Print and Film
Roald Dahl wrote this fantastical tale in 1964... down the road Gene Wilder and then Johnny Depp brought it to the silver screen
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan
You don't want to break this, or the IRS will be breathing down your neck!
Tax law
Thomas Edison built his first high resistance, incandescent electric light.
1870s (1879)
David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and...
David
Michael Crichton published this science fiction novel in 1990 and shortly after Steven Spielberg adapted the novel with both animation and animatronics.
Jurassic Park
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
J. Robert Oppenheimer
A system concerned with the punishment of those who commit crimes.
Criminal Law
The "Fab Four" came together in Liverpool, England.
1960s (1960)
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
The don said, "Don't ever go against the family." in the first movie of the tribology based on the 1969 crime novel.
The Godfather
"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics."
Mark Twain
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Edsel Murphy's Law
Carl Benz applied for a patent for his "vehicle powered by a gas engine." The patent - number 37435 - may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile.
1880s (1886)
If 2 is company and 3 is a crowd, what is 4 and 5?
9
You probably read this book during your school days, as this 1960 classic became a movie of the same title a couple years later, starring Gregory Peck
To Kill a Mockingbird
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is..."
William J. Clinton
Starred in Enemy at the Gates and Sherlock Holmes.
Jude Law
The soviet's inaugurated the space age with Sputnik.
1950s (1957)
What can you hold in your right hand, but never in your left hand?
Your left hand
Ken Kesey wrote the internationally best-selling novel in 1963 and in 1975 Nicholson, DeVito, and Lloyd starred in the psych ward watch with the heartless nurse Ratched.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzche
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed.
Law of thermodynamics
The US constitution was written, ratified, and operational since this decade.
1780s (1787,1788, and 1789)
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle