portray ballerinas like Tatiana Youbetyabootskaya in Les Ballets Trockadero De this Riviera resort |
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This man who held up the heavens lent his name to a sculptural male figure used as a supporting column |
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For a Major League baseball it's 9 to 9 1/4 inches |
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They are the two capitals located on the banks of the Nile |
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Robert says Ariel's flowing red hair in Disney's "Little Mermaid" is an allusion to this Biblical woman |
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April 8: This "Magnolia State" becomes the last to end statewide prohibition |
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This Ziegfeld star donned a tutu for zany ballet spoofs, which inspired "The Swan" number in the film "Funny Girl" |
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eBay has about a million collectibles in the category "entertainment" this |
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To reach this capital from Marrakech, hop on a train & travel about 200 miles northeast |
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Bishop Aringarosa heads this Catholic prelature that spreads the message of "God's work" |
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April 27: This pope meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in the Vatican |
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His 1860s painting of "The Orchestra of the Opera" has some pretty tutus in the background |
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Appropriately, he designed the Swiss Dormitory at Cite Universitaire in Paris |
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Promptness, in 11 letters |
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Bujumbura shares its first 2 letters with this small country of which it's the capital |
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This ingenious device is worthy of an inventive mind like Leonardo's
"If you force it open, the vial breaks, vinegar dissolves papyrus, and your secret is lost forever." |
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July 28: One of these U.S. military reconnaissance planes crashes in Bolivia |
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In "Swan Lake", it's traditional for this seductive daughter of Von Rotbart to wear a black tutu |
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The Kennedy Library was designed by this world-famous architect who gave it a soaring glass-enclosed pavilion |
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From "The Faerie Queene", it's an Italian-sounding word for boasting |
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