Of Monsters and Men
This bullheaded fighter is featured as an antagonist in popular works like The Lightning Thief and the 2020 video game Hades, though in the latter he is addressed by his true name, Asterius.
What/Who is the Minotaur?
Known for his controversial haircuts, adolescent acting career, and six albums (in addition to several mixtapes), this Canadian rapper has recently been embracing his feminine side, with lyrics like, “Say that you a lesbian/girl, me too.”
Who is (Aubrey) Drake (Graham)?
This trio of elements shares its name with the popular 70s disco group who rose to fame off songs like “Let’s Groove” and “September.”
What/Who is Earth, Wind and Fire?
This recently archived Discord channel about a supernatural RPG set in Meiji Restoration-era Japan features adolescent fighters Gon and Killua.
What is Youkai Hunter x Hunter?
Internet sensation Martin Cabello pretended to snort this stimulant before revealing to his audience that it was, in fact, flour, and alluding to his hatred of the United States military.
What is cocaine?
This creature is perhaps best known for sharing its name with a Dartmouth secret society, but, aside from that, is also well-known for terrorizing the city of Thebes with riddles until it was bested by Oedipus.
What is a sphinx?
Also known as ‘Bobby Tarantino’ and ‘Young Sinatra,’ this rapper and Twitch streamer is best known for lines like "I’m just as white as that Mona Lisa/I’m just as black as my cousin Keisha/I’m biracial, so bye Felicia!" and the infamous ad-lib "who can relate? woo!".
Who is Logic (Sir Robert Bryson Hall II)?
The maid, the matron and the crone are often referred to collectively as the “three faces” of this ancient woman, whose unfortunate decision-making involving produce damned the entirety of humanity, according to the first book of the Old Testament.
Who is Eve?
This self-proclaimed nemesis of the One Punch Man protagonist collects rings and runs across lush green landscapes alongside friends like Miles ‘Tails’ Prower and Amy Rose.
Who/What is Speed of Sound Sonic the Hedgehog?
This combination of oxycodone and paracetamol was made famous in the chorus of rapper Future’s 2017 hit “Mask Off.”
What is/are Percocet(s)?
Known in the Greek as Androphagus, or “man-eater,” this creature was particularly terrifying due to its possessing a human face, attached to a lion’s body—with a tail of venomous spines.
What is a manticore?
Infamous for her alleged quote ‘Your soulmate may be in a relationship, it’s your job to ruin that,’ this artist broke out into the R&B genre with successful singles like “If I Ain’t Got You” and her duet “My Boo” with Confessions singer Usher.
Who is Alicia Keys?
This term is the colloquial phrase that refers to a player successfully scoring three goals, most commonly associated with football [or soccer in the United States].
What is a hat trick?
This musical director/producer of In the Heights and lead actor of Hamilton is given by police to criminal suspects in the United States to inform them that they can refuse to answer questions and keep silent.
What are Lin-Manuel Miranda rights?
Popularized in the 1980s and commonly associated with raves, this drug’s street name was also in the top 300 girl names in 2021, though we will not accept that street name as an answer.
What is MDMA or what is ecstasy?
Though the two were originally distinct species, sometime during the late Middle Ages this creature was conflated with the cockatrice, likely because the two both were known to have lethal, petrifying gazes and possessed the same weakness: a rooster’s crow.
What is a basilisk?
The current record holder for most number-one singles by a solo artist, this songstress established her immortal fame in 1994 with the release of her album Merry Christmas, the lead single of which was able to top the Billboard Top 100 25 years after release in December 2019.
Who is Mariah Carey?
In the traditional Greek pantheon, these three goddesses took a pledge to remain eternal maidens, perpetually avoiding the influence of the goddess Aphrodite.
Who are Athena, Artemis, and Hestia?
This popular Agatha Christie deserted island murder mystery, as it was originally titled when published in 1939, ended up taking its characters to France, as narrated by Kanye West and Jay-Z.
What are Ten Little N****s in Paris?
Though its enantiomer has historically been used as an animal anesthetic, this chemical is currently used as a general anesthetic in humans and a medication for treatment-resistant depression.
What is esketamine?
While we nowadays say “Between a rock and a hard place,” the ancient hero Odysseus might substitute the “rock” and “hard place” with Scylla and this creature—whose curse of being forced to drain the sea thrice a day caused her to create whirlpools in the area now known as the straits of Messina.
What/Who is Charybdis?
Though he was bullied early in his youth and called ‘White Boy’ by his Jamaican neighbors due to his mixed heritage, this man would go on to become one of the best-selling music artists of all time and one of the most iconic activists for the legalization of marijuana in the 20th century.
Who is Bob Marley?
In the video game franchise The Legend of Zelda, the sacred artifact known as the Triforce consists of three separate pieces, with the pieces embodying these three traits associated with the divine creators of the relic.
What are Wisdom, Power, and Courage?
This promotional single for the 2013 film The Great Gatsby, performed by Lana del Rey, glorifies the same themes as the adaptation’s original author’s second novel.
What is Young and Beautiful and Damned?
A naturally occurring hallucinogen that can be found in certain psychedelic mushrooms [often known as “magic mushrooms”], this chemical shares its name with the title of the longest track on Jhené Aiko’s second studio album.
What is psilocybin?