Music
The young 'uns are familiar with the Cocomelon version of this classic that mentions a pig, a cow & the various noises they make
What is Old McDonald had a Farm
The opposite of sublimation, this "-tion" word means goes directly from a gas to a solid state & is also a legal testimony in writing
What is Deposition
The best friend of this title character, Boots is a little monkey who accompanies her on her adventures
Who is Dora
When a mob of colonials pelted British soldiers with snowballs, they opened fire, killing 5 in an act dubbed this bloodletting
What is the Boston Massacre
These are the final lines of a children's book
"Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and... he was a beautiful butterfly!"
What is The Very Hungry Caterpillar
"I'm Too Sexy",
"Here Comes The Hotstepper",
"Livin' La Vida Loca"
All come from what decade?
What is the 1990s ('90s)
Used in some workout powders, this 6-letter protein is the main one in cow's milk
What is casein
The creator of these delightful yellow followers of Gru says they cannot reproduce & are all male
What are Minions
The coastal region of Cuba known as the Bahía de Cochinos entered U.S. history in 1961 under this English name
What is The Bay of Pigs
The French for "four" gives us this word for a 4-line stanza
What is a quatrain
Name the song that these are the lyrics to
"Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River"
What is Take Me Home, Country Roads
Mostly hydrogen & helium, it has the lowest average density of any planet in the solar system & would float in a really big tub
What is Saturn
There's a fungus among us, & as Ellie, Bella Ramsey has to deal with it in many, many horrific ways on this HBO drama
What is The Last of Us
More serious than Powerball, the first peacetime one of these lotteries began October 29, 1940, as the secretary of war pulled out number 158
What is a draft (lottery)
Ray Bradbury used a pay typewriter at UCLA to write a novella, "The Fireman", which he later expanded into this novel, that not a lot of people read during our sophomore year.
What is Fahrenheit 451
Name the song from the lyrics
"Only got 20 dollars in my pocket... looking for a come up / This is really awesome"
What is Thrift Shop
A protein involved in embryonic development is named for this video game speedster because of its spiky look
What is Sonic
The narrator's in big trouble atop a skyscraper; gets in some scraps, which he really can't talk about; space monkey business
What is Fight Club
In '77, this chain, which has now filed for bankruptcy twice, introduced its TRS-80 computer; at $599.95 it was the most expensive item in stores in history but it sold like crazy
What is RadioShack
Raskolnikov performs the first half of the title; doesn't handle it well; gets the second half of the title
What is Crime and Punishment
A pop hit, & more recently, a country hit, in which the original began to top the charts once more when a different artist sung their own rendition of it.
What is Fast Car
About 10 to 12 days into a pregnancy, a blastocyst becomes this
What is an embryo
Clothes don't make the man, a Swiss scientist does; that does not go well at all; a dogsled chase
What is Frankenstein
The Smithsonian has an odd Civil War relic: the stump of this type of mighty tree, full of bullets from a May 1864 battle
What is an oak
John Keats wrote what poem to a singing bird?
What is Ode to a Nightingale