Starting in 2001, who was the first woman in SNL history to be promoted to repertory player in her first season?
This year, the first ever Golden Globe for Best Podcast went to "Good Hang" with what founding member of the Upright Citizen's Brigade?
Leslie Knope in "Parks and Rec" and Joy in "Inside Out" were both played by what noted cool mom from "Mean Girls"?
Common in Southeast Asia, trepanging is the process of fishing for what invertebrates of the class Holothuria?
Known for vomiting or everting their stomachs like starfish, what veggie-looking echinoderms have a unique anus-based respiratory system?
Sea apples share a genus with what similarly-named invertebrates that make terrible pickles?
Opening on a leafless tree, "Nothing to be done," is the very first line of what two-act play?
Keanu Reeves played Vladimir and Alex Winter played Estragon in the most recent Broadway adaptation of what Samuel Beckett work?
An absurd take on absurdity, Sesame Street's "Waiting for Elmo" is a blatant parody of what ostensibly pointless play?
The perpetually-burning Darvaza gas crater and the golden Neutrality Monument can be found in what seldom-visited country?
Marble-clad Ashgabat is the capital city of what Central Asian nation where former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov once tried to rename January after himself?
If you were to list out the "-stan" countries alphabetically, what country would be between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan?
Siberian kale and canola oil both come from the species of plant whose roots are harvested as what often-waxed vegetable?
Thought to be a cross between a turnip and a cabbage, what sweet plant was likely first farmed in Finland or Scandinavia?
Fittingly the Swedish word for a "root bag" gave us the name of what fun-to-say purple and yellow veggie?