Screen Time
This 2006 comedy follows a journalism graduate who enters the fashion world as an assistant to the powerful editor Miranda Priestly.
The Devil Wears Prada
American high schools and colleges traditionally welcome former students back for this celebration, often centered around a football game and school spirit.
Homecoming
This company’s name was inspired by a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
Formed through the Turkish talent competition Big5 Türkiye, this six-member girl group quickly became one of the country’s most talked-about new pop acts.
Manifest
This Turkish dog breed, traditionally used to protect livestock in Central Anatolia, is famous for its large size, strength, and distinctive dark facial mask.
Sivas Kangalı
The spinning top at the end of this Christopher Nolan film leaves viewers questioning whether its final scene is reality or another dream.
Inception
Popularized by American fast-food culture, this service lets customers order, pay, and receive their food through a window without ever leaving where they sit.
Drive-thru
This online shopping company was named after the world’s largest river by volume, reflecting its founder’s goal of building an enormous business.
Amazon
This 1975 Queen recording famously moves through several radically different sections—including a ballad, an operatic passage and hard rock - and initially challenged the conventions of radio singles.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Scotland chose a creature that has never actually existed as its national animal.
Unicorn
Rather than simply casting older actors later, Richard Linklater filmed this coming-of-age movie intermittently from 2002 to 2013, so its actors visibly aged with their characters.
Boyhood
Originally built to advertise a housing development rather than the movie industry, this Los Angeles landmark once ended with the word “LAND.”
Hollywood Sign
This wireless technology was named after a 10th-century Scandinavian king known for uniting Denmark and Norway—just as the technology connects different devices.
Bluetooth
Whitney Houston made this song a global hit in The Bodyguard, but Dolly Parton originally wrote and recorded it almost two decades earlier.
I Will Always Love You
Botanically, this curved fruit qualifies as a berry, while the strawberry does not.
Banana
A motel, a stolen $40,000, and one of cinema’s most famous shower scenes all belong to this Alfred Hitchcock thriller.
Psycho
Stretching from Chicago to California, this historic highway became so closely associated with road trips and westward travel that it earned the nickname “Mother Road.”
Route 66
The only planet in our solar system whose English name does not come from Greek or Roman mythology has a name derived from Old English and Germanic words meaning “ground.”
Earth
The title of this Nirvana hit came from graffiti Kathleen Hanna wrote on Kurt Cobain’s wall after seeing the name of a deodorant brand.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
A single rotation of this planet takes about 243 Earth days, while one orbit around the Sun takes about 225 days - making its day longer than its year
Venus
Before Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino made this crime film in which criminals using color-coded aliases try to discover who betrayed them after a failed diamond robbery.
Reservoir Dogs
Before major American football games, fans often turn stadium parking lots into temporary parties with grills, drinks and games. This tradition takes its name from a part of a vehicle.
Tailgating / Tailgate Party
Its famous name sounds Italian, but it was actually invented by an American who combined the words “smoke” and “fog” to describe polluted air.
Smog
This 1971 Marvin Gaye song shares its title with the album it opens and transformed a casual question into a protest-era plea about war, poverty and social unrest.
What’s Going On
For decades, residents of a Pennsylvania town lived above an underground fire that began in a coal mine in 1962. The fire proved so difficult to extinguish that most of the town was eventually abandoned, and it continues burning beneath the area today.
Centralia