ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY
CREATURES GREAT & SMALL
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM
MO ROCCA DRINKING VODKA WITH CHEWBACCA
100
You can breathe easy knowing photosynthesis causes plants to release this gas as a waste product
oxygen
100
That's what I call range! Rodrigo Prieto was behind the lens for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" & this 2023 Martin Scorsese drama
Killers of the Flower Moon
100
The largest of these flying mammals have wingspans of more than 5 feet
bats
100
Camille Pissarro painted over a dozen views of this European capital's boulevard Montmartre, only one of them at night
Paris
100
If Mo Rocca was munching on a latke in Osaka, he'd be enjoying a potato pancake in a city in this country
Japan
200
This element's "footprint" is everywhere: by definition, every compound studied by organic chemists contains it
carbon
200
Evocative images like Andy Dufresne standing in the rain savoring his freedom earned Roger Deakins an Oscar nom for his work on this film
Shawshank Redemption
200
Famous for its acrobatics as well as its songs, here's one of these whales breaching the water
humpback whale
200
He followed up his "Pietà " by sculpting "Day", "Dawn" , "Dusk" & "Night" for the tomb of the Medicis in Florence
Michaelangelo
200
If Mo Rocca was reading Kafka while eating moussaka, he'd be enjoying tales of alienation while consuming this purple produce
eggplant
300
Triglycerides are the most common type of this organic compound; healthy eaters steer clear of the saturated ones
fats
300
Erik Messerschmidt shot the film "Mank" primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique
Citizen Kane
300
Oddly, opossums are related to kangaroos, as both belong to this group of pouched mammals
a marsupial
300
Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work "Starlight Night"
Georgia O'Keefe
300
If Mo Rocca was unblocking a chakra in Opa-locka, he'd be doing yoga in a city in this southeasternmost U.S. state
florida
400
In chemistry, it's the unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 1023 of anything -- atoms, molecules... even mammals that burrow in your lawn
a mole
400
A custom periscope lens was used to film the cockpit of a WWII fighter plane in this 2017 drama by Christopher Nolan
Dunkirk
400
Seen here is one of the world's smallest mammals, the pygmy this, though we're not so sure about "the taming" of it
a shrew
400
In 1904, photographer Edward Steichen captured a now-iconic image of this triangular New York City building at twilight
The flatiron building
400
If Mo Rocca and Neil Sedaka were shouting "Wocka! Wocka! Wocka!", they would be crying out this Muppet's catchphrase
Fozzie bear
500
Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive
radicals
500
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, this 2021 sci-fi epic was shot digitally, then transferred to film & then scanned back into digital
Dune
500
Growing up to 14 feet & almost 2,000 pounds, the Atlantic bluefin is the largest variety of this food fish
a tuna
500
In the early 1920s, he brought the angst of "The Scream" to a series of night sky paintings, some featuring his own shadow
Edvard Munch
500
If Mo Rocca blurted "Boomshakalaka" during "Ninotchka", he'd be reacting excitedly to a 1939 movie starring this Swedish film legend
Greta Garbo