What is Mount Everest?
- For several hundred thousand years, this region has alternated between desert and savanna grassland in a 20,000-year cycle.
What is the Sahara?
- Prior to the discovery of plate tectonics, this fictional continent was theorized to explain the presence of similar fossils in India and Madagascar
What is Pangea?
- This capital that shares its name with its country lies about 12 miles inland from Italy’s Adriatic coast.
What is San Marino?
Next: Film Directors
- This master of suspense was influenced by such directors as George Méliès, D.W. Griffith and Alice Guy-Blaché.
Not in play:
I think this is actually “What is Lemuria?”
Who was Alfred Hitchcock?
- This director, who is now co-CEO of DC Studios, has also directed several films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Who is James Gunn?
- This director’s production company, Amblin Entertainment, was named after his first film.
Who is Stephen Spielberg?
- This French New Wave director had an acting part in Stephen Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind .
Who is François Truffaut? … (He’s the only French director I know by name)
- He was originally known for his science-fiction films, then switched genres to become “The Master of Disaster”.
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Who is Irwin Allen?
Next: 20th Century Songs
- In this iconic song from 1908, Katie turns down an invitation to a show, but tells her beau that he can do this instead.
What is “take me out to the ball game”?
- Woody Guthrie wrote this folk anthem as a response to “God Bless America”
What is “This Land Is Your Land”?
- This song by the British rock band Queen reached the Top 40 in the U.S. three times: in 1976, 1992, and 2019.
What is “Bohemian Rhapsody”?
- This was the opening track from Styx’s concept album “Kilroy Was Here”.
What is “Mr. Roboto”?
- Paul Anka rewrote the French song “Comme D’Habitude” into this English-language song that became a hit for Frank Sinatra
What is “My Way”?
New category:
Star Wars
- Din Djarin is a member of this titular creed on the first live-action Star Wars TV show.
What are Mandalorians?
- These wielders of the Dark Side of the Force are the sworn enemies of the Jedi Order.
Who are the Sith?
- He was the first non-Force-user to handle a lightsaber in the Star Wars movies, albeit for cutting and not for combat.
Who is Han Solo?
- This Star Wars parody included its creator, Mel Brooks, playing the character Yogurt.
What is Spaceballs?
- These bipeds are native to the moon of Endor.