The 50 States
Paul Bunyan has a blue ox, but this state has something even bigger: more than 10,000 lakes, including one named for its largest city.
What is Minnesota?
You use this part of your brain to plan, make decisions, and occasionally decide that ordering dessert was the right choice after all.
What is the frontal lobe?
Flung & ceremonial chair
What is thrown/throne?
This grain is part of Kanji that makes up the name Inari, a Japanese god of that grain often portrayed as a bearded old man
What is rice?
A British officer becomes an unlikely symbol of an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, crossing vast deserts alongside tribal leaders in this David Lean epic.
What is Lawrence of Arabia?
Its nickname sounds like a royal title, its largest city sits on Lake Erie, and its flag is the only U.S. state flag that isn't rectangular.
What is Ohio?
Located toward the back of the brain, this structure takes its name from a Greek word meaning “little brain” and helps coordinate movement and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
Castle protector & dust particle
What is a moat/mote?
The Konark Sun Temple is a representation of one of these vehicles driven by the Hindu god Surya
What is a chariot?
In this 1967 film, a Depression-era waitress and a small-time outlaw meet by chance, then assemble a gang whose exploits turn them into newspaper celebrities.
What is Bonnie and Clyde?
Mark Twain grew up along the Mississippi here, while the Gateway Arch later gave this state a very different claim to fame.
What is Missouri?
Named for a seahorse because of its curved shape, this structure plays an important role in forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
A large marine creature & a loud lamentation
What is whale/wail?
This group of early Greek gods includes Hyperion & Phoebe
Who are the Titans?
A Hollywood filmmaker abandons his comfortable life and disguises himself as a drifter to experience poverty firsthand, with a surprising lesson waiting at the end.
This state's largest city shares its name with a famous Revolutionary War battle, while its capital was once known as Fort Ritchie.
What is Georgia?
Despite its reputation as the brain's emotional center, this almond-shaped structure is particularly involved in processing fear and other emotional responses.
What is the amygdala?
Hard to Unravel & Badly Behaved
What is knotty/naughty?
A magnificent jade head unearthed in 1968 in Belize is of Kinich Ahau, the sun god of these people.
Who are the Mayans?
A fictional European nation is nearly bankrupt, a wealthy heiress is asked to save it, and a group of bickering brothers turns international diplomacy into pure farce in this Marx Brothers comedy
What is Duck Soup?
Its statehood came during the Civil War, its capital was once called “Kanawha,” and the New River Gorge helped give this Appalachian state its rugged identity.
What is West Virginia?
Connecting the brain's two hemispheres, this thick bundle of nerve fibers is the largest such structure in the human brain.
What is corpus callosum?
What is done/dun?
In the Bible, Elijah led the struggle against worship of this Phoenician god that Ahab followed
Who is Baal?
A Los Angeles investigator looking into an unfaithful husband becomes entangled in a scandal involving water rights, real estate, and one of the city's most powerful families.
What is Chinatown?