MOVIE FACTS
JUST TAKE THE L
(Each response will consist of two words.)
HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?
DOG NAMES
MUSIC
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It was Brian de Palma who suggested that this director add the now-iconic opening crawl to "Star Wars" to give the film's context

George Lucas

50

Take the L out of a beer league sport (in an alley) & you get an act of showing respect

bowing & bowling

50

With a pillow & mattress made from this "spring-back" foam; perhaps you recall that engineer Charles Yost invented it

memory foam

50

This traditional 4-letter dog name is from Latin for "trust"

Fido

50

Virtuoso Narciso Yepes played a guitar of his own design with this many strings, four more than the norm

10

100

The animators counted:
In this film Carl Fredricksen's house floats thanks to 10,297 balloons

Up

100

Take the L out of a beer league sport (on ice) & you get an act of healing a disease

curling & curing

100

The pineal gland in my brain is secreting the right amount of this hormone that's also an antioxidant, so just fine

melatonin

100

The name of a famous space dog, Laika is "barker" in this language

Russian

100

Sorbetto is one type of this solo song in an opera; the audience would get sorbets as a supporting character sang

an aria

150

To portray the "spice" on Arrakis, the sound designers on this 2021 sci-fi film sprinkled sand with Rice Krispies

Dune

150

The sticker identifying the contents of a bottle drops an L to be a doomed man in the Bible

label & Abel

150

Better now that I've got these window coverings that sound like they simulate a power outage to stop all light from coming in

blackout curtains

150

This 5-letter word meaning "wanderer" was popularized as a dog name by a 1905 silent film

a rover

150

"In the beginning" are the first words of this Haydn oratorio about this act by God; here's a later tune

The Creation

200

This movie starring Alicia Silverstone as Cher Horowitz was inspired by Jane Austen's "Emma"

Clueless

200

Another term for a merry-go-round loses an L to go party & get its drink on in a big way

carousel & carouse

200

Really well after a hot bath infused with the essential oil of this fragrant purple flower, a noted natural sleep aid

lavender

200

President Garfield gave his dog this 4-letter name to honor what Rutherford B. Hayes had done to a bill

Veto

200

Ms. Rice knows con dolcezza or "with sweetness" is in his 6th symphony, which he conducted in St. Petersburg 9 days before his death

Tchaikovsky

300

John McCain had a cameo as an invited guest in this Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson comedy

Wedding Crashers

300

A word describing mild weather mildly drops an L to become a major part of concrete

clement & cement

300

Like millions of other Americans with the mask known by this 4-letter name to combat my sleep apnea

a CPAP

300

During World War I a corporal named 2 German Shepherds for French folk dolls: Nanette & this; the latter dog became a movie star

Rin Tin Tin
300

Piano students often begin with the scale of C major, the key of the first prelude & fugue in this Bach work with an instrumental name

The Well-Tempered Clavier