MLB's Roger Maris and NPR's Ari Shapiro are the most famous people born in what major-ish city on the (northern) Red River?
According to creator Noah Hawley, what long-running FX anthology series is "a winter show, for better or worse"?
Frances McDormand won her first Oscar for what Coen Brothers movie, named for the seat of Cass County, North Dakota?
For some reason, the Mongolian word for "ocean" is part of what well-known personal title that dates to the 14th century?
Born in a Tibetan cowshed in 1391, Gendun Druppa was the first dude to hold what religious title?
Since 1959, Tenzin Gyatso has led the Tibetan government-in-exile as the 14th holder of what holy office?
"Honeydew-like in weight and circumference, filled with a cylindrical core of wild-rice stuffing." That's how "The New Yorker" described what staple of certain holiday tables?
Oregon-based Turtle Island foods holds what meat-simulation trademark they've used since 1995?
Vital wheat gluten actually beats out that soybean stuff as the main ingredient of what "faux turkey" brand?
Originally some 190 miles in diameter, South Africa's Vredefort is the world's largest known... what?
Among dinosaurs, the underwater/underground Chicxulub would surely be the world's most infamous ... what?
Modeled after a famous one in Arizona, Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" is set in and near what sort of ... uh, unplanned basin?
Hollywood's first use of blue-screen effects was in the Oscar-winning 1940 film, "The Thief of WHAT"?
Four lions roam a Mid-East capital after the U.S. bombs the zoo, in a true-story graphic novel called "Pride of WHERE"?
Hailing from Mesopotamia's Early Dynastic Era, some 5,000 years ago, the Golden Lyre of Ur is in a museum in what world capital?