A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy not so Far Away
This Star Wars actor famously critiqued George Lucas’ script-writing ability by once quipping on set “you can type this s**t, but you sure can’t say it!
Harrison Ford
These fictional sentient alien robots hide their extraterrestrial origin on earth by disguising themselves as common modes of transportation.
Transformers
This style of garden is common at Zen temples, although its major features are not plants.
Rock garden
According to the German Food Guide this is the most consumed meat in Germany.
sausage or würst?
This man was stabbed repeatedly by members of the Roman Senate
Julius Caesar
It was the original title of the 1983 conclusion to the Star Wars trilogy, changed because George Lucas felt it didn’t fit with Jedi morality.
Revenge of the Jedi
The song “Mr. Robatto” became a smash hit for this American rock band in 1983.
Styx
Earliest evidence for domestication of cats comes from this region of the world, famous for many other “firsts” in human history.
Mesopotamia/Fertile Cresecent/Middle East
This German philosopher is known for writing about the discrepancies between the proletariat and bourgeoisie and wanted social change to communism.
Karl Marx
This structure carried clean water from the hilltops into cities and towns
Aqueduct
This revolutionary camera technique, now obsolete with the advent of CG, allowed effects artists to duplicate on screen movement as many times as necessary in order to add in each desired visual element of a shot.
Motion Control
He is the robotic namesake of a Tokyo-destroying behemoth – and the two clashed for the first time in a 1974 film.
Mecha-godzilla
This “feline” form of transportation appears in Miyazaki Hayao’s classic film Totoro, and allows the protagonists to traverse between the human and spirit worlds.
Neko bus/cat bus
This popular soft drink was first started in Germany in the 1940's. Most Americans believe it was started in the U.S.
Fanta
Rome was located on which River?
Tiber
Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and with it Star Wars, in a 2012 deal for this eye-watering amount.
$4 billion
These powered exoskeletons, or “mobile suits” are perhaps most famous fictional robots in the world, although technically they’re not robots
Gundam
This technique of “seated meditation” is the central practice of Zen Buddhism, known as Chan in Chinese.
Zazen
Started during the Third Reich, this car was manufactured in Wolfsburg, Germany, and today is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world.
Volkswagen or VW
The legendary founders of Ancient Rome?
Romulus and Remus
The commercial success of this 1973 film, a story about teenage life in 1960s small town California, convinced 20th Century Fox executives to take a chance on the young George Lucas’ space opera “The Star Wars.
American Graffiti
This polite form of the verb “to be” often follows the Japanese word for thank you (arigato) in formal situations.
Gozaimasu
This sect of Buddhism is the largest in Japan, where it originated in the early 13th century.
Jōdō-shū/Pure Land Buddhism
Often considered the “architect of German unification,” this leader helped establish the German state through a policy of “Realpolitik.”
Otto von Bismarck
Was a relative peace that lasted 200 years and started with the reign of Augustus
Pax Romana