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As Shakespeare once wrote, Brevity is the Soul of Wit; advice this astronaut took to heart when he stepped on the moon and said “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Batman takes place in this fictional city.
What is Gotham?
Shady Pines, Ma! This series takes the classic household sitcom and replaces the nuclear family with ladies in the autumn of life, with their own challenges to navigate and wins to celebrate (with cheesecake).
What is Golden Girls?
This cake is loaded with fresh fruit and sweet crumbly topping that it falls in places while baking because the fruit sinks toward the bottom of the cake.
What is a buckle?
This adhesive is commonly gray because it was originally designed to match the color of galvanized steel air conditioning and heating conduit.
What is Duct tape?
The hot pink strapless satin gown worn by this actress as she sings 'Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend' in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is by far one of the most iconic dresses of all time. The dress was lied with stiff felt so that it would keep it's structure as she danced.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
This certified genius science fiction writer created the laws of robotics for his book, I Robot in 1950.
Who is Isaac Asimov?
The original laws state:
The classic rhyme "Leaves of three, let it be" is a famous mnemonic used to identify this plant and its equally itchy relatives.
What is Poison Ivy?
This South American country is the home to Machu Picchu?
What is Peru?
A fiery American lawyer and politician, this man is best known for his 1775 Second Virginia Convention speech where he passionately declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
This Warrior Princess rode a horse named Argo.
Who is Xena?
These life-long friends starred together in a classic workplace comedy film before joining forces on Netflix's Grace and Frankie.
Who are Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin?
Named for an Opera singer, this dessert features Vanilla ice cream topped with sugared peaches and raspberry sauce
What is Peach Melba?
Cement is a powdery ingredient. When mixed with water, and aggregates (sand, gravel, or crushed stone), you get this finished, hardened material.
What is Concrete?
The dress that launched a million replicas for decades to come. When this actress married Prince Ranier III of Monaco, she wore a lace-sleeved wedding gown designed by Helen Rose, a costume designer at MGM studios.
Who is Grace Kelly?
This Serbian inventor established A/C electricity, wireless transmission of energy, remote control and wireless telegraphy. He was also considered a futurist for envisioning what tomorrow’s world would be like over the next century.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Though used to derive heart medication, this plant resembles kale and contains naturally occurring digitalis glycosides that can be fatal if the wrong dosage is ingested.
What is Foxglove?
Attracting over half a million visitors annually, this is the second most-visited home in the United States, after the White House.
What is Graceland?
She was asked to speak at President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration as President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1993. Her performance of On the Pulse of the Morning was the first African-American and the first woman to recite a poem at an inauguration.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This is the name of the fictional location in the "The Lord of the Rings" series.
What is Middle-Earth?
Created by Linda Bloodworth Thomason, this series centers on the lives of four women working together at an interior design firm in 1980s Atlanta, Georgia, airing from 1986-1993.
What is Designing Women?
Apple is the traditional fruit of this baked American dessert made from fruit which is layered and topped with sweetened bread crumbs, but berries also make a fun filling.
What is a Brown Betty?
A small-to-medium burrowing mammal native to the Americas, known for the leathery, bony armor plates that cover its back, head, legs, and tail. When they give birth, its always to identical quadruplets.
What is an armadillo?
The night Prince Charles admitted on television to his affair with this woman, Princess Diana stepped out in this black mini dress by Christina Stambolian, henceforth titled the 'revenge dress', for obvious reasons.
Who is Camilla Parker Bowles?
This cartoon character, who has been around since 1987, is a certified genius. So much so that she was asked to join the Springfield chapter of Mensa.
Who is Lisa Simpson?
Consumption of this toxic plant, whose name means Beautiful Lady in Italian, can lead to sensitivity to light, blurred vision, loss of balance, headache, rash, slurred speech, confusion, hallucinations and convulsions.
What is Belladonna?
These two US states have the highest percentage of French speakers.
What are Maine and Louisiana?
On Nov. 19, 1863, this world leader was able to pull off a world class speech in only 260 words, and energized a nation tired of war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Torchwood is an anagram and spin-off of this British sci-fi series where the protagonist Time Lord travels around in a police box.
What is Doctor Who?
The real Piper Kerman spent 13 months in jail following some felonious money laundering. This TV show based on her memoir lasted for 6 years.
What is Orange is the New Black?
This French dessert is traditionally made with pitted tart cherries. The fruit is arranged at the bottom of a baking dish then covered with a batter rich in eggs and milk and then baked to form a crustless tart.
What is Clafoutis?
This organism operates as a miniature ecosystem, it typically appears as crusty patches, leafy structures, or bushy growths, building a symbiotic relationship with rocks and tree bark. The gray varieties include Old Man's Beard, Reindeer and Dust.
What are Lichen?
This emerald-green velvet dressing gown is one of the most striking ensembles in the film, made when this main character tore down the drapes in her plantation.
Who is Scarlett O'Hara?
Often called the Father of Modern Science, this astronomer advocated for Copernicus' heliocentric model. This caused a rift between him and the Catholic Church, he was found vehemently suspect of heresy, he was forced to recant and spent his final years under house arrest.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Milk sickness, from consuming milk from cows who have grazed on white snakeroot, was responsible for the deaths of thousands of settlers in the American Midwest in the early 19th century, including this President's mother in 1818.
He is the only man that has served as US president and vice president without being elected to either one.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This Peabody Award winner was an expert in using rhetoric to effectively communicate with any audience, not just children, a quality best evidenced in his appearance before a senate committee to save his PBS show’s funding in 1969.
Who is Fred Rogers?
This professor's role in the original Sherlock Holmes books is surprisingly small. Despite being hailed as Holmes's archenemy, he physically appears in only one short story, "The Final Problem", and is mentioned as a mastermind in just a few others.
Who is Moriarty?
Standard television scripts allocate roughly one page of dialogue for every minute of screen time. This show starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel scripts routinely doubled that, forcing the cast to speak roughly 160+ words per minute just to fit the allotted time.
What is Gilmore Girls?
Named for a Russian ballerina, this dessert is a round baked meringue topped with fresh fruit and whipped cream.
What is a Pavlova?
The African Gray of this bird order are very bright, so much so that the outperform young human children on cognitive tests.
What are parrots?
In 2010, this performer wore a dress to the MTV music awards made entirely of raw beef. Though it definitely provided shock value, she wasn’t being outrageous for the sake of it. She wore it to protest the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell military policy and broader issues of identity and objectification, saying "If we don’t stand up for what we believe in, if we don’t fight for our rights, pretty soon we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on our bones. And I am not a piece of meat.”
Who is Lady Gaga?
She was was a mathematician and "human computer" who was instrumental to the first-ever US crewed spaceflights. Thanks to her calculations of orbital mechanics as an employee at NASA, the space agency was able to send people to space successfully. At 97 years old, she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Often called the “Queen of Poisons,” this highly toxic perennial with a lupine name contains aconitine, a powerful toxin that affects the heart and nervous system, and even small amounts can be fatal.
What is Wolfs Bane?
Members of most ranks of nobility in England - Baron, Viscount, Earl, &c. - are addressed as "My Lord" or "My Lady". Dukes and Dutchesses are addressed this way.
What is Your Grace?