Movie Villains
Name this Character Actor
Beings/Things that share a name with PIE Members
Deserts
Actual Questions from Thomas Edison's Job Interview Exam
100
What is the nickname that the burglars Harry and Marv give themselves in the movie Home Alone
The Wet Bandits
100
Sideways, Cinderella Man
Paul Giamatti
100
This has long been regarded as one of the top eating fish to catch off the coast of south Florida. However, it is illegal to buy or sell. If you want to eat it, you have to go catch one yourself.
Snook
100
Name the four deserts found in North America
Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, Chihuahan
100
Rhode Island is the smallest state. What is the next and the next?
Delaware. Connecticut.
200
Jack Torrance is the antagonist in this horror film set in a mountain resort in Colorado.
The Shining
200
Wilford Brimley
200
In a popular ad campaign around Valentine's Day, you may see a newly engaged woman showing a new ring and exclaiming "He went to ______!"
Jared (Carson)
200
According to NASA, what is the driest desert in the world?
There are parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile where no rain has ever been recorded. Scientists believe portions of the region have been in an extreme desert state for 40 million years
200
Who was Pizarro?
The Spanish conqueror of Peru
300
Professor Moriarty is the criminal mastermind found in which series of detective books and movies?
Sherlock Holmes
300
Stepbrothers, Bad Moms
Kathryn Hahn
300
In the Marvel cinematic universe, she is a genius-level hacker and S.H.I.E.L.D operative. She then left S.H.I.E.L.D and assumed the name Quake
Daisy "Skye" Johnson
300
Australia is the driest continent in the world. What percentage of the land surface is desert or near-desert?
35%
300
What countries border France?
Spain, the tiny independent state of Andorra in the Pyrenees, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium
400
What is the famous meal that Dr. Hannibal Lecter enjoyed in Silence of the Lambs
Human liver, with fava beans and chianti
400
Tilda Swinton
400
This Italian inventor changed the course of human history with his invention of the wireless telegraph
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Guglielmo Marconi
400
What is the world's largest desert?
Antarctica
400
What and where is the Sargasso Sea?
A vast tract of seaweed floating in the North Atlantic Ocean
500
This 1989 horror film featured a young boy named Gage, who came back from the dead as a murderous villain
Stephen King's Pet Sematary
500
Harry Potter, The King's Speech
Timothy Spall
500
This is the first indigenous man to play Test cricket for Australia. With his standalone mullet and long elastic limbs, Gillespie was an iconic figure in Australia’s great team of the late 90s and early 2000s.
Jason Gillespie
500
According to the UN, about how many square miles of arable land turn to desert every year due to climate change and practices such as forest clear-cutting
About 46,000 square miles
500
Who is called the "father of railroads" in the United States?
John Stevens, 1749-1838, of Hoboken, N.J.