Whodunnit?
The Sherlock Holmes film that associated the term "Discombobulate" with the character of Sherlock Holmes was released in this specific year.
Hint: It's the same as my birth year
2009
(Fun fact: According to Cambridge's dictionary, the definition of the term "discombobulate" is "to confuse someone or make someone feel uncomfortable")
100 bonus points if you can tell me what Sherlock is doing when he says "Discombobulate": Fighting, in a boxing match, mentally planning his physical combat with McMurdo in a boxing ring before executing it, slapping his opponent over both ears
This Greek god has become a major icon and symbol of Valentine's Day. With his wings and his signature bow and arrows, Eros is more commonly known by this name.
Cupid
(Fun Fact: In art, the imagery of a chubby male child, often naked and winged, is known as a putto, plural putti, in italian. The Italian word comes from the Latin word putus, meaning "boy" or "child". Putti are generic winged babies, Cupids are putti with arrows, and cherubs are putti with religious connotations.)
In the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale, James Bond's iconic car, the Aston Martin DB5, set the Guinness World Record for the most cannon-assisted barrel rolls in a car, achieving this number of full mid-air barrel rolls.
Seven
(Fun Fact: The entire stunt was done with only practical effects and no CGI by stuntman Adam Kirley; because the car refused to flip over on its side when driven over a ramp, even with the ramp raked to an impressively precarious 2ft and while Kirley was travelling at nearly 130 km/h, the car was fitted with a nitrogen-fueled air cannon in order to assist the rolls.)
"'Cause [blank]
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections"
Hint: The artist's name is John Legend
All of Me
There are seven colors in the [blank].
Rainbow
(Fun Fact: Rainbows can happen at night using light reflected from the Moon instead of the Sun. These are called moonbows or lunar rainbows. Fogbows and Mistbows exist, too, and appear as a white or yellowish bow.)
Fill in the blank: In Agatha Christie's novel The Seven Dials Mystery, the affectionate nickname amateur sleuth Lady Eileen Brent is known by the same word used in this common saying to describe babies: "a [blank] of joy"
Bundle
Daughter to Helen of Troy and King Menelaus of Sparta, this Greek figure shares the same name with a popular Harry Potter character.
Hermione
(Fun Fact: The name Hermione is derived from the messenger god Hermes, and the Harry Potter Hermione was not named after this specific Hermione, but instead the Hermione in the Shakespeare play The Winter's Tale)
In J.R.R. Tolkien's most popular high fantasy series, characters like Bilbo Baggins and Frodo Baggins belonged to this fictional mortal race of Middle-earth.
Hobbits (also known as Half-foots)
"When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
But you heard it, "Darling, you look [blank] tonight""
Hint: The artist's name is Ed Sheeran
Perfect
This woodwind instrument looks like a flute and is often called a flute, but it is actually called a [blank].
Recorder
(Fun fact: Recorders are part of the family of flutes, but the word "flute" used to mean the instrument recorder up until the 1720s, which is when the transverse flute, or side-blown flute, overtook the recorder in popularity)
(Double fun fact: Before my parents' trip to Turkey without me, I cried and begged them to get me a flute, and they got me a recorder, which before the 1720s would not have been wrong! Funny enough a recorder WAS the flute I meant, so it worked out)
In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, in his final showdown with his arch nemesis, Professor James Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes engages him in a battle of wits over this well-known board game.
Chess
Fill in the blank: In the Greek Pantheon, there are 12 major deities. As a collective group, these gods share this title: "The [blank]s"
Hint: They are called this title because they reside on the tallest mountain in Greece, Mount Olympus.
(The) Olympians
100 bonus points if you can name 3 of the 12 Olympians: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Demeter, Hestia/Dionysus
Fill in the blank: In Project Hail Mary, the protagonist's last name is the same as the last word of this opening line in a Christian prayer:
"Hail Mary, full of... [blank]"
Grace
(Fun Fact: Dr. Ryland Grace and Ryan Gosling, his actor, share the same initials, and in the book, the physical characteristics of Grace are based off of Ryan Gosling!)
"And I sound like a loon, but don't you feel it too?
Confess I loved you [blank]"
Hint: The artist's name is Laufey
From the Start
Occuring through the process of precipitation, this noun is one of my favorite natural phenomenon.
Hint: "Right as [blank]"
Rain
(Fun fact: In meteorology, precipitation can refer to any liquid or frozen water that falls from the clouds to the ground, like rain, hail, snow, and so on)
In Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the American detective Benoit Blanc is seen playing this popular online multiplayer social deduction game during the pandemic in his bathtub.
Hint: One of the locations in this game is called "The Skeld" and is a giant turtle-shaped rocket ship flying through space.
Among Us
(Fun Fact: Benoit Blanc was confirmed to be gay after the release of Glass Onion, and has a husband named Phillip.)
In the Odyssey, during his 10 year journey coming back from the Trojan War to his homeland, the hero Odysseus encounters the witch Circe on an island. Circe turns Odysseus' men into this specific animal.
Pigs
In Back to the Future: Part III, after being sent 70 years into the past to 1885, Emmett "Doc" Brown says in a letter to Marty: "Do not — I repeat — do not attempt to come back here to get me. I am perfectly happy living in the fresh air and wide-open spaces..." As the rest of the movie takes place in this setting and within this time period, this results in the movie being classified under this genre of film.
Hint: Yeehaw, partner!
A Western
"[blank], I gave you my heart
But the very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special"
Hint: The artist's name is Wham!
Last Christmas
Defined by Britannica as "the organization of sounds in time", this noun is also known as one of the core elements in music.
Hint: "Dance to the [blank]"
Rhythm
FINAL JEOPARDY: This is the full name of the author of Sherlock Holmes.
(Sir) Arthur (Ignatius) Conan Doyle
(Fun Facts: He was knighted by King Edward VII in 1902, was a practicing physician alongside being very politically active and a bit of a Sherlock Holmes himself, personally investigating two closed cases and exonerating two men of the crimes that they were accused which partially lead to the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal, and had a public falling out with his friend Harry Houdini after supporting the Cottingley Fairies, which turned out to be a hoax)
FINAL JEOPARDY: This specific action that Prince Paris of Troy took that involved Helen of Troy sparked the 10-year long Trojan War. (What did Paris do to Helen?)
Married her/Kidnapped her/Abducted her
FINAL JEOPARDY: Casino Royale. Quantum of Solace. Skyfall. Spectre. No Time to Die. Out of these 5 movies, this James Bond film had an intro song written and sung by Adele.
Hint: This song shares the same name as the title of the movie.
Skyfall
(Fun Fact: Skyfall refers to Skyfall Lodge, James Bond's remote ancestral family estate and childhood home in the Scottish Highlands. Young James hid in a secret tunnel after his parents died, emerging two days later as an orphan.)
200 bonus points if you can guess my favorite film among that list: Casino Royale
FINAL JEOPARDY:
"I fell in love at the [blank]
It didn't look like this three years ago
I had it all at the [blank]
Or someplace like that, it all looks the same
Everything changes, what a shame"
Hint: The blank is a color (show speedway), and the artist's name is Lizzy McAlpine
Orange (Show Speedway)
FINAL JEOPARDY: In this song by the band Good Kid, despite presenting these negative qualities such as the lasting chill, the ways it's stretched too far, and the fact you can't see the stars, the narrator defends their hometown as a top-notch or high-quality place to live, by describing it as a "first [blank] town".
Hint: The [blank] at which that car is going is crazy fast!
Rate
(Fun Fact: "First Rate Town" is the first song I ever heard by my favorite band, and is a tribute to their hometown of Toronto, Canada!)