General Knowledge
A famous golfer, now colloquially known for this famous drink: a mixture of two southern sweet bevarages.
Who/What is (an) Arnold Palmer?
"Mamma Mia" is famous for using this band's music as their soundtrack and inspirational storytelling.
Who is Abba?
The argument, or meaning, of an academic paper synthesized to one single sentence, that stands as the basis, or purpose, of the entire paper.
What is a thesis statement?
A gooey chocolate molten-liquid inside of a baked brownie cake. Often served a la mode, or in a box of 3 from Domino's.
What are Lava Cakes?
A water passage between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, that allows oil freighters to travel from Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to the world. (Hint: it's been in the news a lot lately)
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
Often cited as "the Father of American Literature," his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens; he was an American satirist and writer. Two of his novels became instant classics that follow the adventures of two poor southern kids and their makeshift friends on the Mississippi.
Who is Mark Twain?
A satirist, who recently went viral for posting a parody video in female white face, that poked fun at a "grieving widow."
Who is Druski?
The prince of Troy, famously killed by Achilles in The Iliad.
Who is Hector?
An Italian Dessert with a dusting of sweet cinnamon, and fluffy cream based layers.
What is Tiramisu?
This is the smallest country in the world, that happens to be the epicenter of an Abrahamic Religion.
What is The Vatican?
This yellow-branded, toy, equipment-truck company is named after the last part of a Minnesota city famous for its large lake.
What is Tonka?
This mythological musical focuses on yearning, love, and doubt, set in jazz period fashion, it explores the millennium old story of Orpheus and Eurydice.
What is Hadestown?
A language tool in literature that utilizes wordplay, idioms, comparisons, or other analogous workings to emphasize a given meaning in the story.
What is a literary device?
A Mexican, cylindrical, fried dough, topped and basked in cinnamon and sweets, or chocolate, or can have a more savory profile.
What is a Churro?
A South American Country on the North East Coast, between Guyana and French Guiana.
What is Suriname?
A famous painter, known his sweeping, circular, stylized, starry pictures, and in a fit of mad depression, cut off his own ear.
Who is Van Gogh?
A horror video game that has now become a franchise movie series, focusing on horrific animatronic animals at this "amusement" center.
What is "Five Night's at Freddy's"?
An authoritative title given to this titular character at the start of their prophecy, and this title is the catalyst to the titular character's tragic downfall in this Scottish, ghostly, play about ambition and power.
What is "The Thane of Cawdor"?
A citrus based sweet, that shares its namesake with a British currency, and colloquially made famous by a song on Afroman's newest album which the song and the dessert are named with his mother's famous dessert.
What is Lemon Pound Cake?
An Asian country landlocked between India, Nepal, and China, known for its dramatic mountainous landscapes hosting hundreds of Buddhist Temples, monasteries, and fortresses (aka: dzongs).
What is Bhutan?
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam. The Turkish city of Istanbul, until 1923, was called THIS.
What is Constantinople?
Who is 'The Dude'?
A literary genre characterized by intellectual, philosophical, and unconventional explorations of love, religion, mortality, and morality, using elaborate, unexpected metaphors to connect disparate ideas.
What is Metaphysical Literature?
A dense pound or sponge cake base, layered with ice cream, and topped with meringue, finally flamed, ending in a delicious, yet tediously made, dessert.
What is a Baked Alaska?
A south Atlantic Archipelago, known for its penguins, sheep, steep cliffs, and the infamous 1982 war after the same name where Britain and Argentina fought for sovereignty.
What are the Falkland Islands?