STRANGE CURRENCIES
Per The Wall Street Journal, Sam Bankman-Fried uses this fish as clink currency; they call them "macks" in the joint.
What is Mackerel?
A fat-free monarch.
What is a lean queen?
Richard Wright wrote a series of novellas titled this Harriet Beecher Stowe character's "Children"
What is Uncle Tom?
English:
Amidst & into are amidst & into this part of speech.
What are prepositions?
Caitlin Carver played Nancy Kerrigan when Margot Robbie starred as this rival in a 2017 film.
Who is Tonya Harding?
Using cheese as "cheese," a dairy cooperative near Bologna backed loans with wheels of this hard cheese.
What is Parmesan?
A merciless academy.
What is a cruel school?
This 1902 novella tells the story of a man assigned by an ivory company to take command of a damaged boat.
What is Heart of Darkness?
Anatomy:
There are both false & true vocal cords in this hollow, tubular structure, also called the voice box.
What is the larynx?
In "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral", Kirk Douglas played Doc Holliday & Burt Lancaster played this lawman.
Who is Wyatt Earp?
What are Silver Sickles?
A violin conundrum.
What is a fiddle riddle?
Truman Capote said Holly Golightly in this novella of his was not a call girl but an "American geisha"
What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Phys Ed:
Hit the field of track & field & see if you can throw this a little over 323 feet, like Jan Zelezný.
What is a javelin?
An excerpt from "The Master of Disguise" & the article "Escape from Tehran" were the basis for the screenplay of this 2012 film.
What is Argo?
In the 1940s, this country's Magyar Nemzeti Bank printed the million billion pengő note to fight inflation.
What is Hungary?
What is a canoe review?
At the end of this Hemingway tale, the title character's former helper Manolin agrees to go fishing with him again.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
French:
Say "that's life" en Français, s'il vous plaît; it's also a B*Witched song.
What is c'est la vie?
Jack O'Connell played Olympic runner & World War II P.O.W. Louis Zamperini in this film based on a nonfiction bestseller.
What is Unbroken?
Named for a signature sandwich, it was a cryptocurrency launched by the Russian branch of Burger King in 2017.
What is WhopperCoin?
Someone more rapid of movement when he begins fly fishing.
What is a faster caster?
In "Berlin Stories" Christopher Isherwood wrote a novella about her, a nightclub singer in the Weimar Republic.
Who is Sally Bowles?
History:
This congressional committee created in 1938 became the Internal Security Committee in 1969 & was dissolved in '75.
What is the House Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Mark Rylance won an Oscar for playing spy Rudolf Abel in this Spielberg film.
What is Bridge of Spies?