International Holidays
This Mexican celebration honors deceased loved ones with altars, marigolds, and gatherings of family and friends.
What is Dios de los Muertos/Day of the Dead?
This philosopher imagined people living in a cave, mistaking shadows on a wall for reality.
Who is Plato?
A Day in the Life, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, With a Little Help from My Friends
What is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
In this Shakespeare tragedy that you should never mention in a theater (unless performing it) internal ambition becomes as destructive as any external enemy after a nobleman begins pursuing a crown.
What is Macbeth?
Traditionally made with gin and vermouth and commonly garnished with an olive or lemon twist, this cocktail is famously associated with a certain British spy.
What is a martini?
This Brazilian celebration held before Lent is famous for parades, costumes, and samba schools.
What is Carnival?
This school of philosophy teaches that people should focus on what they can control and accept what they cannot.
What is stoicism?
Come Together, Here Comes the Sun, Something
What is Abbey Road?
This ancient Greek poet's epic the Iliad begins with a dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon during a legendary war.
Who is Homer?
Made with rum, mint, lime, sugar, and soda water, this Cuban drink became closely associated with Ernest Hemingway.
What is a mojito?
This Hindu festival of lights celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and is observed across India and beyond.
What is Dawali?
Associated with writers and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries, this movement argues that people are not handed meaning automatically and instead must create it through choices and responsibility.
What is existentialism?
Eleanor Rigby, Taxman, Good Day Sunshine
What is Revolver?
This conflict between England and France lasted, despite its name, roughly 116 years and produced figures including Joan of Arc.
Tequila, triple sec, and lime juice form the core of this cocktail, often served with a salted rim. Oddly, it does not go well with the pizza of the similar name.
What is a margarita?
This Muslim holiday marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
This French thinker sought certainty by doubting nearly everything and arrived at a conclusion centered on the act of thinking itself.
Who is René Descartes?
Ticket to Ride, Yesterday, The Night Before
What is Help!
Beginning with a dispute over church reform in Central Europe, this struggle eventually pulled major powers into one of the continent's most devastating conflicts.
What is the 30 Years War?
Bourbon or rye, sugar, bitters, and citrus peel make up this cocktail whose name suggests age rather than ingredients. Mad Men helped this classic cocktail famous again.
This Swedish June celebration often features flower crowns, dancing around a maypole, and long daylight hours.
What is Midsummer?
This philosopher's works include Beyond Good and Evil and Thus Spoke Zarathustra, texts that challenged many traditional assumptions about truth and values.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Get Back, Across the Universe, Two of Us
What is Let It Be?
This struggle between Athens and Sparta lasted nearly three decades and was chronicled by the historian Thucydides.
What is the Peloponnesian war?
This New Orleans classic combines rye whiskey, absinthe, bitters, and sugar and shares its name with a French word meaning “old square.”
What is a sazerac?