A Trek Thru the Stars
In the opening dialogue, the vast expanse of space is considered this. Fittingly, the show's creator had marketed the show as a "Wagon Train to the stars."
What is a frontier?
What is King?
In 2008, this city hosted the Summer Olympics.
What is Beijing?
A freedman and steel-driver, this man of American legend notably beat a drilling machine in a railroad-construction related contest.
Who is John Henry?
Founded on the governing principle of maintaining states rights to owning black slaves, this country has been famously outlived by other failed projects such as Heinz's colored ketchup.
What is the Confederate States of America (CSA)?
What is a cardinal?
In the first episode of The Next Generation, Picard and this character's own mother tells him to shut up.
Who is Wesley?
Dance the night away and indulge in a few drinks all while huddled extremely close to strangers at one of these.
What is a club?
From 2010 to 2024, China had successfully constructed roughly 25,000 miles of this transporation infrastructure.
What is High-Speed Rail (HSR)?
Unlike the Disney iteration, the original telling of this heroine's tale ends with her revealing herself as a woman, not when it needs to be done to fulfill the three-act structure.
Comprised of multiple states, this country was the second player that was embroiled in a decades-long conflict marked by proxy wars and espionage alongside the United States.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
What is a loon?
Although we know them as Mercury, Venus, Earth, etc., to Trekkies, the planets in our solar system are known with this common name followed by a roman numeral.
What is Sol?
Saget, Stamos, and Coulier played the actual and honorary patriarchs of three girls on this television show from the '90s.
What is Full House?
One USD is roughly equal to 7.04 of this Chinese currency.
What is the Chinese yuan (or renminbi)?
Having been born from a stone and receiving powers from Taoist principles, this hero from the Chinese novel Journey to the West is unbelieveably strong, fast, and can remember every monkey ever born.
Who is Sun Wukong?
At its height, it spanned from modern-day Austria, stretched across the western and eastern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula, and the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Ottomon Empire?
This bird does sing in the middle of the night, but likely because they are confused by streetlights, not because they were enamored by Paul McCartney.
What is a blackbird?
This specific species of aquatic mammal supposedly became extinct. That is until the 23rd century when Captain Kirk went back in time and retrieved a few from 1980s San Francisco.
What is a Humpback Whale?
It may be wise to visit an ophthalmologist if you are legally considered this.
What is blind?
Having spent his entire NBA career with the Houston Rockets, this 7'6" basketball player is now the executive of the Chinese Basketball Association.
Who is Yao Ming?
Originating from ancient Sumeria, this hero may have been a real king who had ruled the Uruk city-state before becoming deified 11 centuries after his reign.
Who is Gilgamesh?
What is South Vietnam?
Despite sharing the name, this bird does not natively live in the country that is totally its real namesake.
What is a turkey?
The USS Enterprise may have sought to boldly go where no one has gone before, but the name had already been given to two US naval vessals of this specific class prior to the debut of the series.
What is an aircraft carrier?
Had the United States stopped inducting states after Illinois, the country would have consisted of this many states.
What is 21?
Fittingly translated to "long river," it stretches almost 4,000 miles long and ends deep within China's central mainland.
What is the Yangtze River?
Hailing from Baghdad, this hero encountered many supernatural phenomena during his seven voyages throughout the seas of East Africa and South Asia.
Who is Sinbad?
Coining the term "Balkanization," this country split into multiple due to ethnic conflicts in the region.
What is Yugoslavia?
Primarily focusing on consumption of America entertainment and culture, this standalone section of New York magazine has a fitting bird name.
What is Vulture?