South Korea recently unveiled the world's second-fastest electric train, whose acronymic name happens to be the same as what big bird?
In 1932, Australia trotted out machine guns to thin rampaging flocks of what big ugly bird that's on their coat of arms?
Standing up to 6 feet high, what briefly-named flightless birds are somehow only the world's second-tallest?
For some reason, the only collaboration between Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan was what 2004 remake of a 1956 adaptation of a much older French novel?
London, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, London: So goes the itinerary of what 1873 novel?
Phileas Fogg gets back to his London club after 1,915 hours, just barely winning the bet that drives the action of what Jules Verne classic?
What Mid-East nation recently saw its central bank head resign after a cratering of its currency value?
A dollar would buy you 32,000 rials after the 2015 nuclear deal. Now it'll buy you 1.42 million of them. What's that country?
After 36 years as Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei is now the region's longest-tenured head of state. Name that country!
From a cop in "The Crow" to Michael Jordan's dad, what 80-year-old has a lot of acting credits that don't have "Zeddemore" in them?
Oh yeah, he had one other big role: Who played Warden Leo Glynn in all 6 seasons of "Oz"?
You NEED NOURISH yourself, so what super-anagrammable Ghostbuster should probably open some sort of DINNER HOUSE?
Clancy's chips and Mama Cozzi's pizza are house brands from what chain?
In contrast to the 30,000-ish at a traditional supermarket, what grocery chain famously features around 1,500 different SKUs?
The Albrecht brothers founded it, so "Albrecht Discount" is the whole etymology of what rapidly-growing, quirky-ass chain?
