Crime Time Flicks | Royal Familiarity | The "B" Word | Welcome to the Rhymezone | The Former Half of the 1900s |
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What is Rupert Pumpkin
In a Martin Scorsese classic, the protagonist played by Robert De Niro has his name frequently misheard as this, a more vegetal take.
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What is Great Nephew
Prince William to Princess Margret
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What is "Beethoven Lives Upstairs"
This film chronicles the fictionalized relationship between a young boy and his neighbour, the composer of Fur Elise
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What are Jehova and Moldova
a Christian figure with devout witnesses and a small country that sits between Ukraine and Romania
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What are lifeboats
There were sixteen of these aboard Titanic, it's considered the second most critical safety lapse
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Who is "Meryl Streep"
Actor John Cazale appeared in 5 best picture nominated films in six years before his death, but this woman, his partner, has been in five over her whole career
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What is Great Great Grandmother
Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II
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Who is Lavrentiy Beria
He was the director of the Soviet Secret Police under General Secretary Stalin
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What are patricide and matricide
the act of killing one's father and the act of killing one's mother
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What is bathtub gin
The nickname of this homemade cocktail of tap water, alcohol, juniper juice and glycerine was coined during prohibition times
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What is "American Hustle"
The director of this 2013 film famously berated Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees, thankfully no similar reports have come from Amy Adams
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What is Uncle
King Charles I to Queen Anne
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What is Bing
This search engine was launched by Microsoft in 2009
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What is conception and inception
Mary's "immaculate" this and the act of implanting an idea in someone's head that they believe to be their own
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Who is Harry S Truman
This US President shares a name with a small town TV sheriff
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What is "Stuck in the Middle with You"
In Reservoir Dogs, Mr Blonde taunts a young man he has held captive by dancing to this "dylan-esque, pop bubblegum favourite" before cutting the bastard's ear off
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What is Husband
John Spencer to Frances Shand Kydd
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What is a Bishop
This catholic figure is ranked one below a Cardinal in the hierarchy of precedence
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What is bollock and Pollock
English slang for testicle(s) and an abstract artist
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What is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Louis B Mayer was the director of this Movie Studio
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What is nitrous oxide
Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet huffs this gas during a sexual encounter with Isabella Rossellini
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What is Father
King George V to King Edward VIII
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What is the Battle of Berlin
As a result of this battle, the Germans surrendered to the Soviets and Adolf Hitler committed suicide
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What is nonfiction and eviction
a true story and the expulsion of a tenant
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What is Tequila!
This 1950s song was sampled in the track PeeWee's dance, which appeared in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985)
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