A Protagonist By Another Name
This character is the protagonist of a well known Nintendo video game, better known for the name of the Hylian Princess to be saved.
Who is Link?
When cornered by the Cyclops Pelops, Odysseus cleverly gave this name as a pseudonym.
What is Nobody (or Outis)?
Well known by its usage by lame uncles, street magicians, and pre-2000s wizards, this aramaic loan-phrase roughly translates to "disappear as this word."
What is "abracadabra."
This US Holiday, originally celebrating the end of World War 1, was renamed from Armistice day in 1954.
What is Veteran's Day?
This celestial body is also known as the "Dog Star", and is a fitting name for a well known animagus in Harry Potter series who can transform into a large shaggy dog.
What is Sirius?
This four legged character is the protagonist of a Disney movie, named after a rustic French dish.
Who is Remy?
This collective hacker group is well known for their use of the Guy Fawkes mask, inspired by the Character V from their titular comic/movie.
What is Anonymous?
This Maori loan word could be used to describe members of two different classes of animals, and the fruit of an organism from a completely different kingdom.
What is Kiwi?
This major Christian holiday was intended to replace pagan solstice celebrations like Yule and Saturnalia.
What is Christmas?
This celestial body weaves between the great bears and shares its name with both a villain from the Harry Potter series, and the first word from the Hogwarts school motto.
What is Draco?
This character is the protagonist of a 1939 black and white film, better known for the Wizard who is the goal of the protagonist's journey.
Who is Dorothy (Gale)
This character in spirited away demonstrates the dangers of not having roots, becoming a vile monster in its attempt to buy friends.
Who is No Face (or Kaonashi)?
This Yiddish loan word refers to a particular kind of smoked salmon generally served with cream cheese and bagels.
What are (grav) lox?
This modern holiday derives many of its traditions and timing with the final Celtic harvest festival of Samhain, which marked the beginning of darkness for the year.
What is Halloween?
This celestial body is the third brightest in Orion's belt, and is used in Harry Potter to describe the eldest and most "war-like" of the three Black sisters.
What is Bellatrix?
This character is the protagonist of a gothic horror story, better known for the name of the doctor who brought this character to life.
Who is Frankenstein's Monster?
This captain of a futuristic (for its time) underwater ship is well known for piloting his boat to a titular 20,000 leagues under the sea.
Who is Captain Nemo?
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This modern holiday supplanted the more radical May day named after the Haymarket square strike in the United States and Canada and also moved it a full 4 months further into the year.
What is Labor Day?
This celestial body is one of the brightest of the night sky, and shares its name with the middle name of a former death eater who was best known for stealing a horcrux as a final act of defiance against Voldemort.
What is Arcturus?
This polymath doctor is one of three protagonists of a book, better known for the vampiric nobility who lends it its title.
Who is Dr. Van Helsing?
This doubly anonymized main character of his titular 2002 science fiction movie features Jared Leto as the last living person on earth.
Who is Nemo Nobody?
Not to be confused with a festive celebration of french origin, this Scandinavian loan word describes a fierce wind combining two guttural Old Norse words for "breeze" and "bad / furious."
What is a gale?
The modern festivities of this holiday took place a full millennium after the last celebration of Lupercalia and the passing of its namesake.
What is St. Valentine's Day?
This celestial body is named for a Greek princess who left her kingdom and married a foreign hero, a fitting name for the Black sister who abandoned her pureblood family to marry the muggle born Ted.
What is Andromeda?