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This cardigan-wearing host of a long-running PBS children's show told kids "You are special" and famously testified before Congress in 1969 to save public broadcasting funding.
Who is Mr. Rogers? (Fred Rogers)
This Lin-Manuel Miranda hip-hop musical about a founding father has won 11 Tony Awards and is told largely through rap.
What is Hamilton?
In 1814, a fermenting vat at the Meux & Company brewery in London ruptured, releasing more than 320,000 gallons of this beverage onto the surrounding parish and killing eight people.
What is beer? (or porter / stout)
This Hong Kong-American martial artist, who died in 1973 at age 32, starred in films like Enter the Dragon and Fists of Fury, and developed his own martial art called Jeet Kune Do.
Who is Bruce Lee?
Harrison Ford plays this whip-cracking, fedora-wearing archaeology professor across five films starting in 1981.
Who is Indiana Jones?
This actor, known for The Matrix and John Wick, has become internet-famous for buying gifts for his stunt crew, riding the subway, and giving up his seats for strangers.
Who is Keanu Reeves?
Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical about a masked, disfigured composer haunting a Paris opera house held the title of longest-running Broadway show until it closed in 2023.
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
This french invention was originally promoted as a more humane execution method… because apparently the problem with public beheadings was the customer service experience.
What is the guillotine?
In the 1984 film The Karate Kid, Daniel learns martial arts from this elderly Okinawan handyman who teaches him through chores like "wax on, wax off."
Who is Mr. Miyagi?
In this 1999 Wachowski film, Keanu Reeves takes a red pill and discovers the world is a computer simulation.
What is The Matrix?
In a 1939 letter to a young fan, this English author and Oxford professor wrote that he hoped one day she would meet him and his characters in a place where everyone could be happy. He's also famous for writing about a hobbit.
Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?
This 2003 Stephen Schwartz musical tells the untold story of the witches of Oz before Dorothy arrived, with songs like "Defying Gravity" and "Popular."
What is Wicked?
This ancient roman city became tragicly famous after being buried in volcanic ash, preserving an entire civilization mid panic and mid bad decision making.
What is Pompeii?
This Hong Kong action star is known for blending martial arts with comedic stunt work in films like Drunken Master, Police Story, and Rush Hour.
Who is Jackie Chan?
Keanu Reeves stars in this assassin franchise as a retired hitman pulled back into the underworld after Russian gangsters kill his dog.
What is John Wick?
This Princess of Wales held the hand of an AIDS patient in 1987 — without gloves — at a time when the public was terrified of catching the disease through casual contact.
Who is Princess Diana? (Diana, Princess of Wales)
Jonathan Larson's rock musical, set in New York's East Village, follows a group of bohemians dealing with HIV/AIDS, poverty, and art; the show's title is a reference to what the characters can't afford to pay.
What is Rent?
daily double
This Soviet disaster was so secretive that nearby citizens continued normal life while radio-active particles fell from the sky like government sponsored glitter.
What is Chernobyl
This Japanese martial art, developed by Jigoro Kano in 1882, was the first martial art to be officially included in the Olympic Games, debuting at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
What is judo?
George Miller's post-apocalyptic franchise stars a former cop wandering an Australian wasteland in films released in 1979, 1981, 1985, and 2015.
What is Mad Max?
Since 1995, this country music icon's Imagination Library has mailed more than 250 million free books to children worldwide; she's also funded the development of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine with a $1 million donation.
Who is Dolly Parton?
This 1975 musical, currently the longest-running American Broadway show, features performers in cat costumes; it was based on a T.S. Eliot poetry collection.
What is Cats?
This medieval punishment involved locking someone in a tiny cage, suspended in public so the towns people could throw garbage, insults , and occasionally existential disappointment.
What is a Gibbet Cage?
This Brazilian martial art combines self-defense with rhythmic music, dance-like movements, and acrobatics; it was developed by enslaved Africans in Brazil in the 16th century and disguised as a dance to evade prohibition.
What is capoeira?
In this 1995 Michael Mann film, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino share their first-ever onscreen scene together over coffee at a Los Angeles diner, set against the backdrop of an LA bank heist.
What is Heat?