Moon Culture
In Despicable Me, Gru steals the Moon to prove he’s the greatest villain. Ironically, he’s voiced by this actor better known for his deadpan comedy on The Office.
What is Steve Carrell?
This old proverb claimed the Moon was made of this food to say someone was gullibe — an episode of Wallace and Gromit even built a rocket to taste it.
What is Cheese?
This term originates from a medieval tradition of newlyweds drinking sweet mead for a month following their wedding.
What is a honeymoon?
Unlike man-made Sputnik 1 or the ISS, the Moon is Earth's only natural and permanent this.
What is a satellite?
Last month, Mamdani hosted a giant one of these in NYC, rallying thousands of citizens across the boroughs with clues and challenges.
What is a scavenger hunt?
This Studio Ghibli film features a cat bus that runs under the full moon.
What is My Neighbor Totoro?
In Chinese folklore, Chang’e drinks the Elixir of Life and, as she floats to the moon, is accompanied by this animal.
What is a Rabbit?
This alcohol became a significant illegal industry during the Prohibition era. It was named after the clandestine night-time production to avoid taxes and later Prohibition.
What is Moonshine?
This icy moon of Jupiter is a prime candidate for alien life because it may have a subsurface ocean.
What is Europa?
What is Waymo?
Mark Twain is credited with popularizing this in an 1880 essay, though today it more often refers to this 1973 Pink Floyd album with a prism.
What is "Dark Side of The Moon"?
The Hindu god of the Moon, whose name also means “shining,” is depicted riding a chariot across the night sky.
Who is Chandra?
This is the action of exposing one's buttocks (to someone) as an insult, typically done by rebellious teenage boys.
What is mooning?
This small Martian moon, whose name means “fear” in Greek, orbits closer to its planet than any other moon in the solar system.
What is Phobos?
This renowned Chinese contemporary artist is exhibiting 'Camouflage' at Roosevelt Island’s Four Freedoms Park. Visitors are invited to add handwritten reflections on freedom, attaching them to the fabric as a gesture of collective memory and resistance.
Who is Ai Wei Wei?
A copy of this popular 1964 song, by acclaimed American male jazz singer, was played on portable cassette player on the Apollo 10 mission which orbited the Moon, and also on Apollo 11 before the first landing on the Moon.
What is Fly Me to the Moon?
Based on a Japanese moon legend, this 2013 Studio Ghibli film tells the story of a girl discovered in a bamboo stalk who must one day return to the Moon.
What is The Tale of Princess kaguya?
This term refers to 19th century Irish gangs who committed crimes at night, and later evolved into its modern meaning of holding a second job.
What is moonlighting?
The Moon’s surface is covered in a layer of fine gray powder left by billions of years of meteor impacts. It is colloqially or scientifically known as this.
What is Lunar Dust (Regolith)?
The Guardian recently ran the headline “Rodents prevail in rat race” to mark the government resignation of NYC’s first one of these.
What is the rat czar?
This 2016 coming-of-age drama, directed by Barry Jenkins, won the Academy Award for Best Picture — after a mix-up when La La Land was mistakenly announced instead.
The title comes from a scene where Juan explains that a woman once called him "Blue" because under the moon,"black boys look blue," a metaphor for vulnerability and identity.
What is Moonlight?
In 14th century Chinese folklore, Han rebels baked secret messages into mooncakes to coordinate an uprising against this ruling group.
Who are the Mo(o)ngols?
In crypto slang, when a coin’s price skyrockets so high it seems unstoppable, traders say it’s doing this — a phrase borrowed from rocket launches.
In 2021, Elon Musk even tweeted a photo of a Shiba Inu on the moon as a reference to Dogecoin doing this phrase.
What is "going to the moon"?
Instead of tectonic plate movement, this moon event has four causes: tidal stretching from Earth’s gravity on deep, internel moon structures; meteoroid impacts; cooling and shrinking of the Moon’s crust; and thermal expansion from extreme temperature swings.
What are moonquakes?
Each October, this citywide festival opens normally closed sites like the Little Red Lighthouse and Woolworth Building to the public.
What is Open House New York?