The Cold War
Superhero Teams: Name Any Founding Member
TV Show By Episode Title
Calvin & Hobbes
Who Painted This Painting?
200
The Cold War became fully entrenched in the 1950s with the formation of these two military alliances.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
200
The Justice League
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, Flash, Martian Manhunter
200
"The Contest"
Seinfeld
200
It's the name of Calvin's teacher.
Mrs. Wormwood
200
Vincent Van Gogh
400
28 years apart, they are the year the Berlin Wall was erected and the year it was torn down.
1961 and 1989
400
The Avengers
Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man (Hank Pym), Wasp
400
"Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"
Mad Men
400
Calvin forms a club called G.R.O.S.S., which stands for this.
Get Rid Of Slimy girlS
400
Pablo Picasso
600
Among the many careers destroyed by the 1950s Red Scare was that of this father of the atomic bomb.
Robert Oppenheimer
600
X-Men
Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel
600
"Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office..."
The Sopranos
600
It's where Calvin's dad tells him he's from.
Sears
600
Claude Monet
800
*DAILY DOUBLE*
This American government official, who played a prominent role in the formation of the United Nations, was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1950.
800
Alpha Flight
Guardian, Aurora, Northstar, Sasquatch, Shaman, Snowbird
800
"Ozymandias"
Breaking Bad
800
Calvin creates many fictional alter egos, including Spaceman Spiff, his sci-fi explorer, and Stupendous Man, a purple-hooded superhero. This is the name of his gritty, hard-boiled detective character.
Tracer Bullet
800
Wassily Kandinsky
1000
The phrase "Cold War" was coined in 1945 by this writer, who defined it as, "an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
George Orwell
1000
The Legion of Super-Heroes
Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad
1000
*DAILY DOUBLE*
"One for the Road"
1000
It's the last sentence in the last Calvin & Hobbes strip.
"Let's go exploring."
1000
Jean-Michel Basquiat