BIO 101
Robert K. Massie drew a "Portrait of" this Russian empress who led 14,000 soldiers in overthrowing her husband
Catherine the Great
A Broadway musical & the TV series "Timon & Pumbaa"
The Lion King
It can be a desk employee at a hotel, or a legal aide to a judge
Clerk
A full chef's kitchen seems a bit of a waste when you keep ordering this chain's specialty pizzas, like Extravaganzza
Dominos Pizza
This type of camping for the pampered dates to 2005
glamping
He "peppered Wozniak with questions: could the computer ever be networked? Was it possible to add a disk for memory storage?"
Steve Jobs
The video game "Vice City"
Grand Theft Auto
Referring to a type popular in earlier centuries, a peruker was a maker of these
wigs
I know you're not getting along with your roommate, but did you have to re-create this 27-mile barrier built in Aug. 1961?
the Berlin Wall
The act of ending a relationship by abruptly cutting off all communication has had this name since 2012
ghosting
A David McCullough presidential bio says on the first page, "He was... of Braintree and he loved to talk"
John Adams
The spin-off "Hobbs & Shaw"
The Fast and the Furious
At New York City's Guggenheim Museum, Naomi Beckwith holds this job, one who assembles & manages artistic collections
a curator
An indoor, Olympic-sized swimming pool is a nice touch! You can try to beat her gold medal time in 2021's 1,500-meter freestyle
Kate Ledecky
2012 gave us this alliterative term for the device that lets you take a turnaround photo from a better angle
a selfie stick
"The Mayor of Castro Street" examines "The Life & Times of" this politician & activist who was assassinated in 1978
Harvey Milk
TV series subtitled "Lower Decks" & "Prodigy"
DBA is short for database this, a job in which you run the database & of course, have privileges on it
administration
Tell me you're not keeping dirty socks in your cabinetfrom the reign of this longest-ruling French king
Louis VIX
This gendered word for condescendingly expounding has only been around since 2008
mansplaining
Les Payne worked for 30 years on "The Dead are Arising", a 2020 bio of this man who joined & broke with the Nation of Islam
Malcom X
The video game "Operation Raccoon City" & the Netflix series "Infinite Darkness"
Resident Evil
It means following the rules & is the usual word for an "officer" who makes sure you follow the rules, like about COVID
compliance
Gaming sure will go faster with the Fugaku supercomputer & its quadrillions of floating point these, the OPS in petaflop
operations per second
Folks have been making these catalogs of things to do before they die since 2006
bucket lists