Historical Rumors Quashed
She never said, "Let them eat cake"--but even if she had, she was beheaded in 1793, so what more do you people want from her?
Marie Antoinette
It's the only other one-word question you get when you rearrange the letters in "how?"
Who?
A truncated hyperbolic paraboloid looks like one of these "once you pop, you can't stop" snacks that come in a can
Pringle
Sartre declined this Swedish honor after winning it for Literature in 1964; must be nice, Jean-Paul...
Nobel Prize
This social networker dropped out of Harvard to focus on the company formerly known as Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg
He never had wooden teeth--& if you don't believe him, go visit his dentures at Mount Vernon & see for yourself
George Washington
It's the only other fruit you get when you rearrange the letters in "melon"
Lemon
Nullstellensatz is a theorem in algebraic geometry whose name contains "null", the German word for this number
Zero
DAILY DOUBLE
He warned that life could be "nasty, brutish, & short"; the comic strip tiger named after him was less of a bummer
ANSWER: Hobbes
Ron Chernow published a bestselling biography of this politician; it later inspired a pretty popular musical
Alexander Hamilton
Though flattered to have a chocolate company named after her, she never rode a horse nude
Godiva
DAILY DOUBLE
It's the only other bird you get when you rearrange the letters in "raptor"
ANSWER: Parrot
Sesquiduplicate means "twice & a half as great", like the number 250 from this number
100
Schopenhauer said, "Life swings back & forth like" one of these "between pain & boredom"; sounds like someone needs a hug
Pendulum
Oceanic flight 815: a bad experience for its passengers, a fascinating one for fans of this buzzy new drama series
Lost
He was about 5'6" which was actually above average for a Frenchman--so no complex named after him, thank you very much
Napoleon
It's the only other presidential action you get when you rearrange the letters in "vote"
Veto
Hypocycloid is one of the three shapes seen on this city's NFL team helmets to represent the three elements used to make steel
Pittsburgh
Growing up in this Danish capital city, Kierkegaard's dad thought their family was cursed; no wonder he got existential
Copenhagen
This baseball great was surpassed by his godson Barry Bonds on MLB's all-time home run list
Willie Mays
Stop giving himcredit for inventing baseball in Cooperstown--He wasn't even there in 1839
Abner Doubleday
It's the only other common first name you get when you rearrange the letters in "Dolly"
Lloyd
Enneadecagon is a polygon with this many sides (or, 1 more than that of an octadecagon)
19
This unhappily married Shakespeare character has been called a nihilist; he describes life as "a tale told by an idiot"
Macbeth
We got so caught up in this Usher song that it spent 12 weeks at the top of the charts
Yeah!