40 Years Ago: 1984
These 2 nations signed a joint declaration on the future of Hong Kong
CHina and the U.K.
This brand that "takes a licking & keeps on ticking" reset its slogan in 2021 to "we don't stop"
Timex
Author Ira Levin claimed credit for first suggesting Mia Farrow as the lead in this 1968 adaptation of his horror novel
Rosemary's Baby
Can we level with you? A British landlord doesn't rent out an apartment but lets one of these
a Flat
Mercury:
Just over 4 times each Earth year
Revolves around the sun
Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family
John Belushi
This city recently updated its slogan to "What happens here, only happens here"
Las Vegas
That pesky Pazuzu sure causes some head turning in a film franchise based on this 1971 novel by William Peter Blatty
The Exorcist
It's the British name for the professional seen here
a Barrister
Billy Bob Thornton:
6 times, most recently in October 2014
How many times he has been married
He lost the presidential election to Reagan, carrying only the District of Columbia & Minnesota, his home state
Mondale
Power up with this brand that today says it's "still going!"
Energizer
Both this 2002 Naomi Watts film & the 1991 Japanese novel on which it is based are firm arguments for streaming over VHS
The Ring
It's our equivalent of an off-licence
a Liquor Store
Sir John Gielgud:
More than 500 times
Preformed as Hamlet
At the Winter Olympics, this American won gold with a four-and-a-half minute program that featured multiple triple jumps
Scott Hamilton
The name of this baked cracker brand completes its slogan "Want it. Need it..."
Cheez-It
Daphne du Maurier penned this tale of gulls gone wild that later became an Alfred Hitchcock film
The Birds
Also the last name of an English painter, it's Brit-speak for a police officer
Constable
Jimmy Connors & Novak Djokovic just before serving a big point:
As many as 30 times or more
Bounce the Ball
This airline launched by Richard Branson made its inaugural flight from London to the United States
Capital One asks this 4-word question
What's in your wallet?
"The Turning" is a 2020 film adaptation of an 1898 supernatural story by this author
Henry James
We associate it more with a type of wax but it's what the Brits call kerosene
Paraffin
Ohio's Sherrod Brown:
3 times, starting in 2006
be Elected to the Senate