OCTOBERFEST
LEARNED LEAGUES
THE BOTTOM 10 (of Billbord Top 100)
SPORTS FLICKS
REALITY, FICTIONALIZED
MYTHOLOGY
400
She joined the Supreme Court as its second female justice October 4, 199
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
400
"Gift of Fire" is the official publication of the very high IQ society named for this fire-stealing Greek god
Prometheus
400
"The Hearts Filthy Lesson" only went to 92 for this legend; "Suffragette City" never even cracked the chart
David Bowie
400
Billy Bob Thornton played Coach Gary Gaines, leader of the plucky Odessa Permian team in this movie, one of my all-time faves
Friday Night Lights
400
"See What I Have Done" is partly written from the perspective of this woman who was tried & acquitted in 1893
Lizzie Borden
400
Remember these early gods that included Cronus & Themis? They were banished to Tartarus by Zeus
the Titans
800
In October 1936 power from this massive project began turning on lights & radios in the Western United States
the Hoover Dam
800
A national honor society for college seniors is named for this cap seen here
mortarboard
800
Not many could take "The Star Spangled Banner" into the Top 20 twice, but she did; however, "Whatchulookinat" only looked at 96
Whitney Houston
800
Philip Seymour Hoffman played A's skipper Art Howe in this film that also featured Chris Pratt & Jonah Hill
Moneyball
800
As NYC police commissioner, this future president helps "The Alienist" & uh-huh, yells, "Bully!"
Teddy Roosevelt
800
In Ovid's "Metamorphoses", this goddess of the rainbow wore a robe of a thousand colors
Iris
1200
On Oct. 13, 1884 this London borough was adopted as the Prime Meridian of longitude for global Universal Time
Greenwich
1200
Taking this "Preliminary" test is one step on the road to becoming a National Merit scholar
the PSAT
1200
We'll be blunt; James Blunt topped the chart in 2006 with this "gorgeous" song but "High" only went as high as 100 that year
"You're Beautiful"
1200
Jack Warden took over the role of Coach Buttermaker in the short-lived TV series based on this film
The Bad News Bears
1200
Amor Towles set this novel at the real-life Metropol Hotel in Russia
A Gentleman in Moscow
1200
The Norns of Norse mythology, Urd, Verdandi & Skuld are said to represent these 3 things
past, present & future
1600
In the first united action by the 13 colonies (well, 9 of them), in Oct. 1765 delegates met to work to repeal this British law
the Stamp Act
1600
Contestants in LearnedLeague, a web-based trivia game, are called these South American animals
llamas
1600
No stranger to the Top 10, this Jersey band could only take "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead" to 97 in '93
Bon Jovi
1600
Apollo isn't the first name of the title pugilist in this 2015 film; continuing the theme, it's Adonis
Creed
1600
In Elmore Leonard's historical novel "Cuba Libre", Pvt. Virgil Webster "felt himself lifted from the deck" of this ship
the Maine
1600
In Book 1 of the "Aeneid", Aeneas is welcomed to Carthage by this widowed queen
Dido
2000
Led by Orson Welles, the Mercury Theatre panicked the U.S. with a live radio dramatization of this work on October 30, 1938
The War of the Worlds
2000
A signature gold key represents this philosophical society founded on Dec. 5, 1776
Phi Beta Kappa
2000
"So What'cha Want" hit 93 for this trio in 1992, though some call the album it's off, "Check Your Head", a masterpiece
the Beastie Boys
2000
In a 2000 film, Omar Epps & Sanaa Lathan engage in these 2 title activities at USC
love & basketball
2000
In a novel subtitled "The Woman Who Revealed the Real America", Elise Hooper writes about this Depression-era photographer
Dorothea Lange
2000
According to one tradition, this Aztec feathered serpent god threw himself on a pyre & was reborn as the planet Venus
Quetzalcoatl