VIDEO GAME-POURRI
In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you can choose among many avatars like Link, Donkey Kong or this fast hedgehog
Sonic
"Alamut", a 1938 novel by Vladimir Bartol about fanatical killers, inspired the hit video game this "Creed"
Assassin's
In 2013, cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio assumed this lofty title; He's since been replaced by Leo XIV
Pope
Helping this title ogre, Donkey says, "I got a dragon here, & I'm not afraid to use it"
Shrek
This Donkey Kong company introduced its home video game console in Japan in 1983
Nintendo
Many online games say they are "F2P", meaning this; beware, there are usually ways to spend cash down the line
Free to play
Based on "Hamlet", "Elsinore" has you play as this character; perhaps you might not drown
Ophelia
According to this New York governor, "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose"
DAILY DOUBLE
Mario Cuomo
Spanish for "little donkey", this item isn't handheld when smothered with ranchero sauce
Burrito
At the end of the original version, King Kong's dreams come crashing down to earth at this NYC landmark
The Empire State Building
In this sport's "The Show 18", Diamond Dynasty mode allows you to build your own team
MLB
In the mobile game based on this 1873 novel, you can end up with a different itinerary than the one Jules Verne created
DAILY DOUBLE
Around the World in 80 Days
Kit Hoover and this "Saved By The Bell" actor host Access Hollywood
Mario Lopez
This melancholy donkey whose tail is attached by a nail debuted in a 1926 story
Eeyore
Until 1997, Hong Kong didn't belong to China, but this European country
Britain
This "distant" Ubisoft franchise has had you go prehistoric, futuristic &, most recently, facing a doomsday cult
Far Cry
With flowing white hair, Geralt of Rivia is a monster slayer in this video game series based on the stories of Andrzej Sapkowski
The Witcher
Mario Puzo, to him: "I wrote a book called 'The Godfather'... and I think you're the only actor who can play the part"
Marlon Brando
"The Little Donkey" is one of the many tales collected by these brothers in the early 1800s
DAILY DOUBLE
The Brothers Grimm
In its last line, 1933's King Kong stressed that "it wasn't the airplanes, it was" this that "killed the beast"
beauty
Of the 4 ghosts in the original English version of the Pac-Man game, the one that doesn't rhyme with the others
Clyde
Andrew Ryan, the industrialist villain in "Bioshock", was inspired by this female author with the same initials
Ayn Rand
Mario Lanza is no ordinary vineyard worker in the film "Serenade", singing the high notes of "Nessun Dorma" from this Puccini opera
Turandot
His cartoon "A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" in 1870 was the first use of a donkey as a Democratic symbol
Thomas Nast
"A Fistful of Quarters" is the subtitle of a 2007 doc in which this man, the inspiration for Peter Dinklage's character in Pixels, & Steve Wiebe vie to be "King of Kong"
Billy Mitchell