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In Back to the future, this type of car is converted into a time machine.
What is a DeLorean?
On September 17, 1862, this bloody battle in Maryland ended the first Confederate invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting."
What is algebra?
This 1854 work by Henry David Thoreau includes chapters titled " Solitude" and "The pond in Winter".
What is Walden?
She is the best friend of the Barbie doll, introduced in 1963 with the last name Hadley.
Who is Midge?
These two states border the most others (eight each), and they border each other along a 60-mile stretch between Kentucky and Arkansas.
What are Tennessee and Missouri?
This viral rash, known since 1866 by a specific Latin name, was described a century earlier by Friedrich Hoffmann.
What is Rubella?
This noun refers to a laborer who loads and unloads ships in a port.
What is a stevedore?
This 1939 film features a protagonist named Scarlett, though her actual first name is revealed to be Katie.
What is Gone with the Wind?
Henry Cisneros became the first Mexican-American mayor of this major Texas city in 1981.
What is San Antonio?
This blood type is known as the "universal donor" because it can be given to patients of any other blood type.
What is O Negative?
This term for talking trash about someone shares its name with what a large elm tree might provide on a sunny day.
What is "shade"?
This possessed hotel is the central setting for Stephen King's the Shining?
What is the Overlook Hotel?
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This airport in Washington state is named for two cities and contains one of the largest parking garages in the U.S.
What is Sea-Tac?
This 1980 milestone marked the first time the World Health Organization declared a human disease completely eradicated.
What is Smallpox?
This 1845 poem features a grieving student and a talking bird that repeatedly utters the word "Nevermore."
What is "The Raven"?
This actor and Saturday Night Live star was named the host for the premiere season of Pop Culture Jeopardy!
Who is Colin Jost?
Known in Mexican history as the "Sale of the Mesilla Valley," this 30,000-square-mile deal in 1854 was negotiated by a specific U.S. diplomat to secure land for a southern transcontinental railroad.
Who is James Gadsden? (The agreement is known as the Gadsden Purchase).
Discovered in 1944 by U.S. scientists bombarding plutonium with neutrons, this radioactive element's name pays tribute to a specific continent.
What is Americium?