Women in Song
Rod Stewart told her she led him away from home, just to save her from being alone.
Maggie May
Hercules’ sidekick Philoctetes is this type of mythical creature.
Satyr
In 2016, La La Land was mistakenly announced as Best Picture winner before this movie collected the honor.
Moonlight
Lakers, #13
Wilt Chamberlain
The process of heating and then quickly cooling milk to kill bacteria is called pasteurization, named for this scientist who discovered it.
Louis Pasteur
She had the Beach Boys “rockin and a-rollin, rockin and a-reeling.”
Barbara Ann
What is the name of Merlin’s owl sidekick in Sword In the Stone?
Archimedes
Despite only winning one of six Oscars it was nominated for, this film features one of the most famous opening lines in of all time: “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.” (1990)
GoodFellas
Niners, #81
Terrell Owens
This scientist’s landmark studies in the Galapagos Islands led to the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
The Beatles sang about this girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Lucy
Rosie O’Donnell voiced this character in Tarzan.
Terk
In 2001, the Academy added its Best Animated Feature category. Which film won?
Shrek
Daily Double! Celtics, #33
Larry Bird
Despite his major breakthroughs in electricity, this scientist was left widely forgotten in his lifetime. Today however, you can find his name on a popular electric car.
Nikola Tesla
CCR told her, “I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk.”
Suzie Q
Emperor Kuzco plans to demolish this character’s hut before enlisting his help to change him back from a llama.
Pacha
Rarely are sequels more successful than the original, but the last installment in this trilogy holds the record for most Oscar wins at eleven, seven more than its original counterpart. (2003)
Lord of the Rings
Lions, #20
Barry Sanders
Her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA was critical to the discovery of DNA’s double helix shape.
Rosalind Franklin
Chuck Berry tells her, “Seems like every time I see you darling, you got something else to do.”
Nadine
One of Cinderella’s sidekicks is named Gus Gus, short for this name.
Octavius
Famous for his role as Fredo in the Godfather installments, this actor appeared in only five feature films, all of which were nominated for Best Picture, before his untimely death of lung cancer in 1978.
John Cazale
Yankees, #5
Joe DiMaggio
Alexander Fleming accidentally made this discovery when he found that a green mold had developed on petri dishes of bacteria he’d been growing, and that this “mold juice” was killing the bacteria.
Penicillin