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Every once in a while someone proposes Ophiuchus as a 13th zodiac sign, which would cover early December and thus mostly affect what existing sign?

Sagittarius

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Majuro is the capital of

Marshall Islands

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Who had already shot 3 of an eventual 10 films with Mickey Rooney before she became a “child star” with her best-remembered role?

Judy Garland

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The French for “clear the table” gives us the name of what course where you might eat an île flottante or a mille-feuille?

Dessert

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Analogy time! “The Big Lebowski” is to the Coen Brothers as “Kingpin” is to who?

Farrelly Brothers

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ACTORS BY THE FILMS THEY DIRECTED

“The Boys in the Boat” &
“The Ides of March”

George Clooney

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Peeking out just 2,667 feet above the sea, what mountain between Java and Sumatra looms much larger in the history of seismology?

Krakatoa

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A beaten Union army slunk away from the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862, having lost yet another battle in what state?

Virginia

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Michael Caine & Steve Martin teamed up as Lawrence & Freddy, a couple of these, the title of a 1988 film

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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Some say Arizona Donnie Clark was just an overprotective mother, but she’s infamously known by this name

Ma Barker

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“Sho Is Funky Down Here” and “Hot Pants”: Two albums that go together uncomfortably well, both from 1971, and both by what artist?

James Brown

81 singles, 24 studio albums, 5 live albums… just in the 1960s. No wonder they called that guy “The Hardest-Working Man in Show Business”

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Capital of Kiribati

Tarawa

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Britain, not Australia, is the ancestral home of what company that made LL Cool J’s early-career bucket hats?

Kangol

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Named for Hercules’ not-quite-human teacher Chiron, what star has been known as “Bungula,” from the Latin for “hoof”?

Alpha Centauri

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In 1939 he secretly met with Hitler and asked for help in putting his National Union party in power in Norway

Vidkun Quisling

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Rakugo is a Japanese tradition of storytellers who use two props: A towel and what other item that’s great for a sweaty day?

Fan

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MODERN-DAY KNIGHTS

At the Knights of the Garter’s Chapel, the heraldic crest representing this man depicts a kiwi with an axe

Sir Edmund Hillary

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In this film based on true events, Jake Gyllenhaal & Mark Ruffalo match wits with a serial killer

Zodiac

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Coming right after oxygen on the ol’ periodic table, Fluorine has what one-digit atomic number?

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American comedy film by the comedy group Derrick Comedy featuring the film debut of Aubrey Plaza

Mystery Team

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“Oh, ho, ho! You sly dog, you got me monologuing!” That’s a quote from a Pixar villain with what malady-related name?

Syndrome

From the Incredibles

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Named for the part of southern France it comes from, what cave-aged treat is called “the cheese of kings and popes”?

Roquefort

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A coup in this nation in 1932 resulted in a constitutional monarchy and the end of the absolute rule of Rama VII

Thailand

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & Whittier, California share this two-word nickname

Quaker City

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Make a sponge cake sandwich filled with whipped cream and jam, and you've basically got the cake named for what monarch?

Victoria

Every branch of dinosaur descendents poops, pees, and copulates using what gross all-purpose orifice?

Cloaca

Argentina's counterpoint to the White House is what more distinctive color?

Pink

Her big family tree earned her the name “grandmother of Europe”; She was the actual grandmother of George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II

Queen Victoria

Through the magic of scratch-and-sniff, Katy Perry added cotton candy smell to the cover of what CD?

Teenage Dream

Of the three main gases that compose most of the earths atmosphere, this noble one makes up about one percent

Argon (Ar). Argon is the third most abundant gas in the atmosphere, following nitrogen (about 78%) and oxygen (about 21%)

Savoy and bok choy don't just rhyme—they're also both kinds of what leafy thing?

Cabbage

In 2025 long time Bruin Brad Marchand left Boston, headed for the sunny south and helped this team win a second straight Stanley Cup

Florida Panthers

She’s the first woman and the second African-American to serve as mayor of Los Angeles

Karen Bass

It’s windy day fun, but it’s also writing checks on insufficient funds and hoping late deposits will cover things before clearance

Kiting

“My style is wild so book me / not long is how long that this rhyme took me” rapped Ghostface Killah as part of this ensemble

Wu-Tang Clan

A wonder of the ancient world, the statue of Zeus at Olympia was preserved by rubbing it with what stuff?

Olive oil

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuela met and played a couple on this TV soap before marrying in real life

All My Children

The ritzy Rhode Island School of Design is a short walk from what Ivy League school?

Brown

Made of the dust and gasses left over from the sun's formation 4.6 billion years ago, what's the oldest planet in our solar system?

Jupiter

A cloud seed is also known as a CCN, or cloud condensation WHAT?

Nucleus

"Beelzebub's pup" and "Satanic meatlover" are older and equally-evil nicknames for what Aussie marsupial?

Tasmanian Devil

In 2014, Phil Lord and Christopher Lord put out "22 Jump Street" and what animated film that beat it by $160 million worldwide?

The Lego Movie

Named for its first king, Vittorio Emanuele II, an 1877 shopping mall is the oldest such facility in what country?

Italy

With 1,421,123 more citizens than vowels, Kharkiv is the second-largest city in what country?

Ukraine

Galvanizing steel involves what metallic element from the German for "spike"?

Zinc

The Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is an overseas region of what nation?

France

“debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1996. Evil Empire was what band's second album?”

Rage Against the Machine

The Susquehanna River makes up about half the freshwater inflow of what bay?

Chesapeake Bay

The original 1932 "Scarface" movie was produced by director Howard Hawks and what other Howard?

Hughes

Stag, rhinoceros, and elephant are not just animals in themselves, but also species of this insect and the order Coleoptera

Beetles

The world's longest sea bridge connects Hong Kong to what other Special Administrative Region of China?

Macau

An “All-seeing” prison design proposed by Jeremy Bentham: a design likened to a honeycomb

panopticon

Some 75 miles from the sea, the famous cathedral town of Rouen is the furthest navigable point on what river?

Seine

“Overshadowed by the success of Turner & Hooch when it was released three months later, what Jim Belushi film with a similar plot was released in 1989.”

K-9

As a child, Nick Jonas played Gavroche in this show on Broadway; later, in London, he played Marius

Les Misérables

This New Yorker’s bid for reelection was hampered by an 1837 financial panic and a depression that followed

Martin Van Buren

Uppsala is home to this country‘s oldest university which was founded in 1477

Sweden

What Pacific country hosted the first World War II land battle with U.S. troops following the Pearl Harbor attack?

Philippines

It took 20 years for something to replace "Independence Day" atop the Will Smith box-office charts. he played someone named Deadshot in this movie. What movie did it?

Suicide Squad

The first game in the "Red Dead" series was named for what weapon?

Revolver

Levallois-Perret cemetery is where this civil engineer known as the “magician of iron” came to rest after his 1923 death

Gustave Eiffel

Frances Perkins first worked for FDR when he was governor of New York; in 1933, he appointed her secretary of this department

Labor

Dick's Sporting Goods is the current owner of what shoe-centric chain?

Foot Locker

Fenty Cheeks Out and Benefit Sunny are examples of what type of make-up?

Blush

Just north of the 82nd parallel you'll find Deltaterrasserne, a 4,000-year-old pre-Inuit archaeological site on what island?

Greenland

“Robby Krieger said not having a bass player in this band made him play more bass notes to fill out the bottom.”

The Doors

Earth's oceans are mostly H2O, and Titan's are mostly CH4, aka what compound?

Methane

Capital of Antigua and Barbuda

Saint John's

In one 1990 game, Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas had seven of these, really getting to know Seahawks quarterback Dave Krieg

Sacks

This Anglican bishop from South Africa was honored with a Nobel peace prize in 1984

Desmond Tutu

This summary cocktail of peach and Prosecco or champagne is named for Venetian artist Giovanni

Bellini

We’re not sure if Marvin Gaye was talking to a doctor when he sang “I can’t wait for you to operate” on this song

Sexual Healing

The Reposado type of this liquor is aged from 2 months to one year, while the Añejo type is one to three years

Tequila

Ben and Casey Affleck have each won Oscars, Ben for producing and writing and Casey for best actor of this 2016 film

Manchester by the Sea

Flooding and related landslides in late 2021 were the costliest disaster in the history of what Canadian province?

British Columbia

Mainly affecting the face, the name of this inflammatory skin disorder refers to the redness and flushing that it causes

Rosacea

2001 rom com starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

Serendipity

For high-end footwear, try the Bing or Azia styles of shoes bearing the name of this Malaysian-British designer

Jimmy Choo

This show is set in the fictional town of Kier, which is also the first name of fictional company Lumon’s founder

Severance

Cruising Karachi? 2 cents turns into around 5 or 6 of these

Rupees Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan, located on the Arabian Sea coast

Toni Morrison's final novel, "God Bless the Child," dropped in what odd-numbered year that was also when Trump announced his first presidential bid?

2015

If you're looking at a 3D shape where the end pieces are identical polygons, and they have rectangles connecting them, what's that called?

Prism

A novel called "The Invention of (Someone) Cabret" was the basis of what weirdly whimsical Scorsese film?

Hugo

For hope and solidarity, survivors of self-harm and suicidal thoughts often get tattoos of what punctuation mark?

Semicolon

As a kid, what filmmaker sealed off the drain of a glass shower, thus inspiring a scene from his Oscar-winning 2017 movie?

Guillermo del Toro The Shape of Water

It’s best to avoid swallowing apple seeds, as they contain a chemical that degrades into a tiny amount of this poison

Cyanide

Who are the twin creators of *Stranger Things*?

Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (born February 15, 1984), often credited as the Duffer Brothers

A valuable slab of black basalt was found by a French soldier during Napoleon's occupation of Egypt in 1799 at Fort Julien, which is located on the west bank of the Nile about 3 miles northwest of what small Egyptian port city?

Rosetta

The Culinary Institute of America and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are in what U.S. state?

New York

What silly customary unit is equal to 550 foot-pounds per second or about 746 watts?

Horsepower

"Amblin'" was a 1968 short film by what Long Beach State student?

Steven Spielberg

England's only joint sovereigns co-reigned from 1689 to 1694. What was the queen's name?

Mary (William III and Mary II)

Greenland sits on a tectonic plate named for what continent?

North America

The world's first tech hotbed was the eastern part of what continent, where the use of tools seems to have begun?

Africa

In Slavic mythology, the apocalypse dog Simargl is chained to what star at the handle of the Little Dipper?

Polaris (North Star)

On the strength of "Daddy's Home 2" and some "Transformers" nonsense, who was the highest-paid actor of 2017?

Mark Wahlberg

The 2023 film *Wonka* portrays Willy Wonka's early days as a chocolatier while contending with his future rivals. Wonka is played by this actor.

Timothée Chalamet

“Universal basic income is a policy often associated with the political left. But free market economist Milton Friedman in the 1960s, advocated for a more free market version of this that became influential among some on both the left and the right. So what was that alternative?

Negative income tax.

Of the four original Canadian provinces, which one's last alphabetically?

Quebec

From the Catalan for "ass," "culé" is the supporters' nickname for a massive football club in what Spanish city?

Barcelona

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