Name The Year: Guy de Maupassant (in France), writer, born.?

Questions

Which actor took the male lead in the Hitchcock thriller The Birds?

What is meant by the cooking term farci?

What is the anatomical name for the bones of a human's fingers and toes?

Cinnabar is an ore of which metal?

What was the name of Ernest Shackleton's ship which was trapped and crushed by polar ice in 1915?