Dead Dinosaurs Seen Here
If you want to see the original Tyrannosaurus rex fossils unearthed by Barnum Brown in 1902 & 1908, head to this museum in Manhattan, New York.
What is the American Museum of Natural History?
We have a special name for this star, technically a yellow dwarf, which formed 4.6 billion years ago and will destroy our solar system's inner planets 4-7 billion years from now as it violently expands to become a red giant.
What is the Sun?
Of course, Lance Reddick gained popularity for his role as Charon in this shoot 'em up film series; his last on-screen appearance was in Ballerina earlier this year.
What is John Wick?
Laurie Strode, played by this actress in 1978's Halloween (and appearing in most of its sequels) is an early, if not definitive, example of the "Final Girl" horror trope.
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
In The Rescuers Down Under, protagonist mice Bernard and Bianca travel to Australia on the back of an albatross named Wilbur, voiced by this beloved Canadian actor.
Who was John Candy?
If your T.rex enthusiasm still isn't satiated, head to the Chicago's Field Museum and check out this old girl, one of the most complete and legally-entangled specimens ever discovered.
Who is Sue?
Alnilam, a gargantuan star 28 times as massive as our sun, is the central star in this familiar three-star constellation--according to Men in Black, it's where "the galaxy" is located.
What is Orion's Belt?
Reddick co-starred alongside Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, John Noble, and even Jared Harris in this J.J. Abrams Fox show that you might describe as "The X-Files" without conspiracies.
What is Fringe?
Heather Langencamp played Nancy Thompson, another influential Final Girl who repeatedly escaped this Nightmare on Elm Street antagonist.
Who is Freddy Krueger?
Aside from being considered one of the worst films ever made, Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2008) was notable for being featured on this Mystery Science Theater successor in 2011 as well as a live show in 2012.
What is RiffTrax?
The National Museum of Natural History, one of the many museums overseen by the Smithsonian Institution, is located on the border of this landscaped park in Washington, D.C. (no shopping centers, though).
What is the National Mall?
Binary stars, which orbit each other, are surprisingly common, but tri-radiate systems would be subject to this physics problem (which inspired a now-famous but incredibly boring book).
What is the Three-Body Problem?
One of Reddick's first on-screen appearances, uncredited, was as a "Soldier on Manhattan Bridge" in this 1998 Tri-Star cinematic masterpiece starring Matthew Broderick and Jean Reno.
What is Godzilla?
Sydney Prescott, played by this Party of Five and Wild Things alum, was the Final Girl in the first few Scream movies.
Who is Neve Campbell?
This surprisingly large, Arctic-adapted raptor is fascinating in its own right but people really seemed to go crazy for it once Harry Potter got one as a pet (it's also avian symbol of Quebec).
What is the snowy owl?
When I visited this UK capital's natural history museum in 2009, I saw Dippy the Diplodocus in the main hall, but she has since gone on tour and was replaced by an 82-foot-long Blue Whale skeleton nicknamed "Hope."
What is London?
In the TNG episode "Relics," the Enterprises finds itself within one of the hypothetical superstructures, wherein a sufficiently advanced civilization constructs a "shell" around its home star to capture most of its energy output.
What is a Dyson sphere?
Reddick co-starred in a middling 2023 Hulu remake of this beloved 1992 sports comedy starring Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson.
What is White Men Can't Jump?
Adrienne King plays Alice, a camp counselor who is the Final Girl in the first film of this long-running slasher franchise but is quickly (and at the time, shockingly) slain in the sequel.
What is Friday the 13th?
Bald eagles have surprisingly weak calls, so whenever they appear onscreen, the much more impressive call of this common North American raptor, named for its distinctive tail feathers, is often substituted.
What is the red-tailed hawk?
The Museum für Naturkunde, located in this European capital, boasts the world's tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton: a 43-foot tall Giraffatitan which stands next to an 88-foot long Diplodocus! They also have the most iconic specimen of Archaeopteryx.
What is Berlin, Germany?
The 2014 film Interstellar famously depicted this stellar corpse so accurately that it was later corroborated by telescope images of Messier 87, in the Virgo constellation, and Sagittarius A, in the center of the Milky Way.
What is a black hole?
One of Reddick's best-known video game roles is Sylens in the Horizon series. After his death, this actor, best known for playing Tuvok in Voyager, took up the mantle for LEGO Horizon Adventures and future entries.
Who is Tim Russ?
Opinions differ as to whether this character, played by Sigourney Weaver, can be considered a Final Girl given that the film in question is (1) not a slasher and (2) has no, um, human-on-human sexual tension.
Who is Ellen Ripley?
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, one of the best dinosaur museums in the world, is a major attraction of this badlands town, some 68 miles northeast of Calgary, Alberta.
What is Drumheller?
The giant cockroach aliens who attempt to take over Earth in Godzilla vs. Gigan were from the "M Space Hunter" this, a region of space we might associate with star formation.
What is the "M Space Hunter Nebula?"
Reddick voiced Hellboy in this cel-shaded roguelite action game (poorly-reviewed, unfortunately) which was released shortly after his death.
What is Hellboy: Web of Wyrd?
Jennifer Love Hewitt played Julie James in this slasher franchise (it got a fourth entry in 2025) and has somehow survived all of them, but she was not the Final Girl" in all cases.
What is I Know What You Did Last Summer?