Game of Thrones
This Stark family seat serves as the ancestral home of the Wardens of the North.
What is Winterfell?
This Hannibal famously crossed the Alps with an army that included elephants to wage war against Rome.
Who is Hannibal Barca?
Halloween traces much of its tradition to Samhain, an ancient festival associated with this group of peoples.
Who are the Celts?
Despite their name, jelly beans are shaped more like this common legume than a jar of jelly.
What is a bean?
This wall, erected in 1961, became perhaps the most famous physical symbol of the division between East and West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Emilia Clarke played this “Mother of Dragons,” who begins the series in exile across the Narrow Sea.
Who is Daenerys Targaryen?
This fictional Hannibal is the brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer created by author Thomas Harris.
Who is Hannibal Lecter?
America’s Thanksgiving tradition famously recalls a 1621 harvest feast shared by Plymouth colonists and this Indigenous people.
Who are the Wampanoag?
Jelly beans are especially associated with this springtime Christian holiday, often appearing in baskets alongside chocolate eggs.
What is Easter?
The Cold War's two principal superpowers were the United States and this communist state.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This Valyrian steel sword belonging to House Stark was melted down by Tywin Lannister and reforged into two new blades.
What is Ice?
In 216 B.C., Hannibal Barca inflicted a catastrophic Roman defeat at this battle in southeastern Italy.
What is the Battle of Cannae?
Valentine’s Day takes its name from one or more Christian martyrs who shared this name.
Who is Saint Valentine?
This U.S. president's fondness for Jelly Belly jelly beans helped make the candy famous in the White House.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
In 1962, the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles on this Caribbean island brought the superpowers dangerously close to nuclear war.
What is Cuba?
Before becoming the Three-Eyed Raven, this character was known as Lord Brynden Rivers in the larger A Song of Ice and Fire lore.
Who is Bloodraven (Brynden Rivers)?
Before The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter first appeared in this 1981 Thomas Harris novel.
What is Red Dragon?
The modern holiday of Kwanzaa was created in 1966 by this American activist and scholar.
Who is Maulana Karenga?
Before becoming president, Reagan reportedly began eating jelly beans while trying to give up this habit.
What is pipe smoking?
Established in 1955, this Soviet-led military alliance was the Eastern Bloc's counterpart to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
According to Westerosi history, this Targaryen king constructed the Dragonpit to house the royal family’s dragons in King’s Landing.
Who is Maegor I Targaryen (Maegor the Cruel)?
Hannibal Barca’s father, who supposedly made the young Hannibal swear hostility toward Rome, bore this name.
Who is Hamilcar Barca?
The name “Easter” was famously connected by the monk Bede to this Anglo-Saxon goddess, although scholars debate the account.
Who is Ēostre (Eostre)?
The Jelly Belly company traces its candy-making roots to this family surname, whose business began in Illinois in 1869.
What is Goelitz?
This 1948–49 operation saw Western Allies supply West Berlin by air after the Soviets blocked land access to the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?