Music Men
A creep, a weirdo, and the frontman of a British alternative rock band.
Who is Thom Yorke?
This year, a talented young novelist emerged in France while a new virus was emerging in Wuhan, China.
What is 2019?
With original shows like Foundation, this tech company is creating sci-fi in the real world and on TV.
What is Apple?
This city lent its name to a fowl dish created there.
What is Buffalo, NY?
This wacky Beatles movie-musical is certified fresh on the tomato-meter.
What is Help?
The artist formerly known as (blank).
Edward Snowden and Frieda McFadden both self-published something this year--only one of them fled to Russia afterwards.
This region's trademark dish is a bright red root-vegetable soup.
What is Eastern Europe?
An actor's strike and the more popular Blues Brothers hurt the box office for this 1980 romantic fantasy film.
What is Somewhere in Time?
A wild child, and Ireland's best-selling solo artist.
Who is Enya?
The highest-grossing film and fourth best-selling novel of all time were released this year.
What is 1997?
This television network across the pond aired comedy series Jeeves and Wooster during its three year run.
What is ITV?
This country's noodle soups inspired Japanese ramen.
What is China?
This absurdist indie comedy with a mutli-generational family drama at its heart took home Best Picture.
What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?
A now-deceased, hopefully-grateful lead guitarist AND lead vocalist.
Who is Jerry Garcia?
In this big year for phonies, Holden Caulfield entered the literary canon and the Rosenbergs were convicted as Soviet spies.
What is 1951?
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse stars this network's iconic mouse mascot and friends.
What is Disney Channel?
The modern-day equivalent of sushi rose to popularity here.
What is Tokyo, Japan?
Roger Ebert called this bowling-heavy crime comedy "weirdly engaging."
What is The Big Lebowski?
If or when the levee breaks, you can call this lead singer.
Who is Robert Plant?
In a four-month span this year, Catholics chose a new pope and a Mormon released her debut vampire novel.
What is 2005?
The Sopranos originally aired on this grittier, "anything goes" paid channel.
Where Romulus, Remus, and the earliest cultivars of broccoli were raised.
This vampire flick was the only one in its series not to be nominated for the Razzies.
What is Twilight?