Asteroids!
When one of these space rocks burns up in the Earth's atmosphere, we call the resulting streak across the sky a meteor.
What is an Asteroid?
This alien enjoys Reeses Pieces candy and moonlight bicycle rides in the sky.
Who is E.T.?
Maya, who plays school teacher June Douglass, is the daughter of what two famous Hollywood actors?
Who are Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke?
Working with the US Army, this secret government project based out of Los Alamos, New Mexico detonated the world's first nuclear bomb on July 16, 1945.
What is the Manhattan Project?
This other Wes Anderson film also featured a group of genius kids.
What is The Royal Tennenbaums?
In 1998, these two films depicting potential apocalyptic collisions with Earth were released in theaters.
What are Armageddon and Deep Impact?
The alien in Asteroid City is revealed to be played by this famous actor in the black-and-white play scene.
Who is Jeff Goldblum?
This actor, who plays the auto mechanic struggling with mysterious machinery at the beginning of Asteroid City is played by this former leading man, star of Rumble Fish, Drugstore Cowboy, Singles, and later comedy roles in There's Something About Mary and You, Me, and Dupree.
Who is Matt Dillon?
In 1947, metallic debris were recovered near this New Mexico town. The US Air Force states that these debris were pieces of a special surveillance balloon. Others believe them to be the remains of an alien flying saucer.
What is Roswell?
Blaise Pascal was only this age when he invented the first mechanical calculator.
What is 18 years old?
When a meteorite hits the surface of Earth, an impact crater is left behind. The smallest such crater known on Earth was caused by a piece of the Braunschweig meteorite when it hit a concrete surface in 2013, leaving a 3 inch wide and 1 inch deep crater. On the other end of things, the Chixulub crater in Mexico, scar of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, is approximately this wide.
What is 110 miles?
This alien has pointy ears, is very wise, and is just about three feet tall.
Who is Yoda?
Steve Carrell, who plays the motel manager, also played former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in this dark political Satire by Adam McKay.
What is Vice?
Bryan Cranston, who plays the host of the black and white TV-play within Asteroid City, also starred in this dark TV-series set in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
What is Breaking Bad?
Philo Farnsworth was this age when he sketched his first concept art for a device he then developed into the first television set a few years later.
What is 14 years old?
This children's book published in France in 1943 features an adventurous young boy whose home is a house-sized asteroid known as B.612.
What is the Little Prince?
This alien has pointy ears, is very wise, and is approximately six feet tall.
Who is Mister Spock?
General Gibson is played by Jeffrey Wright, who played this famed 80s New York artist in an eponymous biopic.
Who was Jean Michel Basquiat?
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What is Basquiat?
This organization's immersive art experience, the House of Eternal Return tells the story of the Selig family, who disappeared after attempting to tap into a mysterious force called "The Anomaly" to bring back deceased relatives.
What is Meow Wolf?
Becky Schroeder was this age when she invented the Glo-Sheet, which would later become the glow stick.
What is 12 years old?
In 2017, ʻOumuamua, the first asteroid from outside of our solar system was sighted passing Earth and then Jupiter at great speed. Its strange cylindrical shape and accelerating speed were eventually explained, but initially had some speculating that it was not an asteroid, but in fact this.
What is an Alien Spacecraft???
In the movie Aliens, this baby alien is born out of the chest of John Hurt's character, killing him gruesomely in the middle of the crew's dinner. This was what the crew was eating.
What is spaghetti?
Kid genius Ricky Cho's father Roger is played by Steve Park, veteran character actor and comedian, who appeared as a lonely, desperate, sad acquaintance of Frances McDormand's Police Chief character. He was also a player on this early 90's comedy sketch show alongside such future stars as Jennifer Lopez, Jamie Foxx, and Jim Carrey.
What is In Living Color?
This 50 foot tall effigy, also known as "Old Man Gloom" is burned each year in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What is Zozobra?
Although he later refined it several times, Henry Braille's tactile language system for the blind was largely completed when he first presented it in 1824, when he was this age.
What is 15 years old?