Science
The term for what scientific object comes from the Greek for "indivisible", although physicist Ernest Rutherford is among those who have proven that to be a misnomer?
ATOM [85.6]
Since the 1989 film Batman, the title hero has been played on the big screen in the Burton/Schumacher and Nolan series by Michael Keaton, George Clooney, and Christian Bale. Who is missing from this list?
VAL KILMER [82.4]
What is the expression that is typically (and famously) represented in scripts and episode titles for the television show The Simpsons as "(annoyed grunt)"?
D'OH [94.8]
Mario, Pikachu, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Sonic, Ryu, Sora, Link, Pac-Man, and Wii Fit Trainer are among the characters that have appeared in what Nintendo fighting game series?
SUPER SMASH BROS. [72%, GAMES/SPORT]
What common man's name (in English) is also the term for the weight found at the end of a pendulum?
BOB [68.0]
What is the English translation of the Italian il brutto, such as is used in a titular trio from a 1966 film (whose English title, it may be worth noting, is misordered)?
THE UGLY [64.5]
A now-famous October 6, 1978, episode of The Mike Douglas Show featured Bob Hope hitting golf balls with what two-year-old?
TIGER WOODS [80.7]
What is the last name of the sisters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
BENNET [57%, LITERATURE]
The water-soluble B-complex vitamin B9, often advised as a supplement for pregnant women to help prevent neural tube defects, is known by what name?
FOLIC ACID/FOLATE [59.5]
In his Oscar-winning role in The French Connection (1971), Gene Hackman played a character with what nickname—also shared by a famous comic strip character who first appeared in 1929 before becoming popular in animated shorts and other media?
POPEYE [57%]
What is the precise four-word sentence that completes this famous television opening narration?
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
THESE ARE THEIR STORIES. [78.8]
Opening on Broadway on the unlucky date of March 5, 2020, before reopening in 2022, the jukebox musical Girl from the North Country features the music of what artist? This artist was certainly from an area that could be called the North Country, but was not a girl (the title comes from his 1963 ballad of the same name).
BOB DYLAN [53%, THEATRE]
The becquerel, which is the SI derived unit of radioactivity, replaced two non-SI units of radioactivity and radioactive decay in common usage for much of the 20th century. Identify either of these non-SI units, both of which were named after Nobel Prize winners.
CURIE, RUTHERFORD [55.6]
The fictional Amazing Amy series of children's books is based on the childhood of the title character from what popular 2014 film?
GONE GIRL [53.7]
A Netflix series released in July 2020, based on a series of over 100 novels published between 1986 and 2000, follows a group of young businesswomen who have formed an enterprise providing, per the show's title, what valuable service?
BABY-SITTING [60.7]
If 1,000 millivanilli equal one vanilli, and 1,000 vanilli equal one kilovanilli, then one trillion (10^12) vanilli equal one what?
TERAVANILLI [47%, LANGUAGE]
What is the common name of the tissue that forms the majority of a tooth's mass, between the outer enamel and the pulpy core? It makes up the entirety of elephant ivory from tusks.
DENTIN [48.4]
A pagan community's alleged abduction of a young girl on a surreal and remote Scottish island, and its investigation by a devout (and, as it turns out, virgin) police sergeant, propel the plot of what 1973 British horror film, widely considered a classic of the genre?
THE WICKER MAN [42.2]
Bandit, Chilli, and Bingo are the parents and younger sister of what colorful puppy, who is the title character of a popular Australian children's television series available in the United States on the Disney Channel, Disney Junior, and Disney+?
BLUEY [51.6]
The most recent iteration of what fictional character, first created in 1921 by the company known today as General Mills, is a composite based on 75 real women of various demographics?
BETTY CROCKER [43%, FOOD AND DRINK]