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At 11:35 PM EDT May 1, 2011 President Obama announced the death of this man in Pakistan
Who is bin Laden?
It's the city where "Native Son" & "A Raisin in the Sun" are set
What is Chicago?
One of these is a straight one-dimensional figure that extends infinitely in both directions
What is a line?
Originally named Chaim Witz, he's the bass player of the band "Kiss"
Who is Gene Simmons?
A standard piece of lumber twice as wide as it is thick is also a day or time meaningful to cannabis users
What 2 x 4/20?
This supersonic aircraft's last commercial flight took place in October 2003
What is the Concorde?
Right before the epilogue to this novel, Raskolnikov confesses, "It was I killed the old pawnbroker woman and her sister
What is Crime and Punishment?
Abbreviated log, it's the exponent to which a base must be raised to produce a certain number
What is logarithm?
Ten years after Young Frankenstein, he married Gilda Radner in 1984
Who is Gene Wilder?
Creator of Hamilton informs you of your freedoms as you're being arrested
What are Lin-Manuel Miranda Rights?
The COVID-19 virus was first detected in 2019 in this Chinese city located at the confluence of the Yangtze & Han rivers
What is Wuhan?
This Jack London classic is considered one of the "books that shaped America"
What is The Call of the Wild?
For 12 & 16, 4 is the GCF, or greatest this
What is common factor?
With Jules Munshin & Frank Sinatra, this hoofer was "On the Town" in 1949
Who is Gene Kelly?
Peter Pan's enemy is the way you were fooled into completely believing a story
What is Captain Hook, link, and sinker?
Promising to increase taxes & cut spending, in 2015 this Mediterranean nation received a 3rd international bailout, $95 billion
What is Greece?
In "East of Eden" this twin brother of Aron Trask reveals to him that their mother is a madam
Who is Cal(eb)?
If x = -10, this is the additive inverse of x
What is 10?
Dustin Hoffman shared New York City digs with both Robert Duvall & this "French Connection" star
Who is Gene Hackman?
To prepare to do something unpleasant by chomping down on a 200-mph rail transport
What is bite the bullet train?
In 2022, he became the first Hindu prime minister of the United Kingdom
Who is Rishi Sunak?
This Jonathan Franzen novel about the dysfunctional Lambert family won a National Book Award
What is The Corrections?
This term for one side of a right triangle comes from Greek for "stretching under"
What is "hypotenuse?"
He created Mr. Spock & Captain Kirk
Who is Gene Roddenberry?
Rowling's whiz kid has trouble with a certain rock & a "chilly" WWE star
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Cold Steve Austin?