Sun-Sational
1950s speak
Sunflowers
Misremembering movies
Revisiting August Past
100

Make this while the sun shines.

Hay
100

People referred to movies or films as this in the 1950s.

Flicks

100

This artist introduced inception with his art “Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers.”

Paul Gaugin

100

This famous movie quote from Wizard of Oz is commonly misremembered

"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" is actually "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." 

100

On August 29, 2005, this hurricane struck the Gulf Coast and devastated New Orleans, Louisiana

Hurricane Katrina

200

A tune from Abbey Road

Here Comes the Sun

200

'50s slang term for money

Bread
200

The sunflower state

Kansas - the sunflower is a native plant to Kansas

200

In the 1967 film The Graduate, this actor is misquotes as saying, "Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"

Dustin Hoffman 

The correct quote is "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?"

200

Half a million young people congregated at Woodstock for these 3 days in 1969

Aug 15-18, 1969

300

5th Dimension sings the 1960s hit "Aquarius (Let The Sunshine In)" written for this musical

Hair

300

A subculture identified by slicked-back hair

Greaser

300

This color sunflower has no pollen, making it good for cutting.

Purple Sunflower

300

During this NASA mission with the same name as the movie, no one ever said "Houston, we have a problem."

Apollo 13 - the first transmission was "Okay,Houston, we've had a problem here." NASA didn't catch the full transmission, so it was repeated "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem here"

300

On August 1, 1981, this first music video channel made its inaugural broadcast.

MTV 

400

Florida and Arizona are part of the region known as this, a popular area for snowbirds to flock to in the winter.

the Sunbelt
400

Suddenly accelerating at a high speed while driving

Flooring it
400

Sunflowers are connected to this Greek god who, out of grief, turned Clytie into a sunflower to avoid having to look at her again. 

Apollo

400

"Why don't you come up and see me sometime" is the misquote attributed to this actress in the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong.

Mae West

The correct line is: "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

400

On August 24, 1944, this European capital was liberated from German control.

Paris

500

This 1996 sitcom was about aliens trying to blend in on Earth.

Third Rock from the Sun

500

A bully might offer this to your face

Knuckle Sandwich

500

Before a sunflower fully matures, it tracks the sun in what is called this

Heliotrophism

Immature flowers "sleep" in a westward-facing position at night and reorient in an eastward-facing position in the morning.

500

The words "Elementary, my dear Watson" do not appear in any of the books about this brilliant-yet-moody detective.

Sherlock Holmes 

It was misquoted in a New York Times film review for the 1929 movie The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

500

On August 7, 1990, President George H. W. Bush ordered the start of this operation after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

Operation Desert Storm