This drink consists of brandy or other liquor mixed with sugar, spices & heated water
What is a Hot Toddy?
In "The Descent of Man", this naturalist wrote, "I would have soon been descended from that heroic little monkey"
Who is Charles Darwin?
Answers about Hera, Hermes & the Hesperides often appear in this "Jeopardy!" category
What is mythology?
The Soviet Union breaks up
What are the 1990s?
Ranch hands George & Lennie embrace a Buddhist state of calm
What is Of Mice and Zen?
FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner,
Teena Mulder
What is The X-Files
Any auto thief can tell you that you do this by short-circuiting the ignition system
What is hot-wire?
This boxer's slogan, "I Am The Greatest", was inspired by wrestler Gorgeous George
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This study of the supposed effect of the stars on human life could be called zodiacology
What is astrology?
India & Pakistan gain independence & the nation of Israel is proclaimed
What are the 1940s?
H.G. Wells' sordid tale of a man who creates a device capable of making a distressing number of clones of Marcel Marceau
What is The Mime Machine?
Troy Barnes,
SeƱor Chang
What is Community?
A deliberate snub
What is cold shoulder?
James Joyce called this country, his homeland, "The Old Sow that Eats Her Farrow"
What is Ireland?
It's the scientific study of antiquities from the land of the pharaoahs
What is Egyptology?
The Titanic sinks
What are the 1910s?
Simon & Piggy, in desperate need of cooking supplies, render some fat from winged insects
What is Lard of the Flies
Jason Mendoza,
Tahani Al-Jamil
What is The Good Place?
In 1969 Sly & the Family Stone had a hit with this "seasonal" song
What is "Hot Fun in the Summertime?
By Article II of this U.S. document, treaties are made with the advice & consent of the Senate
What is The Constitution?
It's the study of such phenomena as extrasensory perception & psychokinesis
What is parapsychology?
The Spanish-American War breaks out
What are the 1890s?
Upton Sinclair's magnum opus about one man's attempt to write the perfect catchy advertising tune
What is The Jingle?
Vault dweller Lucy MacLean,
super soldier Maximus
What is Fallout?
John le Carre wrote this 1963 novel while an officer in the British foreign service
What is The Spy Who Came in From the Cold?
In "Paradise Lost", he wrote of "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme"
Who is John Milton?
This branch of zoology deals specifically with fish
What is ichthyology?
The Great Plague sweeps through London, soon followed by the Great Fire
What are the 1660s?
Cormac McCarthy's saga of an aged, female chicken caught up in a world of drugs & killers
What is No Country for Old Hen?
Billy Butcher,
Shockwave,
Mindstorm
What is The Boys?