Famous Structures
Animal Mistranslations
Historical Women
Cannes Openers
Musical Anatomy
"D" in Literature
Colorful Science
Final Question
100
It's hard to imagine Paris without THIS structure, but the original plan was to only have it in place for 20 years.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
100
Afrikaans: "Stinking Mouse Dog"
What is "skunk"?
100
SHE is the only woman to have won two Nobel prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
At the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, THIS animated feature from Dreamworks competed for the Palme d’Or, becoming the first animated film to do so since Disney’s Peter Pan back in 1953. “That’ll do, Donkey. That’ll do.”
What is Shrek?
100
“Yeah, you got that somethin’
I think you’ll understand
When I say that somethin’
I want to hold your _ _ _ _” -The Beatles
What is hand?
100
The fourth novel in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga is Breaking THIS.
What is Dawn?
100
The color of the iris comes from THIS brownish-black pigment--the more there is, the darker the iris' color.
What is melanin?
200
THIS NYC building was the world's tallest building for 11 months...until it was surpassed by the Empire State Building.
What is the Chrysler Building?
200
Mandarin: "Business Goose"
What is "penguin"?
200
With the first in 1933, THIS First Lady held 348 women-only press conferences.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
Tippi Hedren was tormented by “larus argentatus” and “corvus brachyrhynchos” among others in THIS Hitchcock classic that screened out of competition at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
What is The Birds?
200
“I’m on tonight
You know my _ _ _ _ don’t lie
And I’m starting to feel it’s right.”
-Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
What are hips?
200
Rebecca Wells became a #1 New York Times Bestseller with THESE Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood in 1996.
What is “Divine”?
200
Neutrophils are the most plentiful type of THESE colorless components in the body that fight infections.
What are white blood cells?
300
Four millennia of erosion have sliced 25 feet off the bottom of THIS large stone structure, the largest structure for thousands of years.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
300
Swedish: "Flappy Mouse"
What is "bat"?
300
Abolitionist and activist Isabella Baumfree said the spirit told her to preach, and she renamed herself THIS.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
THIS genre-bending road movie starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, not to mention a particularly memorable scene with a young Brad Pitt, closed the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. With an ending that iconic…how could they not?!
What is Thelma & Louise?
300
“I’ve got hungry _ _ _ _
I feel the magic between you and I.”
-Eric Carmen
What are eyes?
300
HE wrote adventurous tales of revenge such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
Who is Alexandre Dumas?
300
Don't heat up amethysts too much or they turn THIS color and become citrines.
What is orange?
400
THIS Japanese structure, found in the capital, gets a fresh coat of paint every five years and it takes a full year to repaint- that's a lot of white and orange!
What is the Tokyo Tower?
400
German: "Threatening Chicken"
What is "turkey"?
400
Roughly 1300 years before Cleopatra, THIS Egyptian queen whose name translates to “a beautiful woman has come,” entered the chat.
Who is Nefertiti?
400
THIS Sofia Coppola film retold the story of a particularly controversial French queen and received boos from the crowd when it premiered at Cannes in 2006.
What is Marie Antoinette?
400
“Don’t be alarmed if I fall _ _ _ _ over _ _ _ _
Don’t be surprised if I love you for all that you are.”
-Alanis Morissette
What is head and feet?
400
Fans of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice likely know that “Fitzwilliam” is the first name of THIS aloof, romantic love interest to Elizabeth Bennet.
Who is Mr. Darcy?
400
An experimental tattoo ink developed in Germany for diabetics changes color in response to the levels of THIS sugar.
What is glucose?
500
While THIS Russian structure is now known for its vibrant colors, it originally was painted a plain white and gold.
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
500
Japanese: "Needle Mouse"
What is "hedgehog"?
500
THIS woman's resumé not only includes being a world-renowned performer, she was also a spy for the French Resistance in WWII.
Who is Josephine Baker?
500
THIS Korean zombie-action flick seen here finds passengers fighting for their lives as they leave Seoul on a high-speed KTX. It premiered during the Midnight Screenings block of Cannes programming back in 2016.
What is Train to Busan?
500
Look at the flicka da _ _ _ _ _”
-Chedda Da Connect
What is wrist?
500
14th Century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio wrote THIS series of over one hundred stories told in a country villa outside of Florence from the perspective of 10 young people in the wake of the Black Death.
What is The Decameron?
500
When dipped in a solution with pH above 8.3. litmus paper turns THIS color.
What is Blue?
500
VOLCANOES
Though it hosts one of the world’s oldest extinct volcanoes, THIS is the only continent with no active volcanic activity.
VOLCANOES
What is Australia/Oceania?