Song Titles
Dolly Parton wrote this country song after seeing a woman flirting with her husband at the bank, and begs her to stay away from him
What is Jolene?
(verb) to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide
What is hyperventilate?
Ahead of his time, George Orwell wrote this dystopian novel in 1949, describing the thought police and Big Brother
What is 1984?
Nick Fury is the head of this counter-terrorism and intelligence agency, that brought together the Avengers and protects earth from alien invasions
What is SHIELD?
Covering almost the entire area of North Africa with 3.6 million square miles, the world's hottest desert can reach 120 degrees fahrenheit in the summer
What is the Sahara?
The Police wrote this song from the point of view of a man in love with a prostitute, which was later adapted for the movie Moulin Rouge
What is Roxanne?
(noun) a process in which a poor area experiences an influx of middle-class or wealthy people who renovate and rebuild homes and businesses
What is gentrification?
The first book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy about computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is "The Girl with" this
What is the Dragon Tattoo?
Loki uses this cube in The Avengers in an attempt to take over Earth, which is just a containment vessel for one of the six Infinity Stones
What is the tesseract?
If you fly to the Middle East, you can visit one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world, almost ten times saltier than the ocean, which makes swimming more similar to floating
What is the Dead Sea?
Lady Gaga tells this supposedly Spanish man to not call her name and to just let her go in this pop single
What is Alejandro?
(noun) exclusion and dismissal from fellowship in a group or community, specifically in a church
What is excommunication?
In this tale written by Arthur Golden, Sayuri narrates her story of how she became a celebrated performer and courtesan in Japan
What is Memoirs of a Geisha?
Tony Stark created his own artificial intelligence system that assists him with his business and Stark Tower's security, named after his father's butler
What is JARVIS?
Africa's highest mountain peak is located in Tanzania, at the top of this dormant volcano, which is also the largest free-standing mountain rise in the world
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
The Beatles created this woman's name to be the title of one of the songs from their Yellow Submarine album; she died in the church and was buried along with her name
What is Eleanor Rigby?
(adj) feeling or showing intense shock, surprise, or wonder: utterly astonished
What is flabbergasted?
Critics have called this 2006 Sara Gruen novel a "surprising portrayal of life in a traveling circus in the '30s"
What is Water for Elephants?
Thanos has two adoptive daughters; Gamora, the green skinned assassin, and her blue cyborg sister named this
Who is Nebula?
If you travel to the Alps, you can climb this German named peak overlooking the Swiss town of Zermatt, famous for its almost perfect pyramidal shape
What is the Matterhorn?
This song was originally done by a band called The Zutons, but was made famous when Amy Winehouse covered it; the song is dedicated to the lead singer's friend who was in trouble for a DUI
What is Valerie?
(adj) not able to be understood; not intelligible
What is incomprehensible?
Jonas is chosen as the Receiver of Memory in this Lois Lowry book, giving him the ability to experience new emotions and see new colors that society had taken away from them
What is The Giver?
Captain America's shield is constructed from this fictional metal, found only in Africa in the fictional country, Wakanda
What is vibranium?
This island is known as the Hawaii of South Korea, with beautiful white sand beaches, waterfalls, and a giant dormant volcano in the center of the island
What is Jeju Island (or Jejudo)?