Literature
Cinema
Japan
Avian Life
The Man Himself
100

He speaks for the trees.

The Lorax

100

He directed Jurassic Park and E.T..

Steven Spielberg

100

The capital city of Japan.

Tokyo

100

This bird is often associated with delivering babies in folklore.

Stork

100

What did Annie pour on Gianni's head one day?

Hot cup of noodles
200

This American author penned The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

200

The 1994 film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, based on a Stephen King novella.

The Shawshank Redemption

200

Traditional Japanese robe, often worn for festivals or ceremonies.

Kimono

200

The fastest bird in the world in a dive.

Peregrine Falcon

200

Gianni went to a Mother-Son dance in middle school; a song played and all the boys dropped to the ground and convulsed. What song was playing?

Pump It by the Black Eyed Peas

300

Known as the Minotaur, this Gold warrior is feared for his brutal strength and mythic presence in the beloved Red Rising series.

Apollonius au Valii

300

The first feature-length animated film produced by Walt Disney.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

300

Japan’s highest mountain, often considered a sacred symbol.

Mt. Fuji

300

This large, flightless bird is native to Africa.

Ostrich

300

Name of Gianni's first kiss?

Mac

400

The epic poem Paradise Lost was written by this 17th-century poet.

John Milton

400

These three films each won 11 Oscars, tying the record for the most Academy Awards ever won by a single movie.

Ben-Hur, Titanic, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

400

This 2001 animated film by Hayao Miyazaki holds the record for the highest-grossing film in Japanese history and won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Spirited Away

400

This bird, native to New Zealand, is nocturnal, flightless, and has nostrils at the tip of its long beak, a unique trait among birds.

Kiwi

400

Gianni and friends streaked across a freeway in the middle of night - which freeway was it?

101

500

Among a pantheon of great works, this author also wrote Bartholomew and the Oobleck.

Dr. Seuss

500

In the film Interstellar, the crew travels to Miller's planet. Due to extreme time dilation on the surface of mostly water, while only a few hours pass on the planet, this many years pass for the lone member on the ship. 

23 years

500

This period, lasting from 1185 to 1868, is when the samurai class was most prominent in Japan, beginning with the Kamakura shogunate and ending with the Meiji Restoration.

Feudal Era, or the Edo period

500

This migratory seabird can stay aloft for months at a time without landing, spending nearly its entire life in flight.

Albatross

500

Gianni pretended to have special needs in order to cut to the front of the snack line - what was the desired snack in question?

Scooby Snacks