The Long Movie short list
Let's call the whole thing off
Start Me "UP"
Food Coloring
Silent "B" Words
There's a Nap for that
100

Nonstop watching of the nearly 9 hours across the 1972, '74 & '90 parts of this franchise is an offer you can't refuse

The Godfather

100

Here's a bottle cap fact: Quaker Oats sold this beverage company to Triarc for $300 million in 1997

Snapple

100

If you're a fast learner, you're said to be "quick on the" this

uptake

100

A 1910 recipe for these sweets calls for chocolate, flour & chopped walnuts & says to "crease in small squares before cool"

brownies

100

To attach the new calendar to the bulletin board, use one of these that the Brits call a drawing pin

a thumbtack

100

This word for an afternoon nap derives from Latin for "sixth" because workers often rested about 6 hours after dawn

a siesta 

200

It takes a while before Cap picks up & wields Mjolnir in this film, but as it runs about 3 hours, Steve had some time (on a few levels)

Avengers: Endgame

200

Carmen Sandiego & Barbie were no longer friends after this company unloaded The Learning Company

Mattel

200

In a challenging situation, you might find yourself here "without a paddle" (please keep it clean)

up a creek

200

this juice is a breakfast stable and is one of the few fruits that it's name is the description. 

Orange

200

The front of the U.S. $1 bill states that it is legal tender for all these, public & private

debts

200

By coincidence, this literary character known for napping had the same last name as Washington Irving's publisher

Rip Van Winkle

300

The only Best Picture Oscar winner to have a hyphen in its title was this 3 1/2-hour 1959 epic

Ben-Hur

300

In 2021 this telecommunications company got out of entertainment by spinning off WarnerMedia

AT&T

300

A difficult struggle is this type of "battle", also the type of charge Teddy Roosevelt led the Rough Riders on in 1898

uphill

300

The Swiss creator of these crackers came up with them as a birthday present for his wife, a Pisces

Goldfish

300

Doing things in this way means elusively & indirectly messaging your intent

subtly

300

True Parrot Heads know the title of his final album, "Equal Strain on All Parts", was his grandfather's way of referring to a nap

Jimmy Buffett

400

At about 3 1/2 hours, it took a while for this Oklahoma-set 2023 DiCaprio film to eclipse

Killers of the Flower Moon

400

You say Daimler & I say Dimler, Daimler, Dimler, tomato, tomahto, they called it off with this car brand in 2007. Originally one of the "Big 3" Automobile Manufacturers 

Chrysler

400

It's one of the 4 basic boxing punches

uppercut

400

It's a New Orleans tradition to serve these legumes & rice on Monday

red beans

400

to lose one of these is an unfortunate thing or to be out on one is dangerous 

limb

400

This president's nap divided a "two-shift day"; he suffered a fatal heart attack in 1973 after lying down one afternoon at his Texas ranch

LBJ

500

Could this 1971 film about Jewish peasants in Russia have been shorter? Maybe, but when you have Topol, you just gotta go 3 hours!

Fiddler on the Roof

500

FTC issues made computer chip giant ARM call off a deal with this AI company once valued at $5 trillion

Nvidia

500

The title of this classic British TV series & its later revival refers to the living quarters of the wealthy versus those who work around the house

Upstairs, Downstairs 

500

In 2014 Time named this chain's sliders "the most influential burger of all time"

White Castle

500

Lara Croft was a Raider of these

tomb

500

During sleep, your brain is busy moving new memories from this part of the brain to the neocortex for long-term storage

the hippocampus

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