Sort of a non-motorized, all-fours Stairmaster with rungs, what exercise machine is not very reminiscent of the Bible story it's named for?
"Chinese blocks" is another name for that strung-together wooden toy that looks like it's cascading downward—what makes it even less related to the Bible story?
Joseph's dad had a dream about a place where he could climb to heaven, hence the origin of what phrase that was also a Tim Robbins movie?
The 1552 Siege of Kazan drew that khanate into what newly-christened kingdom?
The famous 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade was fought between the British and what Crimean War opponent?
Operation Barbarossa was the Third Reich's failed attempt to conquer what Soviet republic (and thus the whole USSR)?
"Any BLANK can be a personal one, if you cry while you eat it." So said comedian Aparna Nancherla about what food?
"I don't wanna run out of BLANK in front of my friends." So said Nate Bargatze, about the anxiety of ordering what food?
"If the BLANK was a pie chart of what people would do if they found a million dollars, she gave me the 'donate to charity' slice." So said Mitch Hedberg about what pie-chart-shaped food?
Begun in the Queensland outback in 1997, and now boasting a prize purse of $500,000, the Boulia is Australia's biggest race for what kind of animal?
The Berber people sometimes fashioned tents from the hair of Bactrians, one of the two major types of what ridable critter?
What "ship of the desert" is most famous for its body's ability to absorb 25 gallons of water in 5-10 minutes?
Running vertically front and center, the busk is the most important structural element of what article of clothing?
Manet's "Nana" shows a courtesan during some down time, wearing a blue example of what bit of shapewear?
French Queen Catherine de Medici put a ban on thick waists at her court, legendarily enforcing it with the invention of what cinching device?