One Week Til Christmas
Thanks to streaming, album sales, and song downloads, this 1994 Mariah Carey hit rakes in millions a year -- in 2022, it made at least $2.7 million.
What is "All I Want for Christmas Is You"?
In Genesis, “the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put” this man.
Who is Adam?
During a cold, mucus builds up in the maxillary type of these air cavities.
What are sinuses?
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Early scenes in this show’s 5th season "feel bizarre, like you’re watching a 'Saturday Night Live' parody of the show where adults are playing the kid characters."
What is "Stranger Things"?
1960 John Sturges film adapted from a Kurosawa film six years earlier.
What is The Magnificent Seven?
Christmas is abbreviated as "Xmas" because in this language, X ("chi") is an abbreviation for "Christ."
Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” depicts this apostle looking withdrawn and holding a bag of silver.
Who is Judas?
Cauterization may be necessary if you frequently experience epistaxis, better known as this.
What is a nosebleed?
The Hollywood Reporter: This movie -- "an evocative portrait of life in the Jim Crow South" -- is a "blood-drenched mixtape that shouldn’t work. But it does."
What is "Sinners"?
The name collectively given to the Maple Leafs, Canadiens, Rangers, Blackhawks, Bruins, and Red Wings of the NHL.
What is the Original Six?
The world's first text message was "Merry Christmas," sent on December 3, 1992 via this British multinational telecom company.
What is Vodafone?
The force is with this third book of the New Testament chronicles. It depicts Jesus’s birth in a manger.
What is Luke?
It’s the 11-letter medical term for a nose job, but you won’t grow horns during it.
What is a rhinoplasty?
Slate: In the 2nd season of this show, "Billy Bob is still doing his thing, and Demi Moore... now has actual lines and scenes. But the good news ends there. It becomes clear that the worst parts... have gotten a lot, lot worse."
What is "Landman"?
This George Carlin routine inspired by Lenny Bruce led to his arrest in Milwaukee.
What are the seven dirty words (or, seven words you can never say on television)?
Despite having a 95% Muslim population, Christmas is an extremely popular holiday in this African nation, which has a tradition of Muslims and Christians adopting each other's holidays.
What is Senegal?
The titular heroine of the Book of Esther thwarts a plot to kill all the Jews in this 6-letter empire.
What is Persia?
The nose plays a major role in this sensory system used to smell.
What is the olfactory system?
The New York Times: This album -- with a cover showing the singer "on her knees, a man grabbing a thatch of her hair" -- has "all the hallmarks of a rush job."
What is "Man's Best Friend" (by Sabrina Carpenter)?
The 1967 conflict between Israel and a coalition of Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces.
What is the Six Day War?
The music of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is from a cantata by this wedding march composer, who wrote it to commemorate Gutenberg's printing press.
Who is Felix Mendelssohn?
Regina Spektor references this book in her song Samson... "Samson went back to bed, not much hair left on his head"
What is Judges?
From the Latin for “ploughshare,” this bone forms the inferior part of the nasal septum.
What is the vomer?
The Boston Globe: This Booker Prize winner is "a gentle yet deeply affecting novel about a taciturn man who overcomes abuse and loss," and is "a reminder of the body's betrayals."
What is "Flesh" (by David Szalay)?
This set of small colleges was named after the Pleiades of Greek mythology.
What are the Seven Sisters?