Season 243

The following events all took place in which decade?
The volcanic island of Krakatoa violently erupts and drastically alters global temperatures.
Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday face off in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and patents a roll-film camera.
Princess Isabel of Brazil signs a law officially abolishing slavery in the nation.
Dr. Robert Koch announces his discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

Developed around 2000 by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, this online security measure requires users to decipher distorted text or identify specific images.
Functioning as a rapid, automated Turing test to distinguish humans from malicious bots, what is the seven-letter acronym for this system?

Which short, stiff, multilayered skirt is most closely associated with classical ballet and takes its name from a French childish word for “bottom”?
Worn over a leotard and especially linked to roles in Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, it became an enduring symbol of the ballerina.

Served to U.S. soldiers near the front lines in France by female volunteers, which sweet treat became a massive stateside favorite after World War I?
Early recipes placed a nut in the center to mask undercooked dough, and it is celebrated today with a holiday established by the Salvation Army to raise Depression-era funds and honor those wartime women.

Which national intelligence agency, founded in 1949, is responsible for overseas espionage and covert operations for the State of Israel?
Its name is simply the Hebrew word for “Institute,” acting as a shorthand for the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.

Written when its author was still a teenager, which 1967 coming-of-age novel follows Ponyboy Curtis and the conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in Tulsa, Oklahoma?
A landmark of young adult fiction, it was later adapted into a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Inspired by a newspaper report about a man who left a suicide note reading “I walk a lonely street,” which 1956 Elvis Presley song became his first number-one hit and helped define his early career?
Its title evokes a specific place of emotional isolation.

Widely believed to derive from the French word for “egg,” which affectionate four-letter English word is used to denote a scoreless state in a sport with a unique scoring system?

Which physical quantity describes the rate of change of an object’s position and includes both speed and direction, distinguishing it from directionless motion?
In everyday physics, it is frequently paired with the word “terminal” to describe a falling skydiver, or “escape” when discussing a rocket leaving Earth.

Which strategy board game, originally developed in the Netherlands and later popularized by Milton Bradley, pits two armies of concealed ranks against each other in a battlefield of hidden information?
Featuring pieces such as the Marshal, Miner, Spy, and Bomb, it takes its name from the Greek word for “leader of an army.”

Which eponymous law states that once a metric becomes a target, it ceases to function as a reliable measure?
First formulated by an advisor to the Bank of England during 1970s monetary debates, it is now widely applied to business, education, and AI evaluation.

The following events all took place in which year?
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the 28th President of the United States.
Danish physicist Niels Bohr presents his revolutionary model of the atomic structure.
The Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence after being missing for two years.
Henry Ford introduces the first moving assembly line for the Model T.
Journalist Arthur Wynne publishes the world's first crossword puzzle.

Set in the “Little Apple” of Manhattan, Kansas, which HBO comedy-drama follows a woman named Sam rebuilding her life after a devastating personal loss?
Premiering in 2022 and starring Bridget Everett, the critically acclaimed series blends deadpan humor with themes of grief, friendship, and small-town resilience.

Which sport uses a vocabulary that includes the oche, a bag of nails, bed and breakfast, a sisal board, the treble ring, the madhouse, a chucker, and the bull out?
Not an Olympic sport, it nevertheless stages an annual world championship and has developed one of the most colorful terminologies in modern competition.