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An absorbent, yellow, porous and fictional sea creature whose fibs are easily detected by his flaming slacks.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants on Fire?
Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie were the adoptive parents of a mouse-like kid in this 1999 film
What is Stuart Little?
Mozart's Symphony No. 41 and the "Bringer of Jollity" in Holst's The Planets both bear the name of this planet
What is Jupiter?
To make it more accessible, Stephen Hawking followed up "A Brief History of Time" with this even more concise version
What is "A Briefer History of Time"?
Made up of students, the Red Guard were the vanguard of this decade-long Chinese "revolution"
What is the Cultural Revolution?
6/6 is the metric equivalent of this fraction for normal visual acuity
Only a dental professional can truly remove this mineral deposit also called calculus that forms along and under the gumline
What is tartar?
A Shakespearean tragedy about the premiere sandwich offered by an eatery known for its golden arches.
What is Big Macbeth?
In song, Monty Python said "God gets quite" this angry word, rhyming it with "great"
What is irate?
Connoting corruption, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" comes from this play
What is Hamlet?
Instead of hemoglobin, an octopus has hemocyanin, which gives it this feature
What is blue blood?
In 1942, General Leslie Groves was put in charge of this super-secret "Project" associated with Albert Einstein that would forever change the world 3 years later
What is the Manhattan Project?
Egyptology began with Napoleon's 1798 invasion of Egypt and the discovery of this stone, a key to language translation
A fish with this Hawaiian name weighing 72.8 pounds was caught off Maryland in 2019
What is mahi-mahi?
An Ed Sheeran song about the adventures of Jessie, James and their furry friend.
What is The A Team Rocket?
The mascot of this movie studio, began roaring in 1928
An idealized object of love, Beatrice was this poet's object of love and guide through paradise in "The Divine Comedy"
Who is Dante?
According to Bohr's atomic model, electrons can jump orbit, emitting this light particle
What is a photon?
Thomas Jefferson used this game board as a model for city planning with every other block left open
What is a chess board?
This 7-letter country uses the most U's in the spelling of its name
What is Uruguay?
We'll string you along and say you can "walk the dog" with this item that dates back to the 400s B.C.
What is the yo-yo?
Simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park that outlines what's contained in a book
What is a picnic table of contents?
In 2013, Barack Obama became the first president to mention this secretive place in Nevada by name
What is Area 51?
In "The Raven," "while I nodded, nearly ___, suddenly there came a tapping"
What is "napping"?
A 2020 study says that in the 2030s the Amazon tropical forest may go from a net absorber to a net emitter of this gas
What is carbon dioxide?
Who is Franklin Pierce?
In the Koran, a bird that could speak told this "wise" king and prophet it had come from Sheba with tidings
Who is Solomon?
Immigrants brought the first of this type of drum to the U.S. from China in the 1800s
What is a tom-tom?
Free 2-day shipping for $12.99 a month during peak hours for broadcast programming of TV shows
What is Amazon Prime time?
Bill Hader was the voice of Mr. Peanut for this food brand
What is Planters?
"Not my lover", "just a girl who claims that I am the one" are lyrics from what song?
What is Billie Jean?
The types of joints in the body include hinge, saddle and "ball and __"
What is socket?
This small country on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia is believed to be the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in 301
What is Armenia?
Here's a colonel of truth--"colonel" isn't spelled right in that phrase; please spell out this homophone meaning "the gist of an idea"
What is k-e-r-n-e-l?
This 4-word title refers to both a 1968 musical fantasy film and a Lee Hyori song; the acronym is CCBB
What is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
At the office that gives out driver's licenses, the star performer who brings the team to the top
What is DMVP?
Michael from the coupling of Michael & Angela on 90 Day Fiancee is from this country which is the most populous in Africa
What is Nigeria?
A violinist, not an archer, Giuseppe Tartini helped establish the modern style of using this
What is a bow?
This scientific instrument records P waves, S waves, and surface waves
What is a seismograph?
In 1518 Rui Faleiro and this Portuguese explorer were joint captains looking for an all-Spanish route to the Moluccas
Who is Magellan?
The country of Tuvalu gets nearly 10% of its gross national income licensing this Internet domain expansion
What is .tv?
In a 2004 song, hip hop duo Outkast famously sing that after leaning a "little bit closer" one can see that roses really smell like this
What is poo poo?
A Walt Whitman poem about a Marvel character known as the "First Avenger."
What is O Captain! My Captain! America?
HBO's "John Adams" depicted an actual administration of this sticky 2-part punishment
What is tarring and feathering?
The contradictory thought that some are more equal than others comes from a slogan in a satire by this man
Who is George Orwell?
This type of supercomputer uses subatomic particles to help processing go quickly; Honeywell is making a really fast one
What is quantum?
What is a typhoon?
This 5-letter goal of philosophy was defined pretty basically by Aristotle: "to say of what is that it is"
What is truth?
Fictional characters Schmidt (New Girl) and Nathan (Workin' Moms) have both been covered in the oil from this plant
What is ylang ylang?
A Cooper/Gaga saga meets Matt Damon running from the CIA.
What is A Star is "Bourne" Identity?
This app that specializes in 15-second videos gets its name from the sound of a clock
What is TikTok?
The 2015 Biography Prize went to a study of Pope Pius XI's relations with this dictator down the street
Who is Mussolini?
The nuclear research organization CERN has made this stuff and kept it around for 15 minutes, leading to fears of Armageddon
What is antimatter?
Ross Perot, the most successful third-party presidential candidate ever in the popular vote, is sometimes referred to as the "father of" which notorious President?
Who is Donald Trump?
Also called dionaea, this insect-eating plant of the Carolinas doesn't eat the ones that pollinate it; pretty smart
What is a Venus flytrap?
In this Gregory Maguire novel inspired by a fairy-tale in which a piece of fruit plays a key role, the vain stepmother is named Lucrezia Borgia
It's when you email someone the alphabet and include a second recipient secretly
This Ed Sheeran song has the fourth highest viewed music video on Youtube
What is Shape of You?
A terrifying song in which the artist describes specific movements in relation to these bulbiferous flowers
What is Tiptoe Through the Tulips?
On a seesaw this is the product of the force used and the distance from the pivot point
What is torque?
The world's first of these began as a way for Cambridge University computer scientists to know if the coffeepot in another room was full
What is a webcam?
In 1981 nearly 12,000 of these federal employees were permanently grounded after they walked off the job
What are air traffic controllers?
King Julian, in the 2005 movie Madagascar, sings that he likes to engage in this physical activity
What is move it move it?
It's your old home turf where you keep repeating the same day over and over
What is stomping Groundhog Day?
A "Hamilton" number about the defeat of Adams and Burr is titled "The Election of" this year
What is 1800?
Impressionism got its name thanks to his painting "Impression: Sunrise"
Who is Claude Monet?
The Curies gave Paul Villard some radium and he discovered these very high-energy Greek-letter rays
What are gamma rays?
Jonathan Clements' "Brief History of" this group asks, were they "the last pagans or the first modern Europeans"?
Who are the Vikings?
When talking about bears in Spanish, this color is pardo; about sugar, moreno
What is brown?
This maximum security prison in New York is occasionally referenced in the series Law and Order: SVU; also a parrot may use this phrase to indicate its owner vocalizing
What is sing sing?
When you've solved a difficult problem or mystery and given mind-controlling powers from a girl named C.C.
What is cracked the Code Geass?
This female character is an object of admiration for a sailor who eats spinach to gain strength
Who is Olive Oyl?
One of Mexico's most internationally renowned artists, in 1949 she painted "Diego and I," a portrait of herself with her husband's image appearing on her forehead.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Hg is the symbol for this element
What is mercury?
This nation that was formed at the end of WWI broke in 2 in 1993
What is Czechoslovakia?
In 1932, Brazil's Olympic team had to sell bags of this crop while sailing to LA in order to pay for the trip
What is coffee?
So Young occasionally uses this 3-word nickname to refer lovingly to her dog Charlie
What is "fat fat fatty"?