Meryl Streep
Radio/Podcasts
Northern CA
Literature
New Mexico
100

Meryl Streep costars with Goldie Hawn in this dark comedy.

What is Death Becomes Her?

100

This popular New York Times podcast offers easily digestible 20 min news stories.

What is The Daily?

100

This non alkali lake has shores in Northern California, and in Nevada.

What is Lake Tahoe?

100

As of 2012, this sharp-witted literary character had been portrayed in film and television more than any other, by the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, Ian McKellan, and even Will Ferrell.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

100

The original car wash that Walter White worked at in Breaking Bad can be found on this road.

What is Menaul?

200

This movie staring Streep is based on Carrie Fisher's first auto biographical novel about her battle with addiction.

What is Postcards from the Edge?

200

This is NPR's weekly new gameshow that has become a beloved podast.

What is Wait Wait...Dont Tell Me!

200

This mountain, at 14,505 ft, is the tallest peak in the lower 48.

What is Mt. Whitney?

200

Who said that fan fiction was just a hobby? E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Gray started as a fan fiction of this supernatural romance novel series.

 What is Twilight?

200

This hippy mountain town and former artist colony was the site of filming movies such as "Wild Hogs" and sits on the original Turquoise Trail through the East side of the Sandias.

What is Madrid?

300

Meryl Streep plays this characters mother in the second season of Big Little Lies.

Who is Perry?

300

This podcast hosted by two friends is responsible for starting the “#freebritney” movement.

What is Britney’s Gram?

300

Pacific Grove has an old city law that makes it illegal to molest this insect.

What is a Monarch butterfly?

300

This cartoony title character hopped from the page to the big screen in 1988. In the movie he was Framed, but in the book he was Censored.

Who is Roger Rabbit?

300

A restaurant patron might ask for this if given the choice between red or green chile when they would like both.

What is Christmas?

400

This is the only Wes Anderson film that Meryl Streep has done.

What is Fantastic Mr. Fox?

400

This podcast network host shows Morbid, The Shrink Next Door and Dr. Death.

 What is the Wondery?

400

This city, known for its many wineries in the region, is located to the west of the Mayacamas Mountains.

What is Sonoma?

400

It’s up for debate what counts as the ‘longest novel ever published’, but this novel by Marcel Proust is often considered to have the top spot.

What is In Search of Lost Time?

400

This is the highest peak in the state of New Mexico.

What is Wheeler Peak?

500

In this 2002 film directed by Spike Jonze, Streep plays Susan Orlean who is an author who is having her book made into a movie.

What is Adaptation?

500

This local station based in Philadelphia produces Fresh Air.

What is WHYY?

500

This endangered bird was just reintroduced to its historic range in the redwood forest by the Yurok tribe in spring of 2022.

What is California Condor?

500

Birds of a feather, and so forth. J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were prominent members of this informal writing club, to whom the former first read The Lord of the Rings.

Who are The Inklings?

500

Julia Roberts has a home in this New Mexican mecca for the arts.

What is Taos?

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