COMICS
MOVIE CREATURES
AN "A" IN MATH
TWO WORDS, ONE SCIENTIST
MORE THAN ONE MEANING
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In May 2012 this band of superheroes had the biggest box-office weekend of all time with $207 mil. domestically

The Avengers

100

The name of a huge prehistoric monster featuring in a series of Japanese films from 1954 (a name allegedly adopted from the nickname of a burly film set employee).

Godzilla

100

Total up all the numbers in a set & divide by the number of numbers to get this, also called the mean

Average

100

Apple Tree

Isaac Newton

100

To cut, or a short segment of a movie or TV show

Clip

200

A style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels, typically aimed at adults as well as children.

Manga

200

On Dagobah this green creature tells a neophyte with a ship stuck in the muck, "size matters not 

Yoda

200

You'll learn about matrices & vectors in the linear form of this branch of math

Algebra

200

Electric Car

Nikola Tesla

200

Happening at present, or something that's measured in amperes

Current

300

The 2001: A Space Odyssey comic book, published by Marvel Comics, was entirely written, penciled, and edited by this legendary comic creator  

Jack Kirby

300

Partly from Greek for "stranger", this word is used by fans to describe the chestbursters & facehuggers from a film franchise

Xenomorph

300

A top predator might perch on this, the uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone

Apex

300

Became Death

J. Robert Oppenheimer

300

The creator of a company, or to sink

Founder

400

This 2-word name for a rich benefactor comes from a "Little Orphan Annie" character

Daddy Warbucks

400

Ricou Browning's ability to hold his breath underwater came in handy playing a creature in this 1954 film

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

400

A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.

Algorithm

400

Breaking Bad

Werner Heisenberg

400

The creator of a company, or to sink

Founder

500

Lockheed Martin adopted the name "Skunk Works" from a similar name for a backwoods still in this comic strip

Li'l Abner

500

A pop-up storybook gives birth to the monster that terrifies Essie Davis & son in this 2014 movie

The Babadook

500

This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same

Associative Property

500

Pale Dot

Carl Sagan

500

To complain, or a bird also known as the prairie chicken

Grouse