COVID Quotables
In a surprise commencement speech to the graduating class of the College of the Holy Cross, this long-time director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases noted, "Now is the time, if ever there was one, for us to care selflessly about one another."
Dr. Anthony Fauci
Synonyms for this word include "uncanny," "strange," and "preternatural".
Weird
Wood violet
This woman became famous in the 1990s for elaborately-posed photographs of babies.
Anne Geddes
Before winning Emmies for his TV show Atlanta and Grammies for his work as Childish Gambino, this man played former high-school football star Troy Barnes.
Donald Glover
This tech entrepreneur, in a tweet announcing he planned to reopen his California manufacturing facility, said, "If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me."
Like its synonym "steal," this thieving word can be both a noun and a verb.
heist
This official Wisconsin fruit may go from bog to your Thanksgiving table.
cranberry
This woman is know for her portrait photographs, often featuring celebrity subjects in intimate settings and poses. She snapped a Polaroid of John Lennon and Yoko Ono five hours before Lennon's death - it's now considered Rolling Stone's most famous photo.
Annie Leibovitz
Alison Brie played Annie on Community - at the same time, she had a recurring role as Pete Campbell's wife Trudy on this drama set in 1960s New York City.
Mad Men
Both Bill Gates and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo have singled out the following quote, originally uttered by this British politician in 1942, as their best analogy to the COVID-19 pandemic: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
Winston Churchill
This word means to give up something, sometimes as a penalty, as in a game in which one team must take an automatic loss due to a breach of the rules.
forfeit
This state bird of Wisconsin lays eggs of a hue so pretty Crayola named a crayon after them.
robin
Photographer Philippe Halsman snapped a famous photograph of this Spanish surrealist painter seemingly levitating alongside a floating chair, easel, and three cats.
Salvador Dali
This man, who later became famous for a satirical news show on HBO, played a psychology professor on Community.
John Oliver
In a CBS 60 Minutes interview on May 13, 2020, this man - the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board - said, "In the long run, and even in the medium run, you wouldn't want to bet against the American economy. This economy will recover. And that means people will go back to work. Unemployment will get back down."
Jerome Powell
A girl's name, also famously the title of a beloved 1888 children's book by Johanna Spyri.
Heidi
The distinction of Wisconsin's state fossil belongs to this now-extinct arthropod related to modern-day crabs and lobsters.
This woman photographed of victims of the Great Depression through her job in the federal Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration).
Dorothea Lange
This man was part of Saturday Night Live's initial cast - 34 years later, he debuted the role of Piers Morgan on Community.
Chevy Chase
In a late March address to the people of New Zealand, this prime minister encouraged citizens to "Act like you have COVID-19" when contemplating activities.
Jacinda Ardern
This icy geographical formation features i before e, but after c. The last one to pass through Wisconsin is known as the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
glacier
The honey bee became Wisconsin's state insect in 1977, when third-graders from Holy Family school in this northern Wisconsin city petitioned the state Legislature to designate it as such.
Marinette
This artist became known for his black and white landscapes of the western U.S., and for his skill at editing his photos in the darkroom (well before the days of Photoshop).
Ansel Adams
The episode "Critical Film Studies" spoofs this multi-stranded crime/comedy movie in which the lead characters share a penchant for philosophical discussions
Pulp Fiction