Animal Kingdom
Steven Jay Gould said this animal's "thumb" is an enlarged wrist bone that lets it strip bamboo shoots
What is a panda?
This Armenian author, born in 1914, is most well-known for his works The Song of the City and The Fall of the Roman Empire.
Who is Hovhannes Shiraz?
Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book
It's the term for a chord that goes through the center of a circle
What is a diameter?
In 2020, this South Korean dark comedy thriller became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
The "colossal" type of this creature is the largest invertebrate & has the largest eyes of any animal
What is a squid?
In 1816 this onetime court painter to Spanish royalty published "Tauromaquia", his etchings on bullfighting
Who is Goya?
The Human Torch & 3 Friends interrupt several British nuptials & an entombment, & boy is Hugh Grant mad
What is The Fantastic Four Weddings and Funeral?
To indicate a factorial for a given integer, you put this punctuation mark after it
What is a exclamation mark?
This 2018 musical film, directed by Damien Chazelle, won 6 Oscars, including Best Director and Best Actress for Emma Stone.
What is La La Land?
Among baleen whales, they're known for their elaborate songs & their long, narrow flippers
What is are humpback whales?
Picasso depicted this bird on his posters promoting world peace, & his daughter Paloma is named for it
What is a dove?
Haley Joel Osment sees Jane Austen spin in her grave as Kate Winslet & Emma Thompson chew scenery in this period piece
What is Sixth Sense and Sensbility?
A theorem includes this series of steps, starting with a given & ending with a justified conclusion
What is a proof?
This director won the Academy Award for Best Director in 2010 for his work on the sci-fi thriller Inception, though the film itself didn’t win Best Picture.
Who is Christopher Nolan?
Encyclopedia Britannica says this amphibian was originally an eft, then its name evolved into neft, & finally to this
What is a newt?
His "School of Athens" covers one wall of the Stanza Della Segnatura, a room in the pope's private quarters
Who is Raphael?
Paul McCartney's Bond theme plays as Bruce Willis fights off bad guys at the Nakatomi Building
What is Let Live and Die Hard?
"SOH CAH TOA" helps you remember the meaning of the trig functions sine, cosine & this one
What is tangent?
Crime did pay for Leonardo DiCaprio & Jack Nicholson
What is The Departed?
The sable type of this fast African animal has a black coat & long, curved horns
What is an antelope?
This Austrian known for using gold leaf in his paintings was a founder of the Vienna Secession
Who is Gustav Klimt?
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach fight for gold while Marlon Brando gives Yanks a bad name overseas
What is The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly American?
A circle has 2 foci that coincide in a single point. If we separate the foci, we can draw this 7-letter conic section
What is an ellipse?
1996: Joel & Ethan Coen for this tale of Midwestern murder & mayhem
What is Fargo?