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| Louis Armstrong was nicknamed "Satchmo" & Leroy Paige was nicknamed this |
Satchel
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| The National Ballet of this North American country celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1991 |
Canada
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| Lawrence Welk would have had a wunnerful, wunnerful time in this Danish capital |
Copenhagen
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| This two-faced Roman god was always the first to be mentioned in prayers |
Janus
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| Josip Broz Tito, president of this country, died in May |
Yugoslavia
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| He rewrote his first Alice book as "The Nursery Alice", a book for very young children |
Lewis Carroll
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| In 1961 W.E.B. Du Bois joined this political party |
the Communist Party
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| When Rudolf Nureyev staged his own version of this ballet, he played Basil the Barber, not Sancho Panza |
Don Quixote
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| There probably aren't too many crocodiles in this European country's city of Dundee |
Scotland
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| In the Trojan War, this Greek god of war was generally on the side of the Trojans |
Ares
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| He promised that if elected president, he'd appoint a woman to the Supreme Court...& he did |
Reagan
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| In The Winnie-the-Pooh stories, this marsupial is Kanga's kid |
Roo
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| His third wife, Margaret Murray, was director of the girls' programs at Tuskegee |
Booker T. Washington
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| Jose Limon played this Shakespearean role in his own modern ballet "The Moor's Pavane" |
Othello
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| Porto, known for its port wine, is this country's second-largest city |
Portugal
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| He tried to marry Helen but ended up with her cousin Penelope |
Ulysses
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| President Carter declared a state of emergency in this chemically contaminated Niagara Falls neighborhood |
Love Canal
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| "Our Exploits at West Poley" is this "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" author's only book for children |
(Thomas) Hardy
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| In 1800 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable left this city he founded on Lake Michigan & sold his land for 6,000 livres |
Chicago
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| Act III, Scene I of this Tchaikovsky fairy tale ballet is called "The Awakening" |
Sleeping Beauty
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| This northern Italian city is famous for its cheese & a university founded in 1502 |
(Alex: It's also famous for its ham, [*].)
Parma
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| Nemesis arranged for this handsome youth to fall in love with his own reflection |
Narcissus
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| Cyrus Vance resigned as Secretary of State in April & was replaced by this Maine senator |
Muskie
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| "The Last Battle", the last of his Narnia books, won the 1956 Carnegie Medal |
(C.S.) Lewis
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| After their 1909 expedition, Robert Peary forbade this man to give any lectures regarding it |
Matt Henson
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| "Enigma Variations" is set at the country home of this "Pomp And Circumstance" composer |
Elgar
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| This capital of Trinidad & Tobago was the capital of the now defunct West Indies Federation |
(Mike: What is Port-au-Prince?)
Port of Spain
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| After killing the Minotaur, he took Ariadne with him but left her on the island of Naxos |
Theseus
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| This country's first president & prime minister were Rev. Canaan Banana & Robert Mugabe |
(Max: What is Zaire?) ... (Alex: Max, you're on the right continent and you had the right letter of the alphabet, but it's not Zaire, but [*].)
Zimbabwe
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| Pippi Longstocking lives by herself in Villa Villekula in this country |
(Mike: What is Finland, Alex?)
Sweden
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