The Young & The Reckless
Inventors and Inventions
Movie Thrillers
Gnat Geo
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400
Wing-suited 1930s aviation daredevil Clem Sohn was nicknamed this like a caped superhero who debuted in 1939
Batman
400
George Washington Carver came up with 300 products derived from these, including dyes, flour & linoleum
peanuts
400
In "Marathon Man" Laurence Olivier plays war criminal Szell, who breaks out the tools he used as one of these
a dentist
400
2019 high water on this river in cities like Natchez helped bring gnats out in force
The Mississippi River
400
A mistake, like throwing the ball into left field
an error
800
Rossa Richter was just 14 in 1877 when she was fired into the air at London's Royal Aquarium, becoming famous as the first human this
a cannonball
800
Tabitha Babbitt invented a circular type of this tool after seeing Shakers struggle with the long 2-handled type
a saw
800
This 2020 thriller based on an H.G. Wells novel had the title character as an abusive ex stalking Elisabeth Moss
The Invisible Man
800
Queen Victoria wrote of being "half devoured by midges" at an 1872 picnic near Dornoch Firth in this country
Scotland
800
Musical rate of movement indicated by adagio or presto
tempo
1200
One story says this 1970s Daredevil got his rhyming nickname after crashing his motorcycle while being chased by police as a teen
Evil Knievel
1200
In the tradition of Hungarian inventive geniuses like Mr. Rubik, two Hungarian scientists designed the Gömböc to prove that there can be a three-dimensional object with only one stable and one unstable point of this
balance
1200
Tom Hardy played the title role in this high-octane flick, but Charlize Theron stole the spotlight as Furiosa
Mad Max:Fury Road
1200
The luminous larvae of Orfelia fultoni, a gnat of the Appalachians, are aka these "worms"
Glow worms
1200
It describes the indentation on a chin
cleft
1600
Stunt man Bud Ekins, not Steve McQueen, made the iconic motorcycle jump over a barbed-wire fence in this 1963 P.O.W. breakout movie
The Great Escape
1600
Donald Hings created a portable 2-way radio around 1940; today it has this rhyming name
a walkie-talkie
1600
In "The Transporter: Refueled", Ed Skrein took the wheel from this British actor who starred in the previous 3 entries
Jason Slatham
1600
You might encounter the fungus gnat on safari in this country's Kwazulu-Natal province
South Africa
1600
A small flock of quail
covey
2000
World War I ace Frank Luke was famed for attacking observation these, dangerous targets ringed with antiaircraft guns
balloons
2000
This guitar legend is the only person in both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame & The Inventors Hall of Fame
Les Paul
2000
The dreams that take place at the climax of this Christopher Nolan film are dreamed inside the first class cabin of a 747
Inception
2000
The destructive fruit fly Ceratitis capitata is better known as this, after a body of water
the Mediterranean fruit fly
2000
Canadians enjoy wearing this type of heavy stocking cap
a toque (tuque)