Shakespeare
This play includes a famous speech that begins, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
What is Julius Caesar?
This gift from our French allies includes that inspiring verse: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me."
What is the Statue of Liberty?
What is Airplane?
Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut compete nearly annually to see how many hot dogs they can consume on this otherwise patriotic holiday
What is Independence Day? (What is 4th of July? also acceptable)
Elizabeth I and Bloody Mary are from this royal house
What is Tudor?
Shakespeare's King Claudius says something smells to this; today we put "high" before it
What is heaven?
What is gauche?
This dancing duo also sings "Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously" in this miry musical
What is Singing in the Rain?
This February holiday was invented by Leslie Knope of Parks and Recreation acclaim and includes recommended gifts such as a 5,000-word essay for why the celebrants are so awesome
What is Galentine's Day?
The Parks and Recreation Parks Department refers to workers of this neighboring department as a "diabolical, ruthless bunch of bureaucrats" and "book jockeys".
What is the Library Department?
"All that glisters is not gold" in this play about exacting a loan payment of a "pound of flesh"
What is The Merchant of Venice?
To "tomber dans les pommes," or to "fall in the apples" means to do this equivalent action in English
What is lose consciousness?
These two men invoke “Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration” while on their “mission from God”
Who are The Blues Brothers?
On this holiday, it is customary to fly the flag at half mast until noon and at full mast thereafter
What is Memorial Day?
Which late night TV host recently said the following: “Our government’s response [to the coronavirus] has been so bad that Americans likely won’t be allowed to visit Europe anytime soon. Forget Europe — at this point, I’d settle for a trip to the International House of Pancakes.”
Who is Stephen Colbert?
For much of the play, this title character is known simply as Gloucester
Who is Richard III?
France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is beneath this Paris landmark
What is the Arc de Triomphe?
If Doc can get this key part working on his time machine, he might be able to get Back to the Future
What is a flux capacitor?
May 21, 2020 is also this holiday in the Christian calendar
What is Ascension Day?
He has 272 speeches, the most of any non-title character in a Shakespeare tragedy
Who is Iago?
The French word "trouver," meaning "to find" is the root of the second word in this common phrase about finding a gold mine
What is a treasure trove?
If you find yourself whistling for a "Wells Fargo Wagon," someone who knows the territory, or simply because "Ya Got Trouble," you might be watching this musical
What is the Music Man?
This town in Pennsylvania is known for its annual celebration of Groundhog Day, made famous in a movie of the same title
What is Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania?
This is the excruciatingly correct name for a group of sea turtle eggs
What is a clutch?