Movie Titles
Spanish for "White House", though the movie takes place very far away from Washington, D.C.
Casablanca
A.J. - a heavy-hitting ball player and a player of heavy hitters.
Aaron Judge, Aaron (Taylor) Johnson
Not dead, not crooked
Alive, aligned
These two lakes are the sources of the "White" and "Blue" tributaries of the River Nile.
Lake Victoria, Lake Tana
Tanks that formed the bulk of the US Armored divisions were named after this Civil War General
William Tecumseh Sherman
Films like The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, and Love Actually, which each consist of multiple characters giving differing perspectives to the same series of events, owe their format to this Japanese crime drama.
Rashomon
R.R. - These two fantasy authors shared their middle initials with each other, and their first names with two Beatles
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, George Raymond Richard Martin
These two words beginning with B are both things you would do when cooking poultry
Bake, Baste
When Pangaea split, remnants of its central mountain range persisted, and continue to do so in the present day, such as this North American range.
Appalachian Mountains
This 1918 Peace Treaty gave Germany virtually unlimited access to Romania's oil fields, which became a critical part of their war infrastructure in the Second War
Treaty of Bucharest
Is it important for a King to know the difference between swallows? Apparently so! In this movie, that knowledge saved the King's life.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
J.M. - subsequent early US Presidents
James Madison, James Monroe
A failure to right a wrong, a typical result of said wrong
Injustice, injury
This Indonesian volcano's 1815 VEI-7 eruption is the most recent so-called "supereruption" on record. It caused climate cooling and severe crop failures as far as Europe and the Americas
Mount Tambora
This French Marshal, who was considered a hero in the First War, later became the figurehead of the Vichy Puppet State.
Philippe Pétain (Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain)
When the MPAA said this movie would get an NC-17 rating if it had 400 or more swear words, the creators wrote in exactly 399.
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
R.P. - Polish director and British actor. Only a one-letter-per-name difference between them.
Roman Polanski, Rowan Polonski
A bit of the former might just reveal the latter
Illumination, illusion
As tectonic activity moves them off their hotspots, volcanic islands gradually corrode and shrink beneath the ocean surface, becoming these.
Seamounts
Clement Attlee
Also the name of a 1970 song, which was used as the theme for this film.
Iron Man
S.F. - a renowned US Civil War historian, and a southern cavalry commander he no doubt studied.
Shelby Foote, Samuel Ferguson
It may be a ___ to put up that big of a ___
struggle, structure
This massive lake, the largest in its country, lent its name to the province that encompasses it.
Qinghai
German High Command considered him their best General until he died of a stroke in January 1942.
Walter von Reichenau