When these are less than 5 minutes apart & last about a minute, you're in labor, & the fun is just beginning
Contractions;contraction
Which classic composer wrote the melody found in both "the alphabet song" and "twinkle twinkle little star"
Mozart
On Aug. 19, 1942 an Allied force took heavy casualties in an attack on this fort fortified by Germans
Dieppe
Icarus' dad, he built the Labyrinth
Daedalus
In this Steinbeck novel, Lennie has nightmarish visions of his dead aunt Clara & of a gigantic rabbit
Of Mice and Men
Dr. Seuss grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, near this street found in the title of his first book
Mulberry Street
Before he was the lead singer of the Police, he was a teacher named Gordon Sumner
Sting
In 1766 this English chemist discovered the properties of hydrogen, which he called "inflammable air"
Henry Cavendish;Cavendish
This large sea serves as the Sahara's northern boundary
Mediterranean
As you'd expect, radon gas is collected out of the radioactive decay of this element, symbol Ra
Radium
This "point" doesn't mean someone's being judgmental--it's where liquid & gaseous phases become identical
Critical point;critical
Ali Baba spoke these words to get into the cave of the 40 Thieves
Open Sesame
In defending British soldiers on trial for this 1770 event, John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things"
Boston Massacre
In 2006 he became the first Asian in more than 30 years to be elected Secretary General of the U.N.
Ban Ki-Moon;Kimoon;Ki moon
It's the "Keystone Province" because of its central location in Canada
Manitoba
Latin for "happy", it was the name of several popes & a "wonderful, wonderful cat"
Felix
From the Greek, it's literally someone who likes foreigners & foreign things
Xenophile
This law states that at a constant temp., the volume of a gas in inversely proportional to the pressure
Boyle's Law;Boyles;Boyle
In 1979 she became the first woman prime minister in Europe; 13 years later she became a baroness
Margaret Thatcher
Which country is Lake Titicaca is found
Bolivia
This 1925 novel contains the line "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy"
The Great Gatsby;Great Gatsby
In 1993 Dan Castellaneta won an Emmy for voice-over for the "Mr. Plow" episode of this series
Simpsons
Sudan's national museum is in this capital city
Khartoum
In the 1900s Victor Emmanuel began a 46-year rule over this country, whose people thought his name was Vittorio Emanuele
Italy
The venomous blood of this serpent was used to make Hercules' poison arrows
Hydra
If you're motoring through Alberta, take in this rodeo, the "Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth"
Calgary Stampede
Mile zero of the Trans-Canada Highway is marked by a monument in this city on Vancouver Island
Victoria
Centered in Nova Scotia, it was the name applied by France to its Atlantic coastal possessions in North America
Acadia
Your cat respects C.S. Lewis for making the great lion Aslan the creator of this fictional land
Narnia
Richard Dawson hosted this show that featured surveys of 100 people
Family Feud
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is located in this city
Cleveland
This 1975 film classic contains the line "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Though his eyesight began to fail, he continued painting water lilies at his Giverny home
Monet
This was the second U.S. president to live in the first White House
John Adams
Walt Disney's first full-length animated film was about this woman & her housemates
Snow White
Italy's longest river
Po
It's the largest island of the Nunavut territory, as well as of its country
Baffin Island;Baffin
"Summer Nights" helped this soundtrack dominate the No. 1 spot during the summer of 1978
Grease
Once Moses' aide, he led the Israelites into the promised land
Joshua
"Hippy Dippy" comic who offered, "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten"
George Carlin;Carlin
Beatty is the captain of the firemen in this futuristic novel that's been inflaming readers since June 1953
Fahrenheit 451
Mel Brooks' 1993 film "Robin Hood" had this subtitle
Men in Tights
Tolstoy was partly inspired to write this novel after a neighbor threw herself under a train
Anna Karenina
In 1927 Harry of the Warner Bros. said, "Who the hell wants to hear actors" do this
talk
In 1930 this originator of the quantum theory became president of the scientific society later renamed for him
Max Planck
James Madison & Woodrow Wilson both graduated from this New Jersey university
Princeton
This former MTV personality now dispenses political comedy nightly
Jon Stewart;Stewart
Inscribed with a decree praising Ptolemy V, it was named for the city near which it was found in 1799
Rosetta Stone
Would you believe that the Cone of Silence was an antibugging device on this TV show?
Get Smart
The element named for him wasn't one of the ones he left a gap for in the Periodic Table; it came in at 101
Mendeleev
Who is the "Calvin and Hobbes" creator
Bill Watterson;Watterson
Regular Coke may contain this, also called fruit sugar
Fructose
The major pressure point for leg injuries is where this artery crosses the joint between the pelvis & leg
Femoral Artery;Femoral
Perseus came to her rescue & married this woman who was strained, er...chained to a rock
Andromeda
The Khalifa clan, which has ruled Bahrain for 2 centuries, belongs to this majority branch of Islam
Sunni
As a boy in 1461, the future King Richard III was made Duke of this
Gloucester
1917: He asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany
Woodrow Wilson;Wilson
England & France fought the Battle of the Herrings in 1429 during this war
100 years war;hundred years war;hundred year war;100 year war
Hidden for 1,700 years, the lost gospel of this man states that he was acting on Jesus' orders
Judas
This quartet became Internet darlings with the treadmill choreography of its video "Here it Goes Again"
Ok Go
In March 1864 he was appointed General-in-Chief of the Union armies
Ulysses S. Grant;Grant
First serialized in Black Mask, "The Maltese Falcon" introduced the world to this detective
Sam Spade
Swiss banks store heaps of gold in vaults below the Bahnhofstrasse, an elegant street in this city
Zurich
The Dionnes, born in 1934, were famous ones
Quintuplets;quintuplet
The "Father of the Declaration of Independence"
Jefferson
On January 18, 1871 Germany was unified with Wilhelm I as its first kaiser & this man as its chancellor
Bismarck;Bismark
Who wrote the epic poem “The Waste Land"
T.S. Eliot;Eliot
Which house won the War of the Roses
york
Consisting of a filament & an anther, it's the male pollen-producing part of a flower
Stamen
While swimming, penguins have to keep an eye out for the leopard one of these, one of their chief predators
seal;seals
This famous literary trio shows up again in Dumas' novel "Le Vicomte de Bragelonne"
The Three Musketeers;Musketeers
During a baseball game, it's the off-field area where relief pitchers warm up
bullpen
It's a race in which 4 swimmers on a team each do a different stroke
medley
A 9-time U.S. figure skating champ, this Asian-American was an alternate to the 1994 Olympics as a 13-year-old
Michelle Kwan;Kwan
When Viola uses her viola, she's playing this many strings
4;four
Kamaka Hawaii is a well-known maker of this instrument that looks like a small guitar
Ukelele
This term once meant an entire golf course; now it refers to the area surrounding the cup
a green;green
In bowling, if only the 2 & 7 pins or 3 & 10 pins are left standing after the first roll, it's called a baby this
split
In 1920 he became the first Major-League player to exceed 30, 40 & 50 home runs in a season
Babe Ruth;ruth
In May 1915 Regret became the first filly to win this horse race; only 2 fillies have won since
Kentucky Derby
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored this unbelievable record point total in an NBA basketball game
100;hundred
If you serve in tennis & win the first point, you traditionally call out the score as 15- this
love
"Come on, and kiss me, Kate" is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"
Taming of the Shrew
He has the nerve to woo a widow beside her father-in-law's coffin, but she marries him anyway
Richard III;Richard the Third;Richard 3
In this comedy, Thurio says to Valentine, "If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt"
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Brabantio, Desdemona's father, asks this aide to Othello, "What profane wretch art thou?"
Iago
This tragic & foolish king's last words are "Do you see this? Look on her! Look--her lips! Look there!"
King Lear;Lear
Controlled or uncontrolled, this is a process in which neutrons released in fission produce additional fissions
chain reaction
He painted "Starry Night" in 1889 while checked into an asylum in Saint Remy
Van Gogh
1903's "The Old Guitarist" is a classic painting from this Spaniard's "Blue Period"
Picasso
This Wyoming-born painter was famed for the radical "drip" technique he used to create his major works
Pollock
In a large painting called "Models" this pointillist included a glimpse of his picture "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
Seurat
He completed his paintings of "Mornings on the Seine" before beginning his "Water Lillies"
Monet
These glands produce norepinephrine
Adrenal Glands;Adrenal
While he was never convicted of murder, Al Capone did spend 8 years in prison for this crime
Tax Evasion
This Russian eulogized Reagan as "a president who listened" though "we had to overcome mistrust"
Gorbachev
This bone in the lower leg is the second-longest in the human body
Tibia
With the capture of Messina in 1061, the Normans began their conquest of this island
Sicily
She was the last Tudor monarch to rule England
Elizabeth
The largest country in area that borders France
Spain
As a mark of his favor, one thing Henry VIII does for her is to make her the Marchioness of Pembroke
Anne Boleyn;Boleyn
Murderers are figuratively said to have the "mark" of this biblical man
Cain
1687: This English scientist explains the basis for the Moon's tidal effect on the Earth
Isaac Newton;newton
1588: This Danish astronomer makes observations leading to new theories about the Moon's motion
Tycho Brahe;Brahe
The leaf design on Godiva's Autant chocolates is a stylized version of a feather on this "Gone With the Wind" heroine's hat
Scarlett O'hara;O hara;O'Hara
A 2007 study said that eating a little dark chocolate daily may reduce this, both systolic & diastolic
Blood Pressure
He wrote the "2001", "2010", "2061" & "3001" Odyssey books
Arthur C. Clarke;Clarke
This character's first literary appearance was in the tragic drama "The Seducer of Seville"
Don Juan
Radiation at wavelengths longer than visible light & shorter than microwaves
Infrared
"Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river" comes from this Old Testament book
Exodus
After Lenin's death in 1924, this man began purging rivals & eventually took over the top spot
Stalin
Nepal’s western, eastern & southern boundaries are with this country
India
Coco Chanel and Norman Norell were championing the right of women to wear these
Pants
“Better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven” is part of this literary work
Paradise Lost
In "The Conduct of Life", this transcendentalist reminded us, "men are what their mothers made them"
Ralph Waldo Emerson;Emerson
On Feb. 19 2008 this longtime leader announced he'd give up his presidency
Fidel Castro;Castro
Conservative Joe Clark was Canadian prime minister between this man's 2 nonconsecutive terms
Pierre Trudeau;Trudeau
In 1793, Haydn wrote he will be "one of Europe's finest composers, & I shall be proud to be called his teacher"
Beethoven
In 1961 Newton Minnow described television as a vast this
Wasteland
A Burger King whopper contains 1,020 milligrams of this chemical element--& it's worth every milligram
Sodium
From 1275 to 1292, Marco Polo worked for the Yuan Dynasty under this emperor
Kublai Khan;Khan
By weight you're 65% this element
Oxygen
Beginning in the 1600s, the colony called New France was based around this river explored by Jacques Cartier
St. Lawrence;St Lawrence
Though this amino acid in turkey is reputed to make you doze off on Thanksgiving, carbs & booze do at least as much
Tryptophan
This economist who died in 2006 developed the idea that the business cycle stems from the money supply
Milton Friedman;Friedman
The anthem "Sweet Home Alabama" is by this Southern rock band
Lynard Skynard
It's the most abundant protein in the human body; the animal kind is boiled to make gelatin
Collagen
Although it's a poisonous gas, this element isused to purify drinking water & swimming pools
Chlorine
You're out of your element if you don't know that this element is also called wolfram
Tungsten
This king got angry & killed all the babies in Bethlehem
King Herod;Herod
A famous scene from this 1976 film was completely ad-libbed; the script simply read, "Travis looks in the mirror"
Taxi Driver
After he returned home to Venice in 1295, he was called "Il Milione", the "man with a million stories"
Marko Polo;Marco Polo
Island on which Theseus slew the Minotaur
Crete
These fabled warrior women liked to hang out in Asia Minor
Amazons;amazon
This noisy Norse god had a daughter named Thrud
Thor
This Greek god of wine gave Midas his "golden touch"
Dionysus
A bribe to a politician or other formidable person can also be called a "sop to" this watchdog of Hades
Cerberus
Bragi, the god of poetry, is the son of this chief Norse god, quite a poet himself
Odin
These half-horse, half-man creatures were notorious for misbehaving at parties
Centaurs;Centaur
Set, the evil brother of this Egyptian god, tricked him into lying down in a chest; it became his coffin
Osiris
In 1911 French general Ferdinand Foch remarked that these "are interesting toys, but of no military value"
biplanes;biplane
From the Greek for "correct opinion", it means conforming to established religious doctrine
Orthodox
In the book of Joshua, this city is defeated when its walls fall down after trumpets are sounded
Jericho
Born in Germany in 1879, he fled to America in 1932 & became a U.S. citizen in 1940
Albert Einstein;Einstein
His Uncertainty Principle says a particle's position & momentum can't be known simultaneously
Werner Heisenberg;Heisenberg
There are first-person accounts of this volcano's eruption in 1767 (as there had been in 79 A.D.)
Vesuvius
In 1863 this Swede developed a detonator for nitroglycerin that used shock rather than heat
Nobel