SHARON
SHARON! KELLY! JACK! ALL BECAME HOUSEHOLD NAMES ON THIS 2002 MTV REALITY SERIES THAT FOLLOWED THE FAMILY'S DAILY LIFE WITH THEIR HEAVY METAL FRONTMAN PATRIARCH
THE OSBOURNES
PENNSYLVANIA’S ORIGINAL COLONIAL CHARTER GRANTED WILLIAM PENN A TERRITORY EXTENDING FIVE DEGREES OF LONGITUDE WESTWARD FROM THIS FAMOUS RIVER
THE DELAWARE RIVER
THIS NORTH AMERICAN BEAR SPECIES, URSUS AMERICANUS, CAN ACTUALLY COME IN COLORS FROM CINNAMON TO BLONDE—NOT JUST THE ONE IN ITS NAME
BLACK BEAR
THIS ROCK-TYPE GYM LEADER FROM PEWTER CITY HANDS OUT THE BOULDER BADGE
BROCK
SHARES A BIRTHDAY WITH THIS GERMAN SINGER WHOSE 1999 HIT SADLY DOES NOT MENTION HER NAME (THE TRUMPET!)
LOU BEGA
SHARON IS THE FIRST NAME OF THIS CHARACTER PORTRAYED BY TINA FEY IN MEAN GIRLS
MRS. NORBURY
ALSO CALLED ‘PANNHAAS’ BY THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH, THIS PORK-AND-CORNMEAL LOAF WAS INVENTED TO MAKE USE OF EVERY LEFTOVER BIT FROM BUTCHERING
SCRAPPLE
MEANING “LITTLE BEAR” IN LATIN, THIS CONSTELLATION CONTAINS THE NORTH STAR AT THE END OF ITS TAIL
URSA MINOR
THIS ACTOR PORTRAYED THE HUMAN COUNTERPART TO RYAN REYNOLDS’ DETECTIVE PIKACHU IN THE 2019 FILM
JUSTICE SMITH
LOVES BUTTERFLIES, WHICH UNDERGO THIS FOUR-STAGE LIFE CYCLE – ALSO THE TITLE OF A SEMINAL 2003 HILARY DUFF ALBUM
METAMORPHOSIS
NOW A POPULAR GIRL'S NAME, “SHARON”, ORIGINATES FROM THIS ANCIENT BIBLICAL LANGUAGE, WHERE THE WORD MEANS “PLAIN,” REFERRING TO A FERTILE COASTAL LOWLAND
HEBREW
IN 1896, HENRY HEINZ CHOSE THIS NUMBER FOR HIS PITTSBURGH-BASED COMPANY’S SLOGAN SIMPLY BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT SOUNDED LUCKY — EVEN THOUGH THEY ALREADY PRODUCED MORE THAN 60 PRODUCTS BY THEN
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THE LARGEST LIVING BEAR SPECIES—AND LARGEST LAND CARNIVORE—IS URSUS MARITIMUS, WHOSE LATIN SPECIES NAME REFERS TO THIS HABITAT
THE SEA / OCEAN
THIS POKÉMON PROFESSOR SPECIALIZES IN POKÉMON BREEDING, AND IS CREDITED WITH THE DISCOVERY OF POKÉMON EGGS
PROFESSOR ELM
IS LEFT-HANDED, LIKE THIS RENAISSANCE POLYMATH WHOSE PORTRAIT OF A SMILING WOMAN REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST ANALYZED PIECES OF ART IN HISTORY
LEONARDO DA VINCI
ON AUGUST 9, 1969, SHARON TATE AND FOUR OTHERS WERE MURDERED BY MEMBERS OF THE MANSON FAMILY IN THE HOME SHE SHARED WITH HER HUSBAND, THIS MAN, WHILE HE WAS OUT OF TOWN
ROMAN POLANSKI
THIS PROMINENT PITTSBURGH INDUSTRIALIST LED THE EXPANSION OF THE AMERICAN STEEL INDUSTRY IN THE LATE-19TH CENTURY AND BECAME ONE OF THE RICHEST AMERICANS IN HISTORY
ANDREW CARNEGIE
IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, THIS NYMPH AND FOLLOWER OF ARTEMIS WAS TURNED INTO A BEAR AFTER ZEUS IMPREGNATED HER, AND PLACED AMONG THE STARS AS URSA MAJOR
CALLISTO
KNOWN AS A FIERCE AND PROUD WARRIOR OF THE SKIES, THIS MALE-ONLY POKÉMON EARNS GREATER RESPECT FROM ITS PEERS THE MORE BATTLE SCARS IT BEARS
BRAVIARY
IS JEWISH… BUT TECHNICALLY NOT, AS ACCORDING TO TRADITIONAL JEWISH LAW, ONLY SOMEONE BORN THROUGH THIS LINEAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONSIDERED JEWISH
THE MOTHER’S LINE / MATRILINEAL LINE
THE NAME “SHARON” ENTERED THE U.S. TOP 1,000 IN 1925, POSSIBLY INSPIRED BY A HEROINE PLAYED ON FILM BY PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE — BETTER KNOWN IN THE 1910S AND ’20S AS A SHOWGIRL IN ONE OF THESE LAVISH BROADWAY REVUES
THE ZIEGFEILD FOLLIES
THIS PENNSYLVANIA CITY IS THE NATION’S PRETZEL CAPITAL, HOME TO SNYDER’S, UTZ FACILITIES, AND AMERICA’S FIRST COMMERCIAL PRETZEL BAKERY
READING
THE EXTINCT SHORT-FACED BEAR OF THE GENUS ARCTODUS ONCE LIVED IN NORTH AMERICA DURING THIS EPOCH, WHOSE NAME MEANS “RECENT” IN GREEK
THE PLEISTOCENE
INSPIRED BY CHILDHOOD BUG-COLLECTING, THIS JAPANESE GAME DESIGNER CREATED POKÉMON, WHICH DEBUTED AS A PAIR OF ROLE-PLAYING GAMES DEVELOPED BY GAME FREAK
SATOSHI TAJIRI
IS FROM TUCSON, WHICH IN 2015 BECAME THE FIRST U.S. CITY DESIGNATED A “CITY OF GASTRONOMY” BY THIS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION
UNESCO