Movies
Bob Parr stays home taking care of the kids while Elastigirl is out saving the world in this 2018 sequel
Incredibles 2
Statue of Zeus
Greece
Lightning causes over 10,000 of these a year & Smokey the Bear is getting mad!
forest fires
Year the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded & the United States entered World War 1
1917
Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one
a cell
A mute Sally Hawkins falls in love with an amphibious creature in this 2017 movie, Oscar's Best Picture
The Shape of Water
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Egypt
In the 1931 film, he used lightning to bring his monster to life
Dr. Frankenstein
Before he died in 1547, this Tudor King weighed over 400 pounds
Henry VIII
A 5th-century B.C.E. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all mater is made of these
Atoms
Gloria Swanson utters the immortal line "I am big, it's the pictures that got small" in this classic film
Sunset Boulevard
Greece
Of 25, 50, or 100 miles, the longest length lightning strokes can reach
100 miles
A 6th-century monk originally established the first day of the Chrisitan era not as January the 1st, but this holiday
Christmas
Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses
A scavenger
"The Disaster Artist" chronicles Tommy Wiseau making this so-bad-it's-good film
The Room
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Iraq
Aided by lightning each year 100 million tons of this gas washes into the soil & becomes fertilizer
nitrogen
The term first applied only to manners & conduct at royal courts
etiquette
Days & nights are always 12 hours long there
The equator
A 12-year-old Jodie Foster played a prostitute opposite Robert De Niro in this 1976 film
Taxi Driver
Turkey
Unpunished in the Maxwell Anderson play, Rhoda is roasted by lightning in this movie's finale
The Bad Seed
Once France's richest colony, this now-impoverished country was 2nd in the New World to gain Independence
Haiti
The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big bang should have produced equal amounts of this.
Matter and antimatter