CELEBRITY NAME RECOGNITION |
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CALIFORNIA, HERE YOU COME! |
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Steve Buscemi (yes, "boo-SEH-mee") played Atlantic City as Nucky Thompson on this HBO show |
Boardwalk Empire
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The age of the great cathedrals, about 1150 to 1250, helped form this architectural style |
Gothic
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Though piercing wasn't common among them, the name of this Native American tribe means "pierced nose" |
(Jen: What is Perce Nez?) [Originally ruled correct; reversed before the Daily Double at clue 20]
Nez Perce
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In 1959 Pat Brown added a pool to the governor's mansion in this city; as governor his son refused to live in the house |
(Alex: You are right, with a minute to go.)
Sacramento
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Try explaining to your kids how this 1972 4-letter arcade game from Atari was the coolest thing ever for a while |
Pong
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Change the first syllable in "denotation" to get this, for implied meaning |
connotation
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Amanda Seyfried's last name rhymes with "my bread", which is a factor in this 2012 pic with Amanda as Cosette |
Les Misérables
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This 4-letter art movement began in Zurich in 1916 |
Dada
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This phrase means to forcefully remind someone of what they've done wrong, much like how a puppy might be trained |
rub their nose in it
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Do you know the way to this city once big in fruit, now high on tech? Head to the southern end of I-280 |
San Jose
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Introduced in 1982, this sequel had as big an appetite as her male predecessor |
Ms. Pac-Man
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If you say, "To slowly remember", you're doing this, leaving the verb all alone |
splitting an infinitive
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It's Groening as in "raining" if you meet Matt, who co-created this show with roots in both 1999 & 2999 |
Futurama
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Op art--the term & the movement--came about in this decade |
the 60s
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These are the 4 groups of air-filled chambers in the facial bones near the nose |
the sinuses
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He was a bouncing orange critter with a big nose & an asterisk in his name |
Q*bert
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When we say someone let out a stream of Anglo-Saxon words, we usually mean he used this type of word |
(Penny: What is [*]?) (Alex: Yeah. You like that. Makes you laugh, huh?) (Penny: I wouldn't give examples.)
cursing
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We "sez" that the middle of Martin Scorsese's last name is not "sayz" & that he directed this 1973 Harvey Keitel "road" movie |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Mean Streets
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This delicate style that evolved from the Baroque is linked in France with Louis XV (1710-1774) |
Rococo
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In the movie "Foxcatcher", Steve Carell donned a prosthetic nose to play John of this wealthy family |
(Jen: What is Rockefeller?)
Du Pont
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Appropriately, the highest lance won in this classic game; less appropriately, there were flying ostriches |
Joust
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If the heroine of your 18th century romance novel says, "Text me", you've used this -ism |
anachronism
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When talking about great Trecento art, like the example seen here, Trecento means this period |
(Mikki: What is medieval?) (Alex: We need more than that. (Mikki: [No answer]) (Alex: Gotta be specific.) (Mikki: ) (Jen: What is 13th century?) ... (Alex: Both of you are hovering around the correct response. Trecento refers to the [*], which means the 14th century.)
the 1300s
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This creature seen here has quite the nose |
the proboscis monkey
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You had left, middle & right fire buttons in this game, also the name of a U.S. Army unit known as MICOM |
Missile Command
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A group of words including a subject & a predicate constituting one unit of a compound sentence |
(Penny: What is a phrase?)
the clause
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