In a famous poem by Mary Howitt, a spider asks an unsuspecting fly to come into her... what?
The French word for "speaking" gives us the name of what room in a fancy house?
In medieval parlance it was where monks did business. Nowadays it's where you get a tattoo or a funeral. What's that word?
The wee Sea of Azov is just north of what much larger body of water that Russians call Chernoye More?
Situated on the Crimean Peninsula, the 1945 Yalta Conference took place on the shores of what sea?
Overlooking the Bosporus, Istanbul guards the route from the Mediterranean to what not-especially-dark inland sea?
In the 1976 film "Murder by Death," what widely-acclaimed Briton played snooty wife Dora Charleston?
Before teaming up with Judi Dench in "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," who played the snooty reverend mother in "Sister Act"?
After her Gryffindor days, who played a snooty-but-awesome dowager countess on "Downton Abbey"?
Malaria resistance is an upside of what genetic condition that affects millions, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa?
In 2023, the FDA approved the first gene therapies to treat what blood disorder that affects 100,000 Americans?
A defect in a hemoglobin-making gene causes the misshapen blood cells of what disease?
A weird TikTok challenge from 2020 saw bros dipping their junk in what condiment?
Tamari is a wheat-free variant of what umami condiment?
Kikkoman has a museum in Chiba dedicated to what sushi enhancer?