THINE BOOK SHALT HAVE A BIBLICAL TITLE
SCIENTIFIC SUFFIXES
CULT FILMS
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Jerry Pinkney wrote and illustrated this 2002 picture book, named after a big biblical boat with many pairs of passengers

Noah's Ark

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Nuclear physicists tack this suffix, meaning "tool" in Greek, onto beta- and cyclo-; kiss cam victims know it as a suffix for "jumbo"

-tron

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In "The Princess Bride", it's the line that follows, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father"

Prepare to die.

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Bette Midler has said that her fave Bette Midler movie is this campy Halloween classic about a trio of bumbling witches

Hocus Pocus

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Chaim Potok's best-selling novels about Hasidic Judaism include this one from 1975; its title is the Bible's 3 opening words

In the Beginning

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An ending to phyto- and proto-, it's a 3-letter suffix meaning "animals"

-zoa

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Mick Jagger wanted to play Alex DeLarge in this dystopian fable; when Kubrick came aboard, he went with Malcolm McDowell

A Clockwork Orange

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Volume 4 of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" has this title, after 2 biblical cities--or should we say, sin cities--of the plain

Sodom and Gomorrah

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Part of a condition that appears to affect high school seniors, it's a medical suffix, meaning "inflammation"

-itis

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Daily Double!!

Bette Midler has said that her fave Bette Midler movie is this campy Halloween classic about a trio of bumbling witches

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This John Steinbeck title refers to the direction traveled by Cain in the book of Genesis after he did you know what to Abel

East of Eden

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Affix this suffix to the prefixes cyto-, ecto-, and nucleo- and you have 3 elements of the human cell

-plasm

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Running out of money while filming "Eraserhead", this director supported himself by taking on a newspaper route

David Lynch

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As per Edith Wharton via Ecclesiastes, "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in" this place

The House of Mirth

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Meaning "foot", it's a suffix many entomologists use in their line of work studying insect species

-pede

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In this 2001 comedy, Christopher Meloni plays a PTSD-addled camp cook who gets advice from a talking can of mixed vegetables

Wet Hot American Summer