20th Anniversaries
in 2024
in 2024
Mark Zuckerberg launched this social media platform in February 2004 as a Harvard student. It currently has over 3 billion active users.
This 1968 horror film features Mia Farrow as a pregnant woman who increasingly becomes convinced that her husband and neighbors are involved in a Satanic conspiracy involving her baby
Rosemary's Baby
Paul McCartney, 1980: "Simply having / a ______ _____"
wonderful Christmastime
This popular first name was originally an Irish pet name for William.
A popular nickname for Baltimore: _____ City
Charm
This team swept the Cardinals to win the World Series in 2004, their first in 86 years.
The Boston Red Sox
This 1990 John Waters comedy features Johnny Depp playing a juvenile delinquent whose titular nickname derives from his teardrop tattoo.
Popularized by Bing Crosby, 1950: "Silver bells, silver bells / It's Christmas time ____ ____ ____"
In the 1840s this agricultural catastrophe, compounded by English colonial oppression, led to over 2 million Irish emigrating.
The potato famine
A wetland, often covered in grasses or cattails and home to fish, salamanders, and birds.
Marsh
These two artists played the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show. Their performance concluded with an infamous incident, the apology for which coined the term "wardrobe malfunction."
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake
Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, and Ted Danson play friends who are suddenly thrust into shared fatherhood when a mysterious baby appears at their doorstep in this 1987 comedy.
Three Men and a Baby
Popularized by Eddie Cantor, 1934: "He sees you when you're sleeping / He knows when you're awake / He knows if you've been bad or good / ___ ___ ____ ___ ______ _____"
So be good for goodness sake
The allure of the Emerald Isle has sold products like Shamrock Shakes & this soap introduced in the U.S. in 1972
Irish Spring
English rock band of the 1980s fronted by Morrissey and guitarist Johnny Marr: The ______
Smiths
This ill-fated Democratic presidential candidate was married to the Heinz ketchup heiress and would go on to serve as Secretary of State under Obama after his failed election bid in 2004.
John Kerry
Ben Affleck directed this 2007 tale about the kidnapping of a little girl in - where else - Boston!
Gone Baby Gone
Mariah Carey, 1994: "I just want you for my own / More than you could ever know / Make my wish come true / _____ ____ _____ ____ _______ ____ ____"
All I want for Christmas is you
This Irish singer who died in 2023 was the first artist to refuse a Grammy award
Sinead O'Connor
A musical instrument indigenous to India, it gained popularity in western pop music after George Harrison played it on the Beatles' album Rubber Soul.
Sitar
This boxing movie, starring Hillary Swank and Morgan Freeman, won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2004.
Million Dollar Baby
This classic 1938 comedy stars Cary Grant as a paleontologist and Katherine Hepburn as an heiress with a pet leopard
Bringing Up Baby
Jose Feliciano, 1970: "Feliz Navidad / Feliz Navidad / Feliz Navidad / _____ _____ ____ _____"
próspero año y felicidad
A Irish club or cudgel that can be used as a walking stick or a weapon
Shillelagh
Word meaning amusement or merriment, often expressed as laughter.
Mirth