Where's that Movie?
Howdy, Neighbor(s)!
Roger Says
Cell-fies
Arty Party
100
Spiderman is canonically from this New York City borough, which includes landmarks such as Citi Field and Arthur Ashe Stadium.
What is Queens?
100
It borders Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Turkey.
Where is Greece?
100
"***** creates a universe out of a couple of kid’s bedrooms, a gas station, and a stretch of suburban highway. The first feature made entirely by computer achieves a three-dimensional reality and freedom of movement that is liberating and new." (4 stars)
What is Toy Story?
100
These cells, shown below in green, send and receive chemical and electrical signals using their synapses.
What are neurons?
100
Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of just 34 known works by this painter of the Dutch Golden Age, admired for his photorealistic depictions of quiet household scenes.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
200
28 Days Later opens with Jim waking up from a coma in St. Thomas' Hospital in this major city, where he learns of the zombie outbreak from local tabloid The Evening Standard.
What is London?
200
It borders India and Myanmar.
Where is Bangladesh?
200
Without the deputy police chief, ***** would have been a more than passable thriller. With him, it’s a mess, and that’s a shame, because the film does contain superior special effects, impressive stunt work and good performances, especially by Rickman as the terrorist." (2 stars)
What is Die Hard?
200
This type of immune cell, whose name comes from the Greek for "great eater", is best known for its ability to envelop and destroy pathogens, as shown below.
What is macrophage?
200
This tragic Shakespeare character is depicted in an 1852 painting by John Everett Millais showing a scene originally described in the play by Queen Gertrude.
Who is Ophelia?
300
This desert city, home of Sandia National Labs, is also the home of High School Musical's fictional East High School.
What is Albuquerque?
300
It borders Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Where is Kenya?
300
"The plot is so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid. What works in the other direction, however, and almost carries the day, is the gifted performance by the little boy who co-starred with John Candy in “Uncle Buck.” He’s such a confident and gifted little actor that I’d like to see him in a story I could care more about." (2.5 stars)
What is Home Alone?
300
Most vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 work by activating the immune system against this glycoprotein, seen in the below image protruding from the surface of the viral particles.
What is the Spike protein?
300
Claude Monet painted this famous landmark from the opposite riverbank nearly 100 times in different weathers and times of day, often obscured by its city's trademark industrial smog.
What are the British Houses of Parliament (the Palace of Westminster)?
400
While Superman is better known for defending Metropolis, his childhood hometown is actually this "little town" in Kansas, the namesake of a 10-season show that aired on the CW.
What is Smallville?
400
It borders Honduras and Costa Rica.
Where is Nicaragua?
400
“*****is a great barf-bag movie, all right, but is it any good? I found it disappointing, for two reasons: the superficial characterizations and the implausible behavior of the scientists on that icy outpost…It seems clear that Carpenter made his choice early on to concentrate on the special effects and to allow the story and people to become secondary.” (2.5 stars)
What is The Thing?
400
The gram-negative bacteria shown below is named for its characteristic spherical shape and golden color.
What is staphylococcus aureus?
400
This armed conflict inspired Guernica, Pablo Picasso's anti-war masterpiece, named for a town in the Basque region bombed by the Luftwaffe.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
500
This perilous US state is the setting of the 2023 swamp mystery film Where the Crawdads Sing, as well as 2005 horror film The Descent.
What is North Carolina?
500
It borders Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d'Ivoire.
Where is Liberia?
500
"***** is a darker, deeper fantasy epic than the “Rings” trilogy, “The Chronicles of Narnia” or the “Potter” films... I think ***** is a wonderfully good-looking movie, with exciting passages and a captivating heroine in Lyra. That the controversy surrounding it obscures its function as a splendid entertainment." (4 stars)
What is the Golden Compass?
500
The members of the adaptive immune system seen here in red absolutely wrecking a cancer cell, are named for a gland in the sternum where they are produced.
What are T cells (or T lymphocytes)?
500
This morbid painting by Francisco Goya depicts the Roman god of time partaking in cannibalism to prevent his children from overthrowing him.
What is Saturn Devouring His Son?