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“Here’s looking at you, kid” is a famous line from this 1942 film.
What is Casablanca?
The key ingredient in guacamole.
What is avocado?
This sport combines tennis, badminton, and ping-pong — and retirees love it.
What is pickleball?
This British series made everyone suddenly want to be served tea by Carson.
What is Downton Abbey?
This prickly plant is Tucson’s unofficial mascot.
What is the saguaro cactus?
This 1990s sitcom ended with a set of keys on the counter.
What is Friends?
This tortilla-based dish translates to “little donkey.”
What is burrito?
In both kayaking and life, sometimes you’re up one of these without a paddle.
What is a creek?
This opulent period of American history (1870s–1900s) was the setting for HBO’s 2022 drama series.
What is the Gilded Age?
Tucson locals know that when this brown, monsoon-season amphibian appears, it’s time to watch your step.
What is the Sonoran Desert toad?
This 2000s pop song insists, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
What is “Closing Time” by Semisonic?
The birthplace of nachos.
Where is Texas? (Nachos were created in Texas by a Mexican maître d’ named Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya.)
The world owes the name of a certain ‘dill-lightful’ sport to this energetic canine.
Who is Pickles the dog?
This smoldering Cornish drama featured a brooding miner and a lot of windswept cliffs.
What is Poldark?
This mountain getaway near Tucson drops the temperature by about 30 degrees — and you can even go skiing there.
What is Mount Lemmon?
This 1997 song by Sarah McLachlan made goodbyes — and animal shelter commercials — deeply emotional.
What is ‘Angel’?
In a proper mole sauce, this sweet ingredient balances out the spice.
What is chocolate?
In pickleball, this humorously named area near the net is the one place you’re not allowed to volley.
What is the kitchen?
In Bridgerton, this anonymous writer causes all the Regency drama.
Who is Lady Whistledown?
This desert mammal can go without water for weeks, thanks to its massive kidneys (and bad attitude).
What is the javelina?
The line ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ comes from this poet’s famous work on mortality.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
This ancient grain, still used in Mexican cuisine today, was once considered sacred to the Aztecs.
What is amaranth?
This body of water hosts the annual Paddle to the Sea festival, a massive multi-day event celebrating paddle sports.
What is Lake Superior?
This American author coined the term “The Gilded Age” to describe the country’s shiny exterior and corrupt core.
Who is Mark Twain?
The name of this Arizona city comes from the O’odham phrase Cuk Ṣon, meaning “at the base of the black hill.”
What is Tucson?