Faith & Religion
In 2 Kings, youths mocked Elisha as "baldy." He cursed them, and two of these animals came out of the woods and mauled 42 of them.
What are bears?
In "Monster Mash," by Bobby Pickett, this guest climbs out of his coffin, upset that the new dance replaced his favorite, the twist.
Who is Dracula?
Minecraft's Creeper came from a coding mistake: Notch mixed up the height and length while building this farm animal, making it tall and skinny.
What is a pig?
In 1990, two thieves got into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by dressing as these people and stole 13 works worth about $500 million.
Who are police officers?
Marvel's clawed, hot-tempered mutant Wolverine is named for this fierce animal.
What is a wolverine?
The college ministry now called the BCM began in 1919 as the Baptist Student Union, founded by this state's Baptist General Convention.
What is Texas?
Actor R. Lee Ermey, the foul-mouthed drill sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket," later voiced Sarge in this Pixar movie.
What is "Toy Story"?
In 1947, Harvard Mark II operators found this insect stuck in a relay and taped it into the logbook as the "first actual case of a bug being found."
What is a moth?
In 1989, a man named Kenneth Noid took two hostages at this pizza chain, believing its "Avoid the Noid" ads were a personal attack on him.
What is Domino's?
Because Tom Holland is known for spoilers, "Avengers: Endgame" directors told him Tony Stark's funeral was this happy occasion.
What is a wedding?
This "Positive, Encouraging" Christian radio network can't use its name in Los Angeles, where a Univision station has had it since 1974.
What is K-LOVE?
The famous Pop band, ABBA's name comes from its four members, two married couples. By 1981, both couples had gone through these, yet the band kept recording together.
What are divorces?
Two primary colors of LED lights existed by the 1960s, but this one color stumped scientists for about 30 years. Shuji Nakamura finally cracked it in 1993 after ignoring his company's orders to quit.
What is blue?
U.S. diplomats in Cuba blamed this mysterious illness on a sonic weapon, but a recording of the noise matched a cricket's mating call.
What is Havana Syndrome?
Before rubber erasers caught on in the 1770s, artists rubbed out pencil mistakes with balls of this breakfast staple.
What is bread?
When Union troops burned the University of Alabama in 1865, this was the only library book saved from the fire.
What is the Koran?
In 2008, Activision's CEO claimed this Boston band made more from its own Guitar Hero game than from any of its albums.
Who is Aerosmith?
In Wii Sports Resort, Miis vacation on this fictional island, where they sword fight, wakeboard, and play frisbee with their dogs, all in the shadow of a giant volcano.
What is Wuhu Island?
At 1921's Battle of Blair Mountain, about 10,000 of these West Virginia workers in red bandanas marched against lawmen who dropped bombs on them from planes.
Who are coal miners?
In 1990, McDonald's ditched this hinged Styrofoam burger box named for a sea creature.
What is the clamshell?
In 1959, a Michigan psychologist brought together three men who each believed they were this figure, hoping it would cure them. Instead, they argued for two years over who was the real one.
Who is Jesus?
Kim Jong-chul, Kim Jong Un's older brother, was passed over to run North Korea but found another calling: flying around the world to attend concerts by this guitarist.
Who is Eric Clapton?
In late 2023, an Oregon man consigned his 83-year-old father's Star Wars LEGO collection, more than 780 sets and 1,200 minifigures, to a store from this LEGO resale chain. The family never got it back, and in 2026 the fight over the so-called "$200,000 LEGO collection" went viral, sparking lawsuits, YouTube investigations, and the store's closure.
What is Bricks & Minifigs?
In 1945, Soviet children gave the U.S. ambassador a carved wooden seal hiding this battery-free bug, which spied for seven years before being found.
What is The Thing (the Great Seal bug)?
This 2019 Netflix docuseries tells of a Brazilian crime-show host accused of ordering murders to boost his ratings.
What is "Killer Ratings"?