K-Pop
In 2017, this boy band announced their 3-letter name could be short for "Beyond the Scene," a phrase far less cool than their original name, which translates to "Bulletproof Boy Scouts."
What is BTS?
What is The Jungle?
This is a person with many diverse responsibilities - or a general servant
Who is a factotum?
Clown?
Possible answers include:
IT, Poltergeist, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, and so forth.
From 2016 to 2018, this area of the Korean Peninsula (approximately 150 mi long & 1.2 mi wide) was almost always the site of speakers blasting K-pop across the border.
What is the DMZ?
She built on her reporting work to carry her anti-lynching campaigns to the two newspapers she'd own: The Memphis Free Speech and Headlight and Free Speech.
Who is Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
A checked pattern, often black and white, that dates back to the Bronze Age. When the hashes are smaller, it's sometimes referred to as "puppytooth."
What is houndstooth?
Mom?
Would accept:
Psycho, Carrie, Friday the 13th, Umma, Hereditary,
This famous rapper, who goes by a variant of his childhood nickname, is a long-time K-pop fan. In 2011, he added a verse to "The Boys," the first English single from K-pop band Girls Generation.
Who is Snoop Dogg?
Originally a police reporter for The New York Tribune, his books & photographs exposed dangerous urban housing conditions in the late 19th century.
Who is Jacob Riis?
According to Merriam-Webster (and therefore in alignment with POGO style) the word describing "the most checkered" is this.
Creepy Child?
The Shining, Let the Right One In, The Omen, The Bad Seed, The Ring, Pet Sematary, The Good Son,
First-generation K-pop is often dated to this decade, and to band like H.O.T., and S.E.S.
What is the 1990s?
She had herself committed to an asylum in 1887 to go undercover & write about the abuses there.
This means "produced by humans rather than natural forces."
What is factitious?
Creepy Children?
The Shining, Us, Children of the Corn, &c.
This new Broadway musical, debuting in October, will feature K-pop stars BoHyung, Luna, Min, and Kevin Woo.
What is KPOP?
Drawing from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, this American president lent the muckrakers their name, saying, "There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil."
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
The British government official responsible for collecting revenue, or Mia next week.
Who is an exchequer?
Aliens
Alien or Aliens. Only correct answers.