BREAKING "BAD"
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This 2003 dark comedy, stars Billy Bob Thornton as a crotchety, depressed alcoholic attempting to rip off shopping malls during the holidays.

Bad Santa

100

Destiny Hope Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

100

This former North Carolina Tarheel and six time NBA Champion was also the star of Space Jam (1996).

Michael Jordan

100

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)

J.K. Rowling

100

FX's American Crime Story kicked off its first season in 2016, re-telling the events surrounding the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman: "The People versus" him...

O.J. Simpson

200

This song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers was released in 1982 on the album of the same name.

Bad to the Bone

200

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz

Jon Stewart

200

Players take turns removing and re-stacking blocks until the tower falls in this game, launched at the London Toy Fair in January 1983.

Jenga

200

Jurassic Park (1990)

Michael Crichton

200

Tom Hanks stars as astronaut Jim Lovell, alongside Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, in this 1995 space drama directed by Ron Howard.

Apollo 13

300

Billie Eilish ended "Old Town Road"'s record-breaking 19-week run at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year, with this song.

Bad Guy

300

Norma Jeane Mortenson

Marilyn Monroe

300

This professional Vegas gambler turned Jeopardy Champ currently holds the the Top 10 single game winnings records, with the highest being $131,127 notched on April 17th.


James Holzhauer

300

The Green Mile (1996)

Stephen King

300

Margot Robbie stars in the 2017 biopic 'I, Tonya' about Tonya Harding's rough upbringing, and ultimately her involvement in the violent attack on this rival figure-skater.

Nancy Kerrigan

400

This 2018 film set in 1969 stars Jeff Bridges, and follows seven strangers hiding dark secrets, who come together one night in a shady hotel on the California-Nevada border.

Bad Times at the El Royale

400

Carlos Irwin Estévez

Charlie Sheen

400

A former world chess champion, he was also instrumental in setting up The Other Russia, a coalition which opposes Vladimir Putin's government.

Garry Kasparov

400

A Brief History of Time (1998)

Stephen Hawking

400

Taylor Kitsch played him, in this 2018 miniseries which dramatized the 51-day standoff in 1993 between the FBI and the ATF, and religious faction the Branch Davidians.

David Koresh

500

In this 2009 musical comedy, Madea (Tyler Perry) catches three children raiding her home, then delivers them to their only relative: Aunt April, played by Taraji P. Henson.

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

500

Lee Jun-fan

Bruce Lee

500

They were the first father / son pair to play for the same baseball team in the same lineup in 1990.

Ken Griffey, Sr. and Jr.

500

Go Set a Watchman (2015)

Harper Lee

500

She played Katharine Hepburn alongside Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes in Martin Scorcese's 2004 biopic The Aviator.

Cate Blanchett

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