Pop Culture Before & After
Link's video game franchise links up with the wife of writer F. Scott
What is The Legend of Zelda Fitzgerald?
1969 / Corleones are new / No horses were harmed / In making this clue
What is The Godfather?
The 1857 search by Richard Burton & John Speke for the source of this river plays out in "Mountains of the Moon"
What is The Nile?
Before the Naval Academy opened in this city in 1845, midshipmen were trained at sea
What is Annapolis?
1970'S ALBUM REVIEWS:
Rolling Stone said this 1976 album had "the best & worst tendencies of L.A.-situated rock" & was an "unflattering portrait of the milieu
What is Hotel California?
Ken's rhyming dream abode in the film "Barbie" hatches into a prequel of "Game of Thrones"
What is a Mojo Dojo Casa House of the Dragon?
A tale of London / In times that were hard / Detailing the far north / & a shepherd-St. Bernard
What is The Call of the Wild?
After a plane crash in "Alive", a Rugby team stranded in these snow-swept peaks struggles to survive
What are The Andes?
Most of the battle on June 17, 1775 took place on Breed's Hill, but it's this hill that gets the press
What is Bunker Hill?
TOYS & GAMES:
Invented in 1974 as a model to teach 3-D problems, it became one of the bestselling toys of all time
What is a Rubik's Cube?
The Bronx female rapper on "Boy's A Liar, Pt. 2" joins forces with a British girl group featuring Posh & Sporty
What is Ice Spice Girls?
4 Kansas murders / Which led to conviction / In a new type of novel / That was somehow nonfiction
What is In Cold Blood?
A treasure map takes Kathleen Turner to Colombia & into the arms of Michael Douglas in this 1984 adventure
What is Romancing the Stone?
When this beloved first lady died in Washington in 1849, the "ladies of Virginia" were urged to wear a black bow or ribbon in tribute
Who is Dolley Madison"
1960's TV HISTORY:
The 1967 finale of "The Fugitive" drew in 78 million viewers, surpassing the 73 million who tuned into this show Sunday, February 9, 1964
What is The Ed Sullivan Show?
A certain ancient civilization that men obsess over in a TikTok trend time travels & becomes a Jay-Z song about NYC
What is The Roman Empire State of Mind?
Doubles! they're doubles! / But they're thought quite insane / A royal mistake / Time to catch an old Twain
What is The Prince and the Pauper?
2017's "Queen of the Desert" is the story of Gertrude Bell, a British writer & explorer on this peninsula in the early 20th century
What is The Arabian Peninsula?
In 1947 Congress passed this act named for 2 politicians that banned using union dues in national election campaigns
What is Taft-Hartley?
To complete one of its regular trips, in 1948 it took a boat across the English Channel; in 1952 it took a plane en route to Finland
What is the Olympic Torch?
A "Fresh Off the Boat" actress joins the rap group with members RZA, GZA & Ghostface Killah
What is Constance Wu Tang Clan?
A disfigured guy / Falls for a woman in Paris, it's true / Sounds like it's "Hunchback" / But it's by a man named Leroux
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
He played a cartographer in the 1995 film "The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain"
Who is Hugh Grant?
Suffering from tuberculosis, William Rufus DeVane King died in April 1853 before ever performing his duties in this post
What is Vice President?
HISTORIC SHIPS:
215 passengers were rescued when it sank in July 1918, about 500 fewer than it had rescued 6 years earlier
What is the Carpathia?