Guess Who Died!
The English and Their Slang
Songs and Who Wrote Them
Actors
Beyond Acting
Beyond Acting
A Round of Name Mashups [Mostly] Pertaining Specifically to Classic Literature
Good Ole Public Entertainment
Old/Obscure Technology Showcase
How Are You Alive?
Anagrams Because Brandon
The Nolan Special
(Nolan’s misc.)
(Nolan’s misc.)
100
9th president of the United States, Willaim Henry Harrison, famously died only 32 days into his presidency from this disease, which he contracted from delivering his 3 and a half hour inauguration speech in the pouring rain without a jacket.
What is pneumonia?
100
We all know that what we call French Fries the English call chips. Similarly, what we call chips the English call this.
What are crisps?
100
The music track for the song Super Freak by Rick James was famously sampled and used uncredited by this rap artist in 1991.
Who is MC Hammer?
100
Despite achieving the rank of Sergeant during his time in the Marines and while he was a successful actor for many years, Wilford Brimley is probably best remembered by younger generations for this.
What is
100
A blending of more modern classics, this story would be of an America where it is illegal to own books and where, under the command of Big Brother and Ingsoc, they are destroyed by firemen who burn them.
What is Fahrenheit 1984?
100
Most of the little people who played The Munchkins in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ came from these types of traveling entertainment.
What are circuses/freak shows?
100
This failed Nintendo console utilized 32-bit graphics with a red and black color scheme, and was also an early attempt at VR gaming.
What was the Virtual Boy?
100
Seth MacFarlane famously missed a flight that wound up becoming part of this tragedy.
What is 9/11?
100
poe method
(Two words)
Home Depot
100
Of these sports, this one was not one Nolan played in his youth.
A.) Baseball
B.) Soccer
C.) Ultimate Frisbee
D.) Football
What is B.) Soccer
200
The expression "Drinking the Kool-Aid" originated from this cult leader and the 918 people who committed mass suicide along side him.
Who is Jim Jones?
200
In America we’d call these parts of the car, the hood and the trunk
What are the bonnet and the boot?
200
The singing voice of Jack Skelington in “A Nightmare Before Christmas” was performed by this former frontman turned Hollywood composer.
Who is Danny Elfman?
200
Born in 1922 Betty White was literally older than this food and the saying that is it often associated with.
What is sliced bread?
200
This blending of old and new science fiction would be the story of a submarine crew in the 1860s that becomes trapped in a quiet Maine town after a mysterious and impassable, dome-like, barrier appears over the town.
What would be 20,000 Leagues Under the Dome?
200
The Museum of Erotica in St Petersburg, Russia, claims to have the pickled penis of this self-proclaimed holy man.
Who was Rasputin?
200
The Dosimeters used on site at cherbobyl famously only measured up to this many Röntgen.
What is 3.5?
200
Actor/comedian George Burns managed to achieve the status of centenarian, managing to live to the ripe age of 100 years old despite his habit of chain smoking this tobacco product.
What are El Producto cigars?
200
belt in slop
(Two words)
Bill Pontes
200
This animal famously smells like buttered popcorn
What is the Binturong
300
While it became one of the main tools the nazis used for their extermination of the jewelry and other minority groups during the holocaust, this gas had been orignally marketed as a pesticide in the late 1920s.
What is Zyklon B?
300
This word takes on different context in American English, but in Britain it is used to refer to the mail.
What is Post?
300
In the early 90s Joe Pesci released a Christmas album as this movie character of his.
Who is "cousin" Vinny Gambino?
300
Before finding fame as an actor, Steve Buscemi had spent 4 years in this public service position.
What is a firefighter?
300
This story would be about the comedic misadventures of Jack Torrence and his alien friend Ford Prefect as they journey through the Overlook Hotel, in search of the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
What is The Hitchhikers Guide to The Shining?
300
This notorious New Jersey based amusement park, featured untested and sometimes dangerous water slides, a go-kart-esq boat track, an alpine slide, and overall very lax safety regulations which lead to at least 6 deaths over its 20 years of operation.
What was Action Park?
300
Long before the days of MP3 players or even the Sony Walkman, the Mighty Tiny allowed people to take music on the go with tiny pocket sized versions of this music format.
What are Vinyl Records?
300
Phineas Gage, well known today, especially in the fields of psychology and neural science, famously went on to live an additional twelve years after surviving this.
What is having a metal rod shot through his brain?
300
a baked booth
(Two words)
The Babadook
300
Nolan is allergic to this certain food group
What are fruits?
400
This cold-war era term was a unit of measurement used to count the ammount of people killed in a nuclear strike by units of one million.
What is a Megadeath?
400
Lorry is a British term commonly used to refer to this style of vehicle.
What is a truck?
400
Eddy Murphy’s hit song “Party All The Time” was was written and produced by this singer/songwriter.
Who is Rick James?
400
Best known for his role as "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri in The Sporanos, Tony Sirico credited his acting career playing mobsters as the thing that got him away from this lifestyle.
What is being an actual mobster?
400
This would be the story of a Scottish general, who is driven to kill his slow witted friend in order to become the King of Scotland and get the farm and rabbits they’d always dreamed of.
What is of Mice and MacBeth?
400
In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a relatively common sight to see crowds of people picnicking out on the outskirts of these.
What are Military Battles?
400
Rarely used today, this animation technique involved the use of special camera rigs and either the tracing of or coloring over, film stock/photographs.
What is rotoscope/rotoscoping?
400
This U.S. President managed to live for an additional 39 years to the ripe age of 78, with a musket ball lodged only inches from his heart, after he’d been shot in a duel in 1806. Seemingly too stubborn to succumb to the wound itself, the broken ribs that resulted from where he had been shot, or lead poisoning.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
Bjorn makes a wind
(Two words)
Brandon Majewski
400
This is the actual measurements of a 2x4
What is 1.5” by 3.5”
500
We will never know Albert Einstein's last words for this reason.
What is his nurse didn't speak German?
500
The British name for the sweet treat, known in the U.S. as popsicles.
What is an Ice Lolly?
500
The Beach Boys song “Surfin’ U.S.A.” landed the group in hot water when they were sued over the fact that the guitar rift used in the song had been copied note for note from the song “Sweet Sixteen” written by this early rock icon.
Who is Chuck Berry?
500
Frankie Muniz a.k.a the titular 'Malcom' of "Malcom in the Middle" left the business after 2006 when the shows final season wrapped. He has since gone on to have a long career in this high octane sport.
What is racecar driving?
500
This would be the semi-autobiographical story of a spider who tries to save a pig from the clutches of her perceived Jewish oppression.
What would be Charlotte’s Kamph?
500
Thomas Edison once electrocuted this circus animal as a publicity stunt in an attempt to discredit Nikola Tesla and his alternating current model of electrical wiring.
What is an elephant?
500
This was the first video game console to offer wireless controllers as an alternative option to the corded ones that came with the system.
What is the Atari 2600?
500
Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and Boris Baranov, two of whom are still alive today, performed one of the most dangerous tasks during the Chernobyl disaster, having to navigate flooded and heavily irradiated corridors directly under reactor four in order to complete this task.
What is open the release valves to the suppression pools?
500
lemon lip
(Two words)
Poll Mine
500
This would be Nolan’s most played champion in League of Legends
Who is Darius?
600
This ancient emperor died very suddenly at the age of just 32 years old, leading to an almost instant collapse of one of the largest empires in history.
Who was Alexander the Great?
600
In British-english, the term Underground is commonly used to refer to this mode of public transit.
What is the subway?
600
The writing of this James Bond opening is believed to be one of the key moments that rekindled the friendship of Paul McCartney and John Lennon
What is Live and Let Die?
600
Charlie Chaplin, along with being one of the pioneers of the silent film era, helped to establish this Hollywood organization to ensure safer conditions and shorter working days for actors.
What is the Screen Actor’s Guild
600
This ancient Saxon epic, penned by an unknown author, would be a story about a monstrous Cuban dictator and a legendary hero who refuses to risk sparking WWIII to help a group of counter-revolutionaries overthrow him.
What is the Beowulf of Pigs?
600
This local river cruise would depart from Water Street in Warren, RI, and sail to Newport and back, offering passengers a meal and live entertainment as they spent the day admiring the scenery and sites. It was shut down back around 2012.
What was the Bay Queen?
600
In 1770 French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built and successfully tested the fardier à vapeur, or steam dray, making it the first machine of this kind.
What is an automobile?
600
Often referred to as the White Death, Simo Häyhä, was a Finnish sniper during the Finnish/Soviet winter war of 1939-1940. After earning the distinction of having more confirmed kills than any other sniper across all wars past and present, the Russians managed to remove him from combat, by putting Häyhä into a coma that he woke from the day a ceasefire had been signed through these means.
What is shooting him in the face?
600
toner winch co.
(Two words)
Corwin Chenot
600
This is the only ‘Caucasian’ race of people able to contract Sickle-Cell Anemia
Who are Italians?
700
While there are conspiracy theories surrounding his death, this man was the last member of Hitler's inner-circle to die, having been found hanged in a summer house in the garden of Spandau Prison, where he'd been imprisoned since the end of the war.
Who was Rudolf Hess?
700
This British nickname for the ballpoint pen actually derives from the name of its inventor.
What is the Biro?
700
Christopher Lee had an incredibly rich life, far beyond his 8 decade acting career. However, probably one of his lesser known accomplishments, is the metal album he wrote about this Medeival king.
Who is Charlemagne?
700
Paul Winchell, probably best known today as the voice of Tigger, also helped advance medical science with this invention.
What is the artificial heart?
700
This manifesto would contain 24 separate stories of capitalist oppression and share the socialist ideals of a group of pilgrims as they journey to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket
What is the Canterbury Manifesto?
700
Elmer McCurdy was a would be train robber who was killed in a shootout with police in 1911. After his body spent a few years on display with a local undertaker, it was released to a man claiming to be McCurdy’s long lost brother, who actually used the body as a display in this.
What was a traveling museum?
700
While most people know of the Nintendo Entertainment System and it’s Japanese counterpart the Nintendo FamiCom (short for family computer) most people are not aware of this add-on that was exclusive to the Japanese FamiCom.
What is the FamiCom Disk-System?
700
Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone survived many close calls as a child, including, but not limited to, surviving a 3 story fall and hitting his head, being struck on the head with a cobblestone and falling into a river, drinking a bowl of highly acidic water he’d mistaken for milk, and surviving a gun powder explosion. Eventually his frequent brushes with death earned him this nickname.
What is “Little Sax, the Ghost”?
700
Wing's shiny brand dog
(Three words)
Brandon’s Dying Wish
700
Nolan has plans to vacation in this country at the end of the month.
What is Scotland?
800
In the early morning of February 4th 1912 Franz Reichelt fell to his death in front of a crowd of spectators when he threw himself from the Eiffel Tower in order to test this invention of his.
What is a parachute suit?
800
While often referred to as Krauts by American soldiers during the Second World War, British troops often referred to the Germans by this name.
What are/is the Jerry’s/Jerry?
800
Ian Anderson gave a writing credit to a fictional child named Gerald Bostock on this Jethro Tull album
What is Thick As A Brick?
800
Al Lewis, better known as Grandpa Munster eventually retired from acting to focus on a career in politics. In '98 he ran as a member of the Green Party for this state office.
What is the governor?
800
In this blending of Shakespearian tragedies, this would be the story of a military commander/member of the Montague family, who falls in love with a young girl of a rival household and is eventually driven to kill her out of a rage bought upon by the silver tongue his malicuous advisor Iago.
What is Othello and Juliet?
800
In 1896 at the town of Crush, Texas, two spectators lost their lives, along with several more being injured after an explosion resulted from this publicity stunt.
What is a staged train crash?
800
This Atari era video game console came with its own built in screen in order to power its vector style graphics.
What is the VECTREX?
800
Wenceslao Moguel Herrera was a Mexican revolutionary, and quite possibly one of the luckiest men to ever live. Nicknamed, El Fusilado, by the Mexican press, he managed to survive capture by the Mexican government and execution by this method.
What is a firing squad?
800
a thunder dolls word
(three words)
Two Hundred Dollars
800
The term ‘canon’ was first used in a literary sense in reference to this book.
What is The Bible?
900
A spark from an electrical short caused a fire that engulfed the entire cabin of the Apollo 1 capauel, along the three astronauts inside, in flames in just this amount of time.
What is 35 seconds?
900
The phrase ‘it’s my way or the highway’ doesn’t really translate for the British, mainly because they refer to the highway as this.
What is the Motorway?
900
Within only a few months of it coming out, Bob Dylan’s song “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” was covered by this folk trio, along with two other songs of his (with permission from Dylan’s manager but not Dylan himself).
Who are Peter, Paul, and Mary?
900
While his acting career may not be his most prominent accolade, this Texas man did a lot with his life, going from: a successful country music career, to hosting his own tv show, to a short run acting in movies, and finally to frozen breakfast sausages.
Who is Jimmy Dean?
900
This story would follow the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a country gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a rich aristocratic landowner, and the drug fueled nightmare whirlwind through Vegas and the Nevada desert they take together, as they try to both fall in love, and find the American Dream.
What is Pride And Prejudice in Las Vegas?
900
In 1936 this event in Owensboro, Kentucky, drew in over 20,000 spectators, and also wound up becoming the last of its kind to ever occur in the U.S.
What is a public hanging?
900
Conceived in the late 60s but not introduced to consumers until 1981, this video format was the first to utilize discs for storage over tapes or film.
What is the Capacitance Electronic Disc or CED?
900
Jeanna Giese is famous for being the only recorded person to survive this disease without receiving the vaccine for it.
What is Rabies?
900
brokers unemploy
(two words)
Brooklyn Supreme
900
Nolan suffers from a rare variation of this already rare heart defect.
What is Ebstein’s Anomaly?
1000
Miachel Malloy is something of a folk legend amongst the homeless population of New York City today. However, in the 1930s, after a long series of events that made Malloy appear to be all but invincible, he was killed by a group of 5 men he'd considered his friends, in an attempt for them to get some quick cash through this illegal method.
What is Insurance Fraud?
1000
While it is referred to as Checkers in the U.S. and Canada this simple board game is given a much dryer name by the English.
What is Draughts?
1000
The song I’m a Beliver, famously first performed by The Monkees (along with several other songs performed by them), was actually ghost written by this musical artist.
Who is Neil Diamond?
1000
Hedy Lamarr was a massive star of the silver screen during Hollywood’s golden age, however, after her acting career came to an end she invented and patented a signal hopping technology that became the basis for this(these) modern day technologies.
What is(are) Wi-Fi/GPS/Bluetooth?
1000
In reference to the 500 point mashup, this would be the name of the monstrous Cuban dictator our hero refuses to help defeat.
Who is Grendel Castro?
1000
When Jungle Island at Knot’s Berry Farm in California was still a functioning amusement park, you could pay 25¢ to go and view these carved creatures.
What were The Wood-imals?
1000
In 1822 this type of lens revolutionized lighthouses forever, and remained in popular use in the western world for over 100 years.
What is the Fresnel Lens?
1000
In 1971 Juliane Koepcke managed to trek through the rain forests of Peru for eleven days with a broken collar bone to find rescue after managing to survive this.
What is a fall from an exploded aircraft?
1000
net rim citadels
(Three words)
District ten male
1000
This is canonically the tallest character in all of Street Fighter Lore
Who is Abigail