Yael (old style: Jael) is a character in the Biblical book of Judges. She takes in Sisera, the captain of the Canaanite army, gets him drunk, and drives a tent peg through his head.

Hominidae is the name of the family that humans and apes belong to in scientific classification.

John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore, was a respected actor with the nickname "the Great Profile."

The Taj Mahal is located in the city of Agra, on the Yamuna River.

Sudan is the largest country in Africa by area.

Harold Hooper

Harold Hooper was the name of the store owner played by Will Lee on "Sesame Street." He died in 1982, leading to a very emotional episode dealing with the loss of a loved one.

Serena was the name of Samantha's mischievous and egocentric identical (but black-haired) twin on "Bewitched." She was played by Elizabeth Montogomery, obviously, but credited as Pandora Spocks.

Holofernes was as Assyrian general in the Catholic book of Judith; he was seduced, inebriated, and beheaded by her.

The Independence Bowl, an NCAA football game held annually at Shreveport, Louisiana, is so called because the tradition was begun in 1976.

The Bou Regreg is a river in Morocco, located between Rabat and Salé. Its estuary is Wadi Sala.

Suez Canal

The Suez Canal is notable in that it has no locks because of the similar water levels of the Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf.

Antonio Gaudi was a Spanish architect who spent 40 years working on the Church of the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona. He died in 1926, the temple still unfinished.

OUTATIME was the license plate of the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine in the movie Back To the Future.

George Kennan, the US ambassador to the USSR in 1952, was known as "the father of containment" because he inspired the isolationist foreign policy.

Michael Cassio is the lieutenant in Shakespeare's "Othello" whom Iago believes he has been unfairly passed over in favor of.

O-Lan is the name of a character in the novel (and movie) The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Born and sold a slave, she married farmer Wang Lung and becomes respectable, but the family's fortune slowly declines as China changes.

A Star Is Born is the name of three films about a woman who falls in love with an actor just as her career rises and his declines. The 1976 version starred Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and sounds just awful.

Dione

Dione is a moon of Saturn, discovered in 1684. It is named for a Titan in Greek mythology.  It is believed to have a rocky core with ice.

Montgomery, Alabama is called "the Cradle of the Confederacy" because it was the first capital of that traitorous collection of rogues, the CSA.

Noah's ark contained eight human passengers: Noah, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives. They must have been frightfully busy taking care of all those animals.

Houdini of the Hardwood

Bob Cousy was a point guard with the Boston Celtics. His nickname was "Houdini of the Hardwood" due to his seeming slight of hand with the ball.

Milan is known as "the fashion capital of the world;" Versace and Dolce are headquartered there. The word milliner is derived from the name of the city.

Art Blakey

Art Blakey was a jazz drummer who played bebop and hard bop. His band was called the Jazz Messengers. The message was jazz.

KLM, or Royal Dutch Airlines, is the oldest air carrier in the world, being founded in 1919. Congratulations, Dutch! Have a schmoke and a pancake!

Ole Olsen

Ole Olsen was a vaudeville comic who wrote the 1938 Broadway show 'Hellzapoppin' with pianist Chic Johnson.

The Granite State is the nickname of New Hampshire, because of the geology and because the people there are rock-hard!!

The core of the sun is around 28,000,000 degrees F. It's only 9,000,000 degrees F at the corona.

Brigadoon

Brigadoon is a musical by Lerner and Loewe about a mythical Scottish village that appears only once every 100 years. The story was based on a German legend. It was made into a movie as well.

Mortimer Snerd was a puppet used by Edgar Bergen, possibly with the catchphrase “Pretty stupid, huh?”

Oran is an Algerian fortress and port located on the Mediterranean. Setting of Camus' The Plague. In 1962 a massacre of European residents by Muslims took place there.

Will Geer was an actor who played Grandpa Walton. He was a social activist who toured with Woody Guthrie and was blacklisted by the HUAC.