En Francais
Literally ‘White card’, (as in a blank check), usually meaning granting unlimited authority.
What is carte blanche?
Severe winter storms characterized by heavy snow and strong winds.
What are blizzards?
He had a pet blue ox named Babe.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
This mountain range is the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
What are the Andes?
The director
Who is Steven Spielberg?
Literally meaning “already seen”.
What is deja vu?
The unusual dryness of soil caused by levels of rainfall significantly below average over a prolonged period.
What is a drought?
He formed a duo with his school friend Art Garfunkel in 1956.
Who is Paul Simon?
The largest mountain system in North America. They stretch 3,000 miles in straight-line distance from the northernmost part of western Canada, to New Mexico.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
He wrote the novel.
Who is Peter Benchley?
Meaning ‘know how’, to describe the competence or the craft of a person.
What is savoir faire?
In 1980, a series of volcanic explosions began here, in Skamania County, Washington, United States. It has often been declared the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
What is Mt. St. Helens?
He won a Best Actor Oscar in 1986 for his role as Fast Eddie Felsen in The Color of Money, operated a gourmet food brand for charity, and was married to Joanne Woodward.
Who is Paul Newman?
This mountain range in Asia has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
He plays the police chief.
Who is Roy Scheider?
Literally “false step”, an expression describing not following the etiquette.
What is a faux pas?
The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history was the 1900 Hurricane, a Category 4 storm that essentially obliterated this Texas city in 1900.
What is Galveston?
A member of the Beatles who later started the band Wings.
Who is Paul McCartney?
This mountain range runs approximately from north to south through western Russia.
What are the Urals?
He plays the marine biologist.
Who is Richard Dreyfus?
An attractive woman who seduces.
What is a femme fatale?
This 1996 film stars Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz and Cary Elwes, and focuses on a group of storm chasers trying to deploy a tornado research device.
What is Twister?
He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, the only person to be included in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Who is Les Paul?
This man, and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, in 1953.
Who is Sir Edmond Hillary?
He plays the professional shark hunter.
Who is Robert Shaw?