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These places sprang up in the 1950s and 1960s partly to address the problem of unhygienic food preparation by unlicensed street vendors.
What are hawker centres?
This actress holds the record for the most Oscars for acting, having won four Academy Awards across her career and earned a total of 12 nominations.
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
Fact: Meryl Streep holds the record for nominations with 21.
This Russian Spy goes by the first name "Natasha".
Who is Black Widow?
This genre of music originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1870s by African-Americans.
What is the Blues?
This 1963 story features a boy in a wolf costume who wrecks havoc on his home and is sent to bed without his supper.
What is Where The Wild Things Are?
This spicy noodle soup, popular in Southeast Asia, consists of thick wheat noodles or rice vermicelli with chicken, prawn or fish.
What is Laksa?
This filmmaker racked up a total of 26 Oscars, four of which were honorary awards, and also holds the record for the most nominations on record with 59.
Who is Walt Disney?
When Clark Kent isn't Superman, he goes by this original name given to him by his Kryptonian parents.
What is Kal-El?
This performance art company, formed in 1987, is known worldwide for its stage productions which incorporate many kinds of music.
What is The Blue Man Group?
This story features a confident mouse who uses clever tricks to avoid being eaten by a few other animals.
What is The Gruffalo?
The name given to a sub-ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Chinese settlers in the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago.
What is Peranakan?
This year marked the first year for the Academy Awards and the ceremony lasted only 15 minutes and honoured films released from August 1, 1927, until July 31, 1928.
What is 1929?
Bruce Wayne would be nothing without his faithful butler Alfred _______ (last name?)
What is Pennyworth?
This 1961 musical comedy featured Elvis Presley and Angela Lansbury.
What is Blue Hawaii?
This is the REAL NAME of this famous children's author who adopted the title of "Dr." because his father had always wanted him to practice medicine.
What is Theodor Seuss Geisel?
This Singlish term describes food as tasty or delicious.
What is shiok?
This actor/director became the oldest Oscar winner (74 years old) for directing when he won the Best Director award in 2005.
Who is Clint Eastwood?
This Canadian superhero was originally known as James Howlett.
Who is Wolverine?
This baseball team won back to back World Series titles in 1992 and 1993.
What is the Toronto Blue Jays?
This text heavy book was written by an actor who played "The Little Man" in Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds.
What is The Book With No Pictures?
Written by B.J. Novak
This restaurant is credited as being the oldest family restaurant in Singapore (1929).
What is the Spring Court Restaurant?
This film, adapted from the novel by Alice Walker, was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1985, but won none, losing to Out of Africa for Best Picture.
What is The Color Purple?
The real name of this super-heroine who got her powers after an accident with an alien spacecraft and was then known as Captain Marvel.
Who is Carol Danvers?
This prolific British songwriter and producer has produced music for many artists and has had over forty worldwide hits for artists including Andrea Bocelli, Diana Ross and Celine Dion.
Who is Barry Blue?
Fact: His real surname is "Green".
Helen Lyndon Goff wrote this famous story in 1926, and it was made into a Disney film in 1964.
What is Mary Poppins?