The Many Movies of Tom Hanks
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Famous Buildings, Far and Wide
You Did Not Sleep Through Math Class
Famous Tigers That Will Have You Roaring
See You On The Savanna
100

In this film, a frightful cowboy was pushed to go to infinity and beyond while befriending a space ranger

What is Toy Story?

100

Discovered in 1930, this astronomical body was no longer classified as a planet in 2006

What is Pluto?

100

This office to the United States president was burned down in 1814 by the British.

What is the White House?

100

This theorem utilizes the sides of a right triangle to prove the distance of the hypotenuse

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

100

With a controversial career, this tiger has won over 80 PGA tours.

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

With a blood pressure of 280/180, this animal could probably peak over any fence

What is a giraffe?

200

Spanning three decades, this film has Tom Hanks experience quintessential moments in American 20th century history

What is Forrest Gump?

200

This is the fifth largest planet in our solar system and third from the sun

What is Earth?

200

Constructed with wrought-iron, this building was initially criticized by artists but eventually came to be an iconic structure for the country of France

What is the Eiffel Tower?

200

In the study of quadratics, this shape is formed by the common equation y=ax2+bx+c

What is a Parabola?

200

This child and famous tiger's comic strip run came to an end on December 31, 1995

What is Calvin and Hobbes?

200

Not to be confused with a cheetah, these felines can run at speeds up to 36 mph.

What is a leopard/panther?

300

Playing as Jim Lovell, this Tom Hanks film depicts NASA's fifth crewed mission to the moon

What is Apollo 13?

300

Totalling at 53 moons, this planet is named similarly to the first day of the weekend (on a 5/40 schedule)

What is Saturn?

300

Built as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, this structure was the tallest man-made structure for over 3,800 years

What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?

300

This mathematical law states that a constant pulled outside of the parentheses must be applied to all terms within the parentheses

What is the Distributive Law?

300

This tiger ran for public office in 2016 and 2018, before being arrested for plotting the assassination of an activist CEO

Who is Tiger King (or Joe Exotic)?

300

Some species of these deer-like mammals are capable of shrinking their livers and hearts to survive in drier conditions.

What is a gazelle?
400

Rivalling Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks starred in this film that was based on the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr.

What is Catch Me If You Can?

400

One of the four gas giants in our solar system, this planet is named after the Roman god of sky and thunder

What is Jupiter?

400

Perched near the coast of California, this castle was granted to the state of California by William and Julia in 1957. This Castle was also the inspiration of the setting Xanadu, in the film Citizen Kane

What is Hearst Castle?

400

As an approximate estimation, this sum utilizes the areas of various shapes to estimate the area under a curve

What is the Riemann Sum?

400

This duo held shows at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas until one of the entertainers was horrifically mauled by a tiger in 2003

Who are Siegfried and Roy?

400

Also known as a gnu, these horned mammals are the largest species of antelope (even though they may be mistaken for a bull!)

What is a wildebeest?

500

Based off the real life events of the Maersk Alabama, Tom Hanks plays a merchant mariner in this film

What is Captain Phillips?

500

A day on this planet lasts twice as long as a year on this planet.

What is Venus?

500

Spanning at a height of over half a mile, this tower's water supplies about 250,000 gallons of water a day through its 62 miles of pipe

What is the Burj Khalifa?

500

Named after a French mathematician, this rule is used to calculate the limit of two functions that may normally be indeterminate

L'Hopital's rule

500

This tiger accompanied a young adult on a boat in the book and movie, The Life of Pi

Who is Richard Parker?

500

This insectivore uniquely has a pig-like snout, capable of eating around 50,000 ants or termites in a single night.

What is an aardvark?