Famous Lists
Questions About Famous Lists
- Which bird, the fastest animal in the sky, was taken off the Endangered Species list in 1999?
- "Your name will also go on the list! what is it?" is a classic line from which sitcom?
- What terms describes a 'list of things to do before you die'?
- Which British surgeon was a pioneer of antiseptic surgery?
- What term did entertainment journalist James Ulme coin for the most bankable actors in the Hollywood film industry?
- Which Italian composer boasted: "I could set a laundry list to music"?
- On March 14, 1950, Thomas Holden was the first to go on what list?
- After 1917 the Clergy List merged with which long-time rival Clerical Directory?
- What was the first name of the German industrialist Schindler, who was portrayed in the 1993 film Schindler's Lis?
- The Hollywood Blacklist is associated with which term first coined in 1950, named after an American politician?
- Which American classified advertisements website began in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco area?
- What list was one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734?
- The Dewey Decimal System is a classification system listing what?
- Which best seller list is widely regarded as the pre-eminent list of best-selling books in the United States?
- Refering to the materials and goods that a business holds, what would Americans call a list of stock, or stock list?
Answers:
- The Peregrine Falcon
- Dad's Army
- Bucket list
- Joseph Lister
- A-list, or A-listers
- Rossini (Gioachino Rossini)
- FBI's Most Wanted List
- Crockford's
- Oskar
- McCarthyism
- Craiglist
- Lloyd's List
- Library books
- The New York Times Best Seller list
- Inventory list
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