'90s music
Rom coms
"Emi" words II
New York City
Black history in America
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400
This Seattle-based band’s 1991 album Nevermind helped bring grunge into the mainstream.
What is Nirvana?
400
This 1999 film features Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger in a Shakespeare-inspired high school love story.
What is 10 Thigns I Hate About You?
400
This is the title given to various Muslim (mainly Arab) rulers.
What is Emir?
400
It's name stemming from "broken land" in Dutch, this part of New York was once its own city until it was consolidated into NYC in 1898.
What is Brooklyn?
400
In 1921, this all-Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was destroyed in what became known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the most devastating events in U.S. racial history.
What is Greenwood District or "Black Wall Street?
400
A prolonged, chronic shortage of freshwater fish.
What is a trout drought?
800
The influential album Illmatic – often considered one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time – featuring tracks like N.Y. State of Mind and The World Is Yours was released in 1994 by this artist.
Who is Nas?
800
In Notting Hill, Hugh Grant’s character owns this type of shop, where he meets Julia Roberts’ movie-star character.
What is a bookstore?
800
When ranking sports leagues around the world by revenue, this first-tier soccer league sits 4th bringing in a whopping £6.1 billion in the 2022/23 season.
What is the Premier League?
800
Before opening its famous shop in 1914, this family sold bagels from a pushcart on the Lower East Side—today, their name is synonymous with NYC bagels.
What is Russ & Daughters?
800
This 19th-century abolitionist and former enslaved person became famous for his speeches, including What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? in 1852.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
800
A more easygoing assassin.
What is a chiller killer?
1200
This 1996 hit by Los Del Rio became a worldwide dance craze and a staple at weddings and parties.
What is Macarena?
1200
This 1989 classic starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan gave us the iconic line, “I’ll have what she’s having.”
What is When Harry Met Sally?
1200
Colloquially known as the 38th Parellel, dividing the Korean peninsula roughly in half, it's a border barrier known as the DMZ or this which serves as a buffer between the sovereign states of North Korea and South Korea
What is demilitarized zone?
1200
Before becoming an unsuccessful democratic presidential bid, this Brooklyn-born lawyer and politician served as New York’s Senator from 2001 to 2009.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
1200
Overturning the "separate but equal" doctrine established in the Plessy v. Ferguson trial, this landmark 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
1200
The bright luminescence from salt-saturated water.
What is brine shine?
1600
This alternative rock band, known for their dreamy sound, released Loveless in 1991—a now-legendary album that helped define the shoegaze genre.
What is My Bloody Valentine?
1600
In Crazy Rich Asians, Nick Young takes Rachel Chu to this Southeast Asian city, where she meets his ultra-wealthy family.
What is Singapore?
1600
Taken from the French, this term describes a social and cultural movement that has, at its core, a way of life away from society's conventional norms and expectations – most notably attributed to artists, writers and actors.
What is Bohemianism?
1600
This famous neighborhood in the Bronx, home to the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, is home to the original campus of its eponymous university.
What is Fordham?
1600
The NAACP, which was founded in 1909 by W.E.B. Du Bois and others and played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement, stands for this.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
1600
The deathly destiny of a Covid-era teleconference.
What is Zoom doom?
2000
Before Shakira became a global superstar with Laundry Service, she was already a Latin American sensation with this 1998 Spanish-language album featuring hits like Ciega, Sordomuda and Ojos Así.
What is Dónde Están los Ladrones? ?
2000
This 1940 romantic comedy, starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as feuding co-workers unknowingly in love through anonymous letters, later inspired You’ve Got Mail.
What is The Shop Around the Corner?
2000
This compound adjective is used to describe someone who is devoid of subtlety, unsophisticated and perhaps foolish. It's an indictment on that person's uncomplicated mental state.
What is simpleminded?
2000
This tiny island, located under Roosevelt Island and near the Queens-Midtown tunnel, was created after a construction mishap in the early 20th century. It is now a protected bird sanctuary.
What is Belmont Island or U Thant Island?
2000
This famous athlete and activist, known for his iconic 200-meter sprint gold placement at the 1968 Olympics, raised his fist in protest of racial inequality during the medal ceremony, becoming a symbol of Black power.
What is Tommie Smith?
2000
The range and variety of strands of cotton used for weaving
What is a thread spread?