A 1996 Goya Award winner, Pilar Something is the Seville-born mother of what Oscar-winning actor?
"Mommy was very bad." That's a quote about Judi Dench's M, uttered by an ex-00 agent played by what professional creep?
Tell me, friend-o: The first Spaniard to get an acting Oscar nomination was what Javier from "No Country for Old Men"?
Filmmaker Neill Blomkamp hails from what alpha world city where his Oscar-nominated debut was set?
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls is in Meyerton, just south of what largest South African city?
Some people leave the "hannes" part out when saying the name of what city that's home to the Soweto Gospel Choir?
"Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh, and kerve it on pieces, and cast hem on boiling water & seeþ it well." So goes a 14th-century recipe for... what?
The FDA doesn't recognize "pasta," so instead its regulations for spaghetti and vermicelli call them a WHAT product?
Ask Yankee Doodle: What word came in the late 18th century to mean basically a young British hipster?
In 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell detected some "little green men." They were later found to be big dying stars, given what name?
In 1972, Hamilton put out the world's first digital watch - complete with glowing red LEDs - under what astronomic brand name?
NASA thinks we might one day navigate space using what P-stars named for the regular bursts of energy they poop out?
In 1841, New Yorkers stormed a wharf for imported copies of "The Old Curiosity Shop," that year's must-have novel by what goateed great?
Who used his own experience as a child laborer to inform that typically-cheery classic, "Oliver Twist"?
"Marley was dead: to begin with." So begins a certain holiday tale that's the best-known work of what Victorian?