What sporting good's name derives from the Italian for "stilts," not "injured child"?
Ferris Bueller beat Mr. Rooney to his house partly by vaulting a fence using what apparatus?
The 2000 Olympics gave the people what they want, by adding what bouncy contraption to gymnastics events?
Water puppetry splashed into being in the 11th century, near the Red River Delta in what Asian country?
Oliver Stone's film "Heaven and Earth" was based on Le Ly Hayslip's memoir, about what war Stone had covered twice before?
Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel "The Sympathizer" starts during the 1975 fall of what was then Saigon, in what is now what country?
In insects, what thin membrane separates the head from the thorax?
Your first seven vertebrae are C1 through C7. Not surprisingly, the C stands for what Latin word for "neck"?
When a movie doctor calls out centimeters of dilation during childbirth, they're referring to what part of the uterus?
In the early 1500s, one of Pope Julius II's first tasks was to expel what powerful family from Italy?
The daughter of (checks notes) another pope, Lucrezia repped what Italian-sounding house that's really from Spain?
Jeremy Irons played Lucrezia's dad, in a sexed-up Showtime series named for what family that rhymes with a Deep South state?
A spike in the sales of pork rinds was once attributed to the endorsement of what president?
Raw salmon with caviar had just been served, when what president vomited on the Japanese prime minister?
"I am the president of the United States, and I am not going to eat any more broccoli." So said what man in 1990?