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Simferopol, on the Salgir River, is one of Crimea's top producers of this ancient fermented beverage |
(Sam: What is beer?)
wine
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England won in 1966 when the final game went into this, but not as far as penalty kicks |
a shootout
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Amphibians & fish are described as being poikilothermic, more popularly called this |
cold-blooded
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Swinging '60s attire included "huggers" of this body part |
hips
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He composed "The Well-Tempered Clavier" while employed as a conductor at the court of Anhalt-Cothen |
(Sam: Who is Wagner?)
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Hitch a ride, or an opposable digit |
thumb
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The Chernaya River Valley was the "Valley of Death" for "The Six Hundred" of this valiant title group |
the Light Brigade
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2 of its last 3 World Cup wins were over Italy in the finals |
Brazil
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The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the Earth's mantle from this part |
(Sam: What is the crust?)
the core
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Joan Didion described Jim Morrison as "A 24-year-old...who wore" this color "vinyl pants and no underwear" |
black
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Many think that Josephine von Brunswick was the recipient of his "Immortal Beloved" letter |
Beethoven
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A large wing or tail feather, or one of the spines of a porcupine |
quill
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In the 1991 coup, this Soviet pres. was held under house arrest in Foros, not far from the Uchan-Su waterfall |
Mikhail Gorbachev
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In 1994, the year this country hosted, 147 nations participated |
the United States
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The one named for Max Planck is 6.6260755 X 10 (to the negative 34) joule-second, symbolized simply h |
(Sam: What is a chemical?)
constant
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The name of Jack Tar trousers, popular in the 19th century, is a term for someone in this profession |
sailor
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Part of this composer's "Requiem" is heard here |
Mozart
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From the Latin word for "time", it's the speed at which a musical piece is played |
tempo
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This resort straddling the Bystra River was the site of a historic meeting of the Big 3 in February 1945 |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Yalta
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In 1938 it became the first host country not to make it to the finals; it didn't make that mistake in 1998 (it won!) |
France
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Simple ones are classified as monosaccharides |
carbohydrates
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One of Lee Jeans' brand names is Lee these, meaning sturdy denim trousers |
dungarees
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"From the New World" was his 9th symphony, but it's also known as his 5th since they were renumbered later |
(Alex: Less than a minute now, Sam.)
Dvorak
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It's a length of yarn wound in a coil, or a flock of geese in flight |
skein
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This country that no longer exists made it to the finals 6 times, winning in 1954, 1974 & 1990 |
West Germany
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In order to duplicate itself in cell division, one of these splits into 2 identical strands called chromatids |
chromosomes
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In the '50s you could wear these pants to go with & rhyme with your white bucks |
white ducks
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A 1901 piano concerto by this Russian-born composer & virtuoso is heard here |
Rachmaninoff
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Your eyelashes, or tiny hairlike structures that help certain protozoans move about |
cilia
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