Denise Nickerson's teeth were riddled with 13 cavities after the production of what movie?
He didn't like the song, but Sammy Davis Jr.'s only #1 hit was "The Candy Man," written for what 1971 film?
Charlie isn't in the title because - this is barely an exaggeration - what Roald Dahl adaptation was just a long paid ad for Quaker's new candy bar?
Per various sources, Coca-Cola's original secret recipe includes what herb whose name may come from the Greek for "bedbug"?
Though it's native to the Mediterranean, "Chinese parsley" is yet another name for what pico de gallo ingredient?
If you have a polymorphism in olfactory receptor gene OR6A2, what herb tastes like soap to you?
Despite being dead for nine days, what Secretary of State got nearly 7,000 votes in the 1852 presidential election?
In a famous 1836 short story, what silver-tongued lawyer was retained by a New Hampshire farmer who had sold his soul to the devil?
He had a son named Noah, but this Noah was not a dictionary publisher. Name that Massachusetts statesman!
A failed dance duo with Alvin Ailey was an early job for what writer who died in 2014?
Between her classic first autobiography in 1969, and its TV adaptation in 1979, what poet became the first Black woman to get a screenplay produced?
Somehow never the poet laureate, what "caged bird" writer read a poem at Bill Clinton's first inauguration?
In firearms, what's the part that actually strikes the cartridge primer or firing pin?
Your middle ear has three super tiny bones called the anvil, stirrup, and... what?
If it doesn't have a claw on the back, it might have a metal blob called a peen. What's that tool?