Star Track: The Next Generation
Answer In The Form Of An Abbreviation
Patriot Act
With Author-ity
Going Green
Pretty Little Lies
100
This "Fifty Shades of Grey" star is the daughter of Don Johnson & Melanie Griffith
Who is Dakota Johnson
100
Bank of America has about 16,000 of these
What are ATMs
100
Daniel O'Connell, a patriot of this country, got the British to pass the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829
What is Ireland
100
In 1973 Anne Rice sank her teeth into writing her first novel, about an "interview with" one of these, & finished in 5 weeks
What is a vampire
100
Perhaps something you ate didn't agree with you if you look "green around" these fish parts
What are the gills
100
Casually let it be known you went to this university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, like John Quincy Adams & T.S. Eliot did
What is Harvard
200
This father & daughter both hit No. 1 on the music charts: he with "Achy Breaky Heart" & she with "Wrecking Ball"
Who are Billy Ray Cyrus & Miley Cyrus
200
In 2022 Congress gave this agency an additional $45 billion for enforcement, so double-check those deductions
What is the IRS
200
Montrealer Robert Stanley Weir wrote this national anthem with its stirring final words, "we stand on guard for thee"
What is "O Canada"
200
Harper Lee based Dill Harris on Truman Capote, a childhood friend in Alabama, in this Pulitzer-winning 1960 novel
What is To Kill a Mockingbird
200
In 2020 this company celebrated the 50th anniversary of the culinary delight known as the Shamrock Shake
What is McDonald's
200
Tell the story about how this pop icon seen here invited you onstage to sing “Baby” & was blown away by your pipes
Who is Justin Bieber
300
In the film "Straight Outta Compton", O'Shea Jackson Jr. played this man, his rapper father
Who is Ice Cube
300
It was once a military abbrev. helping coordinate operations: now it means "when I think I'll make it to the kegger"
What is an ETA
300
Italian patriot Garibaldi captured Palermo in 1860 with colorful troops called these, like a college athlete sitting out a year
What is a redshirt
300
Bootlegger Max Gerlach was one of the people F. Scott Fitzgerald may have used as the model for this title character
Who is Gatsby
300
Coach Vince Lombardi took over this NFL team in 1959 & led them to greatness
What are the Green Bay Packers
300
They'll love the story about how you went to Churchill Downs in 2022 for this big race & put a C-note on 80-1 longshot Rich Strike
What is the Kentucky Derby
400
For almost 100 years 3 generations of this family, Walter, John & Anjelica, have been lighting up Hollywood screens
Who are the Hustons
400
If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me
What is a Ph.D.
400
Yukio Mishima's story "Patriotism" begins with a soldier committing this form of suicide; Mishima's life ended similarly
What is seppuku (or hara-kiri)
400
Mary Shelley wrote, "I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing" in this 1818 novel; spark infused! Ooooops
What is Frankenstein
400
Seen here, Mahershala Ali won a 2018 Supporting Actor Oscar for this film in which he played a musician touring the South
What is The Green Book
400
This Facebook founder would never have gone ahead & renamed his company Meta unless he checked with you first
Who is Mark Zuckerberg
500
This film director followed in Oscar-winning father's footsteps, scoring an Oscar for "Lost in Translation"
Who is Sofia Coppola
500
A tear of this ligament that prevents the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur has ended many a pro athlete’s season
What is the ACL
500
Before his "March to the Sea", his hallucinations of confederate forces made him request insane numbers of reinforcement
Who is (General) Sherman
500
She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex"
Who is Austen
500
This metropolis in "The Wizard of Oz" had houses built of green marble & window panes made from green glass
What is the Emerald City
500
How's this for a flex? You just got back from the gym, & get this, you dead-lifted a ton & a half, this many pounds
What is 3,000