This Group is Awesome
This Film is Awesome
Travel is Awesome
Accountants are Awesome
Everything is Awesome!
100

The big ones:  Chico, Harpo and Groucho.  Also Gummo and Zeppo

Who are the Marx Brothers?

100

Costing $31 million dollars to make in 1963, this was the most expensive film made at that time.  Elizabeth Taylor set a Guinness World Record for most costume changes in a film with 65 in this four hour movie.

What is Cleopatra?

100

The two cities Dad has walked by the Eiffel Tower

What is Paris and Las Vegas?

100

The musical with the lines "When the money keeps rolling out, you don't keep books.  You can tell you've done well by the happy grateful looks Accountants only slow things down, figures get in the way.  Never been a lady loved as much as …."  (finishing the line would be cheating)

What is "Evita"?

100

Originally a made-up name for a cleaning product in a webcomic, this term, a favorite of Bat-Mite in "Batman Brave and the Bold", can imply that you are pouring on the awesome.

What is "Awesome-sauce"?

200

Superior, Huron, Erie, Ontario, and Michigan

What are the Great Lakes?

200

This blockbuster was filmed mostly on location, mostly in New York City, with some scenes in Sicily,   "Fredo, you're my older brother, and I love you.  But don't ever take sides with anyone against the family again.  Ever."  (in the sequel, Fredo does it again)

What is the Godfather?

200

In this city, Dad viewed Victoria Harbor from both sides.

What is Hong Kong?

200

This author graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Mississippi State University, but he probably used his law degree from University of Mississippi more in writing his books.

Who is John Grisham?

200

Of "A Nobel Prize", "Twigs", "Fish", "Blue Skies", and "Socks", which of these is not mentioned as "awesome" in the song "Everything is Awesome".

What is Fish?

300

In order: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig

Who are Actors who Played James Bond?

300

Based off a long-running TV show, Richard Kimble has a hard time convincing people that his wife was murdered by a one-armed man.

What is the Fugitive?

300

Dad enjoyed dragonfruit on the dinner cruise on the Chao Piraya River on his first international business trip, which was to this capital of Thailand.

What is Bangkok?

300

This famous musician said "I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants", mostly after his finances were mismanaged by Colonel Tom Parker

Who is Elvis Presley?

300

In this musical, "My Life is Awesome.  This Beat is Awesome.  Robots are Awesome."  

What is "Ride the Cyclone"?
400

James, Peter, Remus, Sirius

Who are the Marauders?

400

Name one of them:  Both the Hitchcock classic and the remake with Michael Douglas are great thrillers where a man plots to have an assassin murder his wealthy wife, only for the wife to kill the assassin.  Then the husband tries to hide his involvement for the rest of the movie.

What is "Dial M for Murder" or "A Perfect Murder"?

400

Dad's one time seeing an NBA basketball game live was the Sonics in this city - they're not there anymore, but the tall tower next to the stadium that Dad went up after the game still is.

What is Seattle?

400

Chew on this - accountant Walter Diemer invented this for his company Fleer (who also makes sports cards), an improvement on the non-inflatable version Fleer already sold.

What is Bubble Gum?

400

He said "If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done." it would have made me look and feel ridiculous.  It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless."

Who is Simon Cowell?

500

Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian…. Plus some lesser ones.  But not English or German!

What are Romance Languages?

500

After a rogue general takes Alcatraz and threatens to launch chemical weapons into San Francisco, Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage try to retake Alcatraz in this 1996 movie named after Alcatraz's nickname, not Mr. Johnson.

What is "The Rock"?

500

Dad's one city visited behind the former Iron Curtain (same city twice), he recognized the city later in Katy Perry's "Firework" music video.

What is Budapest?

500

Kenny G graduated from University of Washington with a BS in Accounting, and only needed to pass the CPA exam, but he went into music instead, and is now probably the most famous player of this instrument.


What is the (Soprano) Saxophone?

500

One of two people in the duet that sings "You can't spell Awesome without Me"

Who is Taylor Swift or Brandon Urie?