J-POP SONGS
Pick a card, any card! That's something a practitioner of this would say! It's also a title for a song by group Mrs. GREEN APPLE
What is Magic?
In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California
What is UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)?
Prince: "2000 zero zero party over, oops, out of time, so tonight I'm gonna party like it's ____"
What is 1999?
Some vegan chefs make this sandwich spread by forgoing the egg & using cashews instead
What is mayonnaise?
In one episode of this show, the namesake character is accidentally injected with snail plasma, making him slower than his pet snail
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
Cease to be / change the colour
What is die/dye?
Cruel Angels Thesis was the opening to this classic 1995 anime about giant robots fighting against the angels of God
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Owned by McDonald’s, students at this university work towards a degree in "Hamburgerology"
What is Hamburger University?
ABBA: "You are the dancing queen, young & sweet, only ____"
What is 17?
In Chinese myth, these 2 entities attained balance in the "cosmic egg"; the birth of man would follow
What is yin and yang?
Churchill stated in 1944 that this action offered a route through “the soft underbelly of Europe”. The Germans countered by saying that an ordinary garden snail could have covered twice as much distance as the Allies in five months
What is the invasion of Italy?
Reveal one's soul / endure hardship
What is bare/bear
Based on Mayo Hoshino's short story "An Invitation from Thanatos", this dark, fast-paced song is the debut single by Yoasobi and might be about running
What is Racing into the Night (or Yoru Ni Kakeru)?
Recently involved in controversy related to a tool used to help students pass coding interviews, this university suspended Cluely founder Roy Lee who later left to pursue the project full time
What is the University of Columbia?
Counting Crows: "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, in ____ he came home across the deep blue sea"
What is 1493?
The name of this egg-shaped gadget, a virtual pet, comes from Japanese elements for egg & watch
What is a Tamagotchi?
Often considered the slowest animal, this ocean dweller's movements have been described as "imperceptible to the human eye” and is related to stationary coral
What is a sea anemone?
Make into sets of 2 / remove an apple peel
What is pair/pare?
A massive red supergiant in the Orion belt names a song by singer Yuuri
What is Betelgeuse?
The author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" attended this university along the Willamette River, partly on a wrestling scholarship
What is the University of Oregon?
Foreigner: "Well I'm hot blooded, check it and see, got a fever of ____"
What is 103?
Latin American cuisine on the Delicioso stamp series includes this 4-letter egg custard that has a caramel layer on top
What is flan?
Although electrons themselves move way faster than snails, this value measures their average velocities through a charged wire and generally has a value in the order of 10-3 m/s
What is drift velocity?
Listened to / assemble the flock
What is heard/herd?
Named after the English name of the genus tagetes and used in day of the dead celebrations in Mexico, this flower names a song by Aimyon. This is also the clue writer's favourite J-pop song!
What is Marigold?
This university was created after the founder made a fortune selling mining gear in California and then expanded it with railroads
What is the University of Stanford?
Blink-182: "That's about the time she walked away from me, nobody likes you when you're ___"
What is 23?
If you looked in a dictionary, this word for a fertilized egg might as well be last
What is a zygote?
In this game, the Ruinous Quartet is introduced, a group consisting of Chein-Pao, Chi-Yu, and importantly, Wo-Chien, who is literally a giant snail. Somehow one of the four is still slower, Ting-Lu, a giant deer
What is Pokemon?
To lament one's fate / taken care of, as the lawn
What is moan/mown?