Colorful Movies
This terrible movie from 2005 stars Ryan Reynolds as a superhero who was NOT a Marvel character.
The Green Lantern
On December 7th 1941, the United States entered World War II after the attack by Japan on what Hawaiian Navy base?
- Pearl Harbor
Originally called “The Landlord’s Game”, this classic board game was first published in 1935 as a hands-on way to learn about the processes behind companies buying up properties.
- Monopoly
This 2022 Pixar movie is a coming-of-age story for a young girl who keeps accidentally turning into a particular animal.
Turning Red
Following World War II in Europe, Germany was split between capitalism in the West and communism in the East. What capital city was allowed to be split so that each side had a section of it?
- Berlin
Chess has existed with a very consistent set of rules since the 1800s but one late addition to the rules in 1862 added the ability to promote what piece into any other piece?
Pawns
This 1995 James Bond movie was good but the Nintendo 64 game of the same name was groundbreaking in creating the console FPS genre.
Goldeneye
Throughout the Cold War, the US and USSR were competing technologically with each other in exploring the upper atmosphere. What was the rhyming name that the public gave this competition?
- The Space Race
The 2-player game “Battleship” pits two players across from each other guessing spaces to try to sink each other’s ships. How many ships are there for each player?
- 5
This animated movie from 1968 shares its name with the title song as written by the Beatles.
- Yellow Submarine
One of the largest disasters of all time, the USSR encountered a major nuclear reactor meltdown in 1986 at what now-famous nuclear power plant?
- Chernobyl
A cross between a board game and a toy, this product was released in 1967 and features 4 differently colored animals eating white marbles
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
This recent scary movie was set in the 1970s and features a middle school student who has been kidnapped but is helped by the voices of ghosts of the kidnapper’s previous victims.
- The Black Phone
In 1996, scientists in the UK were successful in cloning the first ever mammal, a sheep named what?
-Dolly
In “Scrabble”, players try to use letters to score as many points as they can as they make words. What two letters are worth the most points apiece?
Q and Z are each worth 10 points