Obatzda is a Bavarian cheese dip that's typically made with a bit of what beverage?
Carbonnade is a Belgian beef stew whose main ingredients include what Belgian tipple?
Gorton's, Mrs. Paul, and Van de Kamp all offer fish fillets fried in batter made with what alcoholic stuff?
A British actor who won an Oscar for "Iris," and an American singer who wrote a "Paris Journal": Both born in the '40s, and both who go by what first name?
The plucky young hero from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" goes by what three-letter name?
Percival Everett's 2024 novel "James" tells a familiar story from the POV of Huckleberry Finn's raftmate, who Huck called by what shorter name?
"Reflections (A Retrospective)" was a 2006 greatest-hits album by what artist?
"Mudbound" earned acting and songwriting Oscar nominations (for "Mighty River") for what Queen of R&B?
"Be Without You," "Not Gon' Cry," and "Family Affair" respectively went to #3, #2, and #1 on the Hot 100, for what singer whose middle name is Jane?
Lenovo is a very real corporation that started its life with what name that suggests otherwise?
What's the little window on a map that says what all the symbols mean?
The Kray twins were very real mid-century English gangsters, played by Tom Hardy in what 2015 movie with the same title as Tom Cruise's forest-child thing?
A line of Pratt & Whitney airplane engines in the '20s-'40s, and a female aviation auxiliary during WW2: both had what buzzy name?
I can totally see it: Evolutionarily speaking, an ant is a flightless version of what narrow-waisted stinging thing?
Merriam-Webster says 1948 was the first recorded use of what 4-letter acronym for an elite American socioeconomic class?