2012:
"May the odds be ever in your favor"
The Hunger Games
This chess piece can only move in an L-shape
The Knight
To travel by taking rides from passing cars
hitchhike
AKA permanent maxillary third molars, these teeth can help you chew, but about 85% of us will need to get them removed
wisdom teeth
Casinos in Reno & Shreveport named for this lost city seem like the perfect place to pick up some gold
El Dorado
2010:
"Find your voice"
The King's Speech
A traditional honeycomb is made of cells of this shape
a hexagon
Akin to saute, you do this to veggies in a wok
Stir-fry
In animals, arrector pili muscles raise hairs, making them look larger; in humans, they only cause this "fowl" effect
goosebumps
Danny Kaye & Ayn Rand went to this Norse hall of heroes, or at least a cemetery in a New York hamlet named for it
Valhalla
1999:
"Mischief. Mayhem. Soap"
The Fight Club
Connect two semicircles with parallel lines & you have this shape, named for a type of arena
A stadium
To get behind the wheel of a Chrysler you're thinking of buying & take it for a spin
Test-drive
This more common name for your coccyx tells you what useless body part it once belonged to
Tailbone
This realm of legend has resurfaced in the Bahamas
Atlantis
1994:
"For Harry and Lloyd every day is a no-brainer"
Dumb and Dumber
The shape created by two interlocking circles is called a vesica piscis, Latin for this bladder
Fish
To use a foot & a pedal to get a motorcycle going
Kick-start
We can't use it to detect pheromones like other animals, but we have a vestigial version of Jacobson's organ in this body part
Nose
Tall mountain in Grece believed by the Romans to be a house of many planet-named characters
Olimpus
1994:
"Fear can hold you, prisoner. Hope can set you free"
The Shawshank Redemption
Also known as a do-nothing machine, the trammel of Archimedes actually has a function--if you trace the path of the handle, you can draw one of these shapes
An Ellipse
To windmill, headspin or elbow hop like a b-boy
breakdance
they have a large blood supply and may help to warm the ears and maintain balance
Earlobes
Legendary Island of Apples, believed by some to be the final resting place of King Arthur.
Avalon