Chemists
August Laurent & Jean-Baptiste Dumas hated each other, but they worked together to pioneer this branch of chemistry that focuses on carbon & the carbon compounds found in living things
organic
She closed out the 2021 inauguration celebration by singing "Firework" as fireworks shot across the sky
Katy Perry
The answer is... in 2018 this K-pop band learned the "Answer: Love Myself"
Double Jeopardy!
BTS
Nearly 44 million people were watching the Oscars on ABC in 2014 when this film about Solomon Northup won Best Picture
12 Years a Slave
Chemically, this stimulant is the principal alkaloid of coca leaves
cocaine
Visitors at Paris' Bibliothèque Nationale must wear protective gear & sign a liability waiver to study her notebooks, which are stored in heavily shielded boxes
Marie Curie
Suites based on shows like "Adventure Time" & "Ben 10" are at the hotel named for this network
Cartoon Network
A trip to a Japanese disco inspired this Billy Idol hit about "the floors of Tokyo"
"Dancing with Myself"
On Oscar night 2016 Best Animated Short went to "Bear Story"; this other bear story won Best Actor & Best Director
The Revenant
The EPA says it's a problem if water has more of this element than 15 parts per billion; in 2015 Flint, Mich. tested at 27
Many folks weren't happy with the Nobel committee's decision to give the 1918 Chemistry Prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber, as he had also overseen Germany's production & use of this on World War I's western front
mustard gas (or poison gas)
To promote his album "The Life of Pablo", this rapper opened a series of pop-up stores around the world
Kanye West
She had a 2016 hit with "Hands To Myself"
Selena Gomez
This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars
Peter Farelly
From 1947 to 1951, after graduating from Oxford, she worked as a research chemist before becoming a world leader
Thatcher
The Russian Academy of Sciences rejected this great man's 1880 nomination for membership--maybe because of his progressive political leanings, & maybe because he proposed to a much younger woman while he was still married to his first wife
Mendeleev
An industrious raccoon named Tom Nook runs the in-game business in this Nintendo game: "New Horizons"
Double Jeopardy!
Animal Crossing
She & the Blackhearts had a top 10 hit with "I Hate Myself For Loving You"
Joan Jett
The second, third & fourth Oscars for Best Actress went to Canadian-born women, starting with her, "America's Sweetheart"
Pickford
Less than 7 represents acidity on this scale that mostly ranges from 0 to 14
pH
Real-life scientists whose names came up on "Breaking Bad" included, of course, Heisenberg, & also this Frenchman guillotined at age 50 after making chemistry a modern science
Lavoisier
Mobster & assassin Frank Sheeran is the title character of this 2019 Martin Scorsese mob epic
The Irishman
This 1997 Celine Dion hit was a cover of an Eric Carmen song
"All By Myself"
The Oscar-winning song "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" was by this hip-hop group
Three 6 Mafia
A boiling dilute acid breaks down starch into a simple sugar called this
glucose