World Leaders
This world leader beat far-right rival Marine Le Pen in his country’s latest presidential election. While also being the current president of France.
Who is Emmanuel Macron?
The Secretary of Agriculture.
Who is Brooke Rollins?
This Shakespeare character whose finals lines are “O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. — Thus with a kiss I die.”
Who is Romeo?
The most common metal in the Earth, with symbol Fe.
What is Iron?
“A Tale of Two” of ______ is the title of a Charles Dickens novel that ends with Sydney Carton taking Charles Darnay’s place at the guillotine.
What are cities?
This world leader whose love of dairy products led the CIA to try poisoning his milkshake in 1961. As well as being targeted by the Bay of Pigs Invasion that same year.
Who is Fidel Castro [or Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz]?
The Secretary of Education.
Who is Linda McMahon?
This Shakespeare character delivers the existentialist line “to be or not to be?”
Who is Hamlet?
The most common metal in Earth’s crust, with the symbol, Al.
What is Aluminum?
Fagin employs the Artful Dodger in this Charles Dickens novel. This novel's title character is beaten after he says, "Please, sir, I want some more."
Who is Oliver Twist?
This world leader is famous for aphorisms that include “politics is war without bloodshed.”
Who is Máo Zédōng [or Chairman Máo; or Mao Tse-Tung]?
The Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Who is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.?
This hunchbacked Shakespeare character dies at the Battle of Bosworth Field after proclaiming “my kingdom for a horse!”
Who is Richard III [or Richard, Duke of Gloucester; prompt on Richard]?
Valuable metal with the chemical symbol, Pt.
What is platinum?
Miss Havisham, Estella, and Pip appear in this novel by Charles Dickens.
What is Great Expectations?
This world leader and retired military officer, has been criticized for his “murderous stupidity” regarding the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine in his country.
Who is Jair Messias Bolsonaro?
The Secretary of Labor.
Who is Lori Chavez-DeRemer?
This Shakespeare character murders Duncan to become the king of Scotland, but is later killed by Macduff.
Who is Macbeth?
This transition metal with an atomic number of 46 and chemical symbol Pd
What is palladium?
Charles Dickens’s “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” sentence is an example of this device, in which the words of a beginning of a clause are repeated. It is named from the Greek for “to bear back.”
What is anaphora?
Some meat lovers love to dredge up the ironic fact that what world leader and mass murderer was a vegetarian?
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This man signed an order renaming Fort Liberty as Fort Bragg after it was previously renamed under the Biden Administration. This former Fox News host was confirmed as Secretary of Defense following a tie breaking vote from J.D. Vance.
Who is Pete Hegseth [accept Peter Brian Hegseth]?
This Shakespeare character who foolishly divides his kingdom among his treacherous daughters.
Who is King Lear?
The chemical symbols for these unreactive elements are used as abbreviations when writing electron configurations, because these elements have a full valence shell. These elements exist in nature as monoatomic gases.
What are noble gases [or group 18, or inert gases]
The word “Podsnap” derives from the name of a pompous man in this novel, the final one completed by Charles Dickens. In this novel, Bella Wilfer’s fiancé John Harmon fakes his death by drowning in the Thames (“tems”).
What is Our Mutual Friend?