SOUNDS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, BUT ISN'T
POP CULTURE JEOPARDY!
THAT'S FUN TO SAY!
TELEVISION MONSTERS
YOU SIX-Y THING
OSCARS FOR MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
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Anne Hathaway is tortured, but not in that way, by a nonetheless vicious Meryl Streep in this 2006 film
The Devil Wears Prada
400
During the 2024 Olympics, Stephen Nedoroscik took off his glasses & helped clinch a bronze for his gymnastics team during this event
pommel horse
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Meaning "impossible to doubt", in the English Bill of Rights, this 5-syllable word describes the rights of the people
indubitable
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On an episode of the show named for this dog, the Creeper is unmasked & "Zoinks! It's Mr. Carswell! The bank president!"
Scooby-Doo
400
On a baseball scorecard, "6" refers to this position
shortstop
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Makeup artist Ve Neill used moss to make Michael Keaton look like he crawled out from underneath a rock for this 1988 film
Beetlejuice
800
There's not haunting in "Ghosts of the Abyss", a documentary by this director
James Cameron
800
Gloria Hallelujah Woods is the government name of this Memphis rapper who spits bars on hits like "Yeah Glo!" & "TGIF"
GloRilla
800
In cricket, it sounds like scoring 1 × 10100 runs, but it's a bowler's delivery that spins toward the batsman
a googly
800
Flukeman from the Season 2 episode "The Host" was David Duchovny's favorite monster on this show
The X-Files
800
In the "12 Days Of Christmas", you get this fowl on the 6th day
geese
800
Frances Hannon & Mark Coulier won the award for this 2014 Wes Anderson film set in Zubrowka
The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Grisly ghost? No, this Bond title from 2015 refers to the criminal organization that's vexing him
Spectre
1200
CHD for short, this podcast hosted by Alex Cooper was bought by SiriusXM for $125 million
Call Her Daddy
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This type of lawyer or bureaucrat who deals in irritatingly minor issues sounds like he's generating a minor mist
a pettifogger
1200
Krumm, Ickis & Oblina were the main characters of this Nickelodeon show that begins with an interjection
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
1200
These subatomic particles can be up, down, top, bottom, charm or strange
quarks
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This man has won 7 Academy Awards for makeup, including one for his work on "An American Werewolf in London"
(Rick) Baker
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Jane Fonda had no bolts in her neck as the title family relation in this 2005 flick, but J. Lo wanted to scream anyway
Monster-in-Law
1600
She was the mother on "How I Met Your Mother" & the daughter of Carmine Falcone on the HBO show "The Penguin"
(Cristin) Milioti
1600
The 1827 observation of mammalian eggs helped end the theory that the embryo was this tiny person
a homunculus
1600
Geralt of Rivia battles a giant spider-like monster called a kikimora in the opening scene of this show
The Witcher
1600
Miss Moneypenny could tell you this other name for Great Britain's SIS, Secret Intelligence Service
MI6
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For this 2015 film, Lesley Vanderwalt got the idea for Furiosa's look from an image of a girl with clay across her forehead
Mad Max: Fury Road
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Daniel Day-Lewis dealt with frocks, not frights, in this 2017 Paul Thomas Anderson period piece
Phantom Thread
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Joshua Jackson & Phillipa Soo star in this ABC medical drama aboard a luxury cruise ship with a mythic name
Doctor Odyssey
2000
"Noah" is nowhere near as fun to say as this hero of the flood story in the "Epic of Gilgamesh"
Utnapishtim
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The acrobatic actor Nick Cravat played the gremlin that gave William Shatner some turbulence in this episode of "The Twilight Zone"
"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
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A sextant, which gets its name from the Latin for "six", is so-called because it spans 1/6 of one of these
a circle
2000
In her 2021 acceptance speech, hairstylist Mia Neal thanked Viola Davis & "the spirit of" this blues singer
Ma Rainey