FROM BOOK TO TV
4-LETTER GEOGRAPHY

POP CULTURE STUPID ANSWERS
MAMMALS
THE 1600s
100

Neil Patrick Harris was Count Olaf on this series; Patrick Warburton played author Lemony Snicket


A Series of Unfortunate Events

100

This city is Pennsylvania's only port on the St. Lawrence Seaway  

Erie

100

In the "Shrek" movies, it's the name of the donkey voiced by Eddie Murphy

Donkey

100

The pachyderms include this mammal whose skin secretes a moistening reddish fluid, which led folks to believe it sweated blood

a hippopotamus 

100

In 1613 the Romanov family came to power in this country & ruled until 1917 

Russia

200

This native of Dorchester, Massachusetts starred as the titular Boston cop in Netflix' "Spenser Confidential"

Mark Wahlberg 
200

A natural history museum, the Koenig is in this city, once the capital of West Germany

Bonn
200

In this 1997 film Jack Nicholson asks a group of psychiatric patients, "What if this is as good as it gets?"

As Good as it Gets

200

Unlike other vertebrates, in mammals this bone is hinged directly to the skull 

the mandible (lower jawbone) 

200

Her marriage to John Rolfe was the Virginia social event of 1614

Pocahontas

300

"Bastogne" was an episode of this war-set miniseries based on Stephen Ambrose's book

Band of Brothers

300

The capital of this landlocked African nation is N'Djamena

Chad

300

It's the eponymous title of the 1988 collection of early hits by R.E.M. on I.R.S. Records  

eponymous

300

Most mammals are either placental or these, like the bandicoot

marsupial

300

Hits of the stage included Moliere's "L'Avare", French for this type of greedy, money-obsessed man

a miser

400

A Hulu miniseries was based on this John Green novel, with Miles Halter in search of the titular Ms. Young

Looking For Alaska

400

This world capital began hosting Holmenkollen ski jump competition in 1892

Oslo

400

Before co-starring in "Get Out", Allison Williams played one of the girls on this HBO series

Girls
400

Mammals believed to be monogamous include beavers, wolves & the dik-dik, a tiny variety of this African animal

antelope

400

It was founded in Massachusetts in 1636 & if you didn't get in, your college options were very limited

Harvard
500

Jennifer Connelly stars in this TV series based on a graphic novel & set aboard a train that perpetually circles a frozen world

Snowpiercer

500

Emily Blunt & John Krasinski tied the knot at George Clooney's villa on this lake

Como

500

Redd Foxx of TV's "Sanford and Son" had the real name John this

Sanford

500

In mammals this muscle that aids in respiration separates the heart & the lungs from the abdominal cavity

the diaphragm

500

European settlement in South Africa began with the wreck of a Dutch ship rounding this cape in 1647

the Cape of Good Hope