Superheroes
What is Superman's middle name?
Joseph
A commentary placed at the end of a literary work.
Afterword
What language does the word "planet" originate from?
Greek
Never gonna ___________
Never gonna ____________
Never gonna _________________________
Never gonna ____________
Never gonna ___________
Never gonna _______________________
… give you up
… let you down
… run around and desert you
… make you cry
… say goodbye
… tell a lie and hurt you
Ravens in captivity can learn to...
talk better than a parrot.
What inspired comic book creator Stan Lee to create the superhero Spider-Man?
A fly
What was George Lucas' inspiration for the Character Chewbacca in Star Wars?
His dog
T/F: The words "yawn" and "chaos" are related in their origins?
True
He says, "Son, can you play me a memory
_______________________________
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes"
I'm not really sure how it goes
"Piano Man" Billy JoelThe last time the Liberty Bell rang was...
on George Washington's birthday in 1846.
What villain was elected as president of the United States?
Lex Luther
Maid of Orleans with a monument at the end of the Champs Elysees
The Joan of Arc de Triomphe
What word originated as the nickname for an English insane asylum?
Bedlam. It was the nickname for the Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London.
And when you speak...______________________
Everyday words seem..._______________________
Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La Vie En Rose
… angels sing from above … to turn into love songs
"La Vie En Rose" Louis Armstrong
In what year did Indiana legislators try to pass a bill that would have legally redefined the value of pi as 3.2?
1897
How are Carnage (Cletus Kasady) and Venom (Eddie Brock) connected to each other?
The red symbiote that bonded with Kasady to form Carnage is an offspring of the Venom symbiote.
Who actually drew the charcoal drawing of Rose in Titanic?
James Cameron, the director!
The word "clue" originates from the word "clew" used in Greek mythology. What is the meaning of the word "clew"?
A ball of yarn
People help the people
And if your homesick, give me your hand and I'll hold it
People help the people
And nothing will drag you down
Oh and if I had a brain, Oh and if I had a brain
__________________________________________ ______________________________________
I'd be cold as a stone and rich as the fool
That turned all those good hearts away
"People Help the People" Byrdie
How many ways are there to make change for a U.S. dollar?
293
This superhero's alter ego's name was Lamont Cranston, his show started on radio and eventually branched into comics and other media, and a well-known catchphrase from the show was, "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Who is he?
The Shadow
What did Stephen Hawking lend to the filmmakers of The Theory of Everything as genuine props for the making of the movie?
His Companion of Honour medal and his signed thesis.
Who discovered that the word "walrus" has origins in an Old Norse word meaning "horse whale"?
J. R. R. Tolkien
fun fact: Tolkien worked on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the late 1910s
Gonna get a set of better clubs, gonna find the kind with the tiny nubs, just so my irons aren't always flying off the back-swing. Gotta ____________________________, 'cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing
… get in tune with Sailor Moon
"One Week" Barenaked Ladies
In the history of the state of New York, what are two other names the state was named during the two periods where the Dutch had claim to it rather than Britain?
New Amsterdam and New Orange