Happy 100th Birthday, Route 66
celebrity Books
Only heard in plural
What the TV show title means
movie formulas
Famous Moms
100
Soon after its 1926 creation, Route 66 was sold as the "best & most scenic route from Chicago through St. Louis to" this city
Los Angeles
100
He shared insight on his life & career on the basketball court in "The Mamba Mentality: How I Play"
kobe bryant
100
Without an "S" it's an adjective; with an "S", it's a noun for precious items kept in a safe or safe deposit box
valuables
100
A beloved sitcom:
A nickname for the Manhattan skyscraper where the sketch show "TGS" is filmed
30 Rock
100
Matt Damon +
World war II -
3 brothers =
this title rescue mission
Saving Private Ryan
100
She is the celebrity mother of actress Carrie Fisher
Debbie Reynolds
200
This vehicle was driven in the tv show named after the famous Route, the show premiered in 1960 and ran til 1964 and was an adventure crime drama traversing the US
corvette
200
In a 2025 book Paul McCartney tells the story of this post-Beatles band on the run that included his wife Linda
wings
200
A promotion & a new baby? Well, these, definitely plural, are definitely "in order"
congratulations
200
Set in the 18th century: also an epithet applied to Catherine, Empress of Russia
The Great
200
Jimmy Stewart -
the will to live on Christmas Eve =
this 1946 holiday classic
It's a Wonderful Life
200
Jamie Lee Curtis's mom Janet Leigh was most for Marion Crane in this iconic Movie. Although she was only in the movie a short while.
Psycho
300
So-called built from this material used in insulation were once advertising fixtures along the road; many still stand today
Fiberglass
300
Her kids' book of "Fables" includes a retelling of "The Tortoise & the Hare" & "The Three Little Pigs", but nothing about a black swan
Natalie Portman
300
Even the maddest supervillain can't blow anything to just one of this plural 11-letter word
smithereens
300
Nothing to do with horses, it's the bland, innocuous category that Emilia Clarke & Haley Lu Richardson fit into in a 2026 show
Ponies
300
This bad guy +
6 Infinity Stones
x 1/2
the population =
"Avengers: Infinity War"
Thanos
300
Melanie Griffins mom was terrorized by Birds in the is famous Alfred Hitchcock movie
Tippi Hedren
400
On Route 66 in Erick, Oklahoma, the 100th Meridian Museum honors the unofficial eastern boundary of this U.S./Canadian region
The Great Plains
400
This "Gilmore Girl" has written several books including the novel "Someday, Someday, Maybe", about a struggling actress
Graham
400
As well as the science of light, it's how something appears when it comes under public scrutiny
optics
400
The American tv sitcom adapted from a British series on the same name about a couple who moved into a house inhabited by these all from different eras of American history
Ghosts
400
Liam Neeson -
a daughter +
a very particular set of skills =
this 2008 film
Taken
400
Blythe Danner is the famous mom of this actress who made her screen debut as a young Wendy in Hook
Gwyneth Paltrow
500
Steinbeck coined this famous nickname for Route 66 in "The Grapes of Wrath", where the highway is a lifeline for refugees in flight
the Mother Road
500
Al Roker's "The Storm of the Century" tells of the deadly hurricane that ravaged this Texas seaport in 1900
Galveston
500
These tricks or escapades sound like they have an Irish origin, but no one really knows
shenanigans
500
On HBO:
The 98% of the world's population who didn't mysteriously disappear
the Leftovers
500
Javier Bardem +
coin toss +
cattle gun -
many a friendo =
this Coen brothers film
No Country for Old Men
500
Liza Minnellis famous mom had dreams of one day going over the rainbow
Judy Garland