Native Tongues
1990's Music
Speechifying
Literary Biography
Questionable Movies
Television
100

This was the native language of Christpher Columbus

What is Italian?

100

Courtney Love fronted this 1990's band

What is Hole?

100

MLK, 1963: "Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude ____"

What is Awakening?

100

A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math

What is West Point?

100

In "Why Him?" this "Breaking Bad" star does not understand the appeal of James Franco (but his daughter does)

Who is Bryan Cranston?

100

After 8 seasons, Dre & Bow opted for a new beginning as this sitcom came to a close

What is black-ish?

200

This beat generation writer spoke in French-Canadian dialect until he was 6 years old

Who is Jack Kerouac?

200

According to Natalie Imbruglia in 1997, "Nothing's right, I'm ..."

What is Torn?

200

Barack Obama, 2004: "I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide ____ families with a road to opportunity"

What is Working?

200

Laura Dassow Walls tried to capture this many-sided man in a book published 200 years after his 1817 birth in Concord

Who is Thoreau?

200

Ashton Kutcher & Seann William Scott search for a jalopy while aliens look for the continuum transfunctioner in this film

What is Dude Where's My Car?

200

Clark Kent's high school years & time at Central Kansas A&M were covered in this show named for Clark's hometown

What is Smallville?

300

Cleopatra was the famous final pharaoh of ancient Egypt. But this was her native language

What is Greek?

300

This 1990's artist used to call himself Romeo Blue

Who is Lenny Kravitz?

300

Abe Lincoln, 1863: "It is altogether ____ and proper that we should do this"

What is Fitting?

300

Taken from the title of one of her poems, "Mad Girl's Love Song" is a biography about this 20th-century woman & her "Life Before Ted"

Who is Sylvia Plath?

300

In this 1962 film former child star Bette Davis lives in a crumbling Hollywood mansion with her invalid siste

What is What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

300

"Like sands through the hourglass, so are the" this TV soap title, the show now on Peacock after 57 years on NBC

What is Days of Our Lives?

400

This term refers to a language used by people whose native languages are mutually incomprehensible

What is Lingua Franca?

400

This 1990's act sometimes played live while bouncing on trampolines

Who is Phish?

400

Referring to the United States, JFK's Moon speech: "This nation's own scientific manpower is ____
every 12 years"

What is Doubling?

400

Jenn Shapland's "My Autobiography of" this "Heart is a Lonely Hunter" writer looks at her sexual

Who is Carson McCullers?

400

Ice Cube tries to get out of the friend zone with Nia Long by offering to drive her kids to Vancouver in this 2005 film

What is Are We There Yet?

400

According to his '60s theme song, he lived "in a world full of wonder, flying there under, under the sea"

What is Flipper?

500

Queen singer Freddie Mercury's native language was this

What is Gujarati?
500

"Everybody's Free to wear Sunscreen" was a 1999 hit for this Australian artist, best known as a film director

Who is Baz Luhrmann?

500

Emmeline Pankhurst: "To the shame of the British government, they set the example ... for ____ sane, resisting human beings by force"

What is Feeding?

500

"Super-Infinite" is a bio of this man of Shakespeare's time known for sexy poems & later, strongly moral sermons

Who is John Donne?
500

The title of this Coen Bros. film comes from a movie Joel McCrea wanted to make in Preston Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels"

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

500

After she was sprung from "Orange is the New Black", she went on to co-create & star in "Russian Doll"

Who is Natasha Lyonne?

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