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Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
2019 gave us two different films about this current associate justice: On the Basis of Sex and RBG.
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What is an earthquake?
Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, set to be played in San Francisco’s Candlestick Park, was postponed for 10 days for this reason.
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What is Clue?
The original design of this game included a fireplace poker, a shillelagh, and a syringe as weapons.
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Who is Rosie the Riveter?
The slogan “We can do it” appeared on the poster that introduced her as a symbol of women’s presence in military industry.
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Who is Tina Turner?
Her first solo hit was a cover of Al Green’s "Let’s Stay Together," a few months before "What’s Love Got to Do With It."
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Who is Clarence Thomas?
He’s the longest serving current associate justice.
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What is assassinate President Ford?
In September 1975, Sara Jane Moore and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme both attempted, separately and unsuccessfully, to do this.
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What is Chinese checkers?
Despite its name, this game, played with marbles arranged on a six-pointed star, is German in origin.
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What is Mr. Potato Head?
An Iron Man-branded edition of this classic toy was renamed "Tony Starch."
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Who is Walt Whitman?
Though this poet’s early life passed in Brooklyn, he spent most of the Civil War as a nurse in Washington, D.C.
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Who is Earl Warren?
Dwight Eisenhower said the biggest mistake of his presidency was appointing this chief justice, later to chair a noteworthy “commission” named for him.
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What are the Oscars?
The first edition of this annual event took place in 15 minutes in May 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and included a now defunct recognition for Best Title Writing.
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What is Monopoly?
It was inspired in part by the 1904 anti-capitalist toy The Landlord’s Game.
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Who is Ishmael?
He identifies himself by name in his novel’s first sentence, then goes to sea with his new friend Queequeg.
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Who is Kublai Khan?
According to a Coleridge poem, “In Xanadu did” he “a stately pleasure dome decree."
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Who is Louis Brandeis?
The athletic teams are nicknamed the Judges at the Massachusetts university named for him, the court’s first Jewish justice
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What is Howl?
In 1957, US Customs seized copies of this Allen Ginsburg poem on obscenity grounds.
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What is pachisi?
Hasbro’s Sorry! is an adaptation of this game, considered the national game of India.
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Who is R2D2?
When this beloved droid, introduced in a blockbuster 1977 film, paid a visit to Sesame Street in 1980, he fell in love with a fire hydrant.
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Who is Franz Ferdinand?
A Scottish dance-rock band, or the short familiar name of the man whose 1914 assassination precipitated World War I.
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Who is William Howard Taft?
The only ex-president to serve as a justice is this corpulent early 20th century man.
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What are muckrakers?
This term, not coined but popularized by Teddy Roosevelt in a 1906 speech, referred to crusading journalists like Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell.
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What is Mouse Trap?
Though told he should consider it, Rube Goldberg declined to take legal action against the creators of this children’s game.
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Who is the Wicked Witch of the East?
In both a 1900 novel and a 1939 film, her shoes are taken from her after she’s killed by a falling house.
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Who is Hedda Hopper?
This gossip columnist vocally supported the House Un-American Activities Committee and helped drive the Hollywood blacklist.
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