Below & Within
This hypnotic, melodic subgenre of electronic music represented by Above & Beyond gets its name from its ability to induce an elevated, altered state of consciousness.
What is Trance?
This little Japanese key chain pet required constant care.
What is a Tamagotchi?
Invented in the 1990s by Houston's legendary DJ Screw, this influential hip-hop production technique involves slowing down the tempo of a song and slicing up the vinyl tracks.
What is Chopped and Screwed?
This corrupted, wretched creature spent centuries hiding in the Misty Mountains with the One Ring, referring to it exclusively as his "Precious."
Who is Gollum (or Sméagol)?
Jamie Lee Curtis earned her definitive "Scream Queen" title by outlasting the knife-wielding Michael Myers as the resourceful babysitter Laurie Strode in this 1978 John Carpenter masterpiece.
What is Halloween?
This massive European country hosts "Tomorrowland," one of the world's largest electronic music festivals where euphoric and progressive trance stages draw hundreds of thousands of fans annually.
What is Belgium
In her futuristic 2000 music video for this hit song, this singer rocked an iconic red latex jumpsuit on planet Mars.
What is "Oops, I did it again"
Houston's former NFL team relocated to Tennessee in 1997.
What are the Oilers?
Frodo and Sam must journey to this desolate, volcanic region of Middle-earth to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom.
What is Mordor?
In the climactic finale of this 1974 gritty slasher film, Sally Hardesty becomes the ultimate "Final Girl," hysterically laughing in the back of a pickup truck after narrowly escaping Leatherface.
What is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
This French DJ Duo broke records with their contribution to the latest GTA 6 trailer.
What is Justice?
In January 2000, EA Games released this life simulation game that let players build houses and control the everyday actions of virtual people, instantly turning "Rosebud" into a legendary cheat code.
What is "The Sims"?
In 1993, this renowned Houston modern art museum—famous for its masterworks by Rothko and Twombly—made international headlines when a local art student vandalized a multimillion-dollar Picasso painting by spray-painting a bull onto it.
What is the Menil?
While filming a scene in The Two Towers, Viggo Mortensen famously broke two of his toes when he passionately kicked this orclike piece of battlefield armor.
What is a helmet?
Heather Langenkamp portrayed Nancy Thompson, the quick-thinking heroine who rigs her house with booby traps to pull the villain out of the dream world in this 1984 film.
What is Nightmare on Elm Street?
Before Above & Beyond, this Dutch DJ icon brought trance into the mainstream, famously performing his track "Traffic" at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens.
Who is Tiesto
Premiering in 1999 and exploding into a multi-billion dollar Y2K phenomenon, this animated Nickelodeon series introduced a character who guards a special recipe.
What is Spongebob Squarepants?
Originally built in 1926 as a drinking water reservoir, this subterranean concrete space near Buffalo Bayou was forgotten for decades before being rediscovered and converted into a haunting public art space famous for its 17-second acoustic echo.
What is the (Buffalo Bayou) Cistern?
hen Frodo is first recovering in Rivendell, Gandalf reveals that after the Ringwraiths stabbed him on Weathertop, the fragment of the blade was slowly migrating toward this organ.
What is the heart?
The "heroine" of this movie gets a bucket of pig blood poured on her..which makes her go berserk.
What is "Carrie"?
Referring to both a chemical element and a psychiatric drug, this song was a single off of the popular 1992 grunge rock album "Nevermind"
What is Nirvana?
In 2000, this megastar pop group teamed up with Chrysler to launch a special "Signature Edition" version of the Plymouth Voyager minivan, complete with their logo stamped on the headrests.
Who is *NSYNC?
A staple of local outsider art lore, the famous "Beer Can House" in the West End neighborhood was created by John Milkovisch, who spent 18 years covering his home in an estimated 50,000 beer cans manufactured by this specific regional Texas brewery.
What is the Pearl Brewing Company?
Before he was corrupted by Saruman, the treacherous Gríma Wormtongue served as the chief counselor to this King of Rohan.
Who is King Théoden?
In the opening scene of Scream 4, this future Oscar-winning La La Land actress makes a brief, hilarious cameo as a movie character complaining about the logical absurdities of the Stab slasher franchise right before getting stabbed herself.
Who is Emma Stone?