AROUND THE TIME YOU WERE BORN
Also called the Millennium Bug, this alphanumeric issue thankfully proved to be a non-problem on Jan. 1, 2000
What is Y2K?
Geography Awareness Week & National Stuffing Day
What is November?
Let's go to the red planet!
Let's bring everyone home from said red planet! Hey... where's Matt Damon?
What is The Martian?
The Scottish & Irish custom of guising, dressing in costume & getting rewards, was a predecessor of this activity
What is trick or treat?
Invented in 1929, this clear beverage was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda"
What is 7-UP?
A government crackdown on protesters in Beijing on June 4, 1989 took place in this square
What is Tiananmen Square?
He invented the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
Ben Platt reprised the role of the title teen with a broken arm when this Broadway musical became a 2021 film
What is Dear Evan Hansen?
It took 11 years & about $25 million, but in 2001 this landmark was reopened with its tilt reduced by about 16 inches
What is the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
The kickoff of the 2021 NFL regular season & Arrrr! Talk Like a Pirate Day
What is September?
We're all living in a simulation! Only a bank teller can save us!; life is a video game
What is Free Guy?
This expression meaning "do as I say" ends with a multi-lane road
What is my way or the highway?
Introduced to Europe around the 17th century, it was sometimes referred to as "Arabian wine"
What is Coffee?
When papal armies threatened Florence in 1529, this native son & genius with stone drew up plans to fortify the city
Who is Michelangelo?
John Brown led the raid on the Federal arsenal at ?
What is Harper Ferry, Virginia
Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham
What is The Book of Mormon?
Released in 2003, this Pixar film about a dad trying to locate his son earned nearly $1 billion worldwide
What is Finding Nemo?
Star Wars Day, which led to Revenge of the Fifth
What is May?
Opening Pandora's box; Sigourney Weaver, dealing with different aliens; unobtanium? Really?
What is Avatar?
If you don't want to reveal your secrets in this party game, you may have to do something risky
What is truth or dare?
A dark mustache on a BYU student may indicate she's been drinking this, the most popular beverage sold there after water
What is Chocolate Milk?
Spain's second queen of this name took the throne in 1833
Who is Isabella?
He was the American inventor of the telegraph
Samuel FB Morse
Act I of this long-running musical starts with the song "Think Of Me" & ends with a chandelier crashing
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
On Dec. 13, 2003 U.S. forces near Tikrit found this president of Iraq underground; a gun was present, but he did not fire a shot
Who is (Saddam) Hussein?
Daylight Saving Time starts (turn 'em forward) & National Puppy Day, so much more enjoyable
What is March?
PTA PTSD;
maternal instinct, lapsed;
liberty for Bell (& Hahn, & Kunis)
What is Bad Moms?
Succeed or fail is at the heart of this "watery" alliterative idiom
What is sink or swim?
Earl Grey tea gets its distinctive taste from an oil derived from the bergamot variety of this fruit
What is an orange?
52 Americans who were held hostage in 1979 & 1980 were seized from the U.S. embassy in this city
What is Tehran?
The argument between these two men resulted in the creation of the Federalist and Anti-Federalists
Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
This musical is based on Sholom Aleichem's stories about Tevye the dairyman
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
To collect solar wind particles, in 2001 NASA sent up this spacecraft that shares its name with a Bible book & a dad rock band
What is Genesis?
The traditional federal income tax filing deadline & the U.K.'s National Tea Day
What is April?
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
To war, so girls--play ball!
You're Dottie if you want to play catcher
What is A League Of Their Own?
Robert Burns wrote, "Liberty's in every blow, let us" this, meaning succeed at all costs
What is do or die?
Rice is soaked in water to make this Mexican beverage & Vampire Weekend song title
What is horchata?
Under revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo, this country declared its independence from Spain in 1898
What is the the Philippines?
The most successful of the Anglo Empressarios who helped to settle Texas
Who was Stephen F. Austin
"Waitress" has music & lyrics by this woman who had a Top 40 hit with "Brave"
Who is Sara Bareilles?