When not being used for a doom laser, the fictional kyber crystals are mostly known for powering what handheld weapon?
Press-camera battery packs were used for the hilt, and Scotchlite retroreflectors on the O.G. blade of what sci-fi movie prop?
In more ways than one, Isaac Asimov's 1951 "force-blade" may have inspired what Star Wars sword?
In the 16th century, Wan Quan would have blown powdered scabs up your nose to inoculate against what disease?
Meanwhile, the Florentine Codex was one of the first reports of Mexico's indigenous people suffering from what "speckled monster"?
To distinguish it from syphilis and its big ol' sores, the British added an adjective to the name of what disease we eradicated in 1980?
Thousands of POWs died during the 1942 Bataan Death March, in what country?
Luzon and Mindanao are the largest islands in what archipelago nation that was once a U.S. territory?
The Broadway musical "Here Lies Love" is about Imelda Marcos, former first lady of what country with a bunch of Tagalog speakers?
Anna Karenina contrived to meet Count Vronsky by attending a party where they were playing what fancy outdoor game?
One player stands ready to whack while the others just laze around on the grass, in Manet's painting "The WHAT Game"?
Flamingos served as mallets, and hedgehogs as balls, when Lewis Carroll made poor Alice play what sport in Wonderland?
A 50-foot statue stands in Blue Earth, Minnesota, in honor of what veggie brand?
Sprout is the diminutive sidekick to the much bigger namesake mascot of what freeze-drying outfit?
"Ho ho ho," says the outsize broccoli-colored mascot for what frozen veggie brand?