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John Williams has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Original Score a record 47 times, most recently for this 2020 film, the last in a trilogy

What is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker?

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In May, this country's federal election ended with the Labor Party winning 77 of the 151 seats in the House of Representatives, making Anthony Albanese the new prime minister

What is Australia?

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This company's 737 MAX airliners were grounded from March 2019 to December 2020 after two crashes involving these planes killed 346 people

What is Boeing?

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Equal parts champagne and orange juice

Serve straight up in a champagne flute


What is a mimosa?

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The ten highest mountains in the United States, and twelve of the top thirteen, are all located in this state

What is Alaska?

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Since 2020, this Matt has hosted The Great British Bake Off alongside Noel Fielding

Who is Matt Lucas?

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The score for this 2018 film features tracks with names like "Ron's Theme", "No Cross Burning Tonight", "Guarding David Duke" and "White Power Theme"

What is BlacKkKlansman?

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The folk-rap group Kalush Orchestra won the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest for this country with the song "Stefania"

What is Ukraine?

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The time machine in the film Back to the Future is retrofitted into one of these automobiles

What is a DMC DeLorean?

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4 parts vodka
12 parts cranberry juice
3 parts grapefruit juice

Serve on the rocks in a highball glass


What is a sea breeze?

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This extends almost 2200 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine

What is the Appalachian Trail?

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After achieving success as a cartoonist with Life in Hell, he created the animated TV shows The Simpsons, Futurama and Disenchantment

Who is Matt Groening?

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Nicholas Britell provided the score for two of the three feature films that Barry Jenkins directed: Moonlight and this one from 2018

What is If Beale Street Could Talk?

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On June 14, Denmark and this nation agreed to settle their territorial claims over Hans Island, located off the coast of northern Greenland

What is Canada?

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Hercule Poirot investigates the death of American businessman Samuel Ratchett in Agatha Christie's Murder on this train

What is the Orient Express?

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5 parts cognac
2 parts triple sec
2 parts lemon juice

Shake with ice and serve straight up in a cocktail glass


What is a sidecar?

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At 6,288 feet high, Mount Washington is not only the highest mountain in this state, it's also the highest in the northeastern US

What is New Hampshire?

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This actor can be found on the TV programs The IT Crowd, What We Do in the Shadows and Toast of London

Who is Matt Berry?

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This composer has won an Oscar for Best Original Score twice: in 1995 for The Lion King and in 2022 for Dune

Who is Hans Zimmer?

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In June 2022, researchers announced they had discovered that the "ground zero" for this disease was the Tian Shan region of Kyrgyzstan, almost 700 years ago

What is the Black Plague? (or bubonic plague, or Black Death)

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Amtrak's Acela train line has the fastest trains in the Americas, reaching speeds of up to 150 mph, and has termini in these two cities

What are Boston, MA and Washington, DC?

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2 parts Galliano
2 parts triple sec
2 parts orange juice
1 part fresh cream

Shake with ice and serve straight up in a cocktail glass


What is a Golden Dream?

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If measuring from its underwater base, this dormant Hawaiian volcano is the tallest mountain in the world

What is Mauna Kea?

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Matthew Bellamy has had a number of big hits as the lead singer and guitarist of this English rock band

What is Muse?

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This duo composed the score for the 2010 film Tron: Legacy, and even appeared in the film (wearing their trademark full-face robot masks) as disc jockeys in a nightclub

Who is Daft Punk?

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On May 12, the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration released the first image of Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole located at the center of this

What is the Milky Way Galaxy?

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Charles Lindbergh flew this airplane on March 20-21, 1927 in the world's first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

What is the Spirit of St. Louis?

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3 parts gold rum
1 part Galliano
4 parts pineapple juice
A dash of fresh lime juice

Shake with ice and strain into a margarita glass, top off with prosecco


What is a Barracuda?

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Since 1987, Mount Rainier has featured prominently on this state's license plates

What is Washington?

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Nicknamed "Matty Ice", this quarterback led the Atlanta Falcons for fourteen seasons before being traded to the Indianapolis Colts in March of 2022

Who is Matt Ryan?

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