Answer | Question |
'97: His brother Jonathan lost his life in 1976 leading the raid on Entebbe | |
'98: 50 years after a famous incident, this city got a new flag featuring a mysterious dot in the sky | |
'98: 1 of the 2 men who have been nominated for acting Oscars 10 times | |
'99: This title character was inspired by a girl who'd had her appendix out in a French hospital run by nuns | |
'99: In April 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a license plate that read 'HLA715' | |
'00: This character became the heroine of the dramatic ballet 'The Moor's Pavane' | |
'00: In 1999 this state acquired the rights to use John Denver's 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' to promote tourism | |
'01: She said, 'The reason I'm not a nun is...you can't take your own name...I have the most holy name a woman can have' | |
'01: Because of their dog-like behavior, the name of this sneering sect comes from the Greek for 'dog-like' | |
'02: This orchestral instrument is the first one heard in Stravinsky's 'Orpheus' & the second heard in Liszt's 'Orpheus' | |
'02: Peter Roget's new device for performing mechanically the involution & evolution of numbers | |
'03: She won many Oscars, including those for 1949's 'The Heiress', 1951's 'A Place in the Sun' & 1973's 'The Sting' | |
'03 One of the 2 state capitals whose names end with the letter 'U' | |
'04: On April 25, 1792 Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person in history to have a bad encounter with this | |
'04: Camelus, the genus name of camels, is also the species name of these birds | |
'05: According to the CIA, this foreign country has the highest military expenditures per capita | |
'05: In 1913 this alloy was invented by Harry Brearley of Sheffield, England, a city known for its cutlery since before 1400 | |
'06: Born around 46 A.D., he spent time in both Greece & Rome & wrote to encourage respect between the 2 cultures | |
'06: The Academie Francaise has officially translated it as 'toile d'araignee mondiale' | |
'07: In an 1850 essay Charles Dickens called it 'that pretty German toy' | |
'07: In a famous speech he said, 'You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns...' | |
'08: It's the country from which the U.S. imports the most oil | |
'08: Rated 'R' for violence, this 2004 film set in ancient times is the highest-grossing 'R' movie ever in the U.S. | |
'09: In German, this chess piece is 'der Springer' | |
'09: On April 13, 1895 he entered the Devils Island penal colony to serve a life sentence, but he was out by 1899 | |
'10: The only time the game wasn't held in Calif. was 1942, when it was in N.C., amidst fears of another event like this one | |
'10: Before he was found dead January 1, 1953, the last single he released was 'I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive' | |