Frank Sinatra was buried with a pack of Camels and a bottle of what domestic booze brand?
"Old No. 7" is the cryptic name of the first and most popular product from what brand?
"Lynchburg lemonade" is a cocktail that's officially sanctioned by what whiskey brand from... um, Lynchburg, Tenn.?
In 1983, Israeli American guitarist Hillel Slovak was a founding member of what L.A. band?
For 20 of those ensuing years, across three different stints, John Frusciante has been the lead guitarist of what funk-rock outfit?
"Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation." So begins "Californication," a typically baffling 1999 hit by what band?
Of the four fundamental forces, the weakest (but rangiest) is what "Principia" one?
"What's spacetime?" Newton would have asked, when Einstein said it's curvature in spacetime. What's that force?
When she was marooned in orbit, Sandra Bullock didn't just fly off into space thanks to what attractive force?
In 1768, who became the first Russian to be inoculated against smallpox?
According to a fellow monarch, Peter III was "dethroned like a child being sent to bed” by what Russian-beloved wife of his?
On throne for 34 years, what "Great" Romanov-in-law is still Russia's longest-tenured female ruler?
First marketed in 1870, the Hansen Writing Ball was an early commercial version of what device?
Hunter S. Thompson liked to blow off steam by firing various weapons at what tool of his trade?
The longest common word you can type on a single QWERTY keyboard line is what device the QWERTY keyboard was made for?