Thanks to its antibacteriality, what naturally-occurring goop has been used to protect wounds since Mesopotamian days?
For millennia, folks have been making mead by mixing up water, yeast, and what animal byproduct?
It's antibacterial because it's highly acidic, and that's why - just like this super-cliché question - what sweetener never goes bad?
Absolute zero is the null point of what scientific scale?
The temperature of light is usually measured using what scale that isn't Celsius or Fahrenheit?
A knighted physicist, a Scottish river, and the SI temperature unit denoted "K" all share what name?
The fictional Reagan family forms the no-nonsense nexus of what TV series that debuted in 2010?
Of the zillion shows about New York cops, which one stars noted non-New Yorker Donnie Wahlberg?
Now in its last season, no actual royals appear on what CBS show whose true star is Tom Selleck's mustache?
If you were dating an actual Nubian queen, she'd be from the Nile valley in modern-day Egypt or what other country?
When its southern half seceded in 2011, what country went from being Africa's largest by area to its third-largest?
NBA star Manute Bol hailed from near Darfur, in what country that sometimes gets a "the" in front of its name?
On fancy watches, scratch-resistant sapphire glass is often used for what transparent part that you look through to see the time?
Ireland's Waterford and Austria's Swarovski are both world-renowned for making stuff out of... what?
Some illustrations in a Lewis Carroll book inspired the creatures in Jim Henson's 1982 creep-fest, "The Dark WHAT"?