Names in Pop Culture
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Washington
D.C.
200

Celebrating this film's Oscars in 2020, director Bong Joon Ho partied on Galbi and Bibimbap in L.A.'s Koreatown until 5am.

What is Parasite?

200

Fantine & her daughter Cosette

What is Les Miserables

200

Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this large peninsula, lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun.

What is the Yucatan? 

200

Washington grows more of these than any other state; about a third of them are Red Delicious.

What are apples?

200

DC Comics inspired this popular, albeit much derided, font.

What is comic sans?

400

A self-described average student, this former Late Show host funds a scholarship at Indiana's Ball State.

Who is (David) Letterman? 

400

Miguel de Cervantes & Aldonza

What is The Man of La Mancha?

400

This companion island to Trinidad has its own airport, Crown Point International.

What is Tobago? 

400

This biggest Washington city is pretty wet with Elliott Bay to the west, Lake Washington to the East.

What is Seattle?

400

AC/DC was formed in this country in 1973 by Scottish-born brothers Malcolm and Angus Young.

What is Australia? 

600

For producing a 2019 live version of All in the Family and The Jeffersons, this man became the oldest Emmy winner ever at age 97.

Who is (Norman) Lear?

600

Emile de Becque & Ensign Nellie Forbush

What is South Pacific

600

A monument dedicated to the men who lost their lives on the USS Maine stands in this capital's Parque del Maine.

What is Havana? 

600

An Alaskan Malamute named Dubs is the mascot of this University of Washington football team.

What are the Huskies? 

600

This actor and rocker played the Joker in 2016's Suicide Squad.

Who is (Jared) Leto?

800

Tito Puente was delighted when royalty checks started arriving after this guitarist covered his song Oye Como Va.

Who is (Carlos) Santana? 

800

Aunt Eller Murphy & Laurey Williams

What is Oklahoma?

800

This Venezuelan waterfall was named for an American bush pilot who discovered it in 1935.

What is Angel Falls? 

800

Until 1853 Washington was part of this territory bearing the name of the next state south.

What is Oregon (Territory)? 

800

This American inventor pioneered the use of direct current technology across a variety of platforms and items, such as the incandescent light.

Who is (Thomas) Edison? 

1000

In 2019, this Canadian YouTube star made the jump to late night television hosting A Little Late on NBC.

Who is (Lilly) Singh?

1000

Rolf Gruber & Mother Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey

What is The Sound of Music?

1000

This southwestern U.S. desert has a river of the same name, flowing mainly underground to near Soda Lake.

What is the Mojave? 

1000

The Cascade Mountains divide Washington east from west; North Cascades is one of these ways through them

What is a pass? 

1000

Your parents might know Dean Cain as Superman, but you probably know him as Jeremiah Danvers, father of this other DC hero.

Who is Supergirl?