In 1799, Bellevue Hospital opened America's first maternity ward. A few decades later, it opened NYC's first facility of what type used at the other end of life?
Because it was way harder to tell if you were dead back then, 19th-century Germany had a special corporeal purgatory called a waiting WHAT?
It's a street, not an actual lab, so Poe didn't have one-stop-shopping in mind when he wrote "The Murders in the Rue" what m-word?
The 27th and most recent amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution during the single term of what president?
The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law by what guy whose predecessor was diagnosed with Alzheimer's?
Popular vote-wise, Ross Perot became the most successful third-party candidate in 80 years running against term of what father of a president?
Named one of the top 40 metal songs by the experts at VH1, a 1987 Anthrax track immortalized what punk/metal neologism?
A British physicist got kicked out of a classical concert in 2014, for trying to whip his fellow literati into what sort of dance vortex?
A Jamaican punk singer saying "mash" is the apparent etymology of what type of pit that fragile-boned people are advised to stay out of?
The first person to voluntarily decline a Nobel Prize was what French author in 1964?
"Hell is other people." That's the sorta-spoilery logline from "No Exit," by what existentialist?
"Being and Nothingness" is the consensus masterwork by what guy who rhymes with "fart" or "fart-ruh," depending on how you pronounce his name?
In 1964, what Rhode Island-based company coined the phrase "action figure"?
Before eBay and HP, Meg Whitman imported the vacant weirdness of Teletubbies to the U.S. as an executive at what My Little Pony company?
Would you believe it: In 1923, the Hassenfeld Brothers founded a toy empire that would eventually go by what shorter name?