Novels by Quote
"I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel"
What is War of the Worlds?
Tom Hanks: "Flavortown, we have a problem"
What is Houston?
Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number.
What is infinity?
Star Wars Day (May the Fourth) is immediately followed by this day.
What is Revenge of the Fifth?
Both discovered in 1610, Callisto & Io are 2 of its satellites.
What is Jupiter?
"No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal"
What is Animal Farm?
Brad Pitt: "The first rule of chess club is: you do not talk about chess club"
What is Fight Club?
The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13".
What is a slide rule?
May is named for the goddess Maia, in some versions the daughter of this titan condemned to hold up the heavens
Who is Atlas?
Calculating device developed in ancient times also called a "reckoning board".
What is an abacus?
"What you see there are not giants, but windmills"
What is Don Quixote?
Patrick Swayze: "Nobody puts Jay-Z in a corner"
What is Baby?
Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom.
What is Little Man Tate?
This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May"
What is "My Girl"?
This machine part "ratio" tells you how many times a little wheel has to turn for the big wheel it meshes with to turn once.
What is the gear ratio?
"When I walk down the street I bet people will say there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in the game"
What is The Natural?
Judy Garland: "Lions and tigers and Labradoodles, oh my!"
What is bears?
The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film.
What is The Da Vinci Code?
In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional
What is Brown?
It refers to any drawing material in stick form, not just the ones made of wax.
What is crayon?
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer"
What is Dune?
Ice Cube: "Bye, amnesia"
What is Felicia?
I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity.
What is Proof?
Related to the ancient scarab, it's also called the May beetle, but that's arguably a bit premature
What is the June bug?
53, 54, 55, __ (use base 6)
100 is the next number