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Pop Culture 2025-11-26 (Season 42)

FAMOUS DECLARATIONS

After an escape under darkness, a U.S. general told an Adelaide newspaper these 3 famous words on March 20, 1942

Pop Culture 2025-10-31 (Season 42)

FAMOUS TRIALS

A lawyer in a 1933 trial called this novel "tedious and labyrinthine and bewildering"--& he was arguing on its behalf

Pop Culture 2025-09-12 (Season 42)

FAMOUS BUILDINGS

In 1588 a 10th chapel was added to this building to honor a Yurodivy, or "holy fool", who was canonized that year

Pop Culture 2025-07-23 (Season 41)

FAMOUS BUILDINGS

Opened in 1902, it's 87 feet in width on the 22nd Street side & less than 7 feet wide at its narrowest point on 23rd Street

Pop Culture 2025-06-18 (Season 41)

FAMOUS AMERICAN HOMES

The name of this residence completed in 1895 combines part of the owner's Dutch name with an English word for an open expanse

Pop Culture 2025-06-03 (Season 41)

FAMOUS STRUCTURES

In April 2018 an MLB game was postponed after ice falling from this structure punctured the roof of Rogers Centre

Pop Culture 2024-06-28 (Season 40)

NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN

In her autobiography she tells of a rather "singular coincidence", that one of her Swiss ancestors was a teacher of the deaf

Pop Culture 2024-05-07 (Season 40)

FAMOUS CHARACTERS

She's introduced in an 1845 novella in which she wears a short skirt with her mantilla thrown back to show her shoulders

Pop Culture 2023-07-13 (Season 39)

FAMOUS SHIPS

This first U.S. battleship ever built was launched in 1889 but lasted less than 9 years

Pop Culture 2022-10-11 (Season 39)

FAMOUS SHIPS

Its wreck was discovered in 1989, 48 years after it had been sunk & 91 years after the man it was named for had died

Pop Culture 2022-09-22 (Season 39)

POP CULTURE

In 2011 Leland, Mississippi, where Jim Henson grew up, honored Henson & his Muppets by renaming a bridge this, also a song title

Pop Culture 2022-03-10 (Season 38)

FAMOUS TRIALS

On her acquittal in 1893, a reporter cited nearby events 2 centuries earlier, saying the days of witch trials are over

Pop Culture 2021-11-25 (Season 38)

FAMOUS DO'S & DON'TS

In 1964 Berkeley alum Jack Weinberg, age 24, told a San Francisco chronicle reporter this now-famous "Don't"

Pop Culture 2020-12-14 (Season 37)

FAMOUS PLACES

Opened in 1973, it includes the Joan Sutherland Theatre, named for the singer, & the Utzon Room, named for the architect

Pop Culture 2020-09-14 (Season 37)

FAMOUS BUILDINGS

This Rome building with a name from the Greek was described by Michelangelo as coming from "angelic and not human design"

Pop Culture 2020-06-10 (Season 36)

NOTABLE BRITISH NAMES

Published in 1881, "The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Actions of Worms" was his last & one of his bestselling books

Pop Culture 2020-02-14 (Season 36)

FAMOUS FIRST LINES

These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals"

Pop Culture 2018-10-22 (Season 35)

PLACES IN THE NEWS

In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. govt. as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned

Pop Culture 2018-05-22 (Season 34)

FAMOUS RUSSIANS

In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead

Pop Culture 2017-03-31 (Season 33)

FAMOUS BRITISH NAMES

He used the coat of arms granted to his father in 1596; it depicts a long-shafted weapon, a visual pun on the family name

Pop Culture 2017-03-29 (Season 33)

WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016

NASA wished John Glenn this 8-letter word when he made the 1st U.S. manned orbital flight in 1962 & again upon his passing in 2016

Pop Culture 2016-10-25 (Season 33)

WORDS IN THE NEWS 2016

The Centre for European Reform is one of the sources credited with coining this new 6-letter portmanteau word

Pop Culture 2016-10-20 (Season 33)

QUOTABLE NOTABLES

She once said that death "is no more than passing from one room into another" but "in that other room, I shall be able to see"

Pop Culture 2016-09-20 (Season 33)

POP CULTURE CHARACTERS

In 2015 this character was made an honorary citizen of Japan after over 60 years of residence there

Pop Culture 2016-07-28 (Season 32)

NAMES IN THE NEWS

This 52-year-old went through a temporary growth spurt, growing 2 inches in less than a year, as revealed by a 2016 physical

Pop Culture 2016-04-13 (Season 32)

FAMOUS HOTELS

The painting seen here, "A Vicious Circle", hangs in this hotel in the room that's portrayed in the painting

Pop Culture 2016-01-21 (Season 32)

FAMOUS BRITS

Growing up, her favorite literary heroine was Jo March; they shared a name & a hot temper & they both wanted to write

Pop Culture 2015-12-29 (Season 32)

FAMOUS LAST NAMES

The first woman space shuttle pilot shares this surname with a man on the 1st manned lunar landing 26 years earlier

Pop Culture 2015-10-02 (Season 32)

NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN

U.N. delegate was one role of this woman who wrote, "I could not... be contented to take my place in a warm corner by the fireside"

Pop Culture 2015-06-24 (Season 31)

WORLD LEADERS IN THE NEWS

In 2014 CNN declared Zambia's Guy Scott the first white president in Sub-Saharan Africa since this man in 1994

Pop Culture 2015-06-12 (Season 31)

SHIPS IN THE NEWS

In 2012 Nature magazine ran an obituary for this ship, which "died after a long struggle with bad publicity"

Pop Culture 2015-06-02 (Season 31)

INFAMOUS

Born in Illinois of Huguenot ancestry, he was executed in June 1882, a year after his heinous act

Pop Culture 2015-04-29 (Season 31)

CHAIN STORE NAMES IN THE NEWS

The 1917 first use of what became its name said this 2-word small room "called up the tube that the steamer... was torpedoed"

Pop Culture 2014-07-18 (Season 30)

FAMOUS HOMES

Purchased in 1957 & called "the second most famous home in America", it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006

Pop Culture 2014-07-03 (Season 30)

FAMOUS OBJECTS

In 1950 the England-Scotland border was closed for the first time in 400 years to try to recover this stolen item

Pop Culture 2012-07-02 (Season 28)

FAMOUS RELATIVES

In 2011 his daughter Svetlana, living in the U.S. under the name Lana Peters, died in Wisconsin at age 85

Pop Culture 2011-12-19 (Season 28)

FAMOUS BUILDINGS

Recent evidence suggests that, despite its name, this 1599 building was a 20-sided icosagon

Pop Culture 2010-07-15 (Season 26)

FAMOUS TEXTS

Tradition says the author of this work was the sage Vatsyayana; surprisingly, he was celibate

Pop Culture 2010-04-14 (Season 26)

POLITICALLY CORRECT POP CULTURE

The violence goes on, but in 2006 Time Warner TV removed depictions of this activity from old "Tom and Jerry" cartoons

Pop Culture 2009-09-28 (Season 26)

OLD NAMES IN THE NEWS

After running pyramid schemes & spending time in federal prison, he was deported back to Italy in 1934

Pop Culture 2009-02-16 (Season 25)

POP CULTURE

Also the title of one of the best-selling albums of all time, it was first seen in Russian photos taken in 1959

Pop Culture 2008-11-25 (Season 25)

IN THE NEWS 1952

Her final testament, read in public after her death, asked for protection of the poor workers she called grasitas

Pop Culture 2008-01-24 (Season 24)

RICH & FAMOUS

At $900 million, his fortune was once 2% of the GNP; by his death in 1937, he was down to about $26 million

Pop Culture 2008-01-23 (Season 24)

FAMOUS ENGLISHMEN

Andrew Carnegie's future fortune & career were inspired by an 1873 visit with this inventor & engineer

Pop Culture 2007-10-30 (Season 24)

LICENSE PLATES OF THE FAMOUS

In 2006 his car was auctioned for charity, along with its personalized Nebraska plate reading "thrifty"

Pop Culture 2006-12-06 (Season 23)

FAMOUS NEW YORKERS

In 1905 he said, "It is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money... for the good of my fellow man"

Pop Culture 2006-09-20 (Season 23)

IN THE NEWS 2006

Justice Peter Smith embedded a secret code into a 2006 ruling that said this author hadn’t violated a copyright

Pop Culture 2006-07-14 (Season 22)

FAMOUS PLAYS

This play that is quite concerned with the English language was, oddly enough, first performed in German in 1913

Pop Culture 2006-06-05 (Season 22)

WORDS IN THE NEWS

This word for one who hangs around the corridors of power refers back to the corridors themselves

Pop Culture 2006-04-21 (Season 22)

FAMOUS OBJECTS

Shah Jahan, Ranjit Singh & Queen Victoria all possessed a famous one whose name means "mountain of light"