Programming Languages
Perhaps the most famous coding language. Not Boa, Viper, Mamba, or Cobra, but instead...
What is Python?
If you can quickly think back to your second grade science class, I bet you can guess what substance fosters photosynthesis and gives plants their green hue.
What is Chlorophyll
This space opera not only won Best Costume Design at 50th Academy Awards, but also netted an impressive 5 other trophies. Today, adjusted for inflation, it's the second highest grossing film in North America, behind Gone With the Wind.
What is Star Wars?
Who is Travis Kelce?
Paul Harding's debut novel, Tinkers, won in 2010. It chronicles a dying clock repairman reminiscing on his late father, a humble tinker who suffered from this neurological disorder, characterized by seizures and spasming.
What is Epilepsy?
What is Java/Javascript?
Often taught in schools and hailed as 'The Great American Novel', this 1925 novel ends with Nick Carroway returning to the titular character's mansion. While there, he stares across the bay at a green light, shining in the distance.
What is The Great Gatsby?
The first MCU film to win an academy award, this film also holds the distinction of the first superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture. It didn't win that, but it did manage to bring home three awards; Best score, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.
What is Black Panther?
Hailing from the Dominican Republic, This third baseman became the first Cleveland player to have 250 home runs and 250 stolen bases.
Who is José Ramírez?
Edward P. Jones' The Known World, the winner of the 2004 prize, follows slaveowners, both black and white, and the complications that follow, during this era of American History, between 1815-1861.
This language shares it's name with July's precious gemstone. Less important nowadays is it's rank among the 'cardinal gems'...Amethyst (purple), Emerald (green), Diamond (transparent), Sapphire (blue).
What is Ruby?
What is the Luna Moth?
Centered around the journey of a trans woman and two of these types of performers, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, after it's 1994 Cannes Film Festival premiere, became a surprise hit, even going on to win Best Costume Design at 67th Academy awards.
Who are Drag artists/Drag Queens?
The number 445 was retired in 2001, not for a player, but for an entity, after the team sold out 455 consecutive games between 1995 and 2001, a record they held until 2008.
What are the fans?
Taking the prize in 2013, The Orphan Master's Son deals with themes of intertwined propaganda, identity, and state power themes in this East Asian country.
What is North Korea?
Named after this mythical creature, often confused with dragons. Dragons have four feet, rather than this creature's two, and this creature is often depicted as much smaller than the latter.
What is Wyvern?
On a quiet Toronto street in 2009, Artist An Te Liu built a house. A house painted entirely green. Reportedly, the building was directly inspired by this aptly titled board game.
What is Monopoly?
The final installment of a popular fantasy series, this film won Best Picture, along with all other 10 awards it was nominated for (including Costume Design).
What is Lord of the Rings: Return of the King?
Bob Feller, pitcher for the Guardians between 1936-1956, was once asked "What is the most important game you ever won?". He replied with this.
What is WW2?
This Great Depression set novel, written by John Steinbeck, follows a poor family of farmers who are driven from their native Oklahoma and forced to move to California in the search of a future. In 1940, not only did it win the prize, but it also received a John Ford directed film adaptation of the same name, starring Henry Fonda.
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
If something is 'up in the air' or unconfirmed, you could say its in...
What is Limbo?
700,000 artifacts call the National Palace Museum in Taiwan their permanent home. The crown jewel according to the public? A small piece of jadeite, carved into this vegetable. If you look closely, you can spot a locust, hiding between the leaves.
What is a cabbage?
Doctor Zhivago won five academy awards, including costume design. It tells the story of a married physician and poet whose life is altered by this Revolution and subsequent civil war.
What is the Russian Revolution?
This Ohio native is likely more famous for his work with the Boston Red Sox, even helping win them a championship in 1903. However, he did finish his career in 1911 with Cleveland. Today, he still holds the record for most career wins. After his death in 1956, the MLB honored his legacy with an award named after him, given to one pitcher in each league annually.
Who is Cy Young?
The 2005 winner, Gilead was only Marilynne Robinson's second novel. Like many winners, it is a historical tale. What makes it somewhat unique? It's an epistolary novel, meaning the narrative is told through these.
What are written letters/correspondence?