Sun-Sational
Make this while the sun shines.
People referred to movies or films as this in the 1950s.
Flicks
This artist introduced inception with his art “Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers.”
Paul Gaugin
This famous movie quote from Wizard of Oz is commonly misremembered
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" is actually "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
On August 29, 2005, this hurricane struck the Gulf Coast and devastated New Orleans, Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina
A tune from Abbey Road
Here Comes the Sun
'50s slang term for money
The sunflower state
Kansas - the sunflower is a native plant to Kansas
In the 1967 film The Graduate, this actor is misquotes as saying, "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"
Dustin Hoffman
The correct quote is "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"
Half a million young people congregated at Woodstock for these 3 days in 1969
Aug 15-18, 1969
5th Dimension sings the 1960s hit "Aquarius (Let The Sunshine In)" written for this musical
Hair
A subculture identified by slicked-back hair
Greaser
This color sunflower has no pollen, making it good for cutting.
Purple Sunflower
During this NASA mission with the same name as the movie, no one ever said "Houston, we have a problem."
Apollo 13 - the first transmission was "Okay,Houston, we've had a problem here." NASA didn't catch the full transmission, so it was repeated "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem here"
On August 1, 1981, this first music video channel made its inaugural broadcast.
MTV
Florida and Arizona are part of the region known as this, a popular area for snowbirds to flock to in the winter.
Suddenly accelerating at a high speed while driving
Sunflowers are connected to this Greek god who, out of grief, turned Clytie into a sunflower to avoid having to look at her again.
Apollo
"Why don't you come up and see me sometime" is the misquote attributed to this actress in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong.
Mae West
The correct line is: "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
On August 24, 1944, this European capital was liberated from German control.
Paris
This 1996 sitcom was about aliens trying to blend in on Earth.
Third Rock from the Sun
A bully might offer this to your face
Knuckle Sandwich
Before a sunflower fully matures, it tracks the sun in what is called this
Heliotrophism
Immature flowers "sleep" in a westward-facing position at night and reorient in an eastward-facing position in the morning.
The words "Elementary, my dear Watson" do not appear in any of the books about this brilliant-yet-moody detective.
Sherlock Holmes
It was misquoted in a New York Times film review for the 1929 movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
On August 7, 1990, President George H. W. Bush ordered the start of this operation after Iraq invaded Kuwait.
Operation Desert Storm