1. WARHOL / WHEATON / CANARD / RICTUS
Tongue-in-cheek units of measurement. A warhol is 15 minutes of fame (obviously), a wheaton is 500,000 Twitter followers (named after TV's Wil Wheaton), a canard measures how fake a medical or scientific practice is, and the rictus measures how much media coverage an earthquake receives.
2. TRAINS MUSSOLINI MADE RUN ON TIME / LAKES IN BRITAIN'S LAKE DISTRICT / EVENTS AT THE FIRST ANCIENT OLYMPICS / U.S. TOP 40 HITS BY RUSH
One. Contrary to popular belief, Mussolini never made all of the trains run on time. Lake Bassenthwaite is the only body of water in the Lake District actually called a lake. A 1-stadion foot race was the only event at the first Olympics in 776 BC. "New World Man" was the only Rush song to make the Billboard Top 40.
3. CROONER / BENTLEY / HAMMERHEAD / BACHARACH
Turns on the "Top Gear" test track.
4. TOUCAN / PUFFIN / PEGASUS / ZEBRA
Also a British connection here.
UK street crossings. Zebra crossings are perhaps the best known of the four. The stripes on the street give them away. We call them "crosswalks" in America.
5. BRIDEGROOMS / LILIES / CORKSCREWS / RADIATORS
Derivations of pasta names. Those are the translations of ziti, gigli, cavatappi, and radiatori. Yes, there is a pasta called "gigli". (Insert Notorious Turkey joke here.)
6. FERGIE / GLORIA ESTEFAN / SERENA & VENUS WILLIAMS / H. WAYNE HUIZENGA
I'm pretty sure that Gloria was born in Cuba, so "born in Miami" isn't the answer. There is a Miami connection, though. They're all
part owners of the Miami Dolphins.
7. MAN / NANA / GO / YON
Anglicized Japanese numbers. They mean 10,000, 7, 5, and 4.
8. BERMUDA / MALAY / CHAPI-CHAPI / KYTOON
Types of kites.
9. THE CALL OF CTHULHU / LOVE FOR LYDIA / THE MASTER AND MARGARITA / GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
Books that inspired lyrics to pop songs. "Cthulhu" inspired Metallica's "The Thing That Should Not Be". "Lydia" inspired Donna Lewis' massive dance hit "I Love You Always Forever". "Margarita" inspired the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil". "Rainbow" inspired Devo's "Whip It.
10.
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Rockets.
Picture #1 is Poison drummer Rikki Rockett. Picture #2 is Jeremy Lin of the NBA's Houston Rockets... or at least he was a Rocket at the time that I wrote this question. I haven't followed the NBA in over 3 years, and I don't care about the NBA anymore.
Picture #3 is former "Weekend Update" anchor Charles Rocket. Picture #4 is hockey legend Maurice "Rocket" Richard.
You know the questions have indeed gotten harder because more people are saving face.
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