“________ THE _______” PEOPLE
Hank Ketcham created this cartoon character in 1951, a five-year-old boy who wants to help grown-ups (especially his neighbor Mr. Wilson), but his good intentions usually end up in chaos.
Dennis the Menace
Very popular culinary herb, widely used in Italian dishes.
Oregano
This comic character was obsessed with the little red-haired girl.
Charlie Brown
Types of high-class, backless shoes include slides and these – which bear no connection to the hybrid offspring of a donkey and a horse.
Mules
This is the branch of biology that deals with heredity.
Genetics
Created in 1926, this “hunny” loving bear’s gentle kindness and warm-hearted friendships made him one of the most enduring characters in children’s literature.
Winnie the Pooh
Rice-shaped pasta.
Orzo
Pete Rose’s high-energy play and base-running earned him this nickname.
Charlie Hustle
In 2005 a collector paid $60,000 for a 115-year-old pair of this company's 501 jeans, a design that is still sold today.
Levi’s
Cyanosis, a condition where this essential element is very low in the blood, turns the skin blue.
Oxygen
This serial killer, who murdered at least five women in London’s East End in 1888, was never officially identified or captured.
Jack the Ripper
Licorice-flavored Greek aperitif.
Ouzo
The most famous movies of this pioneer of silent films include The Kid (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940).
Charlie Chaplin
Red blood cells are produced in this soft center of our bones.
Marrow
This Norse Viking explorer, best known for founding the first permanent European settlements in Greenland around 985 AD, got his nickname from the bright color of his hair and beard.
Erik the Red
The only Canadian province to fit this category.
Ontario
According to actress Candice Bergen, this Charlie “was treated better than most humans. He had his own room.”
Charlie McCarthy
This leading fashion influencer in the early 1960s chose Oleg Cassini to do her official wardrobe.
Jacqueline Kennedy
This scientist studies fossils and dinosaurs, like the character Ross Geller on Friends.
Paleontologist
By the age of 30, this ancient Greek king created one of the largest empires in history through a series of brilliant military conquests, spreading Greek culture throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia.
Alexander the Great
Shakespeare’s Moor of Venice.
Othello
The nickname of a famous border crossing location between East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
Checkpoint Charlie
The name for these shoes, introduced in the mid-1950s, is Italian for “dagger” – an apt name for heels so sharp they were known to scar wooden floors.
Stilettos
The Life-Long Feud That Electrified the World is a 2016 book about Nikola Tesla and this man.
Thomas Edison