Best Picture Oscar Winners
Amazing NFL feats
Women of Country Music
Halloween On-Screen
Word Origins
100
Clarice-- It was the most recent film to sweep the Oscars in the top 5 categories, including Best Picture
the Silence of the Lambs
100
In one 1990 game, Chiefs linebacker Derrick Thomas had 7 of these, really getting to know Seahawks QB Dave Krieg
sacks
100
In March 2025 she was on hand to welcome guests & kick off the 40th season of her Tennessee theme park
Dolly Parton
100
Uh oh! Lydia Deetz is getting unhappily hitched on Halloween in this 2024 sequel (but just say it twice! 3 times is bad! & wrong!)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
100
From the French for "shelter", it's a place to store your Rolls-Royce or to have it worked on
Garage
200
In 2022 it became the first film with a predominantly deaf cast to win Best Picture
CODA
200
A popular face in commercials these days, hecaught 17 TDs in 2011, a single season record for a tight end
Gronkowski
200
Though they had had several hit duets, it wasn't until 2017 that she & Tim McGraw released their first joint album
Faith Hill
200
This 1982 title character from way out of town dresses up like a ghost on Halloween, likely in search of Reese's Pieces
E.T.
200
A Latin word for a round-bodied fish swam full speed ahead into English to become this naval weapon
torpedo
300
NBC ran this Spielberg film February 23, 1997 uninterrupted by commercials & rated TV-M
Schindler's List
300
As the end zone is 10 yards long, this many yards is the longest possible scoring play, tied by Jamal Agnew in 2021
109
300
Her 1961 country hit "Crazy" was written by Willie Nelson
Patsy Cline
300
After being out of town for 15 years for... reasons, guess who's back for "Halloween" in 1978? This character!
Michael Meyers
300
Old Norse words for "bear" & "shirt" give us this adjective for out of control
berserk
400
This 2011 film was shot entirely in black and white and the only audible line was "with Pleasure"
The Artist
400
Playing for this team, Dan Marino was the first QB to throw for 5,000 yards & 40 TDs in a season
Dolphins
400
No big stretch--she played aspiring country musician Abby on Season 5 of "Yellowstone"
:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(959x78:961x80)/Lainey-Wilson-Yellowstone-111522-1-2b98336be60344f7ac31873aff8a7658.jpg)
Lainey Wilson
400
Lindsay Lohan's Cady tells us a Halloween party didn't go well in this 2004 film--"My stomach felt like it was going to fall out my ..."
Mean Girls
400
It can be an internal organ or part of a book; it's from Latin for "to hang"
appendix
500
Christopher Walken appeared in 2 Best Pictures in consecutive years, "Annie Hall" & this one for which he won an Oscar as well
The Deer Hunter
500
Just 100 yards shy of the season rushing record, thisEagle & ex-Giant sat out the last game of the 2024 season to rest & stay healthy
Saquon Barkley
500
This younger sister of Loretta Lynn was the first female country artist to have a platinum album
Crystal Gayle
500
Jake is out to steal Captain Holt's Medal of Valor in the first "Halloween Heist" episode of this N.Y.-set sitcom
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
500
Now a type of comedy act, this technique from Latin for "one who speaks from his belly" goes back to ancient oracular divination
ventriloquy