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This 1997 Radiohead album features the songs “Paranoid Android” and “Karma Police.”
What is Radiohead
This piece can move diagonally any number of squares but cannot jump over other pieces.
What is a bishop?
The grip style where a climber wraps their fingers over the edge of a hold is called this.
What is a crimp?
This Los Angeles team won the 2020 World Series.
Who are the Dodgers?
This 2001 indie film by Richard Linklater explores the lives of two teenagers over one school year.
What is Waking Life?
The “shoegaze” genre, known for its ethereal sound and heavy use of guitar effects, originated primarily in this country in the late 1980s.
What is the United Kingdom?
This 20th-century World Chess Champion was known for his hypermodern openings and love of unusual positions.
Who is Aron Nimzowitsch?
This famous Yosemite rock formation is known as “The Nose” among climbers.
What is El Capitan?
The position in baseball responsible for catching pitches and preventing stolen bases is this.
What is catcher?
The cinematographer known for his dreamy, hazy look in films like Lost in Translation and Her is this American.
Who is Lance Acord?
This band, fronted by Kevin Shields, is often credited with defining the shoegaze sound.
Who are My Bloody Valentine?
In chess notation, “O-O” represents this special move.
What is kingside castling?
In climbing, the French term for a move that requires the climber to push with feet and pull with hands is this.
What is “mantling”?
Known as the “Dodger Blue,” this color became synonymous with the team when they moved to LA in this decade.
What is the 1950s?
This 1999 movie features a dream-within-a-dream plot and has become a cult favorite among indie film fans.
What is Memento?
Radiohead experimented with this digital distribution strategy for their 2007 album, In Rainbows, letting fans pay what they wanted.
What is a pay-what-you-want release?
This tactic involves sacrificing a minor piece to gain a decisive advantage, often by exposing the opponent’s king.
What is a sacrifice or combination?
This type of climbing relies solely on natural rock features without any aid gear for upward progress.
What is free climbing?
This legendary Dodgers pitcher threw a perfect game in 1965.
Who is Sandy Koufax?
This director often blends surrealism and romance, seen in films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Who is Michel Gondry?
The technique of layering multiple guitar tracks to create a “wall of sound,” common in shoegaze music, is also called this.
What is guitar reverb/delay layering?
This term refers to a chess opening in which White fianchettos a bishop on g2 or b2, controlling the long diagonal.
What is the fianchetto?
The first person to free climb El Capitan’s “Freerider” route in a single day was this American climber.
Who is Alex Honnold?
The Dodgers’ rivalry with this San Francisco team is considered one of the most intense in baseball history.
Who are the San Francisco Giants?
The 2010 indie film Black Swan was directed by this filmmaker known for psychological intensity.
Who is Darren Aronofsky?