Official Language in Common
Belarus and Kyrgyzstan
Russian
Alright, alright--in 2019 Matthew McConaughey became a communications professor at the university of this, his home state
Texas
Michelangelo was 33 in 1508 when he began painting this Vatican chapel
Sistine
Boots & handbags are also sold at DSW, short for this
Designer Shoe Warehouse
The distribution of salt throughout food can be explained by osmosis and this
Diffusion
Burundi and Switzerland
French
John Cleese of this comedy troupe was professor-at-large at Cornell starting in 1999, but he didn't teach silly walks
Monty Python
Georges Braque & this Spaniard are considered the founders of Cubism
Picasso
It's the "K" in the AKC, an authority on dogs
Kennel
Fat is used to brown this, the aromatic base of slow cooked Italian dishes
Soffrito
Chad and Bahrain
Arabic
This director & writer of "Do the Right Thing" taught African-American cinema at Harvard
Spike Lee
In 2015 this Roman landmark reopened after a 17-month restoration – don’t forget to bring coins to throw in
Trevi Fountain
Used in the kitchen, EVOO stands for this
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Indian achar, Korean Kimchi, and German sauerkraut are made with this acidic process
Pickling
Suriname and Curacao
Dutch
At NYU, Prince 101 (about the purple one) had a lecture by this drummer for The Roots
Questlove
This National Historic Landmark, steps away from the White House was the first building in the United States built specifically to be an art museum.
The Renwick Gallery
The last name of this British mathematician is the "T" in CAPTCHA, a computer security test
Turing
Referring to meats cooked in this method, poet Mark Strand said "for once I do not regret the passage of time"
Braising
Aymara
In a 2008 USA Today interview, this famous poet talked about teaching: “I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes. But I had to work at Wake Forest to know that.”
Maya Angelou
Escalier is in the original title of a work by this artist that scandalized NYC’s Intl. Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913.
Marcel Duchamp
In a computer, a CPU is a this unit
Central Processing Unit
Samin Nosrat once heard Julia Child's longtime friend Jacques Pepin say he could judge a cook's skill by how well he cooks this
An egg