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This Jewish-American composer and lyricist was asked to write the lyrics for West Side Story when he was twenty-five.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
One of the cornerstones of portal fantasy literature, this story takes us down a rabbit hole.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
Generally known as a "Mitzvah Mobile," these vehicles transform for Sukkot into this.
What is a Sukkah Mobile?
This novel focuses on four Chinese immigrant families in San Francisco who start a club, playing mahjong for money while feasting on a variety of foods. The book is structured similarly to a mahjong game, with four parts divided into four sections to create sixteen chapters.
What is The Joy Luck Club?
Our sun and another 100,000 million stars make up this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
The four species of the lulav are the hadass (myrtle), aravah (willow), and etrog (citron). Hadassah is the Hebrew name of this ancestor whose praises we sing when we make Havdallah.
Who is Queen Esther?
A web-based platform that collects information from different sources into a single user interface and presents users with the most relevant information for their context.
What is a portal?
This is where Clark Kent goes to transform into Super Man.
What is a phone booth?
This 2015 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios follows the inner workings inside the mind of a young girl named Riley as five personified emotions - including Joy - administer her thoughts and actions as she adapts to her family's move.
What is Inside Out?
This popular English lullaby is sung to the same tune as the Alphabet Song and Baa Baa Black Sheep.
What is Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?
King David was known for playing this instrument.
What is a harp?
(Or What is a lyre?)
We use different words to describe what happened to it. In Exodus 14:16 we use בקע (baka) and in Psalms 136:13 גזר (gazar). Both roots mean to split, but in Rabbinic Hebrew (as in Dayenu) we get קריעת (kriyat) from the root kara which means to tear.
What is The Red Sea?
This very successful American television sitcom set in a diner with orange booths presented an idealized version of life in the 1950s and early 60s. It ran 1974 to 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons.
What is Happy Days?
This is the fictitious town where, in the poem by Ernest Thayer, there was (sadly) no joy that day because Mighty Casey struck out.
What is Mudville?
With a season record of 106 wins and 56 losses, this team ranks first in the American League West.
Who are the Houston Astros?
Who is Abraham Joshua Heschel?
The Clock Portal, also known as the First Door, was an enchanted grandfather clock carved from a sunset tree that was used by the Chatwins to travel from Earth to Fillory in this book by author Lev Grossman.
What is The Magicians?
The TARDIS ("Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in this British science fiction television series and its various spin-offs.
What is Dr. Who?
At the beginning of every 30 min episode of The Joy of Painting, this artist would have a blank canvas which he would fill with friendly little trees and happy little clouds.
Who is Bob Ross?
Also known as the North Star, this is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Minor.
What is Polaris?
Henrietta Szold lead this organization, created in 1912 as a Zionist women's organization, to build the infrastructure for a modern medical system in Palestine that would serve both Jews and Arabs.
What is Hadassah?
An Inter-Dimensional Portal is a portal that acts as a mystical wormhole, creating a gateway between two locations in space-time. The Masters of the Mystic Arts have the ability of opening these portals using Sling Rings in this universe.
What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
(also accepted, What are the Avengers? What is Marvel?)
This booth used by television, film, or theatrical technicians is the area designated for the operation of technical equipment, lighting controls, and sound board.
What is the control booth?
This member of the Muscogee Nation is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author and she served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate.
Who is Joy Harjo?
Originally made in 1937, this movie has been remade three times. Barbara Streisand was in the 1976 version.
What is "A Star is Born"?