Explorers
With this year for a book title, Charles C. Mann brings to life what civilization was like in the Americas before Columbus
What is 1491?
The perfumes Sophia and Deneuve are named after these two women
Who are Sophia Loren and Catherine Deneuve?
At a 2013 MGM Grand show, this group's permanent show Ka suffered a performer's death during a show.
What is Cirque Du Soleil?
first lyrics: "It's getting to the point"
What is Suite : Judy Blue Eyes ?
This many Pleiades sisters, now in the sky as stars
What is seven?
Last name of the father & son who took the bathyscaphe Trieste to a record depth off Italy in 1953
What is (Auguste) Piccard?
This actress and former Tom Cruise wife played the courtesan Satine in Moulin Rouge!
Who is Nicole Kidman?
This boastful buffoon stock character from commedia dell'arte might "do the fandango"?
Who is Scaramouch?
"Here come old flat top"
What is (The Beatles') Come Together?
For Hanukkah, menorahs usually have 9 candles or lamps, but in the ancient Temples of Jerusalem, they had this number, the same as kwanzaa menorah.
What is 7?
In 2019, researchers studying Vasco da Gama’s fleet recovered the oldest known mariner’s astrolabe, used to measure this.
What is latitude?
This "Queen" of rappers retired in 2019 because of baby dreams, not "Barbie Dreams"
Who is Nicki Minaj?
Vanilla Ice, among others, performed this dance step that simulates a person on a treadmill
What is running man?
after the title: "You make my heart sing"
What is Wild Thing? (The Troggs, Hendrix, and others)
The hyoid bone is generally grouped with the other 22 bones in this body part.
What is the skull (8 cranial bones, 14 facial)?
This NASA mission was launched in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres in the asteroid belt
What is Dawn?
This polysyllabic '50s Italian sexpot had a one-woman exhibit of her sculpture in 2003
Who is Gina Lollobrigida?
In a classic ballet by Adolphe Adam, she's the title peasant girl with a weak heart & a passion for dancing
Who is Giselle?
First verse: Morning sun, evening comes, ships roll in
What is (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay? (Otis Redding)
It's the highest number on FM radio dial
What is 108?
This explorer is buried in Arlington Cemetary under a granite globe with the north pole marked.
Who is Robert Peary?
This actress was Orson Welle's Lady from Shanghai
Who is Rita Hayworth?
Jennifer Lopez was at one time a member of this dance "Girls" group, which appeared regularly in the television comedy variety show In Living Color
Who are the Fly Girls?
Smokey's Pagliacci song
What is Tears of a Clown?
"The Four " this large number was a story collection by O. Henry
What is million?