The Great Depression
The term "Hoovervilles" was meant as a political jab at president Hoover & this party's perceived failure
Who are the Republicans?
In 1931 psychologist Winthrop Kellogg raised his own son alongside one of these animals, our very close relative
What is a chimpanzee?
The 2026 award for best drama went to this HBO show that takes place at Pittsburgh’s Trauma Medical Center
What is The Pitt?
In this play the first witch has the first line: "When shall we three meet again?"
What is Macbeth?
The French Academy tried to make "fin de semaine" happen but everyone there calls 2 days of leisure or yard work "le" this
What is the weekend?
The beginning of the Great Depression is often dated to the stock market crash in this month of 1929
What is October?
One step of Joseph Priestley's 1700s experiment to make soda water involved storing this gas in a sheep's bladder
What is carbon dioxide?
In 2023 Kevin Costner wrangled a Golden Globe Award for his role as John Dutton on this series set out West
What is Yellowstone?
This comedy opens with Theseus saying, "Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace"
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Allow me to mansplain: this verb has roughly the same meaning as "patronize"; do you understand?
What is condescend?
This governmental banking authority tried to stem the tide of rising stock prices in 1929 by raising interest rates; that didn't work out so well
What is the federal reserve?
To test this man's theory, a scientist hired trumpeters to play from a moving train & listened for a drop in pitch as the train passed by
Who is Doppler?
When Lily Gladstone won a Golden Globe in 2023 for this film, she began her speech in the Blackfeet language
What is "Killers of the Flower Moon"?
You get both title guys in this comedy as Valentine tells "my loving Proteus: home-keeping youth have ever homely wits"
What is Two Gentlemen of Verona?
Purge the jerks & randos from your social media circle on November 17, which Jimmy Kimmel has declared National this Day
What is unfriend?
The 1934 NYC parade on this day, the 121st of the year, reportedly had over 100,000 marchers
What is the May Day parade?
In 1865 this monk presented the results of his breeding experiments with pea plants to the Natural Science Society in Brünn
Who is Mendel?
On accepting her Golden Globe for "The Crown" in 2021, Emma Corrin paid tribute to this woman whom she portrayed
Who is (Princess) Diana?
It's no mistake: Egeon, a merchant from Syracuse, speaks the first line in this comedy
What is The Comedy of Errors?
To move a joint beyond its normal range of motion--ouch!
What is hyperextend?
Named for a senator & a House representative, this 1930 tariff act put pressure on the financial recovery
What is Smoot-Hawley?
In the 1860s he presented to the French Academy of Sciences his work undermining the idea of spontaneous generation
Who is Pasteur?
She has portrayed multiple queens, a prime minister, a detective, even did narration in "Barbie." And in 2026 she received the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement Award to recognize her six decades of acting success
Who is Helen Mirren?
Saturninus opens this early play with "Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms"
What is Titus Andronicus?
From the Latin for "predict", it's what a black cat does vis-a-vis trouble if you're superstitious--or if you're a mouse
What is portend?