What are Ewoks?
New category: Space travel
This American spacecraft was designed to hold two astronauts
What is Gemini?
- She was the first living creature to orbit the Earth in a manmade craft, on board the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
Who was Laika?
- One of the original Mercury Seven, in 1974 he became the first astronaut to be elected to the US Senate.
Who is John Glenn?
- The launch of the Discovery shuttle on September 29, 1988, is significant for this reason.
What is first mission after the explosion of the Challenger? (Alex would never have abided a clue that requires such a clunky answer.)
- As of today, the crew of this Soviet space mission are the only three humans to die in space
What was Soyuz 11?
New category:
National Basketball Association
- This man holds the record for the second-most points in a game in NBA history, with 81 scored against the Toronto Raptors.
Who is Kobe Bryant?
- The Minneapolis Lakers famously suffered a close defeat in 1948 against this exhibition team
Who are the Harlem Globetrotters?
- This team won the Championship in the two years ('94 and '95) when the star of the Chicago Bulls decided to play baseball.
Yeah, I thought the same way. Maybe “What is the first launch, post-Challenger”?
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Who are the Houston Rockets?
- This former ABA team is the first to win an NBA title, post ABA-merger.
Who are the San Antonio Spurs?
- This outspoken player was nicknamed “Sir Charles” and “The Round Mound of Rebound.”
Who is Charles Barkley?
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New category: Phobias
- A person afraid of the number 13 has this condition
What is triskaidekaphobia?
- Ailurophobia does not mean the fear of allure; it’s this condition
What is a fear of cats?
- Coulrophobia is a fear of this
What are clowns?
- Renowned author Isaac Asimov suffered from this fear of open spaces, which several of his protagonists shared
What is agoraphobia?
- Cyanophobia is the fear of this four-legged animal, which was domesticated by humans in antiquity.
What are dogs?
New category: The Dreaded Opera Category.
- Count Almaviva plots to seduce the title character’s bride in this Mozart work
What is “The Marriage of Figaro”?
- The only opera written by Beethoven, which was originally titled “Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love.”
What is Fidelio?
- This opera by Rossini also revolves around the character of Figaro from “The Marriage of Figaro”.
What is “The Barber of Seville”? Yes, I watched the Bugs Bunny version.
- Wagner interrupted his epic Ring cycle to composed this tragic love story.