FANTASY & PARANORMAL LIT
ROMAN ART
ANCIENT BATTLES
-OLOGIES
WE HAVE MET THE ANIME
SCI-FI MOVIES
400

Andre Norton asked us to gaze into this magical man's "Mirror" that reflected the realm of King Arthur

Merlin

400

Found at Rome's Palazzo Conservatori, these two Rome founders are seen here

Romulus & Remus

400

This man defeated Vercingetorix at the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, & Gaul was Rome's

Julius Caesar

400

In astronomy telescopes see stars; in this -ology, horoscopes predict stars' effects

astrology

400

This anime show didn't start on TV; its characters were first part of Nintendo's "Pocket Monsters"

Pokémon

400

In this film, the first in a series, Shailene Woodley stars as Tris, who discovers that she's not like the others

Divergent

800

Satan might be the father of the title woman's child in this novel by Ira Levin

Rosemary's Baby

800

Carved in Rome, the "Pieta" is the only work signed by this sculptor

Michelangelo

800

At the decisive 331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela, Alexander the Great's phalanxes opened ranks to let these wheeled Persian weapons pass through, then wipe them out

chariots

800

Urbanology is the study of the problems of these places

cities

800

This classic 5-letter anime film isn't named for director Kurosawa but rather a boy who destroys Tokyo

Akira

800

In "Her", Joaquin Phoenix falls in love & has a relationship with a computer operating system voiced by her

Scarlett Johansson

1200

In "Hush, Hush" young Nora falls for Patch, one of these sullied followers of Lucifer

fallen angels

1200

In Rome's Cherasi Chapel is Caravaggio's conversion of a painting of this saint

Paul

1200

Horses were terrified of these war beasts, which routed Roman cavalry at the 280 B.C. Battle of Heraclea

elephants

1200

Cellular & developmental are major branches of this life science

biology

1200

In this anime TV series, Bumblebee turned into a VW Beetle; in the 2007 live-action movie, he got upgraded to a Camaro

Transformers

1200

This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as the mariner became a Universal Studios "tidal wave of explosive action"

Waterworld

1600

In books by Julie Kagawa, Meghan discovers that she's half-this & also that the word can be spelled with a middle "E"

fae (or faerie)

1600

A fresco by Raphael shows Pope Leo I pleading with this ruthless barbarian to spare Rome

Attila

1600

Cleopatra's galleys fled at the Battle of Actium, a victory for this soon-to-be emperor's fleet

Octavian

1600

A rheumatology textbook might cover tennis elbow, as the elbow is one of these

a joint

1600

This "lunar" Naoko Takeuchi creation is an example of a "magical girl" given powers to save the world

Sailor Moon

1600

NTIs, or non-terrestrial intelligences, live very, very deep in the ocean in this 1989 James Cameron film

The Abyss

2000

This author of "The Farthest Shore", part of the "Earthsea" series, passed over to the far shore herself in 2018

(Ursula) Le Guin

2000

Legend has it that Marc Antony's wife stabbed this orator's tongue after his death

Cicero

2000

Muwatallis, not Uriah, led these people against the Egyptians in the 1274 B.C. Battle of Kadesh

the Hittites

2000

Gerontology, the study of these people, has no interest in those your age

old dudes

2000

One of the highest-grossing films in Japanese history is the anime film about this title 14th c. princess

Princess Mononoke

2000

The name of this title substance combines the 2 legumes that it's said to contain

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