Dire Straits
Maritime piloting is required to navigate this narrow passage, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans north of Tierra del Fuego.
What is the Strait of Magellan?
The diminutive statesman and military leader who led the first French Empire was actually born on this then-Italian island in the Mediterranean, which was forcibly annexed by France in 1769.
What is Corsica?
You have to escape from The Rock with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage
California (Alcatraz)
1988: Star of "Big"
2020: Along with Rudy Gobert, perhaps the first celebrity diagnosed with covid
Tom Hanks
The flavor Schweddy Balls was introduced in 2011, 13 years after its namesake joke appeared on this show
SNL
The narrowest stretch of this strait, which separates western Europe from north Africa, is 8.9 miles wide.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This American actor, currently the highest paid in history for a single production, was born in Beirut in 1964.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
You decided, for some reason, to visit the fancy house of the third President
Virginia (Monticello)
1984: Castmember on the original Ghostbusters
2020: Sucker punched on the Upper West Side
Rick Moranis
Tennessee Mud, a 1988-89 coffee-based flavor, was made with this famous brand of whiskey
Jack Daniels
The final stretch of Lillian Alling's incredible journey would've been across this remote strait, in 1929.
What is the Bering Strait?
This legendary American vaudevillian and standup comic grew up in Cleveland, but was actually born in London, to English and Welsh parents, in 1903.
Who is Bob Hope?
You are checking out a memorial honoring the first flight at the incredibly named Kill Devil Hills
North Carolina (Wright Brothers National Memorial)
1988-95: Full House star
2020: Imprisoned for wire and mail fraud
Lori Loughlin
Rainbow Crunch was discontinued in 1995, after a scandal that revealed that Ben & Jerry’s did not buy a main ingredient, this tropical nut, from Brazilian worker’s collectives as claimed.
Cashew
Ernest Shackleton and Frank Worsley navigated the tiny, jury-rigged James Caird across 800 miles of this strait, considered the most dangerous stretch of ocean on the planet, in heavy winter sees, in what is universally acknowledged as the greatest maritime feat in human history.
What is the Drake Passage?
Irving Berlin, whose music forms much of the Great American Songbook, was born in a small town in what is now this country, which gained independence from Soviet Russia in 1991.
What is Belarus?
You're checking out a well-preserved Pueblo ruin named after the most famous Aztec emperor
Arizona (Montezuma Castle)
2002: All-Star for the Moneyball A's
2020: Fourth-place finisher on The Masked Singer
Barry Zito
This American jam rock band is the only group to have two Ben & Jerry's flavors named for it: Magic Brownies and One Sweet Whirled
Dave Matthews Band
This strait, between Awaji Island and Shikoku in Japan, shares its name with the fourth best-selling manga in history, about a young ninja who aspires to one day be the leader of his village.
What is the Naruto Strait?
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma moved with his family to New York after spending the first seven years of his life in this luminous city, where he was born in 1955.
What is Paris?
You're visiting the St. Louis Cathedral (hint: it's not Missouri)
Louisiana (St. Louis Cathedral)
2017: HBO star and Verizon pitchman
2020: Filed for divorce after trying to get his wife to agree to an open relationship
Thomas Middleditch
The short-lived flavor Economic Crunch was introduced after this sudden crisis in 1987
Black Monday