Wanna Bet?
This type of bet in which 2 or more different things need to happen to win sounds like a French word meaning "speak"
What is a parlay?
If someone hasn't been taught these personal limitations on acceptable behavior, good luck dating or babysitting them
What are boundaries?
2017: This 2-word gizmo that whirred between your thumb & index finger
What is a fidget spinner?
Gregory Maguire turned "Wicked" into a bestselling 4-book series concluding with the aptly titled "Out of" this place
What is Oz?
2 years before Crick & Watson, Rosalind Franklin used X-ray diffraction to show it has a helical shape
What is DNA?
Prop bets for Super Bowl 60 included whether or not Sam Darnold of this team would score more than 1.5 touchdowns
For a work of art, a certificate can prove this quality; for a person, it takes behavior in accordance with one's true self
What is authenticity?
2018: This children's song (doo doo doo doo doo doo), the bane of many a parent
What is Baby Shark?
Walter Isaacson's latest book unpacks the sentence that begins, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that" these 5 words
What is All Men Are Created Equal?
Vera Rubin confirmed the existence of this component of the universe, originally dubbed "missing mass"
What is dark matter?
Unless the dealer's showing an ace, this alliterative blackjack bet is sound strategy whenever you're showing 11
What is double down?
Close your eyes; focus your attention & belief on this quasi-spiritual method of visualizing your desires into reality
What is manifestation?
2006: How to do this, a verb meaning to drive a car sideways through corners, fast & furiously
What is drift?
Stephen King based the misspelling of this 1983 book title on a sign created by local kids for an animal burial ground near his home
What is Pet Sematary?
Ada Yonath won a Nobel Prize "for studies of" this organelle, site of protein synthesis, from which RNA gets its name
What is a ribosome?
At the horse track it's picking 3 horses in the correct finish order; it's also come to refer to any triple grouping
What is a trifecta?
Per the W.H.O. this malady is not a medical condition but a workplace phenomenon marked by exhaustion & cynicism; whatever!
What is burnout?
2001: This Finnish company, then the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones
What is Nokia?
"The great fish moved silently through the night water", begins this classic that celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2024
What is Jaws?
Chien-Shiung Wu, the first lady of physics, worked on this 1942-47 venture and was the first female president of the American Physical Society
What was the Manhattan Project?
Don't pass & hardways are bets in this casino game where a supple wrist can do you wonders
What is craps?
This 2-word phrase for witnessing & validating another person's feelings was the subject of one of 2024's biggest memes
What is holding space?
2010: This website that paired off random users for webcam-based conversations
What is Chatroulette?
This beloved novel by Paulo Coelho is about a Spanish shepherd who travels to Egypt in search of treasure
What is the Alchemist?
One of the 1st women to get a doctorate in this 2-word field, Barbara Jane Liskov won a Turing Award, the field's highest honor
What is computer science?