Hometowns
Atlas (T2) was born in this city, home to a dormant volcano, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, and a perfect climate for growing roses.
What is Portland, OR?
James (T1) and Brandon's (B2) last meal includes this Texas diner staple with extra gravy, which despite its nameconstains no poultry
What is Chicken Fried Steak?
Inconceivable! Kyle's (B2) favorite is a treasure mine of quote-able moments based on a 1973 novel by William Goldman staring, among others, a giant wrestler.
What is the Princess Bride?
Dakota (T1) and Adam (B1)'s favorite trips took them to this city which has a giant arch, a glass pyramid, and a massive metal structure that can be seen from almost anywhere in the city
What is Paris, France?
Michael's (T1) nickname as a camp counselor and horse wrangler was this high school test-taking technology
What is scantron?
James (T1) and Erik (B1) are both from this place, home to Texas's only UNESCO sight and the world's largest cowboy boots
What is San Antonio, TX?
Michael (T1) and Elliot (T2)'s last meal involves this Mexican dish, whose etymology stems from the Spanish verb "to add peppers to"
What is enchilada?
George (T2)'s favorite movie follows four- wait, make that three- sisters as they grow up with their mother, while their father is away serving in the American Civil War.
What is Little Women?
Keith's (B2) favorite trip he has ever taken involved seeing Africa's Big Five in Kruger National Park in this country
What is South Africa?
Elliot's (T2) big breakout roll was in the 4th grade in this musical inspired by the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens
What is Oliver! ?
Seventeen 165-foot relics still light Dakota's (T1) hometown, which bought them used from Detroit in the 1890s and remains the only city on earth with working ones.
What is Austin, TX?
Angel's (T2) last meal, a grilled cheese and tomato soup from this restaurant chain, is only metaphorically to die for, but its charged lemonade, discontinued in 2023, could literally make you die
What is Panera Bread?
The first Best Actress Oscar awarded to an Asian woman was for this, Atlas’ (T2) and Adam's (B1) favorite film.
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
Collie’s (T1) favorite place he has visited is Florence, birthplace of this divine comic poet, who is not buried there, but in nearby Ravenna, where he died in exile
Who is Dante (Aligheri)?
Kyle's family has been featured in this American chronicle of the bizarre and mind-boggling, because their grandmother was one of 13 children all named alphabetically: e.g. Audie Bryant, Curtis Drew, Era Faye. (Kyle's grandmother was QR, Quincy Ruth).
What is Ripley's Believe it or Not! ?
Keith (B2) grew up in Potonoac, MS, not too far from this more famous town, the birthplace of the King of Rock n Roll
What is Tupelo, MS?
Jerry's (B1) last meal involves this style of beans, named for workers in the Mexican countryside who do everything on horseback
What is frijoles charros / charro beans?
In Elliott's (T2) favorite movie, then-breakout star Marisa Tomei helps exonerate two college students from a murder charge through the power of independent rear suspension and positraction
What is My Cousin Vinnie?
Jerry's (B1) favorite trip involved him getting hit on by a cute guy working the cash register at the Vatican gift shop, who's former leader got in trouble for stating the country already had too much "this" in it in 2024
What is "frociaggine"?
George (T2) is the proud father of a pitty/boxer mix named after this hit American Folk song sung in 1973 by Jim Croce
What is Leroy Brown?
Going home for Alan (B1) means going back to this college town and the horse farms he was raised on, home to Cornell University, where his parent's met on the polo team.
What is Ithaca, New York?
Collie’s (T1) last meal is a 5 course meal prepared by this local chef, a James Beard Award recipient and won the 9th season of Top Chef, and head chef at East Side King
Who is Paul Qui?
Brandon's (B2) taste runs bold: this 2017 Jennifer Lawrence film is one of roughly twenty in history to earn an F from CinemaScore, a grade its director called proof he'd made "a punk movie.
What is mother?
Alan (B1) and Erik's (B1) favorite trips both included this city, who (allegedly) stole the dead body of their patron saint from Egypt in 828 CE
What is Venice?
The Austin Gay Men's Chorus was founded in this year, which saw the release of the Game Boy and end of communism in the Eastern Bloc
What is 1989?