FACTS ABOUT ANIMALS
BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS
CULT MOVIES
SO VERY COLD
MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG
2-WORD PALINDROMES
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The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet
a whale
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In 1969 The 5th Dimension topped the charts with a medley of "Aquarius" & "Let The Sunshine In" from this musical
Hair
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The wild musical fun of this cult classic features Meat Loaf, Susan Sarandon & Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter
Rocky Horror Picture Show
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The speed of this is 70 feet per second slower at freezing than it is at 100 degrees Fahrenheit
sound
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This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV
Lassie
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Intelligent streetcars
smart trams
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The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest
a sloth
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"Rich Girl" by Gwen Stefani is based on this song from "Fiddler on the Roof"
"If I Were A Rich Man"
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A moody crime drama involving a robbery gone wrong, "The Drop" stars this TV mob boss in his final film
Gandolfini
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Not all motion stops at this lowest temperature--molecules still vibrate with zero-point energy
absolute zero
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This sci-fi great teamed with Robert Silverberg to expand his classic 1941 short story "Nightfall" into a 1990 novel
Isaac Asimov
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A guanaco relative's shopping complex
llama mall
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When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis
play dead
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Barry Manilow took this song from "Cats" to the Top 40
"Memory"
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An angry girlfriend, a mutant baby & a man with big hair all add up to "Eraserhead", this surreal director's first feature film
Lynch
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When this current of high-speed winds moves in big waves, Arctic air can spill into mid-latitude regions, bringing winter cold snaps
jet stream
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Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this
Illuminated
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An eager female opera star
an avid diva
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The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it's looking around for here
(the) sparrow (hawk)
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Jay-Z admitted he lied about seeing "Annie" on Broadway as a kid to convince the rights holders to let him use its music in this song
"Hard Knock Life"
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Visions of a man in a strange rabbit suit convince Jake Gyllenhaal to commit dangerous crimes in this film
Donnie Darko
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Fish caught by Canadian Inuit would flash-freeze in the Arctic air, inspiring this inventor's food innovation
Birdseye
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"Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky"
Rocket Boys
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A sleepy scimitar
drowsy sword
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Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that's able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer
lynx
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Ariana Grande's "7 Rings" riffed on "My Favorite Things" by this pair, so 90% of the royalties go to the rights holders for that song
Rodgers & Hammerstein
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"Tell Your Children" was an alternate title of this 1936 film that purports to show the dangers of using marijuana
Reefer Madness
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In 1911 researchers discovered the resistance to electricity in mercury was zero at -452 degrees F., making it this
superconductor
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First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film
The Virgin Suicides
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A Papeete porkpie
a Tahiti hat
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