Fictional Companies & Products
Nautical name of the airline that brings the characters on "Lost" to the start of their odd adventure
What is Oceanic Airlines?
This late night TV host got a trophy in 2014 for "America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't"
Who is Stephen Colbert?
Architecture saw the revival of columns, arches & these rounded shapes, like Brunelleschi's famed one for a cathedral
What are Domes?
A cup of instant coffee is a solution & adding water is this process, the opposite of concentration
What is Dilution?
FUN WITH FIRST FAMILIES:
IF THE MOTHER OF THE 35th PRESIDENT MARRIED THE FATHER OF THE 41st, SHE WOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED THIS
What is Rose Bush?
The Acme products purchased by this cartoon character never quite work; August, him "vs. Acme" comes to the big screen
Who is Wile E. Coyote?
The force was with her when she posthumously won in 2018 for her "Princess Diarist"
Who is Carrie Fisher?
While Michelangelo was painting the Sistine Chapel, this man was upstairs in a Vatican apartment working on "The School of Athens"
Who is Raphael?
Organometallic compounds are defined by the presence of a bond between a metal & this element
What is Carbon?
THE 1970S:
A CHANGE OF PROCEDURE IN 1979 LED TO 3 OF THESE BEING NAMED BOB, DAVID & FREDERIC
What are Hurricanes?
It's the company run by Tony, aka Iron Man
What is Stark Industries?
His 28 Grammys included one for "Q", his autobiography
Who is Quincy Jones?
The 1453 fall of this city sent many of its scholars fleeing west to Italy, helping to fuel the incipient Renaissance
What is Constantinople?
In the 1960s, linear alkyl benzene became the main ingredient in detergents because it has this eco-quality
What is It's Biodegradable?
THE TITANIC:
THIS MAN WHOSE INVENTION WAS USED TO SEND FOR HELP HELD A TICKET FOR THE VOYAGE BUT CHANGED HIS PLANS
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
This magazine with a name familiar to fashion models turns the pages in "The Devil Wears Prada" films
What is Runway?
In 1997 the Grammy voters came together to honor Hillary Clinton for her audio version of this bestseller
What is It Takes a Village?
Francis Bacon wrote, "We are much beholden to" this Italian "and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do"
Who is Machiavelli?
This semiconducting element makes up 27.7% of the mass of the earth's crust
What is Silicon?
POLITICIANS:
THIS TEXAS DEMOCRAT'S FUNERAL WAS ATTENDED BY TRUMAN, EISENHOWER, JFK & LBJ
Who is Sam Rayburn? (former speaker of the house of representatives)
On "The Simpsons" you can treat yourself to a Duff beer or this cola that sounds like it might work similarly to the beer
What is Buzz Cola?
Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for portraying this man & a Grammy for speaking "The Words of" him
Who is Gandhi?
Published in 1543, the Copernican model of the solar system eventually displaced the one named for this ancient astronomer
Who is Ptolemy?
Identified in 1886 by a Freiberg professor, this shiny gray element was named for its country of discovery
What is Germanium?
LITERATURE:
IN 1852 HIS STORY "THE DANDY FRIGHTENING THE SQUATTER" APPEARED IN THE CARPET-BAG, A HUMOROUS PAPER
Who is Mark Twain?