African History
The 19th century Mahdist Movement was an Islamic revolt against Egyptian rule of this nation, Egypt's southern neighbor
What is Sudan?
Conquest, War, Famine & Death are names traditionally given to these
What are the Four Horsemen?
Seth Rogen, Ike Barinholtz & Catherine O'Hara star in this comedy about Tinseltown execs
What is The Studio?
Also called nicotinic acid, it gets better publicity as a vitamin under this name
What is niacin?
Adjectives that Plato gave us include, of course, platonic & also this one that can mean theoretical or just useless & comes from the schoolPlato founded
What is academic?
1896's Battle of Adwa saw an Ethiopian army defeat an attempt by this European country to take control of it
What is Italy?
Jerome Horwitz, Moses Horwitz & Samuel Horwitz went by other names nyukking it up as members of this troupe
What are the Three Stooges?
Kristine Froseth played the alluring Alaska Young in this miniseries based on John Green's young adult novel
What is Looking for Alaska?
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It's paired with preen in an idiom meaning to make oneself beautiful
What is primp?
The fate of Socrates was a big event in Plato's life; he produced four books about it, including this one set at the trial, where, despite the title, Socrates does not sound sorry
What is Apology?
The Capsian people thrived in modern Tunisia c. 6000 B.C. by eating tons of these, so their sites are called escargotières
What are snails?
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Barnard, Wellesley & 5 other schools banded together as these a century ago to address the need to fund women's colleges
What are the Seven Sisters?
In 2024 Peacock announced a new series called "The Paper", set in the same universe as this sitcom
What is The Office?
This type of place that makes & serves beer foamed up in the '80s, with California's first being fittingly in Hopland
What is a brewpub?
In most of Plato's dialogues, Socrates is hanging around Athens, but the first line of this work about the ideal state says, "I went down to Piraeus", the port that was a center of resistance to tyranny
What is Republic?
In 2012, Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubangabecame the first person convicted by this legal entity
What is the ICC?
For their brave actions in October 1947, Alvah Bessie, Ring Lardner Jr., Dalton Trumbo & seven others became known as this
What are the Hollywood 10?
After three episodes on "Star Trek: Discovery", Rebecca Romijn brought first officer Una Chin-Rileyto this prequel series
What is Strange New Worlds?
Lye is also known as this type of soda, meaning it can corrode by chemical action
What is caustic?
Six hundred years after Plato, a philosopher named Plotinus founded Neoplatonism, which placed intellect prior to physical reality, or if you like some snappy alliteration, this 3-word phrase
What is Mind Over Matter?
For its royalty, the Asante Kingdom of 18th century West Africa invented thistype of cloth whose name means "will not tear"
What is Kente?
Shoeless Joe & 7 teammates, in the title of a 1963 book & a 1988 movie
What are Eight Men Out?
The adaptation of Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" stars this "Gone Girl" girl
What is Rosamund Pike?
From the French for "explore", the military does it to get information
What is reconnoiter?
Plato tried to put his political ideas into practice by advising leaders in this city, no not the one between Albany & Buffalo; yeah, that one, the one on Sicily that was the most powerful in the Greek world
What is Syracuse?