Musicals
This 1996 musical based on La Boheme explored the AIDS crisis, sexuality, and tenants’ rights
RENT
The immigration entry point to the United States
Ellis Island
This planet has a giant storm known as The Great Red Spot
Jupiter
This 1964 Simon and Garfunkel song says hello to an old friend who needs to be shorn
Sound of Silence of the Lambs
This bearded actor is also a New York Times bestselling author known for his books The Secret of Inner Strength: My Story and Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America
Chuck Norris
A 1979 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim tells the tale of a murderous London barber
Sweeney Todd
A continental island which was used as a penal colony for British convicts
Australia
This planet is not visible to the unaided eye and is the only planet in the solar system discovered by mathematical prediction rather than by empirical observation
Neptune
A classic Beatles song that leads to your door, while bypassing a dead animal in the street
The Long and Winding Roadkill
This 1957 science fiction-horror film about extraterrestrials who seek to stop humanity from creating a doomsday weapon that could destroy the universe has been called "the epitome of so-bad-it's-good cinema"
Plan 9 from Outer Space
This musical tells the story of a misunderstood witch and her reaction to a wizard's corrupt government
Wicked
This island is home to one of the most notorious U.S. prisons
Alcatraz
This planet rotates on its side, likely due to a collision with an Earth-sized object long ago
Uranus
William Shatner’s spoken word rendition of this song launched into R.E.M.’s lunar exploration
Rocket Man on the Moon
The making of this 1990 “horror” movie set in Nilbog was documented in the 2009 film Best Worst Movie
Troll 2
Loosely based on the rape of the Sabine women, this musical tells the story of a family of Biblically-named siblings and their pursuit of matrimony
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Two islands named after holidays
Christmas Island and Easter Island
This is the only planet without any kind of atmosphere
Mercury
Norman Rockwell illustrated for this magazine that penned Sunflower, from the soundtrack for the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Saturday Evening Post Malone
This Swedish action movie star holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering yet makes a living starring in such films as John Woo’s “Blackjack” where he suffers from leukophobia, an irrational fear of the color white.
Dolph Lundgren
The longest running musical on Broadway played 13,981 peformances between opening in January 1988 and closing in April 2023
The Phantom of the Opera
In Greek mythology, this island holds a labyrinth which contains the Minotaur, which has the head of a bull an the body of a man
Crete
This planet is home to Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system
Jupiter
This Billy Joel song explores decades of current events and pop culture before determining how the world will end according to one Harlem Renaissance poet
We Didn’t Start the Fire and Ice
This 2003 movie about a melodramatic love triangle between Johnny, his fiancée Lisa, and his best friend Mark has been described as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"
The Room