Finishing the Musical
Stephen Sondheim turned classic fairy tales like Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood upside down in this acclaimed 1987 musical.
What is Into the Woods?
Represented by the chemical symbol O, this gas makes up roughly 21% of Earth's atmosphere and is essential for human respiration.
What is oxygen?
In Steven Spielberg's 1993 masterpiece Schindler's List, a German industrialist saves over 1,000 refugees during WWII by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories in this modern-day Eastern European country.
What is Poland?
Victor Hugo's 1831 gothic masterpiece features the bell-ringer Quasimodo, who lives inside this iconic medieval cathedral situated on an island in the Seine River.
What is Notre-Dame de Paris? (or Paris)
Derived from Latin, this 2-letter designation marks all hours between midday and midnight.
What is PM
Set in Victorian London, this 1979 musical tells the dark tale of a vengeful barber who forms a gruesome partnership with a pie shop owner.
What is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
In A Study in Scarlet, Holmes uses a specialized chemical reagent to test for blood traces; on the periodic table, this transition metal with symbol Fe binds to oxygen in human hemoglobin to give blood its crimson color.
What is iron?
James Cameron’s 1997 epic Titanic centers on the tragic 1912 maiden voyage of the famous British passenger liner, which struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic en route to this destination city.
What is New York City?
Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel begins with lawyer Jonathan Harker traveling from England to this mountainous historical region of central and eastern Romania.
What is Transylvania?
This 4-letter abbreviation is commonly used in urgent workplace requests when a task needs immediate attention.
What is ASAP
Told in reverse chronological order over two decades, this 1981 show tracks the decaying friendship among three creative collaborators.
What is Merrily We Roll Along?
Known as the lightest element in the universe, element number 1 consists of a single proton and a single electron.
What is hydrogen?
The 1995 film Braveheart depicts William Wallace fighting for Scottish independence against King Edward I, an English monarch nicknamed for this physical characteristic.
What is Longshanks? (or Edward Longshanks)
Charles Dickens opens his 1859 historical novel during the unrest leading up to the French Revolution, setting the action between these two European capital cities.
What are London and Paris?
In digital web addresses, this 3-letter acronym refers to the unique global address used to locate a webpage.
What is URL
Inspired by a famous pointillist painting, this 1984 musical explores the artistic process and the personal cost of creative obsession.
What is Sunday in the Park with George?
Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth frequently puffed on a pipe filled with tobacco; this toxic, yellow nonmetal—element number 16—was historically called "brimstone" and gives off a pungent smell when burned.
What is sulfur?
Ridley Scott's Gladiator features the ruthless Roman emperor Commodus, whose real-life reign in the 2nd century AD marked the end of a long period of imperial stability known by this two-word Latin phrase.
What is Pax Romana?
Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises follows American expatriates traveling to Spain to witness the famous Running of the Bulls festival in this Basque city.
What is Pamplona?
Stated on credit card agreements, this percentage calculation reflects the total cost of borrowing money on a yearly basis.
What is APR
Opening on Broadway in 1976, this Kabuki-influenced production examines the Westernization of a closed island nation following an 1853 naval expedition.
What is Pacific Overtures?
Holmes famously lived at 221B Baker Street in London; this halogen element—symbol I—was discovered in 1811 by French chemist Bernard Courtois and forms deep violet vapors when heated. Also used as a topical antiseptic.
What is iodine?
Christopher Nolan's 2023 biographical drama chronicles the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos; this American theoretical physicist served as the actual scientific director of the laboratory under General Leslie Groves.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer? (or Oppenhrimer)
Mark Twain’s 1884 novel follows Huck and the runaway enslaved man Jim as they travel southward by raft along this major North American waterway.
What is the Mississippi River?
Derived from the Latin id est, this 2-letter abbreviation is used in formal writing to mean "that is" or "in other words," clarifying a statement rather than introducing an example.
What is i.e.?