The Month of May
Star Wars Day is on May 4th, this is the day immediately following.
What is Revenge of the Fifth?
53, 54, 55, __ (use base 6)
100 is the next number
Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number.
What is infinity?
"I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel"
What is War of the Worlds?
With assets of more than $2 trillion USD, this country's sovereign wealth fund is the largest in the world.
What is Norway?
Christie's "Little Indians" minus Tolkien's "Towers"
What is 8?
May is named for the goddess Maia, in some versions the daughter of this titan condemned to hold up the heavens
Who is Atlas?
Even the janitor at M.I.T. is a math genius in this 1997 Oscar-winning film
What is Good Will Hunting?
The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13".
What is a slide rule?
"No one believes more firmly than comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal"
What is Animal Farm?
The average age at which Spaniards move out of their childhood home. (since 2021) [answer within two years]
The average age has been above 30 since 2021 according to Eurostat, the EU's stastical agency.
Bradbury's "Fahrenheit" minus Garcia Marquez' "Years of Solitude"
What is 351?
This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May"
What is "My Girl"?
"Save the world. Get the girl. Pass math" was a tagline for this 2003 Frankie Muniz movie
What is Agent Cody Banks?
Jodie Foster directed & starred in this "Little" film about a math prodigy & his mom.
What is Little Man Tate?
"What you see there are not giants, but windmills"
What is Don Quixote?
Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-" times Verne's "Leagues Under the Sea"
What is 100,000?
In May 1954, in the case of this family v. the Board of Education, segregation in school was ruled unconstitutional
What is Brown?
The Fibonacci sequence factors into the clues left behind by a museum curator in this 2006 film.
What is The Da Vinci Code?
"When I walk down the street I bet people will say there goes Roy Hobbs, the best there ever was in the game"
What is The Natural?
Hanff's "Charing Cross Road" plus Heller's "Catch-"
What is 106?
Related to the ancient scarab, it's also called the May beetle, but that's arguably a bit premature
What is the June bug?
I have the solution! This film starred Gwyneth Paltrow as a mathematician afraid of inheriting insanity.
What is Proof?
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer"
What is Dune?
Pynchon's "Crying of Lot" divided by Hawthorne's "House of... Gables"
What is 7?