Elements
This element got its name from the Greek for "hidden", but DC comics fans know it better as the home planet of Superman
Krypton
The video for this Norwegian synth-pop band's biggest hit, "Take on Me", featured a distinctive pencil-and-paper animation style.
a-ha
Tater tots were invented by this company, whose name comes from two neighboring states that provide its potatoes.
Ore-Ida
The Indian city of Agra is home to this world-renowned mausoleum commissioned in 1632 to house the tomb of the emperor's wife after she passed away.
Taj Mahal
In 1947, Admiral Grace Hopper discovered a moth stuck in a malfunctioning relay, coining this computing term that we still use regularly today.
The earth's inner core is predominantly made up of these two transition metals (name either).
Iron or nickel
Whitney Houston scored a massive hit with her 1992 cover of "I Will Always Love You", which was originally written and performed by this country singer.
Dolly Parton
This curry from the state of Goa in India takes its name from the Portuguese words for wine and garlic.
Vindaloo
This Russian mystic was famously hard to kill, having survived a stabbing and multiple gunshots before dying. Still, he lived on in popular culture in a 1978 disco song that charted a second time in 2021 due to TikTok popularity.
Rasputin
This creator of Linux originally started it as a personal project at age 21 but it grew to become the most-used Unix-like OS in the world.
Linus Torvalds
The Statue of Liberty got its green patina as a result of the sea air surrounding it reacting with this metal.
Copper
This band was snubbed for the inaugural Grammy for Hard Rock/Metal Performance in 1989, which was awarded to Jethro Tull, but won it in 1990 for their song "One"
Metallica
Mint, lime, white rum, simple syrup, and club soda are the ingredients in this traditional Cuban cocktail
Mojito
This modern capital city was built on top of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec civilization in the 14th through 16th centuries.
Mexico City
Computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra famously authored a paper in 1968 declaring this programming construct/statement to be "considered harmful".
goto
This element's symbol is derived from its Latin name Kalium, but we know it better by this name.
Potassium
This rapper was the target of Nas's famed diss track "Ether", giving him one more problem to deal with
Jay Z
This condiment takes its name from words for garlic and oil, its only ingredients in its most basic form, but most restaurants just serve a garlicky mayonnaise and call it this.
Aioli
This largest and northernmost territory of Canada was officially split off from the Northwest Territories in April, 1999.
Nunavut
On March 22nd, 2016, a programmer named Azer Koçulu unpublished an 11-line module he wrote to left-pad strings, causing thousands of applications that depended on it to fail in this ecosystem.
Node.js/NPM
This noble gas got its name from the Greek word for sun, where its presence was first detected from observations of a solar eclipse.
Helium
This composition by Richard Wagner is best known for its use in the movie Apocalypse Now (or perhaps the tune of Elmer Fudd's "Kill da Wabbit")
Ride of the Valkyries
This Taco Bell delicacy comprises a flat tostada with seasoned beef, nacho cheese, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream encased in a special six-sided tortilla and then grilled
Crunchwrap Supreme
This Roman emperor conquered the city of Byzantium in 324 AD, renaming it after himself. Centuries later, it would be conquered by the Ottoman empire and renamed to Istanbul, as it's known to this day.
Constantine
GNU is one of the best known recursive acronyms, and stands for this three word phrase.
GNU's Not Unix