Before AND After
On a compass, 315 degrees AND the location of the Cabinet, Situation, and Roosevelt Rooms.
North West Wing
A 1980 article in Psychology Today is most likely the first usage of this word describing a person who purposely finds and exploits weaknesses in computer systems.
Hacker
Representing 38 percent of the population in the United States, the positive of this blood type is the most dominant blood type.
O
Detroit is one of the most influential cities in American music: Which famous record company did Berry Gordy found there?
Motown
“Look at me,” Medusa beckons. But, what was said to happen if you stared into the eyes of Medusa?
Turn to stone
His gravestone mentions his religious freedom statute and his founding of a nearby university but not his presidency AND the capital of Missouri.
Thomas Jefferson City
Before 1928, your great idea could not have been the best thing since this.
Sliced Bread
Every minute, a typical human emits 14,000 gamma rays because of the radioactivity of this element in our bodies.
Potassium
In the carol “We Three Kings,” which gift has a bitter perfume?
Myrrh
How many gods lived on Mount Olympus?
James Bond’s alpha-numeric employer AND the unholy number mentioned in Revelation 13:18.
MI666
Lasting from 1368 to 1644, this Chinese dynasty is synonymous with vases.
Ming
Two teams finish the first half of a basketball game with a score of 36-24. What is the fewest number of baskets scored together by both teams to achieve this score combination?
20 baskets
or 12 and 8 baskets
“1, 2, 3, o’clock," call it foxtrot?… - Decca Records, unsure how to market new rock and roll records, called this Bill Haley and His Comets hit a foxtrot number.
Rock Around the Clock
Before Google Maps, you may look for maps in such a tome as this, named for this Titan doomed to hold the world on his shoulders.
Atlas
The recent voice of Mario Bros.’s Bowser & Kung Fu Panda’s Po AND this sum of 21 version of poker.
Jack Black Jack
The 1956 autumn uprising in this country was the first threat to Soviet control of Eastern Europe after the solidification of power following World War II.
Hungary
The tallest tree in the world is 379 feet (115.6m) tall. What kind of tree is it?
Coast Redwood
Sequoia
Used from the late medieval period until about 1800, this rectangular keyboard instrument’s name is from the Latin for “key” and the Greek for “string.”
Clavichord
“Singing La-la-la-la-la-la-la” - the story of Hades and this goddess he kidnapped to live with him in the Underworld is currently being retold with eight shows a week in the Broadway musical Hadestown.
Persephone
In various cultures, this animal is known as good luck, bad luck, and a witch’s familiar accomplice AND the feline alter ego of Gotham City’s bullwhip-wielding Selina Kyle.
Black Cat Woman
What name was given to groups of attacking U-boats in World War II?
Wolf packs
In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, with an opening line referencing the country’s date of conception. What year would be four-score and seven years ago from our current date?
1938
Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” mentions this Robert Heinlein book about a man from Mars - Stranger in a Strange Land - right before it mentions “Dylan, Berlin” and this attempted invasion of Cuba.
Bay of Pigs
His name is often used to refer to a task that is relentless, repetitive, or unyielding, as he was punished by being forced to eternally push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down to the start again.
Sisyphus