80s Movies
Matthew Broderick and Alan Ruck star in this John Hughes teen movie about playing hooky.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?
This Italian born saint was blessed with a stigmata and was believed to bilocate, even offering a woman a confession miles away while simultaneously remaining in his room praying.
Who is St. Padre Pio?
This young adult series tells the tale of a magical orphan growing up and defeating his parent's killer.
What is Harry Potter?
Unlike scalars, which have only a magnitude, vectors have both magnitude and this.
What is direction?
Players try to get rid of their cards by matching their discards by either color or number. Watch out for Draw 2s, and don't forget to say the name of the game when down to your last card!
What is Uno?
It would be "inconceivable" to forget about this Rob Reiner film from 1987; the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate goes on a quest to be reunited with his true love.
What is the Princess Bride?
This Polish born saint received personal visions of our Lord, many encounters being recorded in her diary.
Who is St. Faustina Kowalska?
This 1949 story by George Orwell depicts the rise of a surveillance state controlling and manipulating objective facts.
What is "1984"?
The SI unit for force is named after this British physicist.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This childhood backyard game often results in individuals hurting their arms which were linked together to stop opposing teams from breaking through the barrier of people.
What is Red Rover?
"No, I am your father" booms James Earl Jones in this second (5th?) installment of the Star Wars saga.
What is The Empire Strikes Back?
This patron of blindness from Syracuse, Italy is said to have had her eyes gouged out after she rejected one of her suitors.
Who is St. Lucy?
This John Milton epic poem describes Lucifer's fall from grace.
What is "Paradise Lost"?
This can be calculated by multiplying an object's mass by its velocity squared, and then dividing by 2
(1/2 x mv^2)
What is kinetic energy?
This game, originally played with minimal to no protective gear, utilized a pigskin ball with the first official game held in New Brunswick, NJ.
What is (American) football?
Hans Gruber asks John McClane "Do you really think you have a chance against us, Mr. cowboy?" in this classic action movie
What is Die Hard?
This Egypt born saint is known for his fight against Arianism; he became bishop of Alexandria in 328 though also exiled at various points throughout his life in the fight for asserting Catholic Truth against heresy.
Who is St. Athanasius?
This British saint wrote "Utopia" in 1516, twenty-nine years before his execution.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
This man's laws of planetary motion demand that the planets move in elliptical orbits around the Sun.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This competitive sport, thought to originate in Scotland as an aquatic version of rugby, is played with players utilizing the "egg beater technique" to keep themselves suspended while trying to shoot a goal.
What is water polo?
"She's like the wind" croons Patrick Swayze in this film set in a Catskills resort.
What is Dirty Dancing?
This Lebanese born saint requested to share in Christ's suffering leading to her losing an eye in a botched surgery, suffering from headaches, a wound on her shoulder, and paralysis though her hands remained well and unharmed.
Who is St. Rafqa (Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayes)?
Novels in this series include "The Last Battle" and "The Horse and His Boy"
What is "The Chronicles of Narnia"?
This principle, best exemplified by a spinning sphere curving away from the path it would take if not spinning, is central to many ball sports.
What is the Magnus Effect?
This game, meaning "sparrow," requires players to remove two of the 144 tiles at a time by finding other matches.
What is mahjong?