Dispatches from Kiwi-Land
My journey to New Zealand is starting off with an arrival in this capital named for a general who famous defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
What is Wellington?
George and Amal Clooney shuttled their wedding guests around Venice with a flotilla of these traditional Venetian vehicles
What are gondolas?
This lasagna-loving, Monday-hating cat has been a fixture of the comics section for nearly 50 years
Who is Garfield?
There are many theories - none proven - of the origins of the madness of this monarch who presided over the American Revolution
Who is King George III?
What are hieroglyphics?
Today I'll visit the Hauraki Gulf where the ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary were scattered - it's not every day you get the chance to pay respects to the first person to summit this mountain
Beyoncé chose to tie the knot with this hip-hop mogul at his Manhattan penthouse on April 4, 2008 due to their shared love of the number 4
Who is Jay-Z?
Danny DeVito voiced this environmentally-minded creature in a 2012 animated movie of the same name
Who is the Lorax?
Gwen Stefani spells out B-A-N-A-N-A-S in the bridge of this 2004 song to emphasize just how bananas this, uh, stuff, is
What is "Hollaback Girl"?
Watermelons topped the charts in 2020 when this One Direction veteran hit number 1 with "Watermelon Sugar"
Who is Harry Styles?
I wonder if I'll run into a famous filmmaker while in NZ - maybe Peter Jackson of "Lord of the Rings" fame, or this Māori-descended director of a couple of "Thor" movies
Who is Taika Waititi?
The 2005 wedding of Prince Charles to this woman only generated about 1% of the television viewership of his wedding to Diana 24 years earlier
Who is Camilla?
The early days of YouTube were filled with the escapades of this fruity character with a name describing his behavior
Who is the Annoying Orange?
Characters in the movies of this director, including A Clockwork Orange and The Shining, use a distinctive stare to communicate their dwindling sanity to the viewer
Who is Stanley Kubrick?
Anti-environmentalists often characterize their opponents as watermelons - green on the outside, but carrying this more radical ideology internally
What is communism?
My trip is of course being soundtracked by the works of NZ's own Ella Yelich-O'Connor, better known by this 5-letter stage name
Who is Lorde?
Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli, who met on the set of this female-driven Netflix show, had no sides of the aisle at their wedding - they exchanged vows at the center of a circle of guests
What is Orange is the New Black?
In Inside Out 2, this emotion appears as an orange character with a frog-like face and an eruption-style hairdo
What is Anxiety?
The cure is worse than the ailment for the narrator of this Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story who is confined to a single room as "treatment" for her postpartum depression
What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?
This comedian hit it big in the 80's smashing watermelons in his Sledge-O-Matic routine
Who is Gallagher?
My time in New Zealand is finally over - to continue my travels in Australia, I've got to fly across this this sea with a similar name to an Australian state
What is the Tasman Sea?
Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen had it both ways - a traditional church wedding, followed a few days later by a second ceremony at their vacation home in this Central American country
What is Costa Rica?
This progenitor of the Muppets originally puppeteered Bert, but switched to Ernie after just one day of rehearsal
Who is Jim Henson?
This term for flying into a violent rage inspired the title of a 1997 shooter game
What is going postal?
What is Fruit Ninja?