Tom Cruise
Roman History
Potent Potables
Games that Max enjoys
5 Letter Words
100

Upon advice from his first wife Mimi Rogers, Tom Cruise officially let himself become a member of this religious organisation in 1986.

What is the Church of Scientology?

100

Nero is often reported to have played this instrument when Rome burned.

What is a fiddle?

100

White creme de methe and this liquour put the sting in stinger

What is Brandy?

100
It's Max's favourite map game during the covid lockdown that has taken too much time from him. 

What is Europa Universalis?

100

It can refer to an inn, a rustic cottage or a beaver's home

What is Lodge?

200

In American Psycho, Patrick Bateman tells Tom Cruise he really liked his work on the film Bartender not realising the correct name of the film was usually what Bartenders make.

What is Cocktail?

200

Lucius Tarquinius Superbus was the last of these in Roman society before the establishment of the SPQR. 

What is a King?

200

It's the Moscow part of a Moscow Mule.

What is Vodka?

200

You play an assassin on a revenge quest through the Victorian steampunk city of Dunwall whilst tapping into supernatural powers. 

What is Dishonored? (still annoys me there is no u in dishonoured)

200

You can do this to a painting or to an innocent person if you want to incriminate him

What is Frame?

300

This Anit-war film had Tom Cruise playing a discarded and paralyzed Vietnam veteran that loses his love for his country despite sharing the same birthday with it. 

What is born on the Fourth of July?

300

Though renown for his hedonistic lifestyle, this emperor also had an equine interest in appointments before his evantual assassination. 

What is a Caligula?

300

Peppermint & root beer are popular flavors of this strong potable, from the German for "mouthful"

What is Schnapps?

300

It's hard to sell living in an 8-bit 1980s communist society even more so as you hone your attention to detail skills in this passport game. 

What is Papers Please?

300

It's the sharp sound of a whip or of thunder

What is crack?

400

In this movie Cruise plays a lawyer defending two marines who appear to be wrongfully accussed of a code red murder and is told by a notable witness that he is 'unable to understand the ramifications of these revalations'.

What is a few good men?

400

This classification for the lower class of Roman society's shorthand is now a derogatory name for an ordinary person with no sophistication.

What is plebeian?

400

The "new" formula for this soda was announced on April 23, 1985; the"classic" formula was back within 3 months .

What is Coca-Cola?

400

Despite you the player playing the game, your character is revealed not to actually have any agency and answerable to an activation code. 

What is Bioshock?

400

It's what the homecoming queen rides on or an ice cream drink

What is float?

500
This iconic film has Tom Cruise in one scene sliding on a vanished floor with nothing but socks and a shirt to the sound of 'old time rock & roll.'

What is Risky Business?

500

When Caesar crossed the Rubicon he supposedly spoke these words which describes a course of events that cannot be changed.   

What is 'the die has been/is cast'?

500

Anise adds a black licorice-like flavor to the Greek liqueur, which has been made since the 14th century. .

What is Ouzo?

500
It's risk with simultaneous turns and even less joy at the end of it. 

What is Diplomacy?

500
An ice cream dessert or a little deuce car

What is Coupe?