BE KIND... OR AT LEAST GO AWAY
This Mister Rogers' Neighborhood host embodied Tenet One so completely that his 1969 Senate testimony about PBS funding reportedly moved a skeptical senator to tears — and saved public television.
Who is Fred Rogers / Mister Rogers?
The University of Arizona won its only men's basketball national championship in this year, defeating Kentucky in overtime.
What is 1997?
This J.K. Rowling series about a young wizard became both the best-selling children's book series and one of the highest-grossing film franchises in history.
What is Harry Potter?
This Liverpool band's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 launched what journalists called the British Invasion of American pop music.
Who are The Beatles?
This Marvel superhero was bitten by a radioactive spider, gained proportionate spider-strength, and became a wisecracking wall-crawler in New York City.
Who is Spider-Man?
This eternally polite British spy always introduces himself the same way — last name first — demonstrating that even in mortal danger, being nice costs nothing.
Who is James Bond?
This Arizona head coach led the Wildcats to the 1997 national title and spent over two decades with the program.
Who is Lute Olson?
This Stephen King novel about childhood friends facing an ancient shape-shifting evil in Maine was adapted for TV in 1990 and remade as a two-part theatrical film in 2017 and 2019.
What is It?
This Motown singer's 1960s hits including 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' defined the sound of the decade — he later released the landmark album What's Going On in 1971.
Who is Marvin Gaye?
This 1986 Frank Miller graphic novel reimagined Batman as an aging, brutal vigilante coming out of retirement in a dark, authoritarian near-future Gotham.
What is Batman: The Dark Knight Returns?
This stand-up comedian's eponymous 90s sitcom was explicitly 'about nothing' — existing in the precise space between being funny and just... observing.
Who is Jerry Seinfeld? / What is Seinfeld?
This Arizona guard was named Most Outstanding Player of the 1997 NCAA Tournament after leading the Wildcats past Kentucky.
Who is Miles Simon?
Daily Double:
This 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel about an American POW who witnessed the firebombing of Dresden while also becoming unstuck in time was adapted into a 1972 film.
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
This singer-songwriter's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited — which included 'Like a Rolling Stone' — is widely considered the moment folk music became rock music.
Who is Bob Dylan?
This 1986 Alan Moore graphic novel deconstructed the superhero genre by asking what society would really look like if costumed vigilantes existed — set in an alternate 1985 where Nixon is still president.
What is Watchmen?
This character from The Big Lebowski is the cinematic patron saint of Tenet Five — he has no agenda, abides completely, and simply refuses to be drawn into conflicts that aren't his. He even inspired real-world fan clubs.
Who is The Dude / Jeffrey Lebowski?
In their 1997 championship run, Arizona shocked the field by defeating this #1-seeded defending champion in the Sweet 16.
What is Kansas?
This Cormac McCarthy novel — adapted by the Coen Brothers in 2007 — follows a drug deal gone wrong across West Texas and features one of cinema's most chilling villains: a hitman with a captive bolt pistol and a philosophy.
What is No Country for Old Men?
This Janis Joplin-fronted band was her first major group — they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 before she went solo and became a rock legend.
Who is Big Brother and the Holding Company?
Before the MCU dominated cinema, this 2000 Bryan Singer film brought this team to the screen and is widely credited with launching the modern superhero film era.
What is X-Men?
This 1953 Samuel Beckett play features two characters waiting endlessly for someone who never arrives — widely interpreted as the ultimate meditation on what to do when you can neither engage, be funny, nor leave.
What is Waiting for Godot?
Arizona's 2001 run to the national title game ended in a loss to this Mike Krzyzewski-coached powerhouse.
What is Duke?
This 1985 Don DeLillo novel follows a professor of Hitler Studies at a small American college who becomes obsessed with a toxic chemical spill — adapted into a 2022 Netflix film starring Adam Driver.
What is White Noise?
This 1967 debut album by a New York art-rock band — produced by Andy Warhol and featuring a banana on the cover — sold poorly on release but has since been called the most influential rock album in history.
What is The Velvet Underground & Nico?
This comics writer — whose works include Sandman, American Gods, and Good Omens — is often called the most important figure in modern comics storytelling and was the first to bring literary respectability to the medium.
Who is Neil Gaiman?