While working at the Plaza Hotel - when he was all of 18 - what familiar Italian chef catered then-President Wilson's second wedding?
By providing rations to U.S. WW2 soldiers, what naturalized Clevelander turbo-charged the rise of his canned-pasta empire?
To this day, you can buy cans of ravioli and Beefaroni bearing the mug of what dude whose first name was Ettore?
Galvanizing steel involves what metallic element from the German for "spike"?
If you're wiring up a potato clock or just smelting some brass, copper needs to get freaky with what Z-element?
Since 1982 U.S. pennies have had cores of what 4-letter metal that (coincidentally) almost rhymes with "extinct"?
"Trouble in Tahiti" is a one-act opera from 1952 by what American composer?
What Leonard led the New York Philharmonic for all of the '60s, and as laureate until his death in 1990?
"West Side Story" was composed by what guy who's otherwise known for having his name yelled by REM in "It's the End of the World As We Know It"?
Who voiced Sid the sloth in the "Ice Age" movies?
For reasons still mysterious to this day, what Colombian-born actor played Luigi in the first Mario Bros. movie?
"Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet": Two Baz Luhrmann gigs for what guy whose last name anagrams to GAUZE LIMO?
Somehow, the sheep secretion called lanolin inspired the name of what skin-care brand that debuted in 1952?
In 1999, after years of effectively billing itself as oil-free "Oil," what four-letter Procter & Gamble brand dropped the "Oil of" from its name altogether?
People at soccer matches and bull fights worldwide accidentally shout the name of what personal-care brand that, again, is named for something completely different?