MOVIES
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.
What is Schindler’s List?
Herb Brooks coached the U.S. to the "Miracle on Ice" hockey victory at this site in the Adirondacks.
What is Lake Placid?
Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs.
What is “visceral”?
From a flowering plant, the Aztecs used it as a chocolate enhancer, and the Spanish called it this, meaning "little pod."
Known as the “father of the computer”, he conceptualized the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Who was Charles Babbage?
Creators of Casper say this film's logo plagiarized one of their characters.
What is Ghostbusters?
Basketball players learn not to move this foot, the term for the axle around which a wheel turns.
What is a pivot?
This word for one who cuts a trail comes from a name of a character in an 1840 novel.
What is pathfinder?
This national dish of Spain is a rice dish typically made with saffron and seafood.
What is paella?
This revolutionary product, released in 2007, reshaped mobile communications and technology.
What is the iPhone?
This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Who is Big Bird?
In 2019, this Yankee pitcher became the first unanimous selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Who is Mariano Rivera?
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The Spanish diminutive for "meat" gives us the name of these roasted or braised chunks of pork.
What is carnitas?
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In this 1961 movie, Audrey Hepburn had a cat with no name.
What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?
The country that hosted, and won, the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
What is Uruguay?
This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for “to think.”
What is mantra?
Invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig from brewer's yeast, this spread is big in the U.K., an acquired taste, and 100% vegetarian.
What is Marmite?
PlayStation 4 was released in this year.
What is 2013?
Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel Shoeless Joe.
What is Field of Dreams?
Backwards, or a double-handoff football play.
What is a reverse?
P.T. Barnum, whose traveling shows carried musicians, coined this word that now represents something growing in popularity.
What is bandwagon?
Virtually Brazil's national drink, caipirinha is an icy concoction of fresh lime and cachaca, a liqueur distilled mainly from this sweet crop.
What is sugar cane?
Herman Hollerith invented this machine system for statistical computation.
What is the punch-card tabulation machine?