TV Characters
What's your emergency?--I have to know, is that Casey from "Sports Night" on this ABC drama? It is? You saved my life!
What is 9-1-1?
This band gets knocked down, but they get up again, you're never gonna keep them down
Who is Chumbawumba?
Otto von Bismarck, earning an epithet: "The great questions of the time are decided... by" this "and blood"
What is Iron?
All 3 species of this large mammal are endangered; habitat loss, poaching & the ivory trade all pose major threats
What are Elephants?
REALITY TV:
ON LEARNING WHAT HIS SERIES WOULD BE CALLED, THE STAR OF THIS REALITY SHOW SAID, "THAT SOUNDS LIKE A CHINESE FOOD PLACE!"
What is Duck Dynasty?
Larry the Cucumber was a popular character in thiscartoon series that helped some kinds toward "salad-vation"
What is VeggieTales?
This short-lived TV series set in the '80s helped launch the careers of stars like Jason Segel & Linda Cardellini
What is Freaks and Geeks?
Shortly after leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he declared, "It's the ballot or the bullet. It's liberty or it's death"
Who is Malcolm X?
Pink dolphins in the Amazon basin face many threats, including mercury contamination caused by illegal mining of this element
What is Gold?
TELEVISION IN THE 2000s:
BLANCO IS THE LAST NAME OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN "METASTASIS", A COLOMBIA-SET VERSION OF THIS SHOW
What is Breaking Bad?
William Shatner won Emmys for playing this role on "The Practice" & "Boston Legal"
Who is Denny Crane?
They won a Grammy, & "Girl, You Know It's True", the Grammy was revoked after a lip-synching scandal
Who is Milli Vanilli?
Campaign strategist James Carville made this 4-word statement into a catchphrase in 1992
What is “It’s the economy, stupid”?
That's not an antelope, it's a saola, a critically endangered bovine found only in mountains of Vietnam & this northwestern neighbor
What is Laos?
ANCIENT WORLDS:
IN THE EARLY 1800s HIEROGLYPHICS WERE FIRST TRANSLATED BY AN EGYPTOLOGIST FROM THIS COUNTRY
What is France?
Played by Carrie Preston, this attorney we met on "The Good Wife" left Chicago & has her own show working with the NYPD
Who is Elsbeth?
In 2022, comedian Jenny Slate charmed at the box office voicing this anthropomorphic fellow "with Shoes On"
Who is Marcel the Shell?
According to Suetonius, Caesar uttered this phrase as he took a big gamble & crossed the Rubicon
What is “The die is cast”?
At the beach on the Big Island, keep an eye out for rare hatchlings of hawksbill these, honu'ea in Hawaiian, headed for the ocean
What are Sea Turtles?
TRANSPORTATION HISTORY:
IN 1807 HE WROTE, "THE DISTANCE FROM NEW YORK TO ALBANY IS 150 MILES; I RAN IT UP IN THIRTY-TWO HOURS"
Who is Robert Fulton?
I play Esther, an outspoken sister-in-law on "Nobody Wants This"; it may be better known as this show after Adam Brody's character, the Jewish version of one who was famous in "Fleabag"
What is Hot Rabbi (show)?
Sibling rivalry got funny in the routine "Mom Always Liked You Best" by this duo
Who are the Smothers Brothers?
"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever", said Chief Joseph of this tribe in 1877
The Sunda tiger, aka this subspecies of tiger named for its home island, has no natural predators, which makes sense because yikes
what is the Sumatran?
2004 US ELECTIONS:
THIS WOMAN RECEIVED THE THIRD-HIGHEST VOTE TOTAL OF ANY CANDIDATE FOR ALL OF THE NOVEMBER 2004 ELECTIONS
Who is (Senator) Barbara Boxer?