Mystery Theme Quiz for November 25, 2021 by FlaxmanR

What modern country, whose first president was born Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa, was proclaimed a republic on October 29, 1923?

Professional taxidermists tend to prefer the term "mounting," but what other word is more colloquially used for the practice of filling an animal skin to preserve it for display?

One of the many supposed pieces of evidence for the "Paul is Dead" theory involving the Beatles was a line in the coda of "Strawberry Fields Forever" in which John Lennon can be heard saying, according to the theory, "I buried Paul." What was Lennon actually saying?

In Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart, a commonly eaten dish in the village of Umuofia is foo foo, made by pounding what root vegetable?

What common culinary vegetable, whose first stringless variety was developed in New York in 1894, is actually a Phaseolus vulgaris pod containing immature seeds?

What dance, popularized by James Brown and name-checked alongside the somewhat similar Twist in the 1962 song "Do You Love Me," involves stepping backwards with one foot, pivoting the heel from inward to outward, and then repeating the process?

The first and last segments in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction involve a romantically-involved pair of armed robbers played by Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, who refer to each other by pet names. Plummer's character is "Honey Bunny"; what is her pet name for Roth's character?

An early aviation pioneer, he was the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane in June 1910. What man, who tragically also became the first Briton killed in a powered aviation accident just one month after his Channel crossing, is better remembered today for an eponymous company founded in 1906 with engineer Henry Royce?

What word, likely derived from a misspelling of an Old French word for stew or spice, is sometimes used by Italian-Americans to describe a meat-based tomato sauce, in contrast to its more common culinary usage?

Huitlacoche, a delicacy in Mexican cuisine, involves a pathogenic fungus that develops on what staple food?

In an incident related - in a confusing fashion that has been debated for millennia - in the Book of Genesis, which of Noah's sons sees his father naked in his tent, resulting in Noah pronouncing a curse?

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