Sports Movies
Burt Reynolds played the leading man in this football movie which was remade with Adam Sandler as the lead and Reynolds played Sandler's coach.
What is "The Longest Yard"
This book features death on a train heading to London from the Middle East.
What is "Murder on the Orient Express"
This is the alma mater of most of the founding members of the Screamin' Banshees.
What is Illinois State University?
The top number of a fraction is called this.
What is the numerator.
This popular New Years Eve drink is named after a region in France.
What is Champagne?
This female baseball movie had Tom Hanks telling players, "There's no crying in baseball".
What is "A League of Their Own"
This is the detective in all of Agatha Christie's books.
Who is Hercule Poirot.
This is the University in which Rob Lowe gets the "blues" - - it also stars Ally Sheedy.
What is "Oxford"?
The name of the theorem which is illustrated as:
a2 + b2 = c2
What is the Pythagorean Theorem
This is used to ferment wine.
What is yeast?
Hillary Swank's "tough performance" in this movie showed that she was no baby.
What is "Million Dollar Baby"
This book involves an outbreak of kleptomania at student hostels and also a line in a famous children's song about a mouse and a clock.
What is Hickory, Dickory, Dock?
This Ivy League school is first alphabetically.
What is Brown.
The name of a three-side figure in which all of the sides are the same length.
What is an equilateral triangle.
This is the standard amount in most wine bottles.
What is 750 milliliters?
This 1981 award winning movie set in the UK features two young runners training for the 1924 Paris Olympics.
What is "Chariots of Fire"?
In this novel, A dying woman, Mrs Davis, gives her last confession to Father Gorman, a Catholic priest, but along with her confession she gives him a list of names and a terrible secret. Before he can take action, however, he is struck dead in the fog. It is also a song by The Smashing Pumpkins.
What is "The Pale Horse"?
Jefferson Davis graduated from this U.S. military academy, as did Carol's father.
What is West Point.
C represents this Roman numeral.
What is 100.
What is Veneto?
This 1979 cycling movie features 4 best friends, who use cycling to escape their status as "townies" in an Indiana university town.
What is "Breaking Away".
Carol used this novel in her Contracts II final in law school to draw an analogy of how a character/concept earlier in the book can be pivotal in a later chapter. The title includes the name of Cleveland's baseball team.
What is "Ten Little Indians"?
This college in Williamsburg, VA was founded to train Anglican clergy.
What is William & Mary.
The first 4 digits in Pi.
What is 3.141?
This country holds the record for using grapes in a wine recipe.
What is China.