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Yesterday, this Asian country with nuclear weapons announced that it will no longer seek reunification with its primary enemy. This country is governed by a dictator, and borders China.
What is North Korea?
This colored, waxy writing utensil is named because of a combination of oil and chalk, and is primarily sold by Crayola.
What is a crayon?
The Yankees and Mets are baseball teams from this city.
What is New York City?
In this 1975 thriller movie directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider, a police chief hunts down a man-eating great white shark in a summer resort town.
What is Jaws?
This woman, the best-selling female musician of all time, is known as the "Queen of Pop".
Who is Madonna?
Typhoon Yagi has killed 74 people in Burma, a country that used to be a British colony, located in this continent.
What is Asia?
This toy, which is believed to be the second oldest known in history, is named after a Japanese word and features a string, axle and two discs.
What is a yo-yo.
The Rockies are a MLB team that plays in Coors Field, located in this city, Colorado's capital, nicknamed the "Mile High City."
What is Denver?
In this 1976 psychological thriller directed by Martin Scorsese, a Vietnam War Veteran and taxi driver played by Robert De Niro is documented while working in New York City.
What is Taxi Driver?
This British musician composed hit songs like Rocket Man and Bennie and the Jets.
Who is Sir Elton John?
The Polaris Dawn spaceflight returned to Earth after five days in orbit, carrying four crew members, by safely splashing into the Gulf of Mexico. This spaceflight was operated by this space operations company founded in 2002, whose CEO is Elon Musk.
What is SpaceX?
These plastic construction toys originated from Denmark and feature interlocking toy bricks that can be used to build large structures. They can hurt if stepped on.
What are Legos?
The Super Bowl trophy, named the Lombardi Trophy, is named after the former head coach of this Wisconsin NFL team, located in a city that shares its name with a bay.
What are the Green Bay Packers?
This 1972 epic gangster film directed by Francis Coppola is the first of a trilogy and based on a book of the same name, written in 1969. The movie is centered around the Corleone family.
What is The Godfather?
This man, nicknamed the "Piano Man," is famous for composing the songs Just the Way You Are and It's Still Rock and Roll to Me?
Who is Billy Joel?
Wildfires have covered 93 million acres in this large South American country whose official language is Portuguese.
What is Brazil?
This fashion doll has the full name of Barbara Millicent Roberts, and is built by the toy company Mattel. The doll is popular among young girls, and has taken up over 200 careers since the 1950s.
What is Barbie?
The Kracken are the newest National Hockey League team, and are based in this Pacific Northwestern city located on Puget Sound, the largest city in Washington State.
What is Seattle?
The release poster for this 1975 satirical musical comedy drama movie has the phrase, "The damndest thing you ever saw," and follows people leading up to a gala for a third-party presidential nominee. This movie shares its name with the largest city in Tennessee.
What is Nashville?
This celebrity from Mississippi, nicknamed the "Princess of Pop," composed the hit studio album Oops!... I Did It Again?
Who is Britney Spears?
On September 13, more than 33,000 unionized factory workers went on strike after rejecting a labor contract with this aerospace manufacturing company that was founded in Seattle.
What is Boeing?
The standard version of this helical spring toy is 87 feet when stretched out; it was invented in 1945 and exhibits elastic potential energy when stretched.
What is a Slinky?
True or false: Atlanta does not have a National Hockey League team.
True (the Atlanta Thrashers were a NHL team until 2011, when they moved to Winnipeg, Canada)
This 1974 dark comedy film, directed by Mel Brooks, makes fun at Western films and stars Slim Pickens. It was added to the National Film Registry in 2006 and includes a brawl between railroad workers, common citizens and a politician's thugs.
What is Blazing Saddles?
This Canadian pop artist, who shares his last name with a pitcher on the Cleveland Guardians, released the hit song Baby in 2010.
Who is Justin Bieber?