Food / Drink
What is the three-letter name of the "kid tested, mother approved" General Mills breakfast cereal that was introduced in 1937 and is still produced today? It likely reached its peak popularity in the 1980s—coincidentally around the same time that an unrelated glam metal band of the same name reached its own peak of success.
KIX
LITERATURE !! Doubler!!!:: "Appeal", "associate", "brethren", "broker", "chamber", "client", "confession", "litigators", "partner", "racketeer", "rainmaker", "reckoning", "summons", "testament"—all of these words appear in titles of what novelist's works, which are perennial bestsellers?
JOHN GRISHAM
What did the television characters Willow Rosenberg, Samantha Stephens, and Sabrina Spellman, along with a set of sisters from San Francisco with the last name of Halliwell, have most notably in common?
WITCHES
A program of commercial educational materials that endeavors to teach children reading skills via letter-sounds correlations, introduced in 1987 and still in existence today, is sold under the brand "Hooked on" what?
PHONICS
What six-letter word fills in the blank in this line from a 2016 Washington Post review of a food-photography app: "You can open the app, choose the [BLANK] ratio (3:4 or 1:1), and decide if you want blurred edges or to use the flash before selecting one of the 26 filters and shooting away."
ASPECT
What sweet stone fruit is popular in dessert dishes and sorbets, is often added to curries, is used for jams and other preserves, and is made into a wide variety of chutneys in India—where it is the national fruit and where over 40% of the world's crop is grown?
MANGO
"Slowly" is the English translation of the title of what pop song, a version of which landed at the #2 spot on Billboard magazine's 2017 Year-End Hot 100 chart (behind Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You")?
DESPACITO
Name the singer, actor, and businesswoman whose Instagram account ranks #3 on the list of individuals with the most followers on the platform, at over 429 million—approximately 700 times the number for @stevemartinreally (incidentally, there does not appear to be an official account for Martin Short).
SELENA GOMEZ
"Lifecasting" is a term that was popularized in part by a website and platform called justin.tv (named after and originally featuring cofounder Justin Kan), which ultimately spawned what still-existing service?
TWITCH
A 1964 silkscreen by Andy Warhol sold at auction for $195 million in 2022, a record (to date) for the artist. The title of the work is Shot Sage Blue [BLANK]—what first name fills in the blank?
MARILYN
The Sunjoy, a registered trademark of the fast-food restaurant Chick-fil-A, is a concoction that is equal parts of what two other menu items?
(SWEET) TEA, LEMONADE
House Party, House Party 2, and House Party 3 are among the films starring what hip-hop pair from Elmhurst, Queens, born Christophers Reid and Martin?
KID 'N PLAY
What Hulu-produced series was nominated in each of its first four seasons (beginning in 2017) for an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series, still today the only Hulu series to receive a nomination for that award? Its one win among the four, in 2017, was the first series from any streaming service (Hulu or otherwise) to win the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy.
THE HANDMAID'S TALE
2005's "Me at the zoo", featuring 25-year-old Jawed Karim, marks the beginning of what cultural phenomenon?
YOUTUBE
A famous painting by 19th-century German painter Emanuel Leutze re-creates a historical event at what non-German river?
DELAWARE
Chunks of lobster meat with cognac or Madeira cream sauce inside a puff pastry is a fancy hors d'oeuvre attributed to New York's Delmonico's restaurant and named (according to legend) after a sea captain who originated it. What is the name of the dish (which is actually an anagram of the captain's name)?
NEWBERG
The record producer born Dijon Isaiah McFarlane has been "on the beat" for hit songs by YG, Ty Dolla Sign, Tyga, Kid Ink, Trey Songz, Jeremih, Big Sean, Rihanna, Ella Mai, and many others, in addition to his own singles "Pure Water" (with Migos) and "Ballin'" (with Roddy Ricch). By what name is McFarlane known professionally?
MUSTARD
Podcaster and internet entrepreneur Adam Curry is also famous (at least to US audiences) for his on-camera work in the 1980s and 1990s for what company, whose domain name Curry registered and ran personally in 1993?
MTV
According to a famous quote attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras, what "is the measure of all things"?
MAN
The 17th-century Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi's most famous work is likely one that depicts a gruesome scene where an individual's head is being involuntarily sundered from its body. Give the name of either the nearly headless man in this painting or the woman performing the deed.
HOLOFERNES, JUDITH
What specialty espresso drink, similar (or in some cases identical) to a cortado, is named for the specific Libbey Glass Co. glassware in which it was originally and is often still served? The glassware is in turn named after a geographical territory—coincidentally near where the cortado originated.
GIBRALTAR
Soulful alto Alison Moyet and former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke formed what electronic music duo in the 1980s? (Either their full name, by which they were known in their native England, or their shortened name, by which they were known in the United States, is acceptable.)
YAZOO/YAZ
!!DOUBLER!! WORLD HIST - One British dandy helped transform Bath into a spa town in the 1700s, and another cultivated a friendship with the Prince Regent (the future King George IV) and defined English men's high fashion in the early 1800s. Both men went by what first name?
BEAU
The Spingarn Medal, which is awarded annually for outstanding achievement, was first given to cell biologist Ernest E. Just in 1915, and is presented by what American organization that was formed a few years prior?
NAACP
"The Baroness with a Brush" was a phrase used to describe what Polish-born 20th-century Art Deco painter, whose 1932 Portrait of Marjorie Ferry—one of the most expensive paintings ever produced by a woman artist—sold in February 2020 for $21.2 million?
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA