Rhyme Time
Five nights of an animatronic bear who only does scat singing
Holden Caulfield has a traipse across New York
The Catcher in the Rye
Gin
Bear Market
Cher Ami was one of many of this animal involved in the Great War. She famously traveled 25 miles in as many minutes, leading to her being awarded the French Croix de Guerre
(Homing) Pigeon
A giant statue built in San Fernando Valley, CA
Calabasas Colossus
Major Major Major Major is one of many unusual characters in Joseph Heller’s 1961 classic.
Catch-22
Founded in 1847, this crown-crested Danish beer company’s tagline claims they are “probably the best lager in the world.”
Carlseberg
A famous cold war metaphor in some Ronald Raegan ads
There’s a bear in the woods
German Nationalist Fritz Harber is estimated to have saved billions of lives by developing a way to synthesize ammonia for fertilizer production. Yet, his work in deadly chemical warfare during WWI would also indirectly lead to the development of this gaseous pesticide, used by the Nazis to kill over 1,000,000 jews alone.
Zyklon B
The wife if the second president, formally
Madam Adams
Dr. John Hammond welcomes you to his new resort in this 1990 Sci-Fi work, famously adapted by Spielberg only three years later.
Jurassic Park
By the 1770s, the American Colonies were exporting over 5 million gallons annually of this sugarcane spirit.
Rum
A hiking-must in Grizzly territory
Bear spray
This Washington backup quarterback filled in for an injured Jay Schroeder, leading his team through the playoffs to become the first Black QB to win a superbowl.
Doug Williams
An incessant talker gets sick with the spots
Chatterbox Chickenpox
Lavender Mist, Blue Poles, and Convergence are only a few of many works by this famous, or perhaps infamous, abstract painter.
Jackson Pollock
Winston Churchill’s order of this cocktail required the bartender to “merely glance” at a bottle of vermouth while pouring chilled gin.
Martini
This creature, proper name Ursus arctos, is perhaps best known as an ice-cream salesman—or, more recently, protein pancakes.
Kodiak Bear
Originating from the poor accuracy of naval guns at far distances, this phrase now refers to the odds of an underdog.
Longshot
How one might ferment a big mac
McDonalds Bottles
In this Lorraine Hansberry play, the Younger family decide to move into an all-white neighborhood in 1950’s Chicago.
Raisin in the Sun
This famously funny Bud Light campaign “saluted” unusual and exceptional males, like “Mr. Really Really Really Bad Dancer”
Real Men of Genius
The “cub” of a tiger moth, perhaps
Woolly Bear
This woman died back in 1951, but her cells, taken from a sample of her cervix without her knowledge, live on in medical research to this day.
Henrietta Lacks