SOUNDS CRIMINAL, BUT ISN'T
MOVIES IN THE SKY
COLLEGES OF OXFORD
EMPIRES
ACA"D"MIA
LITERARY MASHUPS
(Alex: Name the two works by the same author that we have kind of messed up a little.)
(Alex: Name the two works by the same author that we have kind of messed up a little.)
400
You may have a lithium-ion one in your phone
battery
400
James Bond fails all over this film--doesn't save the girl, his house burns & the bad guy meets his goal to kill M & die
Skyfall
400
The college name seen here, founded in 1458, is pronounced with this consonant silent
the G
400
At the 1389 Battle of Kosovo, this empire's sultan routed the Serbs
Ottoman
400
I surmise that this process is the logical derivation of a conclusion from prior statements
deduction
400
"A Doll's Gabler"
A Doll's House & Hedda Gabler
800
That segment Leno used to do where he quizzed people on the street
Jaywalking
800
Part of "Being" this actor included starring in 1990's "The Sheltering Sky" with Debra Winger
John Malkovich
800
Daily Double
This author attended Lincoln College & based spy George Smiley in part on Rector Vivian Green
John le Carré
800
The German empire of 1871-1918 consisted of 25 states, but this militaristic kingdom occupied 3/5 of it
Prussia
800
It can be done to an idea, a plant or an animal & means cutting it apart to analyze it
dissect
800
"Mansfield Abbey"
Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey
1200
That bracelet or scarf that totally completes your killer outfit
accessory
1200
Before heading off to "Brokeback Mountain", he played future NASA engineer Homer Hickam in "October Sky"
(Jake) Gyllenhaal
1200
The motto of New College is alliteratively these habits "makyth man"--did any kingsmen go there?
manners
1200
Daily Double
France's 1852-1870 Second Empire was ruled by the third of this name, known as the "Sphinx" for his enigmatic nature
Napoleon
1200
Form of education focused on methods to help students not on site but attending via the internet or other means
distance learning
1200
"The Pelican Jury"
The Pelican Brief & Runaway Jury
1600
It's wielded by Novak Djokovic & Caroline Wozniacki
a racket
1600
It's a rhyming nickname for a drone (t's watching us right now!), or a Helen Mirren film about them
Eye in the Sky
1600
Merton College was occupied by this king's soldiers during the civil war of the 1640s
Charles I
1600
The empire of this leader who fought Jamestown's colonists was a confederacy of Algonquian tribes
Powhatan
1600
The influential books "Sexual Politics" & "Sexual Personae" both grew out of these, written to earn a Ph.D.
dissertations
1600
"The Old Man in the Stream"
The Old Man and the Sea & Islands in the Stream
2000
A group of crows
a murder
2000
He had a healthy ego playing Peter Quill's dad in "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" as well as a super-hero in "Sky High"
Kurt Russell
2000
This author based Jordan College in the "His Dark Materials" series on his alma mater, Exeter College
Philip Pullman
2000
In 811 this eastern empire's Nicephorus I invaded Bulgaria; the Bulgur Khan had his skull made into a drinking cup
Byzantine
2000
This rhyming phrase means that learning by repetition causes lack of interest
drill and kill
2000
"Portnoy's Pastoral"
Portnoy's Complaint & American Pastoral