Pop Goes the Culture
In this 1998 film Jane Kaczmarek was Tobey Maguire's mom in color; Joan Allen was his mom in black & white
What is Pleasantville?
This term for an elaborate melody sung solo means "air" in Italian
What is Aria?
St. Barthélemy &
St. George's Cay
What is The Caribbean?
To ring in the new year in 1979, this band went into a long jam of "Sugar Magnolia" at San Francisco's Winterland venue
Who is The Grateful Dead?
Leonard Warren made quite an exit in 1960 at this NYC venue when he sang "Urna Fatale Del Mio Destino" & died
What is The Met?
THE MOVIES:
Hewlett-Packard's first big customer was Walt Disney, who purchased special sound equipment for the making & showing of this film
What is Fantasia?
Tawny Newsome got animated & boldly went on the "Lower Decks" of this long-running sci-fi franchise as Beckett Mariner
What is Star Trek?
Now used to reply "the same", this 5-letter word once came before a machine that made copies
What is Ditto?
Delos, Naxos & Patmos
What is The Agean?
On a 2021 episode of "SNL", Taylor Swift "remembered" a 10-minute version of this song with a mention of an old scarf
What is All Too Well?
Mark Twain predicted he would die when this was in the sky, just as it had been when he was born--he was right
What is Halley's Comet?
BRITISH KNIGHTS:
A sir since 2018, he contracted TB as a teen in 1953 & spent years in a sanatorium, where he learned to play the drums
Who is Ringo Starr?
There's a fungus among us, & as Ellie, Bella Ramsey has to deal with it in many, many horrific ways on this HBO drama
What is The Last of Us?
Known to vodka drinkers, this word meaning "fine view" in Italian refers to a building that gazes out on lovely scenery
What is Belvedere?
Lindisfarne, or Holy Island, ravaged by Vikings in the 8th century
What is The North Sea?
There is a lot more "colorful" & "flowery" guitar in the longer album version of this No. 1 hit by Tommy James & the Shondells
What is Crimson & Clover?
This endower of a NYC school for performing arts was born at sea in 1836 as his parents emigrated from France to America
Who is Augustus Julliard?
NEW YORK MOVIES:
Frank Sinatra got upset that a photo of him caught fire in a Brooklyn pizzeria in this film
What is Do the Right Thing?
An escaped convict named Stagg R. Leigh writes "My Pafology" (or does he?) in this 2023 Jeffrey Wright film
What is American Fiction?
Medieval astrologers thought this, caused by mutating viral strains, was connected to the effect of the stars
What is Influenza?
Nunivak Island & the Pribilof Islands
What is The Bering Sea?
A famous jazz jam at Massey Hall was stacked; Bird, Diz, Roach & Mingus went hard in the paint on "A Night In" this African locale
What is Tunisia?
4th of July babies included this 19th century Italian patriot who was inspired by the American fight for liberty
Who is Garibaldi?
FAMOUS WOMEN:
Before her death in 2022, she pledged her collection of more than 200 pins to the National Museum of American Diplomacy
Who is Madeleine Albright?
He took us to church & No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 2014, & in 2024, this one-named Irish singer went one slot higher with "Too Sweet"
Who is Hozier?
When the pope dies, this cardinal, treasurer of the Holy See, oversees the election of the new pope
What is Camerlengo?
Bulgaria's St. Anastasia Island & Turkey's Giresun Island
What is The Black Sea?
There is a flute-filled radio edit of "Thick As A Brick" by this band, but the album version is a full album-long song
Who is Jethro Tull?
Reported last words of this Pulitzer-winning playwright in 1953, "I knew it"; born in a hotel room & died in a hotel room
Who is Eugene O'Neill?
WORLD BORDERS:
After Canada & the U.S., these 2 countries share the longest land border at more than 4,700 miles
What is Russia and Kazakhstan?