RED, RED WHINE
FUNNY LADIES
SIGNS & SYMBOLS
THE DYE IS CAST
WORDS FROM NATIVE AMERICANS
NEPO BABIES
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We imagine Stalin & his entourage were not happy about the long bathroom lines at this Crimean conference in 1945
Yalta
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Fans were devastated to learn of the 2026 passing of this comedy legend known for her roles on TV & film
(Catherine) O'Hara
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Brits call this mark a tick, as in ticking off boxes
a check (mark)
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This DIY craft with a rhyming name uses rubber bands & usually transforms a white T-shirt
tie-dye
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From words meaning "white" & "dog" in Powhatan, it's a marsupial about the size of a house cat
an opossum
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Supermodel Hailey Bieber, the daughter & niece of actors with this last name, has gratefully embraced her nepo baby status
Baldwin
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During a visit to Southern California, Nikita Khrushchev exploded with anger when he learned he could not visit this magical place
Disneyland
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Best known for her role as "The Nanny", she plays Timothée Chalamet's mom in "Marty Supreme"
Fran Drescher
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We're happy to say graphic designer Harvey Ball produced this yellow & black icon for a button in 1963
a smiley face
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A company called Dye makes guns called markers for this game where getting "shot" might cause more surprise than pain
paintball
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From the Carya illinoinensis tree, these nuts used in a namesake pie take their name from the Illinois Native American language
pecan
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Mia Threapleton, star of 2025's "The Phoenician Scheme", is the daughter of this Oscar winner who said, "I'll never let go"
Kate Winslet
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Fidel Castro quit these for a health campaign but whined that he was "not going to pretend that I stopped dreaming" about them
cigars
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She ended up donating the $8 striped pregnancy dress that she wore in her special "Baby Cobra" to the Smithsonian
Ali Wong
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An interrobang combines these 2 punctuation marks into a single one
a question mark & an exclamation point
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Also known as mehndi, this plant is used to make dye for temporary tattoos that can last up to 3 weeks
henna
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Native Americans ask that this word refer only to a gathering with dances, not a quick meeting in Bill's office about the sales figures
a powwow
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Singer Robin Thicke's dad is Alan Thicke, who became a household name as Jason Seaver on this '80s & '90s sitcom
Growing Pains
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This man told his allies the North Vietnamese that "Kissinger is a stinking scholar" 2 years before meeting him in 1972
Mao Zedong
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Before creating & starring in "Abbott Elementary", she did a viral video series called "The Girl Who's Never Been on a Nice Date"
Quinta Brunson
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In Windows, these "codes" produce symbols; hitting Number Lock, holding the same-named key & pressing 3 makes a ❤
Alt codes
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The colors in this Hindu festival can be in water form, poured from buckets or squirted from water guns
Holi
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You may call it grits, but Algonquian gave us this name for the boiled corn kernels
hominy
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Jaden Smith shared the screen with dad, Will, for the first but not the last time in this 2006 film with a misspelled title
The Pursuit of Happyness
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In 1972, this world leader whined that a concentration of capital in Serbia led to distrust in the five other republics
Tito
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TV's "Laugh-In" helped launch the career of many funny people, including this comedic actress
Goldie Hawn
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In electronics, the symbol here represents one of these components that opposes the flow of current
a resistor
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Discovered by British chemist William Perkin, the first successful synthetic dye was this purple named for the mallow plant
mauve
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From the language of the Aztecs, this device to increase spear velocity & range has been compared to a dog ball thrower
the atlatl
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"Big Little Lies" star Zoë Kravitz has doubly talented genes: Dad is Lenny Kravitz & mom is this former sitcom actress
(Lisa) Bonet