MONTHS IN MUSIC
'90s TV, MOVIES, AND MORE
GAME NIGHT
COMMON CHEMICAL NAMES
AP LIT
100

Franki Valley and The Four Seasons begin their famous song with:

"Oh, what a night! Late _______ back in '63...

DECEMBER

100

The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You" was the theme song for this famed TV show...

FRIENDS

100

This game transports the players to a whole new world, at least according to the movie starring Robin Williams.

JUMANJI

100

If you've got a headache, there might be nothing more effective than a little ACETYL SALICYLIC ACID. 

Aspirin

100

In The Metamorphosis, this character wakes up one day with quite a surprise: he has turned into a beetle.

Gregor Samsa

200

In one of Green Day's many hit songs, Billie Joe Armstrong reminds the listener to "wake me up when this month ends..."

SEPTEMBER

200

The sheep who was the first successfully cloned animal (in 1996) was named...

DOLLY

200

This 2014 movie, which was based on this board game that allegedly allows you to talk to the deceased, flopped at the box office and only received a 4.5 out of 10 on IMDB.

OUIJA

200

A little SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE can do wonders in the washing machine; just don't use it on your favorite brightly-colored outfit.


Bleach

200

In Oedipus Rex, Oedipus kills his birth father, whose name was...

Laius

300

According to the second line of the The Temptations' song "My Girl":

"When it's cold outside I've got the month of ____..."

MAY

300

In 1998, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon won the "Best Screenplay" Oscar for this film, the script for which started out as a 40-page project Damon completed for one of his classes at Harvard.

GOOD WILL HUNTING

300

The "big bad" from Season 1 of the TV show Stranger Things comes from this board game, which the kids were playing on screen in the first episode.

Dungeons and Dragons

300

Back in the day, CALCIUM CARBONATE used to be a classroom essential


Chalk

300

Siddhartha learns the ways of business from this character...

KAMASWAMI

400

Contestant Cassadee Pope brought Blake Shelton to tears when she sang a song he had written about his brother on The Voice. The song begins:

"Weather man said it's gonna snow
By now I should be used to the cold
Mid-________ shouldn't be so scary..."

FEBRUARY

400

This actress played main roles in two of the most famous TV shows of the '90s -- Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210

Tiffany Amber Thiessen

400

Winston Smith plays this game while at the Chestnut Tree Cafe in 1984.

CHESS

400

You definitely don't want to consume TRICHLOROMETHANE; that is, unless you want to get knocked out cold.

Chloroform

400

Mersault and Raymond go to this man's beach house, which proves to be an unfortunate decision for Mersault...

MASSON

500

In the popular country song "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset," Luke Bryan proclaims:

"Nothing will ever be easy as you and me
Tangled up with nowhere to be;
Just sunrise, sunburn, sunset, repeat...

We set [this month] on fire..."

JULY

500

In 1995, the movie Clueless came out, which was loosely based on which Jane Austen novel?

EMMA

500

In How I Met Your Mother, Marshall creates a "game of all games" called this in the episode titled "Game Night", which features (according to him) the best parts of various games...

MARSH-GAMMON

500

Putting on some ALUMINUM CHLOROHYDRATE might be helpful in the summer months.


Antiperspirant

500

In Hamlet, Hamlet wants to go to this university to study; his mother and step-father, however, want him to stay home. 

WITTENBERG