And the nominees for the most autistic book of all time are ...
This famously long fantasy series outlived it's original author by 3 books.
What is The Wheel of Time?
The titular protagnoist of The Kinks' Arthur (or the decline and fall of the british empire) moves to this country under the ten pound pom scheme, after the end of World War 2.
Where is Australia?
It is sometimes brought up in couples therapy that my vast wealth of fresh trivia makes it difficult to have an honest conversation with me, and I'm told I use it as a shield - to protect me from intimacy, I suppose. Even with Peter. He often calls me this word, which also describes an angle greater than 90 degrees.
What is obtuse?
The first proper number of Avenue Q asks ' What do you do with a B.A in English?' - B.A standing for this.
This canadian music artist pulled his music from spotify in protest of Joe Rogan's podcast (specifically the platforming of anti-vaccine views) remaining on the platform.
Bobby Fischer's 60 memorable games provides 60 examples of strategy, as it relates to this game.
What is chess?
Ween's 'The Mollusk' famously served as the inspiration for this sea-themed hit show.
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
We shoot 2 weeks worth of 25 minute episodes (weekday only) in one day. This takes about 12 hours which makes it pretty hard to get back in time before your husband goes to bed. This rational fraction (or percentage within 1%) is the proportion of time spent in any given shooting day that actually is spent filming footage used in episodes.
What is 50/144 (34.7%)?
John Hinckley Jr, Sara Moore and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme all appear in this Sondheim musical - as a part of the titualar group.
What is Assasins?
'When We Were Young' was the lead single from this bands 'Sam's Town'
Who are The Killers?
This Camus title can be translated from L'tranger to give the name of a Billy Joel album.
What is The Stranger?
Ray of Light - the 1998 Madonna album often ranked as her best - and the title track of the same album both detail the singers relationship with this ancient Jewish school of mystic thought.
What is Kaballah?
The show leads me to meet a lot of people who share my passions - question writers, researchers. God, they're all so marvellous. Do you think it would crush Peter if I were to have one of these - where no physical infidelity takes place, but there is a betrayal in feelings.
What is an emotional affair?
One of the biggest structural improvements in Legally Blonde The Musical (as compared to the original film) relates to the sequence of events that eventually outs Brooke Wyndham's gardener as gay and begins unravelling the entire case (as he claims he has evidence against Brooke because he was having an affair with her) - in the film, Elle becomes suspicious when he recognises her shoes and Emmett goes for the kill. In the musical, Elle confirms her initial suspicions with this technique - which she believes straight men are powereless against.
What is the bend and snap?
'All the Young Dudes' was written by this megastar - but originally released by Mott the Hoople. A later cover by this artist who wrote it has become the definitive version in (most?) peoples heads.
Who is David Bowie?
The Kyballion is a notable attempt to provide a coherent base of occult ideas (to allow for adept's to try and reconcile various truths they have learned through their path. They consider the root of all modern spirtuality worldwide this type of phillsophy, written by a manifestation of Egyptian and Greek gods. The term has found its way into modern parlance - particularly with reference to a type of seal which is airtight.
What is a hermetic seal?
This bleak, post-apolyaptic Bowie album lends its name to a company in Metal Gear Solid - the album is heavily influenced by Orwell (the tracks 'Big Brother' and '1984')
What is Diamond Dogs?
I have to attend a lot of meetings in LA - how long does BA 269 take from LHR to LAX (the shortest nonstop flight)? (Within 35m)
The song 'Maria' from West Side Story would be called this, if characters had their original Shakespeare names
What is 'Juliet'?
In physics, young's modulus is a measurement of this material property.
What is elasticity?
This famous medical textbook, first published in 1858, has become a lot harder to Google since 2005.
What is Grey's Anatomy?
The second album by the streets ' A grand don't come for free' is a rap opera, following Mike Skinner navigating the rise and fall of a relationship as he begins to resent his friends for allowing the theft of £1000. The upset is more understandable when we remember that £1000 when the album released in 2004 would now be worth this much. (Must be within £100 of the correct answer)
What is £1670?
Do you ever wish you had something you could just, hold on to? And be steady? And feel safe? I've been listening to Breakfast at Tiffanys by this band on repeat - I just don't know if we're going to be able to fix this.
What is Deep Blue Something?
Joseph contains 'Benjamin _____' - a song which abandons the musical stylings throughout the show, named for this rythmic and harmonic carribean genre - originally sung exclusively in French Creole. It shares its name with a notable greek nymph and sounds a little bit like (missing a letter) a popular orange and green ice lolly.
What is Calypso?
This 1962 film stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford - depicting the abusive relationship between a former child star and her disabled sister - who also used to be an actress.
What is What Ever happened to Baby Jane?