Sometime during the Cretaceous period, what river now connected to the Orinoco changed directions and started flowing from the Pacific to the Atlantic?
Piranhas, electric eels, and a pink freshwater dolphin are all native to what river whose headwaters are in Peru?
Named after a group of warrior women, what massive South American river flows through the largest rain forest in the world?
Capable of printing stock prices via telegraph at about a character per second, the Universal Stock Ticker was an early success for what Ohioan?
While head of the "Black Maria" film studio, what man produced the cinematic classics "The Great Train Robbery" and "Electrocuting an Elephant"?
What inventor based out of Menlo Park was awarded 1,093 patents during his life, including one for an incandescent light bulb?
Pretty damn aptly, what title was shared by the first episodes of “Lost” and “Pan Am”?
There’s not a single airline mentioned in the Elton John track “Take Me to the WHAT”?
What was the job of Tom Hanks’s character in “Sully” and Denzel’s in “Flight”?
Sven Lindqvist's "Exterminate All the Brutes" gets its title from what novel that Chinua Achebe wrote "Things Fall Apart" as a direct response to?
Searching for an ivory trader, Charles Marlow travels aboard a ship called Nellie, where most of the action takes place in what 1899 classic?
"The horror, the horror!" Both including a villainous Kurtz, "Apocalypse Now" is take on what Joseph Conrad story set in the Congo?
In 1994, RuPaul was the first spokesmodel for the Viva Glam lipstick line of what cosmetics company?
"It’s a Femininomenon." That's how what initialed makeup brand pitches Chappell Roan as their newest global ambassador?
In 1998, Estée Lauder gobbled up what Ruby Woo lipstick makers who have "make-up" and "cosmetics" hidden in their acronymic name?