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Guenther Steiner

Guenther Steiner (Günther Steiner), Italian motorsport engineer; team principal of Haas F1 Team 2016–2024, earlier Jaguar Racing MD and Red Bull technical operations director; Drive to Survive star; later Tech3 MotoGP part-owner.

Guerbet reaction

The Guerbet reaction, named for French chemist Marcel Guerbet, is a catalytic coupling of two alcohols with loss of water, forming a longer-chain, β-branched primary alcohol used industrially for over a century.

Guercino

Guercino, the professional name of Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591–1666), was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese school who worked chiefly in Cento and later led Bologna's painting school.

Guéridon service

Guéridon service is table service in which dishes are prepared, carved, dressed, or flambéed in front of guests on a movable trolley, traditionally in fine dining.

Guerlain

Guerlain is a French perfume and cosmetics house founded in Paris in 1828 by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, known for Shalimar and Mitsouko and owned by LVMH since 1994.

Guernésiais

Guernésiais (Dgèrnésiais, Guernsey French) is the endangered Norman language of Guernsey, Channel Islands; no official orthography, 1,327 fluent speakers at the 2001 census, only 6-7 proficient speakers under 60.

Guernica

Guernica (Basque Gernika; official name Gernika-Lumo) is a Bizkaia town of about 17,000, seat of the Basque assemblies under the Tree of Gernika, bombed in 1937 and namesake of Picasso's painting.

Guernica (magazine)

Guernica is a New York-based online literary magazine founded in 2004 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit covering arts and politics. Founded by Joel Whitney and Michael Archer; volunteer-run, retracted a 2024 essay, named Youmna Melhem Chamieh editor-in-chief in 2025; distinct from Guernica Editions.

Guernica (Picasso)

Guernica is Pablo Picasso's 1937 oil mural, 349.3 x 776.6 cm, painted for the Spanish Republic's pavilion at the Paris Exposition in response to the bombing of Gernika; held at Madrid's Museo Reina Sofía since 1992.

Guernsey

Guernsey, principal island of the Bailiwick of Guernsey (with Alderney and Sark), a self-governing British Crown Dependency outside the UK; finance-heavy £2bn-plus economy, own tax system, pound sterling, 282,028 visitors in 2025.

Guernsey power station

Guernsey Power Station is a 1,875 MW natural gas combined-cycle power plant in Guernsey County near Byesville, Ohio, operating since 2023 and selling into the PJM market.

Güeros

Güeros is a 2014 Mexican black-and-white road-movie comedy-drama, Alonso Ruizpalacios's debut, set during the 1999-2000 UNAM student strike; it won Berlinale Best First Film, San Sebastián Horizontes, Tribeca prizes, and five Ariel Awards.

Guerra

Guerra: surname of several Olympic athletes, chiefly Evandro Guerra (Brazilian volleyball, Rio 2016 gold), Pietro Guerra (Italian cyclist, Tokyo 1964 silver), Patricia Guerra (Spanish sailing gold 1992), plus Cuban, Mexican, and Argentine Olympians.

Guerra de Titanes (2025)

Guerra de Titanes (2025) was a professional wrestling event produced by Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide on December 20, 2025 at Arena Guadalajara in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Guerrero

Guerrero is a Pacific-coast state of Mexico created in 1849 from México, Puebla, and Michoacán territory, named for Vicente Guerrero, with capital Chilpancingo, resort Acapulco, high poverty, and among the country's highest violence costs.

Guerrero guerrilla movement

The Guerrero guerrilla movement was a rural insurgency in Mexico's Guerrero state, chiefly Lucio Cabañas's Partido de los Pobres and Genaro Vázquez's ACNR, active from 1967 to 1974.

Guerrilla Games

Guerrilla Games, Amsterdam-based Dutch studio behind Killzone and Horizon, founded 2003 from a three-studio merger, acquired by Sony in 2005, creator of the Decima engine used by Kojima Productions for Death Stranding.

Guerrilla marketing

Guerrilla marketing, also known as guerrilla advertising, is promotion through unconventional, surprising actions that reach large audiences at low cost, a term coined by Jay Conrad Levinson in 1984.

Guerrilla theatre

Guerrilla theatre uses surprise political performances in public places before unsuspecting audiences, coined in 1965 for the San Francisco Mime Troupe and later by ACT UP and the Guerrilla Girls.

Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare, or guerrilla war, is combat waged by irregular fighters through swift, small-scale operations against conventional military and police units, popularized during the Peninsular War of 1808–14.

Guerrillas on the Plain

Guerrillas on the Plain (平原游击队), 1955 Changchun Film Studio black-and-white war film by Su Li and Wu Zhaodi; guerrilla leader Li Xiangyang fights Japanese captain Matsui in 1943 Hebei; remade in color and as model opera in 1974.

Guerrillero Heroico

Guerrillero Heroico ("Heroic Guerrilla Fighter") is Alberto Korda's March 5, 1960 photograph of Che Guevara, taken at the La Coubre funeral in Havana; the most reproduced photo in history, spread worldwide from 1967.

Guerschon Yabusele

Guerschon Yabusele, "Dancing Bear", French power forward born 1995 in Dreux; 2016 Celtics first-round pick, EuroLeague 2023 champion with Real Madrid, two-time Olympic silver medalist, later 76ers, Knicks, Bulls, and Panathinaikos.

Guess (song)

Guess (song): Charli XCX electroclash track from the Brat deluxe edition, released 10 June 2024; its Billie Eilish remix of 1 August 2024, produced by the Dare and Finneas, hit UK Number 1.

Guess Who (film)

Guess Who is a 2005 American comedy directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan, starring Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher in a loose remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Guess Who?

Guess Who? (Wie is het?) is a 1979 two-player deduction board game by Israeli designers Ora and Theo Coster, published by Milton Bradley and now Hasbro, using yes-or-no questions to identify a hidden character.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is Stanley Kramer's 1967 Columbia comedy-drama starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton, about a liberal couple facing their daughter's engagement to a Black doctor; it won two Oscars and was Tracy's final film.

Guess Who's Coming to Skinner

"Guess Who's Coming to Skinner" is the 800th episode of The Simpsons (Season 37, Episode 10), aired December 7, 2025. Written by John Frink, directed by Rob Oliver, guest starring Kieran Culkin as runaway student Hub.

Guest appearance

Guest appearance: a TV or film performance by a non-regular cast member, also called guest star or guest-starring role. Defined by cast tiers, SAG-AFTRA major-role pay minimums, and Emmy guest eligibility under 50% of episodes.

Guest from the Future

Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего) is a 1984 Soviet five-part children's sci-fi TV film by Pavel Arsenov, based on Kir Bulychev's novella One Hundred Years Ahead, starring Natalia Guseva as Alisa Seleznyova; televised March 1985, it sparked "alisomania" and a 2024 remake.