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What is the California or coastal redwood?Chinese New Year lasts from February 5 to the 19th in 2019, and is represented by this animal.
What is the pig?The trophy given to the winning team of the Super Bowl is named for this famous coach.
What is the Vince Lombardi trophy?This was the price of a ticket to Super Bowl I on January 15, 1967.
What is $12?This famous Inglewood, Calif. donut shop with the huge 'donut' on top is currently sporting the LA Rams colors and name for this weekend.
What is Randy's Donuts? (Ok, I looked it up - wanted to get this game moving again. LOL. )On Feb 3, 1956, Autherine J. Lucy was the first African-American student to attend this university. She was expelled three days later for "her own safety."
What was the University of Alabama?This woman was an American blues singer, who was referred to as the 'Empress of the Blues' during the 20s and 30s.
Who is Bessie Smith?This famous singer paid for a portion of a gravestone for Bessie Smith in 1970.
Who is Janis Joplin?This 1979 film is loosely based on Janis Joplin's struggles.
What is The Rose?On Feb 4, 1976, this newspaper heiress was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, beginning one of the most bizarre cases in FBI history.
Who is Patty Hearst?This political activist and author, who was part of the counterculture of the 60s, was tried as an accessory to murder, but acquitted. She is currently professor emerita at U. of C., Santa Cruz.
Who is Angela Davis?Alice Addertongue was the pen-name for this famous American patriot/statesman
Who was Ben Franklin?During WWII, U.S. battleships were named after these.
What are states?U. S. Navy cruiser are traditionally named after these.
What are cities?This famous cruiser of WWII delivered the atomic bomb to Tinian before being torpedoed in 1945.
What is the Indianapolis?Naval destroyers are named after these.
What are names such as Arleigh Burke?This 'Bandit Queen' was born in 1848, and was highly romanticized for her outlaw career.
Not quit right, Betsy. They're named after naval heroes.Betsy wrote: "What are names such as Arleigh Burke?
This 'Bandit Queen' was born in 1848, and was highly romanticized for her outlaw career."
Who is Belle Starr.
He published over 100 books, including 'The Blackboard Jungle.'
Who was Evan Hunter?This actor in The Blackboard Jungle (film) grew up in the Bahamas.
Who is Sidney Poitier?This is the only Shakespeare play to mention February.
What is 'Much Ado About Nothing'?This French dessert consists of choux pastry puffs piled into a conical mound, and held together with strands of caramel. It is usually used for celebrations.
What is a cream puff tree (croquembouche)?This American baseball player, the first to break Babe Ruth's home run record, was born on Feb 5, 1934.
Who is Hank Aaron?While Aaron broke Ruth's career record, this ballplayer broke his record of 60 homeruns in a season first.
Who is Roger Maris?These two ballplayers had a homerun race in 1998.
Who are Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire?In February of 1928, this woman arrived in the U.S. claiming to be the deceased Tsar of Russia's youngest daughter.
Who was Anna Anderson?This actress played Anastasia in the 1956 movie of the same name.
Who is Ingrid Bergman?Bergman starred with Leslie Howard in this 1939 film about a violinist and his accompanist.
What is Intermezzo?This author continued the Millenium series of books originally written by Stieg Larsson.
Who is David Lagercrantz?In a classic episode of 'I Love Lucy,' Lucy Ricardo accidently hit this movie star with pie while eating lunch at the Brown Derby.
Who is William Holden?These two I Love Lucy actors despised each other off camera.
Who are Vivian Vance and William Frawley?This beautiful 1910 retired lighthouse on Lake Superior emits a light once a year on November 10 to remember the 'Edmund Fitzgerald.'
What is Split Rock?On February 8, 1975, the Unification Church held this for 1800 couples in Korea.
What is a mass wedding?This story by French author, Colette, was the basis for the 1958 award-winning film.
What is Gigi?This movie has been made twice (1947 and 2013), and is based on a 1939 short story by James Thurber.
What is The Secret World of Walter Mitty?This talk show host had a cameo appearance on This is Us in 2016.
Who is either Alan Thicke or Seth Meyers?This baseball player, who was the first African-American manager, and also won the MVP in both the American and National Leagues, died on the 7th of February.
Who is Frank Robinson?Feb 9, 1944 saw the birth of this author who won the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple.
Who is Alice Walker?This man, who entered MLB as the oldest rookie in history, became a member of the Hall of Fame in 1971.
Who was Satchel Paige?We think of this as being the governing body in the UK, but it is also the collective noun for a group (flock) of owls.
What is Parliament?Although they can fly, they usually don’t, a group of these animals is aptly referred to as a “marathon” or “race”.
What is a roadrunner? This Frenchman won 3 events in downhill skiing in the 1968 Winter Olympics, and 2 World Cups in 1967 and 1968.
Who is Jean-Claude Killy?“Please, sir, I want some more” is the opening line of this movie musical.
What is 'Oliver'?NYC plays host to this February 2-day event at Masison Square Garden every year. This year it on the 11th and 12th.
What is the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show?Feb 11, 1990 was the day that this Nobel Peace Prize winner was released from prison in South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?This actor portrayed Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film, 'Invictus'.
Who is Morgan Freeman?Today, Rhodesia is known as this country.
What is Zimbabwe?Queen of England for thirteen days, she was beheaded on February 12, 1554, on Tower Hill. She was barely 17 years old.
Who is Lady Jane Grey?According to Shakespeare, this monarch was supposed to have said, "A horse. A horse. My kingdom for a horse."
Who is Richard III?On Feb 13, 1923, this man who became an American test pilot and the first man to break the sound barrier, was born.
Who is Chuck Yeager?This actor portrayed Yeager in 'The Right Stuff.'
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