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MOVIE TITLE BEFORE & AFTER
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In a series of kids' books, Ms. Frizzle takes kids on enchanted rides on this title conveyance
The Magic School Bus
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Black & white pieces in this game are often called stones, which you want to get back home & then "bear off" to win the game
backgammon
400
You can call them Vaccinium vitis-idaea or this Swedish-derived name, but either way, they go great on Swedish pancakes
lingonberries
400
2018:
"A Star Is Born"
Bradley Cooper
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"See What I Have Done" is partly written from the perspective of this woman who was tried & acquitted in 1893
Lizzie Borden
400
George Clooney travels around firing people while flying with U.S. President Harrison Ford
Up in the Air Force One
800
Willie Nelson's tour bus runs on BioWillie, this fuel made of soybean & vegetable oils
biodiesel
800
A 2023 film pulled back the curtain on how this video game took over the world, one falling block at a time
Tetris
800
Appropriately, the senior aunts in "Arsenic and Old Lace" poison their senior guests with wine made from these berries
elderberries
800
2007:
"Gone Baby Gone"
Ben Affleck
800
As NYC police commissioner, this future president helps "The Alienist" & uh-huh, yells, "Bully!"
Teddy Roosevelt
800
Drew Barrymore & the rest of her crime-fighting undercover trio win baseball games with some heavenly assistance
Charlie's Angels in the Outfield
1200
For his 2012 reelection tour, President Obama had a sleek campaign bus named this, one word different than a plane he rode in
Ground Force One
1200
Ludo is another name for this board game, sometimes called India's national game
Parcheesi
1200
A Southern California theme park sprang from a farm that grew this sweet but tangy berry named for its developer
boysenberry
1200
1984:
"This Is Spinal Tap"
Rob Reiner
1200
Amor Towles set this novel at the real-life Metropol Hotel in Russia
A Gentleman in Moscow
1200
George Romero's original zombies from 1968 recruit a wisecracking superhero to add to the mayhem
Night of the Living Deadpool
1600
The design of "The Partridge Family" bus was inspired by this Dutch painter
Mondrian
1600
Bamboos & winds are names for some of the tiles called pais in this game
mahjong
1600
A classic British dessert called fool is made with these avian-named berries
gooseberries
1600
1986:
"She's Gotta Have It"
Spike Lee
1600
In Elmore Leonard's historical novel "Cuba Libre", Pvt. Virgil Webster "felt himself lifted from the deck" of this ship
the Maine
1600
Steve Martin is alarmed that his daughter has gotten very big hair & is betrothed to Boris Karloff as a monster
Father of the Bride of Frankenstein
2000
This author & his Merry Pranksters painted a school bus in psychedelic colors & set off across America
Ken Kesey
2000
Cutthroat is one type of this card game that has a name derived from French for "two-eyed"
pinochle
2000
In this film directed by Ingmar Bergman, Bibi Andersson picks the title fruit
Wild Strawberries
2000
2020:
"One Night in Miami..."
Regina King
2000
In a novel subtitled "The Woman Who Revealed the Real America", Elise Hooper writes about this Depression-era photographer
Dorothea Lange
2000
Allied prisoners tunnel out of a German P.O.W. camp in a Disney movie about kids with magical powers
The Great Escape to Witch Mountain
