92 Bungee jumping on Tuesday, skydiving on Wednesday, etc.? : ADVENTURE CALENDAR (from “Advent calendar”) The title character is played by Scarlett Johansson, a role that she played in several earlier films. “Black Widow” is a 2021 superhero movie in the Marvel Comics universe. Kurylenko played the Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond movie “Quantum of Solace”. Olga Kurylenko is a Ukrainian actress and model. 83 Actress Kurylenko of “Black Widow” : OLGA The name “S-Class” stands for “Sonderklasse”, which translates from German as “special class”. The S-Class is the most luxurious line of Mercedes cars, and is the world’s best-selling luxury sedan. QED stands for the Latin “quod erat demonstrandum” meaning “that which was to be demonstrated”. The initialism “QED” is used at the end of a mathematical proof or a philosophical argument. Originally a stoolie was a decoy for the police, rather than an informer, hence the name. A stool pigeon was a decoy bird tied to a stool so as to lure other pigeons. Stoolies, also called “canaries”, will “sing” to the cops given the right incentive. 69 Some informants, informally : STOOLIES She recorded the 1984 song “Sugar Walls” that was composed for her by Prince under the pseudonym “Alexander Nevermind”. Easton collaborated with American singer Prince on many projects. She was big in the eighties with songs like “9 to 5” (released as “Morning Train” in the US) and “For Your Eyes Only”, which is the theme song for the James Bond film of the same name. Bryant married fellow comedian Conner O’Malley in 2018. 45 “S.N.L.” alum Bryant : AIDYĪctor and comedian Aidy Bryant made her debut on “Saturday Night Live” in 2012. Igor is almost invariably portrayed as a hunchback. In the world of movies, Igor has been the assistant to Dracula, Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein among others. 44 Clichéd name for a lab assistant : IGOR According to the ancient Jewish work called the Book of Jubilees, Enos married his own sister Noam. 43 Biblical grandson of Adam and Eve : ENOSĮnos was the son of Seth, and therefore the grandson of Adam and Eve, and nephew of Cain and Abel. “The Washington Post” was purchased in 2013 by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of. Famously, “The Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the media’s investigation into what we now called the Watergate scandal. “The Washington Post” (WaPo) is the oldest paper still being published in the DC area, having been founded in 1877. 36 Public stance of a member of Congress? : WASHINGTON POSTURE (from “Washington Post”) It is often ordered with a side of hanh dam, pickled white onions. Pho (pronounced “fuh”) is a noodle soup from Vietnam that is a popular street food. Interesting, huh …? 35 Bowlful with Thai basil and bean sprouts : PHO It is from this sense of maintaining a distance that aloof came to mean “distant” in terms of personality. A helmsman might be instructed to stay aloof, to steer the boat into the weather to keep a distance from a lee-shore. Originally “aloof” meant “to windward” and was the opposite of “alee”. I suppose one might guess from the “feel” of the word “aloof” that it has nautical roots. “Kitsch” is a German word, an adjective that means “gaudy, trash”. They have been around since the 1600s, but really took off in the 1850s when production ramped up in the Black Forest region of Germany for the export market. 27 Components of some kitschy clocks : CUCKOOSĬuckoo clocks are usually regulated with a pendulum and signal the hour with the appearance of a cuckoo and the sound of a cuckoo’s call. ![]() As such, coursing dogs like greyhounds are often referred to as “sighthounds”. Coursing is the pursuit of game by sight, rather than scent. Greyhound dogs were originally bred for coursing game, and today are bred for greyhound racing. After the Dada movement began to decline in the 1920s, Arp became associated with the Surrealist movement and continued to explore the possibilities of abstraction in his art. In 1916, he co-founded the Zurich Dada movement with artists such as Tristan Tzara and Hugo Ball. In the early years of his career, Arp experimented with a range of styles, including Expressionism, Cubism, and Futurism. ![]() Jean Arp was a prominent artist and sculptor who played a crucial role in the development of the Dada and Surrealist movements at the beginning of the 20th century. They can also be very large lizards, sometimes growing to a length of six feet. There are times when pet iguanas need heat from an IR lamp to maintain body temperature. Milligram (mg) 4 In South America they’re known as “gallinas de palo,” or “chickens of the tree” : IGUANASĪn iguana is a lizard, and as such is cold-blooded. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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