FOR YOUR PIES ONLY
SCIENTIFICALLY TITLE MOVIES
5 SLICES OF PI
A BIT OF LIT
U.S. FESTIVALS
100

Pillsbury's "Perfect" this pie includes 6 cups of the main item as well as cinnamon & nutmeg; why, it's American as...

What is apple pie?

100

The title of this Matthew McConaughey film describes the space between the stars

What is Interstellar?

100

Princeton U. has celebrated Pi Day in recent years by inviting kids to participate in a look-alike contest of this scientist

Who is Einstein?

100

The title of this Steinbeck novel came from a line in "Battle Hymn Of The Republic"

What is The Grapes of Wrath?

100

Believers & skeptics alike are invited to attend the annual UFO Festival in this New Mexico City, held since 1996

What is Roswell?

200

19th century confectioner, Elizabeth Goodfellow introduced this sweet & tart delight to America

What is lemon meringue pie?

200

A continental right-lateral strike-slip fault gives us the title of this Dwayne Johnson film

What is San Andreas?

200

He puts the "3" in 3.14; this NBA star & all-time 3-point leader was born on 3/14/1988

Who is Steph Curry?

200

"Matilda" was one of the last books by this author of beloved children's stories

Who is Roald Dahl?

200

Catch 'em while you can, sheep parading down Main Street in Ketchum during the Trailing of the Sheep Festival in this state

What is Idaho?

300

Let's go nuts with this pie staple, a hickory genus member grown in Georgia with a fat content of (yipes!) over 70%

What is pecan pie?

300

This Aaron Eckhart film has the name of an "inner" & "outer" layer full of iron & nickel

What is The Core?

300

A university near Harvard, it has a school song that lauds, "The constant pi that made me sigh in those happy days of ours"

What is MIT?

300

Regarding the double-talk name of this character in "Lolita", Nabokov said, "It is a hateful name for a hateful person"

Who is Humbert Humbert?

300

A festival in Hampton, Virginia named for this British pirate includes a reenactment of his last battle

Who is Blackbeard?

400

Sour ones or Bings can be used to make this summer pie, & maybe spruce it up with a lattice crust

What is cherry pie?

400

This 1985 Brat Pack movie was a real electric phenomenon

What is St. Elmo's Fire?

400

Before directing "Requiem for a Dream" & "Black Swan", he made "Pi", a 1998 film about a paranoid mathematician

Who is Darren Aronofsky?

400

This author & her "Mrs. Dalloway" figure prominently in Michael Cunningham's novel "The Hours"

Who is (Virginia) Woolf?

400

Fittingly, this city at the tip of Illinois hosts a multi-day extravaganza celebrating all things Superman

What is Metropolis?

500

Patti LaBelle is famed for this pie that can actually be made with yams instead of the tubers in its name

What is sweet potato pie ?

500

This 1997 sci-fi film with Laurence Fishburne shares its name with the boundary at the edge of a black hole

What is Event Horizon?

500

By definition, pi denotes "the ratio of" this boundary line of a circle "to its diameter"

What is circumference?

500

In 1935 his semi-autobiographical "Of Time and the River" was published as a sequel to "Look Homeward, Angel"

Who is Thomas Wolfe?

500

It sounds like a marsupial but it's a music & arts festival held annually in Manchester, Tennessee

What is Bonnaroo?