Coffee
This dark, concentrated drink forms the base of many café beverages and is typically served in small shots.
What is espresso?
This fermented dairy product is made by adding bacterial cultures to milk and is commonly eaten for breakfast or as a snack.
What is yogurt?
Founded in the early 17th century by Dutch settlers as New Amsterdam, this city later became a major global financial and cultural hub after being taken over by the British.
What is New York City?
Set in a fictional New York advertising agency in the 1960s, this stylish drama won multiple Emmys for its writing, acting, and period storytelling.
What is Mad Men?
This low-budget 1975 musical horror comedy that became a midnight screening staple, featuring eccentric characters, glam rock aesthetics, and audience participation traditions.
What is the Rocky Horror Picture Show?
This country in East Africa is widely considered the birthplace of coffee cultivation and coffee culture.
What is Ethiopia?
This popular Japanese dish consists of vinegared rice paired with raw fish or other toppings.
What is sushi?
This city’s location at the mouth of a major river delta made it a strategic port, and its cultural identity reflects French, Spanish, and African influences.
What is New Orleans?
If you choose to accept it, this spy based drama won the Emmy twice, and went on to become a popular film franchise starring Tom Cruise.
What is Mission : Impossible?
This 1986 horror-comedy features a carnivorous plant that grows after being fed human blood and became a staple of stage and musical adaptations.
What is Little Shop of Horrors?
This brewing method uses a plunger-style device that steeps coffee grounds in hot water before separating them with a mesh filter.
What is a French Press?
This alcoholic beverage is distilled from fermented sugarcane juice or molasses and is strongly associated with the Caribbean.
What is rum?
This city in the Sonoran Desert expanded rapidly in the 20th century due to air conditioning, real estate development, and postwar suburbanization.
What is Phoenix?
In the 1950's, this detective show won Best Drama Series three times. That is, if you're asking for just the facts, ma'am.
What is Dragnet?
This 1985 teen ensemble film about detention reveals personal secrets among five high school stereotypes and became a defining coming-of-age cult classic.
What is the Breakfast Club?
This traditional brewing device uses vapor pressure to push water through coffee grounds, commonly found in Italian households.
What is a Moka pot?
This French cooking technique involves slowly cooking food in fat at a low temperature, often used for duck or meats.
What is confit?
This West Coast city’s early growth was fueled by a mid-19th century gold rush, followed by its role as a major port facing the Pacific.
What is San Fransisco?
With a new cast every two seasons, this Netflix royal drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II won multiple Emmy awards in its early seasons.
What is the Crown?
This 1998 Coen Brothers crime comedy follows an unemployed slacker mistaken for a wealthy man with the same name, leading him into a chaotic kidnapping plot involving bowling, art, and nihilists.
What is the Big Lebowski?
This coffee drink was born during World War II when American GIs stationed in Italy diluted strong local espresso with hot water.
What is an Americano?
This culinary term refers to a method of cooking food sealed in a bag and immersed in precisely controlled low-temperature water.
What is sous vide?
This West Coast city expanded dramatically after World War II due to its role as a center for aerospace engineering and defense industries.
What is Seattle?
This show is famous for nonlinear storytelling, frequently using flashbacks—and later flash-forwards—to deepen character backstories and complicate its central island mystery.
What is Lost?
This 1984 mockumentary about a fictional British heavy metal band popularized deadpan humor and became famous for amplifiers that “go to eleven.”
What is This is Spinal Tap?