Food
Sliced apples sautéed in butter are a classic filling for these French pancakes.
What are crepes?
Twice in the 1800s China & Britain went to war over this drug.
What is Opium?
She had 3 of Billboard’s Top 20 songs of 2015, including “Bad Blood.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
What is Avatar: The Way of Water?
Bot chien is fried dough & egg served with papaya & a popular street food in this city once known as Saigon.
What is Ho Chi Minh City?
Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs.
With a 72-year reign over France from 1643 to 1715, he’s the longest-ruling king in European history.
Who is Louis XIV?
In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with “Kiss From A Rose.”
Who is Seal?
How fitting that she starred in “Twelfth Night” in 2009—she has the same name as Shakespeare’s wife.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
The name of this Caribbean liqueur is from the Spanish for “aunt Mary.”
The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet.
What is a whale?
In 2010 the remains of this “father of modern astronomy” were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors.
Who is Copernicus?
In a song from The Temptations, “Papa” was one of these, “wherever he laid his hat was his home.”
What is a rolling stone?
In 1965, at age 20, Helen Mirren played this Egyptian at the Old Vic.
Who is Cleopatra?
To make mousse d’ecrevisses, you need at least 30 of these freshwater crustaceans.
What are crayfish?
When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis.
What is playing dead?
In 1959 she became president of India’s Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band.
Who are the Bangles?
In the Grimms’ version, this creature becomes a prince not from a kiss but when he’s thrown against the wall.
What is the Princess and the Frog?
This chilled leek & potato soup is traditionally topped with chopped chives.
What is Vichyssoise?
Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name.
What is a mule deer?
The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river.
Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was “Levitating” up the charts in 2021.
Who is Dua Lipa?
In 1935 as Petruchio in “Taming of the Shrew,” Alfred Lunt tamed this wife who played Katharina.
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