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Languages of "Love"
200
A term for a man engaging in the performance art of taking on a feminine persona + the former ruler of England for 63 years: from 1837 to 1901.
What is "Drag Queen Victoria"?
200
This year was a rough one: it marked the deaths of Harambe, Prince, and David Bowie.
When was 2016?
200
This classic Christmas film, released in 1946, did not win any of the five Academy Awards for which is was nominated, but it has since become iconic with quotes like "every time a bell rings an angel gets its wings."
What is It's a Wonderful Life?
200
The love triangle that spans all three books in the hit series The Hunger Games consists of these three characters from District 12.
Who are Gale, Peeta, and Katniss?
200
In the City of Amour, one might speak this language.
What is French?
400
An idiom used to describe a situation in which an excessive number of people are doing one thing + the item left behind when you throw everything else at a problem.
What is "Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen Sink"?
400
This year featured the fall of the Berlin Wall, the release of Nintendo's Game Boy console, the end of the Soviet-Afghan war, and the first placement of a GPS satellite into orbit.
When was 1989?
400
This film, nominated for Best Picture in 2015, follows a concierge, Gustave, and lobby boy, Zero, as they flee with a priceless painting in the height of WWII.
What is The Grand Budapest Hotel?
400
The triangle seen here is used as a warning about this type of hazard.
What is oxidizing?
400
When eine Frau and ein Mann fall for each other they might say "Ich liebe dich" in this language.
What is German?
600
An expression used for a silent observer + the road on which the New York Stock Exchange can be found.
What is "Fly on the Wall Street"?
600
This year featured the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, the Black Sox scandal about their fixing of the World Series, and the approval of the 19th Amendement for women's suffrage by the United States Congress.
When was 1919?
600
This 2007 Best Picture nominee includes a well-known scene in which Dwayne Hoover, played by Paul Dano, discovers that he is colorblind and can't become a fighter pilot .
What is Little Miss Sunshine?
600
The Legend of Zelda's Triforce represents these three virtues, which are embodied by the main characters Zelda, Link, and Ganon, as well as three Springs in Breath of the Wild.
What are Wisdom, Courage, and Power?
600
If you were looking for प्यार, you might pray to Kamadeva, a god of the religion from which this language gets its name.
What is Hindi?
800
The 1871 sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland + the English rock band behind hits like "Gooey", "Heat Waves", and "Poplar St".
What is "Through the Looking Glass Animals"?
800
This year's major events included the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the release of the iPad, and the official opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
When was 2010?
800
This woman was nominated for 2012's Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Imitation Game, in which she plays a cryptanalyst and love interest to Alan Turing.
Who is Keira Knightley?
800
This triangle-shaped structure of numbers can be used to find the coefficients of a binomial expression.
What is Pascal's Triangle?
800
Q: عشق is how you would say I love you in this language, the national tongue of Iran, which takes its name from the ancient empire that once included the region.
What is Persian or Farsi?
1000
A term for amateur communication over the airwaves often used by truckers + a 2012 Disney television film starring Debby Ryan and Adam DiMarco.
What is "Ham Radio Rebel"?
1000
On this patriotic day in 1826, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within just a few hours of each other.
When was July 4th?
1000
This moving 1989 coming-of-age story did receive the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award, but received neither Best Picture nor Best Actor for Robin Williams.
What is Dead Poet's Society?
1000
This optical illusion, while better known as the Impossible Triangle or Impossible Tribar, does have a proper name referencing one of its creators who, incidentally, also received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.
What is the Penrose Triangle?
1000
Known as Diné Bizaad--"Language of the People"--by those who speak it, one might say ayóóʼánííníshʼní to confess their feelings of adoration in this language.
What is Navajo?