PLAYING THE VILLAIN
Dennis Hopper won a Best Villain MTV Movie Award for menacing a bus in this film
Speed
Hurry up! This adverb meaning with haste is worth a big 25 points in Scrabble
quickly
In addition to its 3 huge horns, this dinosaur had spikes surrounding its sometimes nearly 10-foot-long skull
a triceratops
In 1980-81 the eyes of Texas--& apparently, everyone else--were on this CBS nighttime soap, No. 1 for the season
Dallas
Quality attributed to a perfectly proportioned face
symmetry
Tefnut was a goddess of rain & moisture in the mythology of this civilization
Egypt
John Malkovich is a menace in the skies as the felon Cyrus the Virus in this 1997 thriller
Con Air
Not at any time, not now, not in the past, not in the future, not under any condition
never
"Jurassic Park" fans will surely know of this small, fast dinosaur with a huge claw on each foot
a velociraptor
Ken Levine & David Isaacs penned "The Boys in the Bar" & "The Last Angry Mailman" episodes of this sitcom
Cheers
"Follow Me!" is a motto of this part of the army that fights on foot
the infantry
Born full grown & dressed in armor, this Greek goddess missed out on her childhood
Athena
Played with cackling excellence by Ian McDiarmid, this character returned from the dead in "Star Wars: Episode IX"
Emperor Palpatine
Steve Jobs liked to say Apple products were this "crazy" kind of great, also the title of a book about the Macintosh
insanely
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This dinosaur with a spike tail & plated back was once thought to have 2 brains due to an enlargement in the spinal cord
a stegosaurus
The song "Kiss" says, "You don't have to watch" this ABC drama "to have an attitude" but many did watch those Carringtons
Dynasty
The Ten Commandments warn against this type of worship
idolatry
**DAILY DOUBLE**
She's the Hindu goddess of wealth and good fortune but not a top chef, as TV's Padma could tell you
Lakshmi
As him in 1982, Ricardo Montalban says, "I've done far worse than kill you. I've hurt you. And I wish to go on hurting you"
Khan
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Specifically taking place every 8,760 hours
annually (yearly)
Brontosaurus comes fairly early alphabetically in dinosaur names, & it was once classified by this name that's even earlier
an apatosaurus
Not Hawkeye but this "M*A*S*H" tentmate became the title character of an '80s drama
Trapper John
Completely insufficient, as in a meager sum
paltry
May Day grew out of a festival that celebrated this Roman goddess of flowers & spring
Flora
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We rooted for him in "Get Out" and "Queen and Slim" but not when he made life miserable for the title women in "Widows"
Daniel Kaluuya
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From the Greek for "angle to angle", it means in the direction of a slanting straight line
diagonally
Diplodocus was a type of this, meaning "lizard foot"
sauropod
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She played a dazzling array of characters on her show that earned the FOX network its first Emmy nomination
Tracey Ullman
6 functions of an angle, including sine & cosine, are used in this branch of math
trigonometry
This earth mother & wife of Odin was attended by a dozen handmaidens
Frigg