Geography
The largest desert on planet Earth.
Antarctica
This John Hughes classic follows Steve Martin on a trip home for Thanksgiving with a little extra baggage ... in the form of John Candy.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Established in 1872, this was the first established national park in the United States.
Yellowstone
This late actor/director plays Jurassic Park founder John Hammond in the 1993 film.
Richard Attenborough
This date, which will "live in infamy" marks the surprise attack by the Imperial Navy of the Japanese on the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
December 7, 1941.
This is the fictional Indiana town in which Stranger Things takes place.
Hawkins
Though an accomplished essayist, poet, and playwright, Oscar Wilde is most famously known as the author of this Gothic horror novel.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
This is the widest of the fifty united states.
Alaska
This 2012 sci-fi epic is one of the biggest box office bombs in Disney history.
John Carter (of Mars)
This national park features a caldera that is six miles in diameter.
Crater Lake National Park
The number of dinosaur species shown on screen in Jurassic Park.
Seven species
Islamic pirates hailing from the Barbary Coast seized American merchant ships and enslaved their sailors, spurring the United States to found this in March of 1794.
The United States Navy
In season 2, the party dresses up as the Ghostbusters for Halloween. Sadly, no one wants to be this member of the ghost trapping crew.
Winston Zeddemore
With some 126 million people as of 2019, Japan is the second most populous island nation, bested only by this country.
Indonesia
Pauly Shore's Thanksgiving comedy Son in Law features a supporting role played by this Saved by the Bell actress.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen
This is the only national park to feature two active volcanoes.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The sequence involving a Tyrannosaur rampaging through San Diego in the climax of The Lost World: Jurassic Park is an homage to this classic dinosaur film.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1925)
Abraham Lincoln signed the order making Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863 but it was this president who cemented in the rule that it would be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of every November.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The holidays, like this one in season 3, play a significant role throughout Stranger Things.
American Independence Day (4th of July)
This swashbuckling yarn from 1995 could not stay afloat at the box office; forcing the bankruptcy of Carolco pictures and major career setbacks for its stars, Geena Davis and Matthew Modine.
Cutthtroat Island
Home to over 1,500 types of flowering plants, this national park hosts an annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
When Denis Nedry steals embryos from cold storage, these two dinosaur labels are misspelled.
Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus
While imprisoned aboard a British ship, Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" after witnessing the bombardment of this fort during the War of 1812.
Fort McHenry
This fan favorite character from season 4 was loosely inspired by members of the West Memphis Three as well as Van Halen.
Eddie Munson
This Martin Scorsese rockumentary, captures the Thanksgiving Day farewell concert of The Band.
The Last Waltz
Though often credited to Theodore Roosevelt, this US President signed into law the creation of the first national park in 1872.
Ulysses S. Grant
Though roughly double the average film budget for 1993, Jurassic Park's budget felt appropriate for a film of this nature.
$65 million
"The Bone Wars" or "Great Dinosaur Rush" was the competitive hunt for dinosaur fossils during the Gilded Age. Chiefly between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, roughly 142 dinosaur species were discovered between 1877 and 1892 in these three western states. Name two of those states.
Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Season 5 guest star Linda Hamilton, no stranger to the sci-fi and horror genres, starred in The Terminator and this Stephen King fable in 1984.
Children of the Corn