POP CULTURE FORECAST
CAUTION: WORD CONSTRUCTION ZONE
IT'S CORN
SCARY MOVIES
DISNEYLAND 70th CELEBRATION
IN THE WEEDS
400
It's not just a regular pea-souper, there's a lethal fog coming for London in season 1 of this royal Netflix show
The Crown
400
Got up from bed
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mother of Jesus
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this herb
rosemary
400
A 2023 survey by the National Confectioners Association found 18% of folks eat the wide yellow end of this sweet first
candy corn
400
Black people are mysteriously disappearing in this 2017 directorial debut of Jordan Peele
Get Out
400
A merry-go-round at L.A.'s Griffith Park inspired Walt Disney to create his theme park, & Disneyland's carousel was one of the original attractions; Jingles here was dedicated to Julie Andrews, honoring her role as this classic Disney film character
Mary Poppins
400
The flowers of this yard weed, also known as wild endive & puffball, can be used to produce a pale yellow dye
a dandelion
800
Looks like a downpour is coming on the wedding day of Axl Rose & Stephanie Seymour in this music video
"November Rain"
800
Shakespeare wrote "All the world" is one
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a sports team leader
=
this transport
a stagecoach
800
The Dept. of Energy notes that more than 98% of U.S. gasoline contains this product primarily made from corn
ethanol
800
In 1984, a house in Hollywood got the cinematic address 1428 this for the first time
Elm Street
800
In 2019, Disneyland opened a new land, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, complete with this starship, flown by Han Solo & Chewbacca
the Millennium Falcon
800
The world record for number of leaves on a stem of this, Trifolium repens, is 56 found in Japan in 2009; that's 14 times the luck!
a shamrock (clover)
1200
The forecast says "No rain coming to the town of Dirt" in a 2011 movie; but what is coming is this chameleon voiced by Johnny Depp
Rango
1200
Type of corvid
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place where a mixologist works
=
this prying tool
a crowbar
1200
The Missouri Meerschaum Company is the world's oldest manufacturer of this item made from a corn's core
corncob pipes
1200
The first Oscar in the new Makeup category went to Rick Baker in 1982 for turning David Naughton into one of these (in London)
a werewolf
1200
As envisioned by Walt Disney & his earliest Imagineers, Main Street, U.S.A., with its turn-of-the-century nostalgia, was inspired in part by Walt's own upbringing in this state; "show me"!
Missouri
1200
A brown Crayola color is named for this plant that blows down the streets of Western towns
a tumbleweed
1600
Like the band Glass Animals, your weatherman admits these "been faking me out", but real ones will happen in summer
heat waves
1600
Cautionary golf yell
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dark image caused by the Sun
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this, something an author does
foreshadow
1600
The murals at the Mitchell Corn Palace in this state are designed by students at a nearby university
South Dakota
1600
Bram Stoker's widow got a court order to have this 1922 German silent classic destroyed--but it survived, as vampires do
Nosferatu
1600
One of the original features at Disneyland when it opened in 1955, Sleeping Beauty Castle drew inspiration from this famous castle in Bavaria
Neuschwanstein
1600
The common type of this weed, genus ambrosia, can set off hay fever symptoms
ragweed
2000
The wind is out of the west, north... every direction at 0 mph per the title of this 1989 Nicole Kidman boating thriller
Dead Calm
2000
Soft bird plumage
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members of a play
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this, describing a look of dejection
downcast
2000
In "The Omnivore's Dilemma", this author writes, "You are what you eat... & if this is true, then what we mostly are is corn"
(Michael) Pollan
2000
This 1973 cult classic about pagan rites on a small Scottish isle ends with the burning of the title effigy--& some other things
Wicker Man
2000
One of Adventureland's star attractions is the Jungle Cruise, taking you along remote rivers on boats originally inspired by the ones skippered by Humphrey Bogart in this classic film
The African Queen
2000
Milk, Russian & bull are types of this prickly stemmed weed
thistles
