Horror Movies
This 2019 film on class commentary became the first non-English movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Parasite
For 400 pts: She was the first Asian American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, twice.
Elaine Chao
Patron saint of soldiers & France, she's celebrated in a yearly festival in France the second Sunday in May
Joan of Arc
1962, “We choose to go the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
John F. Kennedy
A media player, a music manager & later an online store all-in-one, this computer app was released on January 9, 2001.
iTunes
“What’s Your Favorite Scary Movie?” became the tagline of this 90s slasher.
Scream
Ken Jeong voices Bobby in this 2025 Netflix movie about singers combatting the supernatural.
K-Pop Demon hunters
In 2025, 440 years after her death, the remains of this saint of Ávila were briefly put on display
Teresa
1946, “An iron curtain has descended across the continent.”
Winston Churchill
In 2025, this singer-songwriter and Chiefs tight-end are officially off the market.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Director John Carpenter used a modified mask of William Shatner for this iconic horror movie villain.
Michael Myers
Serving in this cabinet level position, Norm Mineta grounded all aircraft during the September 11 attacks.
Secretary of Transportation
The first Native American to be canonized, Kateri Tekakwitha was left orphaned & scarred by a 1600s epidemic of this disease.
Smallpox
1863, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
Abraham Lincoln
In 2024 a rebel attack lasting less than 2 weeks ended the 50-year dictatorship of this family in Syria.
Assad
Seven days was the time someone had left to live after watching a haunted video tape in this 2002 supernatural flick.
The Ring
Before serving on the USS Enterprise, this actor spent his childhood in an internment camp in California.
George Takei
After having visions of the Virgin Mary, this saint of Lourdes joined the Sisters of Charity.
Bernadette
47 BCE, “Veni, vidi, vici.”
Julius Caesar
In 2008, George W. Bush gets this thrown at him by an Iraqi journalist
A shoe
Driving blindfolded was one of many dangerous stunts movie goers did after watching this 2018 Netflix film.
Birdbox
Two of the three Korean American women first elected to Congress in 2020.
Young Kim, Michelle Steel, Marilyn Strickland
Born in Peru in 1586, Isabel Flores de Oliva is better known by this name.
Saint Rose or Rose of Lima
1979, “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
Margaret Thatcher
In 2009 this US Airways pilot miraculously landed an Airbus A320 & its 150 passengers in the Hudson River.
Sully Sullenberger