RAP, SCHOOLS OLD & NEW
U.S. CITIES
MOVIE CREATURES
TV FOURSOMES
GEOGRAPHIC NAME CHANGES
BEFORE & AFTER
400
The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot
Brooklyn
400
We have a problem if you don't know that it's the fourth-largest U.S. city in population
Houston
400
On Dagobah this green creature tells a neophyte with a ship stuck in the muck, "size matters not"
Yoda
400
Creator Lena Dunham starred as Hannah, one of a Brooklyn foursome of friends in this series
Girls
400
Now with an Algonquian-derived name, this national capital was once known as Bytown
Ottawa
400
An ever-questioning monkey of literature asks how he became the actor who won an Oscar for "Syriana"
Curious George Clooney
800
In this title place, "I'm a doll but I still wanna party, pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend, I'm a ten so I pull in a Ken"
Barbie World
800
In Colonial times Burlington & Perth Amboy served as twin capitals of what is now this state
New Jersey
800
We slept with one eye open after watching Mike Wazowski in this animated film from 2001
Monsters, Inc.
800
Sophia & Dorothy, mother & daughter, were half of the quartet of a certain age in this 1985 to 1992 sitcom
The Golden Girls
800
Formed in the aftermath of World War I, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes was renamed this in 1929
Yugoslavia
800
Winter underwear worn at the university where the Peabody Institute is located
long Johns Hopkins
1200
MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title
"U Can't Touch This"
1200
Bar Harbor, Maine is located on Mount Desert Island, where the majority of this national park is also located
Acadia
1200
Ricou Browning's ability to hold his breath underwater came in handy playing a creature in this 1954 film
the Creature from the Black Lagoon
1200
They became a foursome when Bliss joined Bubbles, Blossom & Buttercup
the Powerpuff Girls
1200
Now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 1971 to 1997 it was known by this one-word name meaning "great river"
Zaire
1200
A proverbial admonition not to weep over mishandled dairy that turned into a caramel-&-chocolate Hershey product
don't cry over spilled Milk Duds
1600
"911 Is A Joke" is a track on their 1990 album "Fear of a Black Planet"
Public Enemy
1600
The name of this Iowa city across the river from Omaha honors the site where Lewis & Clark met with tribesmen in 1804
Council Bluffs, Iowa
1600
A pop-up storybook gives birth to the monster that terrifies Essie Davis & son in this 2014 movie
The Babadook
1600
On this show, 20 years after being a one-hit wonder, the four surviving members of an all-female group take a second shot at fame
Girls5eva
1600
After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, it was good night, Saigon & good morning, this new city name
Ho Chi Minh City
1600
A phrase about a photo's value equivalent to a certain amount of prose gets into a Scrabble-like online game founded in 2009
a picture's worth a thousand Words with Friends
2000
2023 rap songs with movie title titles included "The Gods Must Be Crazy" & Ken Carson's recalling this Megan Fox-Amanda Seyfried film
Jennifer's Body
2000
It's home to Indiana University & the little 500 bike race that inspired the movie "Breaking Away"
Bloomington
2000
Partly from Greek for "stranger", this word is used by fans to describe the chestbursters & facehuggers from a film franchise
xenomorph
2000
A quartet of female journalists cover the fictional Walker vs. Garrett presidential campaign in this 2024 Max series
Girls on the Bus
2000
The Hawaiian Islands were once called this after a British earl
the Sandwich Islands
2000
A 1981 "meal" movie with Wallace Shawn tags in a huge pro wrestling legend & a co-star of Shawn's in a film 6 years later
My Dinner with Andre the Giant