SCARY CHARACTERS
This fearsome character, Peter Pan’s arch enemy, crafted an evil scheme. “We will seize the children … the boys we will make walk the plant, and Wendy shall be our mother.”
Captain Hook
Whose biographical story is told in The Miracle Worker?
Helen Keller
Although this film lost the Best Picture Award in 1939 (to Gone With The Wind), it did win for Best Original Score and Best Original Song for “Over the Rainbow.”
The Wizard of Oz
A pound of chicken eggs might cost you about $3 dollars; a pound of this type of (nonpoultry) eggs might put you back about $3,000 dollars.
Roe. (Caviar, Sturgeon and Beluga are also correct answers.)
“Smarter than the average bear.”
Yogi Bear
American author Robert Bloch created the terrifying character Norman Bates in this novel … but Alfred Hitchcock first brought him to life.
Psycho
This Broadway classic tells the story of the singing von Trapp family’s escape from the Nazis in pre WWII Austria.
The Sound of Music
The only film for which he won the awards for Best Picture and Best Director was Schindler’s List.
Steven Spielberg
The Winter Egg, one of a series of 52 jeweled Easter eggs created by this Russian jeweler for the Russian royal family, sold for $5.6 million in 1994, and then for $9.6 million at an auction in 2002.
(Peter Carl) Fabergé
“Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits.”
Elmer Fudd
Captain Ahab, created by this 19th century author, is as much of a terrifying monster as MobyDick the whale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
One of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s biggest Broadway blockbusters focuses on the early life, marriage, rise to power, and death of this Argentine political figure.
Eva Perón (Evita)
In 1951, this film lost the Best Picture award to An American in Paris; but its stars Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter all took home Oscar statues. Marlon Brando was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role but lost.
A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen.
This title character, from a 1726 novel by Jonathan Swift, was an explorer who discovered a race of little people arguing over which end of the egg to crack.
Gulliver
“Good grief!”
Charlie Brown
Boo Radley is a scary character when readers first meet him in this 1960 novel; but he is eventually proven to be kind and misunderstood.
To Kill a Mockingbird
This 1979 Peter Shaffer biography told the story of the genius composer Mozart and Antonio Salieri, who was consumed with jealousy over Mozart’s talent.
Amadeus
In 1943, this film won the awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. However, none of the actors who were nominated won, including Claude Rains and Humphrey Bogart.
Casablanca
The name of this egg dish, similar to a flat omelet, is from the Italian word for “fried.”
Frittata
“I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat!”
Tweety Bird
For some young readers, Cruella de Vil, the main villain in this novel, is their first example of pure evil.
The Hundred and One Dalmatians. Cruella de Vil’s vile goal is to kidnap 100 Dalmatian puppies to make a coat from their fur. Capturing full-grown dogs is unacceptable, because their fur is too coarse.
Jersey Boys tells the story of this 1960s harmonizing rock and do-wop band, whose first two hit songs were “Sherry” and “Big Girls Don’t Cry.”
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
This character actor won the Best Actor Academy Award for the film Marty. Fifty-six years later, at age 92, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in the drama series ER.
Ernest Borgnine
In Edinburgh, this favorite dish is a hard-boiled egg that’s coated with sausage and fried.
Scotch egg
“When life gets you down, do you want to know what you’ve got to do? Just keep swimming!”
Dory (Finding Nemo)