The Works of James Cameron
In The Terminator, this computer system, created by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD, ended up gaining self-awareness and launching a nuclear war.
What is Skynet?
This person said, “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little influence on society.”
Who is Mark Twain
This word describes a way of speaking that the Greeks thought would “tear flesh”--pretty gruesome for someone like Chandler Bing.
What is sarcasm?
The name of Ron Burgandy’s dog in Anchorman.
Who is Baxter?
His ship, The Endurance, was crushed in Antarctic ice but he managed to bring back all 28 of his crew members after they spent a year stranded.
Who is Ernest Shackleton?
Cameron directed the 1986 movie Aliens, which was a sequel to the 1979 film Alien, directed by this person.
Who is Ridley Scott?
Scientists use the term ursus arctos, but Americans are more likely to use this name that Lewis and Clark assigned on the basis of the animal’s character.
What is "grizzly bear"?
This genre of music traces its name to a word that in 1590 meant a prostitute or a young male partner of a homosexual.
What is punk?
In the movie Step Brothers, Adam Scott and his family sing an acapella version of this rock song from the 1987 album “Appetite for Destruction.”
What is "Sweet Child of Mine"?
This Portugese explorer organized and then died on the first successful circumnavigation of the globe, which concluded in 1522.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The actual Titanic ship called at Cherbourg and then stopped at this country on its way to the iceberg.
What is Ireland?
This California brewery’s flagship IPA, “Racer 5,” uses Columbus and Cascade hops from the Pacific Northwest.
What is Bear Republic?
Late middle English speakers thought you had what looked like little mice under your skin, hence why this human anatomical feature's name comes from the Latin word that literally means “little mice.”
What are muscles?
In this 2006 movie, Will Ferrell plays I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick, who suddenly finds himself the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his work, to his love-interest, to his death.
What is Stranger than Fiction?
Spirit produced on this island was given as rations to British sailors, who considered it to be “Navy Strength” if they could douse gunpowder with it and still ignite the gunpowder.
What is Jamaica?
With his then-wife, director Kathryn Bigelow, Cameron co-wrote the script for this movie, named for the spot where a wave starts to crash as it hits land jutting out from the coastline.
What is Point Break?
Colton Harris Moore was a teenage fugitive who gained fame for flying a stolen plane to the Bahamas. His signature--which earned him this nickname--was reportedly committing some of his crimes shoeless, once leaving behind 39 chalk footprints and the word "c'ya!"
What is the Barefoot Bandit?
In Medieval Europe, if you needed cash you could pledge or “gage” your land to a lender. If the lender got to keep the rents and profits of the land and reduced your principal it was said to be a live gage. If you kept the rents and profits but the lender did not reduce your principal, it was a dead gage. The latter arrangement lives on as this financial tool for buying homes.
What is a mortgage?
In this 1998 movie, Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan play the Butabi brothers, who dream of getting into the most exclusive club in town.
What is A Night at the Roxbury?
In 1805, this famous naval battle confirmed the supremacy of the British Navy against Napoleon’s larger fleet, earning Lord Horatio Nelson (who died in the battle) a statue in a prominent London plaza.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar?
Surpassing Titanic, Avatar was the first film ever to earn more than $2 billion worldwide, and the film was nominated for nine academy awards. Some critics likened the movie to this 1992 animated musical fantasy film.
What is FernGully: the Last Rainforest?
On the famous Huckleberry Hound Show, the Hanna Barbara character Yogi Bear went around stealing pic-i-nic baskets in this fictional park whose name is a variant of a real one.
What is Jellystone National Park?
This beady-eyed mammal that is native only to Madagascar gets its name from the paranormal--in Latin, its name means “spirits of the dead”
What is the lemur?
In Zoolander, the Will Ferrell character Mugatu was supposed to have been a member of this actual 1980s band whose hit single was banned by the BBC for its suggestive sexual overtones.
Who is Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
Of the six U.S. Presidents in the 20th Century who served in the Navy, he is the only one who has not had a ship named after him.
Who is Richard Nixon?