National Administrative Professional's Day
This 1988 romantic comedy about an administrative professional stealing the career of her conniving employer famously opens on the State Island Ferry
Working Girl
In 2016, the "Make Lunch Count Day" holiday was pioneered and championed by which famous organization?
T.G.I. Fridays
MLC Day was introduced by the company as a way to boost flagging lunch-sales. They're also credited with the 1974 lunch innovation of eating Potato Skins as an appetizer.
This former basketball player, and only child, is also the author of 12 books on African American history and culture, as well as 4 mystery novels based on the character, Sherlock Holmes. He has also been named a U.S. Cultural Ambassador and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
This famously working class duo is credited with rescuing and protecting the sole heir to the throne of the Mushroom Kingdom.
The Super Mario Brothers
In 2005, Jessica Alba starred in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.
Which country is the world's leading producer of silver (or "plata")?
Mexico
Janine Melnitz, an on-screen administrative professional (and Brooklyn native!), managed the day-to-day operations around the firehouse for this famous organization. And yes... occasional work with a proton pack was a requirement for this position.
Ghostbusters!
During the Middle Ages, the midday meal commonly known today as "lunch" was referred to by what other name?
Dinner
During the Middle Ages everyone ate in the middle of the day, but the meal was called dinner and it was the main meal of the day.
Being an only child can allow one to pursue one's interests without distraction from pesky siblings!
For example, around the year 1660, this only child recounted in his scientific notebooks how he inserted a bodkin (a long, thin sewing needle) between his eye and the adjacent bone as part of his investigation of vision and color perception. The result? “Several white, dark, and colored circles” appeared.
Isaac Newton
This brother-sister musical duo were on top of the world when they were described by Richard Nixon as "Young America, at it's very best."
The Carpenters
In 2015, Alba featured in the video for Taylor Swift's Bad Blood.
What is the most common blood type found in Humans?
Type O
An on-screen dream team of Hollywood talent portrayed a trio of administrative professionals teaming up to teach their abusive employer a lesson about unacceptable behaviors in the workplace in this 1980 classic. A song of the same name went on to win 2 Grammys and become one of the biggest hits of the decade.
9 to 5
For Bonus Points... name the three actresses.
Who was the first popular character to grace the side of a children's lunchbox?
Mickey Mouse
The popular rodent was the first character to be put on a lunch box in 1935
Sometimes being an only child is a good thing!
Acting and comedy was a family business for these 4 siblings, all working within the entertainment industry. But in 1865, this man, the youngest sibling, ruined the family name and the careers of brothers and sisters in one fell swoop.
John Wilkes Booth
Both Ohio and North Carolina take credit for these famous brothers. But more attention is owed to their sister, Katherine Haskell, who managed their Dayton Ohio bicycle exchange, and single handedly funded the invention that would make her brothers so famous.
The Wright Brothers
Alba, a native Californian, could probably tell you that the before it achieved statehood, California's administrative capital was in this coastal city, famous for its Cannery Row ... and now for Big Little Lies.
Monterey
In this 1992 film, Selena Kyle was the devoted administrative assistant to wealthy tycoon Max Shrek, before being pushed out of a window by her eccentric employer, and unleashing her revenge-driven alter ego.
Batman Returns
In 2008, a Hong Kong-based investor paid $2.1 million for a lunch date with what media mogul?
Warren Buffet
Zhao Danyang enjoyed a meal for himself and seven friends accompanied by Mr. Buffett at Smith & Wollensky’s steakhouse in New York. All proceeds from the auction went to a homeless charity in San Francisco.
Sometimes being an only child is a VERY good thing!
Pauline B. was such a difficult person, that she was exiled from France by this powerful man, her older brother, to an Italian city-state that he gifted to her for her to rule over. She was unhappy with her small Italian nation, so she immediately sold it to Parma and moved back to France to continue to be a thorn in her brother's side.
Napoleon Bonaparte
This Major League Baseball team began in 1902 as the Washington Senators, but relocated in 1961, trading the Potomac for the Mississippi.
The Minnesota Twins
In 2010, Alba starred in this Robert Rodriguez action flick, named after a famous weapon that itself is a diminutive of the word macho ... the Spanish word for hammer.
Machete
This 2006 modern classic chronicles the travails of two administrative professionals grappling with the high expectations of their prickly employer, Miranda Priestly.
The Devil Wears Prada
A traditional Bengali lunch consists of how many courses? (The highest number of courses held for the midday meal across any culture throughout the globe.)
7 courses
Most commonly held during Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year (April 14-15), this traditional meal is a staple of Bengali holidays and traditions.
Sometimes being an only child is a GREAT thing!
In 1992, this pesky sibling unseated his older brother as King, by dropping him into a herd of stampeding wildebeests.
Scar
This brother-sister thespian duo have graced the silver screen for over 60 years, though have never appeared together on camera. You may know her as "Ouiser" from Steel Magnolias. You may know him as the man that presented a Best Picture Oscar to La La Land.
Shirley Maclaine and Warren Beatty
In 2015, Alba found herself making a cameo in this celebrity-studded film. It's title is derived from the French word entourer meaning "to surround."
Entourage