All Greek To Me
This multi-headed guardian of the Underworld was captured and carried out of the land of the dead by the hero Hercules (or Heracles depending on who you read) as his 12th and final task.
Who is Cerberus?
Before an official limit was imposed by way of the 22nd Amendment, Presidents were free to seek out as many terms in office as they wished, though most never sought more than two. This man is the exception as he not only ran for re-election after his second term, but was re-elected a third and fourth time.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This film, and later Broadway Musical, begins with a sorority girl believing that her boyfriend will propose to her. When he dumps her instead, she follows him to Harvard Law to prove her worth.
What is Legally Blonde?
This storm was one of the deadliest and most destructive to ever hit the United States. By the time it was over, nearly 1,200 people were dead, and approximately $125 Billion in damage had been done to New Orleans and the surrounding area.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
Based on a children's novel of the same name, this 1939 film features a Wicked Witch, a Cowardly Lion, and a Yellow Brick Road.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
With his iconic winged helmet and sandals, this Olympian was considered the herald of the gods.
Who is Hermes?
There are many occurrences of Presidents sharing first names. The first instance was this man taking office in 1817. What's more, the President with whom he shared a first name was his immediate predecessor.
Who is James Monroe?
This celebrity power-couple began dating after they met on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005. They were together for many years before they finally married in 2014 only to file for divorce 2 years later citing "irreconcilable differences." Their divorce was finalized in 2019.
Who are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (or Brangelina)?
The common name given to the period of disease and starvation that hit one European country in particular from 1845 to 1849. It was brought on by a parasitic blight that wiped out incredibly large portions of a staple food over a number of seasons.
What is the Irish Potato Famine (aka The Great Famine)?
This entry in the Harry Potter series introduced Remus Lupin as the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
What is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
When the God of the Sea and the Goddess of Wisdom competed for patronage of the yet unnamed capital of Greece, the Goddess of Wisdom presented the king with the first domesticated olive tree. She was declared the winner and the city was given this name in her honor.
What is Athens?
Throughout the 1800's, the White House was only ever referred to as such in informal conversation by the public. This changed in 1901 when this President changed official stationary to read "White House, Washington" instead of "Executive Mansion".
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Despite the combined 55 seasons of television this dating show and it's spinoffs have amassed, only 18 of the final couples are still together as of January 2020.
What is The Bachelor?
An accident during a safety test at this Soviet Ukrainian power station caused the worst nuclear disaster in history.
What is the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
Who is Christopher Nolan?
The tale of how Persephone came to be queen of the Underworld was the Greeks' way of explaining why nothing grew through the winter. As the story goes, the goddess of the springtime was abducted by Hades and was tricked into eating the seeds from this fruit of the Underworld, ensuring that she would have to return for three months every year.
What is a Pomegranate?
Until the election of 1836, everyone to hold the office of the President had been born in the colonies as a British subject. With his inauguration in March 1837, this New York native became the first President to have been born a U.S. citizen.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
This monarch famously had six wives over the course of his life. The shortest of the marriages was the fifth, which lasted just under 1 year and 4 months before he had his wife beheaded.
Who is Henry VIII?
Lionel Richie along with over 100 other artists re-recorded "We Are the World" to raise money for relief efforts for this country after a magnitude 7 earthquake destroyed upwards of 250,000 homes and 30,000 commercial buildings in 2010.
What is Haiti?
This 1996 film is perhaps more famous today for being one of those films people only have a foggy recollection of. An NBA player plays a genie who decides to take up residence in a boombox. The film currently has a 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.
What is Kazaam?
When the Romans adapted Greek mythology into a religion of their own, they worshipped many of the same gods but under different names. Of the main 12 Olympian gods, this one stood alone as the one who kept his Greek name in the Roman's religion.
Who is Apollo?
Who is John Tyler?
This pair of star-crossed lovers first appeared in Ovid's Metamorphosis. Their ill-fated romance began as whispers of love through a crack in a Babylonian wall, and ended with a double suicide after a supposed lioness attack.
Who are Pyramus and Thisbe?
Once a thriving Roman community, Pompeii was destroyed in 79 AD when the catastrophic eruption of this volcano buried the city in meters of ash and debris.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
Of the actors who played the magicians known as "The Four Horsemen," in Now You See Me, all returned for the sequel except for this actress who was replaced by Lizzie Capman.
Who is Isla Fisher?