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"You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town"
What is The Importance of Being Earnest?
In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir
Who is Michelle Obama?
Table salt isn't made up of molecules but of lattices composed of ions of these 2 elements
What is Sodium and Chlorine?
To play the title role in "Elvis", this actor studied the King's every move & worked with a dialect coach to perfect his drawl
Who is Austin Butler?
Nicole Kidman played Celeste, whose abusive husband Perry was pushed to his death in this series based on a Liane Moriarty novel
What is Big Little Lies?
NEW YORK LANDMARKS:
MOVING SEVERAL TIMES, THE FIRST WAS ORIGINALLY P.T. BARNUM'S MONSTER CLASSICAL AND GEOLOGICAL HIPPODROME
What is Madison Square Garden?
"I gotta show some of those pompous, self-important executives over there that Hap Loman can make the grade"
What is Death of a Salesman?
At Wellesley's 1990 commencement, this Texan said, "Someone in the crowd could also become a presidential spouse and I wish him well"
Who is Barbara Bush?
P & S are types of these waves, from Greek for "shake"
What are Seismic Waves?
(I'm Michael Cera.) I play bass guitar in real life, so it wasn't a stretch for me to pick up a cherry red Rickenbacker 4001 as the title character of this film based on a graphic novel
What is Scott Pilgrim vs The World?
"O.M.I.T.B." is short for this, a show & the podcast within it
What is Only Murders in the Building?
HISTORIC TELEGRAMS:
IN MAY 1945 CHURCHILL CABLED TRUMAN THAT THIS "IS DRAWN DOWN UPON THEIR FRONT. WE DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON BEHIND"
What is an Iron Curtain?
"I ain't done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I've a right to sell flowers if I keep off the kerb"
What is Pygmalion?
She met the future president in 1938 when they both tried out for a local play in Whittier, California
Who is Pat Nixon?
The ratio of the velocity of light in one medium to its velocity in another is called the index of this
What is Refraction?
This Brit's 21st century film roles include Mr. Woodhouse in "Emma." & has-been rock star Billy Mack in "Love Actually"
Who is Bill Nighy?
Season one of this series ended with the title teen sleuth solving the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane
What is Veronica Mars?
AFRICA:
THE NAMES OF THESE 2 NATIONS, BOTH BORDERING TANZANIA, END WITH THE SAME 4 LETTERS IN THE SAME ORDER
What is Rwanda and Uganda?
"It's terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller"
What is The Glass Menagerie?
Half-brothers of this southern-born first lady fought for the Confederacy, which could have led to really awkward Thanksgiving dinners
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?
This pioneering computer language got its name from its early use in translating formulas
What is Fortran?
(I'm Reggie Watts.) In addition to music, I had done some stand-up & sketch work but found the type of comedy I wanted to perform in this 2001 "wet hot" movie starring Paul Rudd & Elizabeth Banks
What is Wet Hot American Summer?
On the BBC's "Sherlock", this acting pair are the modern day Holmes & Watson
Who are Cumberbatch & Freeman?
RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS:
THE ROOSTER ATOP MANY CHURCH WEATHER VANES IS THERE TO REMIND US OF A STORY INVOLVING THIS APOSTLE
Who is Peter?
"Begin thine incantations, and try if devils will obey thy hest, seeing thou hast pray'd and sacrific'd to them"
What is Doctor Faustus?
A year before her death in 1962, she began chairing JFK's Commission on the Status of Women
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
Let's "C" if you can name this electrical property measured in farads
What is Capacitance?
The 2022 film version of this antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque received 9 Oscar nominations
What is All Quiet on the Western Front?
(I'm Zoë Chao.) I just murdered it on Apple TV+ in "The Afterparty", or did I? Either way, my character of Zoe was a suspect as well as the ex-wife of Brett, played by this man who was a "Celebrity Jeopardy!" champion in 2022
Who is Ike Barinholtz?
WEAPONS:
THE WORD "TOXIC" COMES FROM THE ANCIENT GREEK FOR THIS WEAPON
What is Arrow?