BEFORE & AFTER SONGS
1964 Righteous Brother's hit features in Top Gun. Simon & Garfunkel 1966 hit.
YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVING FEELING GROOVY
Dennis Hopper won a Best Villain MTV Movie Award for menacing a bus in this film
SPEED
1947 : There were a number of reports of a mysterious flying disc (spaceship) landing in this NM town.
ROSWELL
You probably haven't seen one of these since grade school
TIMES TABLE (MULTIPLICATION TABLE)
It was inspired by a 1621 harvest feast
THANKSGIVING
According to the Eagles, 'You can check in here but you can never leave!' The Beach Boys wish they all could be these.
HOTEL CALIFORNIA GIRLS
John Malkovich is a menace in the skies as the felon Cyrus the Virus in this 1997 thriller
CON AIR
In 1949 this famous chef was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria.
WOLFGANG PUCK
It's the part of a phonograph that spins the record
A TURNTABLE
It's handy to put facilities for this gasoline additive right in fields of the Midwestern corn it's made from
ETHANOL
The Police sing this stalker's ballad. A-Ha song with an iconic music video.
EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE ON ME
Played with cackling excellence by Ian McDiarmid this character returned from the dead in Star Wars: Episode IX
EMPEROR PALPATINE
2000: This book was released simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. The initial run was over 5 million books with many booksellers opened at midnight for devoted followers to get their copy.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
This Arizona city whose Spanish name means table was founded by Mormons in 1878
MESA
Beowulf features several of these feudal warriors who serve their liege
THANES
Bon Marley song reminding the woman of the good memories, and the fact that “everything's gonna be alright”. Justin Timberlake break-up song.
NO WOMAN NO CRY ME A RIVER
The man behind the woman behind the knife in cinema’s greatest shower scene
NORMAN BATES in PSYCHO
1839 This American businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the Standard Oil Company was born.
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER
It's the chemical formula for table salt
NACL
Euphuism an artificially elegant prose style came into fashion in this royal period of English literature
ELIZABETHAN
Chuck Berry song 'Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans'. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch hit song (The Beach Boys are also pick up these).
JOHNNY B GOOD(E) VIBRATIONS
“A great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame.” This villain is the Dark Lord of Mordor.
SAURON
1777: This New England state adopted its constitution that abolished slavery, becoming the first region in the now United States to abolish slavery.
VERMONT
The autocrat of the Breakfast-Table is a book of essays by this writer & father of a Supreme Court justice
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.
In Greek mythology this 8-letter figure is the personification of death
THANATOS