Taken for Granite
The Rock's first leading role came in this 2002 film, a spinoff of the movie series, The Mummy
The Scorpion King
The 13th step on the west side of the State Capitol Building in this city is exactly 5,280 feet above sea level – one mile high
Denver
In 1981, this Hollywood Actress died while on a weekend boat trip to Catalina Island with her husband Robert Wagner and her co-start Christopher Walken
Natalie Wood
Author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" the first of her seven published autobiographies
Maya Angelou
Hanks played Captain Miller in this 1998 World War II film directed by Steven Spielberg
Saving Private Ryan
Liam Neeson played the villain "Ra's al Ghul" in the this first film of a Christopher Nolan trilogy
Batman Begins
Along with Minneapolis, this city is the other half of "The Twin Cities"
St. Paul, Minnesotta
This incredibly successful American singer and actress was found dead in her bathtub following a barbiturate overdose in 2012
Whitney Houston
Alice Walker won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this 1982 novel, later adapted into a 1985 film starring Whoopi Goldberg
The Color Purple
Hanks played the titular role in this 2013 film about the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama
Captain Richard Phillips
Liam Neeson voiced "Bad Cop/Good Cop" in this "awesome" 2014 animated film
The Lego Movie
The capitol of "The Bluegrass State"
Frankfort, Kentucky
This songwriter and guitarist, most famous for his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," drowned in the Wolf River in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997
Jeff Buckley
This New York Times best-selling writer, professor, and social commentator is the writer of works such as "Bad Feminist" and "Hunger"
Roxanne Gay
Hanks played FBI Agent Carl Hanratty in this 2002 film based on the real life pursuit of forger Frank Abagnale Jr.
Catch Me If You Can
Liam Neeson played this character based on the Greek god in both Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans
Zeus
This city is the least populated US capital with only 7,352 residents as of 2018
Montpelier, Vermont
This English writer who penned works such as Mrs. Dalloway committed succeed by filling her pockets with stones and walking into a river in 1941
Virginia Woolf
The best-selling author of "Between the World and Me" and former senior editor for The Atlantic, where he wrote well-praised essays like "Fear of a Black President" and "The Case for Reparations"
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hanks played police detective Scott Turner in this 1989 comedy about he and his unusual partner
Turner and Hootch
Get Smart
A 2007 article in The New York Times said of this capital city, "If you have any desire to witness presidential candidates in the most close-up and intimate of settings, there is arguably no better place to go than here"
Des Moines
This Irish musician and vocalist for the Cranberries died of drowning caused by alcohol poisoning in her bathtub at the London Hilton on Park Lane Hotel in 2018.
Dolores O'Riordan
An American novelist, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953
Ralph Ellison
Hanks starred alongside Dan Ackroyd in this 1987 American buddy cop comedy film based on the radio and television crime drama of the same name
Dragnet