Musicals
This Sondheim musical centers around a barber seeking revenge and a pie shop owner with a macabre plan.
What is Sweeney Todd?
This ancient empire used cuneiform script and established the first known law code under Hammurabi.
What is the Babylonian Empire?
This immune system protein, often measured during infections, is abbreviated as “CRP.”
What is C-reactive protein?
A word meaning “truthful and honest.”
What is Sincere?
This U.S. president moved Thanksgiving to the third Thursday in 1939 to lengthen the holiday shopping season.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This musical is set in Buenos Aires and features the iconic song “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina.”
This 14th-century pandemic killed an estimated one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death?
This type of chemotherapy treatment uses the body’s immune system to fight cancer.
What is Immunotherapy?
A word meaning “to strongly criticize or denounce.”
What is Condemn?
This Native American interpreter and guide was crucial to the Pilgrims’ survival.
Who is Squanto?
Based on a T.S. Eliot poetry collection, this musical introduced the hit song “Memory.”
What is Cats?
This treaty ended World War I and imposed severe reparations on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This imaging method uses a radioactive tracer to visualize metabolic processes in the body.
What is a PET scan?
A word describing a person who rebels against authority.
What is Defiant?
The term for the 17th-century Puritan settlers' strict religious movement.
What is Calvinism?
This contemporary musical tells the story of the Lehman family’s rise and fall in America, performed entirely by three actors.
What is The Lehmann Trilogy?
She was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii before its overthrow in 1893.
Who is Queen Liliʻuokalani?
This groundbreaking gene therapy uses modified viruses to treat inherited retinal diseases.
A sophisticated word meaning “extremely beautiful or delicate.”
What is Elegant?
The “Turkey Pardon” ceremony is believed to have unofficially begun with this president in 1947.
Who is Harry Truman?
This 1976 musical portrays the lives of assassins and would-be assassins of U.S. presidents.
This battle in 331 BCE marked Alexander the Great’s decisive victory over the Persian Empire.
What is the Battle of Gaugamela?
This pioneering surgeon performed the first successful human heart transplant in 1967.
Who is Dr. Christiaan Barnard?
What is Formula?
This 90-minute feast game, first played in 1934, is now a staple of Thanksgiving Day entertainment.
What is the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving football game?