Act One
Echolocation
Inventions
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Ooh La La
Underground
Sometimes "Y"
100
Act one introduces two feuding families and displays their deep seated hatred
What is Romeo & Juliet?
100
Constant frequency echolocation allows both the prey's velocity and its movements to be detected by means of this effect.
What is the Doppler effect?
100
This entrant, invented by the Mesopotamians in 3500 BC, really got people moving
What is the wheel?
100
Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murhpy
What is Clueless?
100
The network of secret routes and safe houses shown here is called this
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
Boats exceeding 35-40 ft in length and appointed luxurously
What is a yacht?
200
In act one the protagonist arrives to a new land, a war breaks out, and he becomes the main general's secretary
What is Hamilton?
200
The character that used echolocation in Finding Dory was voiced by this actor.
Who is Ty Burrell?
200
Invented between 1763 and 1775 by Scottish inventer James Watt, this invention powered trains, ships, and factories sparking the Industrial Revolution
What is the steam engine?
200
Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, J.K. Simmons
What is La La Land?
200
The word for the activity shown here
What is spelunking?
200
Rate restaurants, bars, and even dentists on this app
What is Yelp!?
300
Act one introduces the main characters and their intertwined wishes, culminating in the characters achieving their desires and living "happily ever after"
What is Into the Woods?
300
Some cave-dwelling species of this one of the five major classifications of animals, such as cave swiflets, use the technique
What are birds?
300
A complete copy of a Bible printed by this inventor of the printing press is worth $25 million or more
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
300
Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds
What is Singin' in the Rain?
300
This structure is the only fixed link between Great Britain and mainland Europe
What is the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel)?
300
This Beatles hit song is a melancholic ballad about the breakup of a relationship
What is Yesterday?
400
In act one, Nora and Torvold discuss her Christmas purchases in their living room; it ends with Nora exclaiming dejectedly "Everything as you wish, Torvold."
What is A Doll's House?
400
The waves emitted by animals using echolocation have frequencies often above the range of human hearing, above 20 kz, making them these kind of waves
400
Discovered by the Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming in 1928, this drug transformed medicine by its ability to cure infectious bacterial diseases
What is penicillin?
400
Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy
What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
400
The reality portions of this movie take place fully underground
What is The Matrix?
400
To give way to arguments, demands, or pressure
What is yield?
500
Act one opens with Thebes suffering from a devastating plague, and the namesake king, finds out from the oracle at Delhpi that the plague will end when the murderer of the prior king is found and punished
What is Oedipus Rex?
500
Most odontocetes, whales with this mouth feature, use a form of echolocation
What are teeth?
500
This important navigational device were originally made of lodestone in China around 300 BC
What is the compass?
500
Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinket Smith
What is Collateral?
500
This novel by Alex Haley tells the story of Kunta Kinta
What is Roots?
500
Name the next line in this Coasters song from 1958:
Take out the papers and the trash,
or you don't get no spendin' cash,
If you don't scrub that kitchen floor,
You ain't gonna rock n roll no more-
What is yakety yak don't talk back?