Hollywood High Finance
In this 1996 film, Tom Cruise plays a slick sports agent navigating big-money contracts and personal redemption, delivering the famous line, “Show me the money!”
Answer: What is Jerry Maguire? Cuba Gooding Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the film.
Stop in the Name of Love,” “You Can’t Hurry Love,” and “My World Is Empty Without You” are all songs performed by this all-female group of singers.
Answer: Who are the Supremes? In 1967, the group was renamed Diana Ross and the Supremes and kept the name until Ross left to pursue a solo career in 1970.
These purple, white, yellow, and variegated flowers are among the first to bloom in spring.
Answer: What are crocuses? They are grown from corms, which are smaller and rounder than bulbs and layered like an onion. To everyone but horticulturists, crocuses are grown from bulbs.
This suspension bridge spans the Golden Gate Strait and connects San Francisco to Marin County.
Answer: What is the Golden Gate Bridge? It was built in 1937 and is one of the “Seven Wonders of the Modern World.” It was one of the greatest engineering feats of its day
This actor of Titanic fame plays the lead role of Jordon Belfort, an ex-con who teams up with a partner to open a brokerage in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street.
Answer: Who is Leonardo DiCaprio? The film portrays Belfort’s journey into despair due to the unsustainable adrenaline rush caused by his job.
In this 1983 film starring Eddie Murphy, two commoditybroker brothers make a $1 bet to determine whether heredity or environment determines the course of a man’s life.
Answer: What is Trading Places? Eddie Murphy was relatively new to movies at the time, and much of his humor and dialogue was improvised, helping make the film feel fresh and spontaneous.
Early hits from this blind singer include “For Once in My Life,” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” and “My Cherie Amour.”
Answer: Who is Stevie Wonder? In the early days, he was billed as Little Stevie Wonder.
From the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” a “host” of these flowers are grown from bulbs.
Answer: What are golden daffodils? These large flowers with a central trumpet emerge in early spring.
This New England city is the home of Faneuil Hall Marketplace, where early freedom fighters gathered.
Answer: What is Boston? The Founding Fathers called it the “Cradle of Liberty.” Today, it’s a Top 10 visitor destination, a bustling marketplace with shops, locally grown produce, eateries, and street performances.
This female artist performs “My Guy,” “The One Who Really Loves You,” and “Two Lovers.”
Answer: Who is Mary Wells? Wells performed with many of Motown’s artists without receiving billing
The 2005 film The Smartest Guys in the Room is a true story about this company, once headed by Ken Lay.
Answer: What is Enron? Its bankruptcy was one of the world’s largest. Ken Lay died before serving a prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy. Accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP served as Enron’s auditor and collapsed after the scandal.
“My Girl,” “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” are performed by this foursome.
Answer: Who are the Temptations? The Primes and the Distants, two Detroit bands, merged together to form the Temptations in 1961
This Christmas favorite is grown from a giant bulb.
Answer: What is amaryllis? The amaryllis plant can live up to 75 years with proper care.
New Orleans is famous for these paranormal tours.
Answer: What are ghost tours? The bus and walking tours feature ghost, vampire, witch, and voodoo haunts.
These spring flowers are known for their bell-shaped, drooping blooms, often with a checkered, “tweed-like” pattern.
Answer: What is fritillaria? Its name comes from the Latin fritillus, meaning “dice box” or “dice shaker.” The exotic flowers originated in Europe and come in fascinating varieties, including variegated patterns.
In this 1987 film, Michael Douglas plays Gordon Gekko and says, “Greed is good.”
Answer: What is Wall Street? The Gekko character is based on Ivan Boesky, who delivered the famous quote in a commencement address to the Berkeley business school class of 1986. Boesky dominated 1980s financial headlines as a junk-bond king and corporate raider.
“Bernadette,” “It’s the Same Old Song,” and “Standing in the Shadows of Love” are three of this band’s hit tunes.
Answer: Who are the Four Tops? The original Four Tops performed from 1953 through 1997. The band performing today isn’t a tribute band; it’s made up of replacement artists.
This tall, spring-blooming flower is named for a Greek goddess and is available in a huge array of colors. Its varieties include bearded, dwarf, and Dutch.
Answer: What is iris? It’s grown from a rhizome. Each bloom has three upright petals and three downward-facing petals
Robert Mondavi transformed this valley into wine country.
Answer: What is Napa? Cesare Mondavi entered the wine industry in the 1920s. His son Robert studied chemistry, an essential part of winemaking, and, along with his family, bought his first winery, a 160-acre vineyard. The cost was $87,000. Visitors can tour the flagship property to see how the company produces its wines.
Consistently the most-visited U.S. National Park, it hosted 11.5 million visitors in 2025.
Answer: What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park? It’s located in Tennessee and North Carolina. Because of its elevation, it sometimes offers skiing in winter, which isn’t common in the South. Kuwohi, formerly known as Clingmans Dome, is a tower at the park’s highest elevation and a year-round attraction.
This 2015 film starring Christian Bale as a physician-turned-trader and based on the book by Michael Lewis follows several traders who spot trouble in the housing market and bet against it before the crash.
Answer: What is The Big Short? The film is based on real traders who predicted the housing market collapse and profited by shorting it.
This man performs “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Too Busy Thinking About My Baby,” and “How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You.”
Answer: Who is Marvin Gaye? Sometimes the billing includes Tammi Terrell.
This roselike spring flower is grown from a bulb.
Answer: What is ranunculus? They are also called buttercups, but they bear no resemblance to daffodils. Pick a bunch of them, and they look just like a bouquet of roses.
This original farmers’ market in the Public Market Center is synonymous with Seattle.
Answer: What is Pike Place Market? It was founded in 1907. According to its website, it’s “one of the oldest and largest continuously operating public markets in the United States.” It’s a large part of the Public Market Center, so be prepared to spend at least a few hours there.
A shark has this number of bones.
Answer: What is zero? Instead of bones, sharks have cartilage, which forms their spinal columns and jaws—the same material that forms our noses and outer ears.