1) Wonder Woman 198 whatever? Cloud Atlas, cost a freakin fortune and was a bomb. Probably one of the Matrix films?
I looked it up, and Cloud Atlas is definitely on the list.
The Matrix movies, however, aren’t. I presume it was because they were still the Wachowski brothers at the time, not sisters.
I looked the answer up too. Cloud Atlas doesn’t qualify because it wasn’t over $200M. The top 5 are all over $200M in cost, NOT gross. I never would have guessed several of the top 5! Not at all.
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- Birds Of Prey? (The Harley Quinn story)
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- Birds Of Prey? (The Harley Quinn story)
No. Wonder Woman 1984. Mulan (Live action, not animated) The Eternals. Black Widow. And Brave (This one’s animated).
Seriously…Brave? I’d never guess that one. Mulan threw me too. The first 4 cost over $200M, Brave clocks in at $186M. And I find it hilarious that of the top 10 most expensive films directed by a woman, the Wachowski sisters hold down 4 spots! ?
Jupiter Rising, Cloud Atlas, Speed Racer and Matrix Reloaded. None of which were box office successes. Hollywood is weird.
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Brave is awesome. One of my faves. WW1984 sucked. The first one was awesome. Mulan (both animated and live action) were very good. Black Widow was a'ight. Never saw Eternals.
The last line of your post, only saw Reloaded, and I agree that was basically a pile of sh*t.
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Brave is awesome. One of my faves. WW1984 sucked. The first one was awesome. Mulan (both animated and live action) were very good. Black Widow was a’ight. Never saw Eternals.
The last line of your post, only saw Reloaded, and I agree that was basically a pile of sh*t.
I loved Brave too, I just had no idea it was so expensive to make! $186M for a Disney animated film? I get the live action ones with large casts, CGI, all that. Like I said, I never would have guessed Brave. But looking at the list both Frozen films are on it so clearly I’m wrong about animation.
When people tell me I’ll regret not having kids, I say that’s okay I know a really good place to cry. It’s my vacation home.
Brave is awesome. One of my faves. WW1984 sucked. The first one was awesome. Mulan (both animated and live action) were very good. Black Widow was a’ight. Never saw Eternals.
The last line of your post, only saw Reloaded, and I agree that was basically a pile of sh*t.
I loved Brave too, I just had no idea it was so expensive to make! $186M for a Disney animated film? I get the live action ones with large casts, CGI, all that. Like I said, I never would have guessed Brave. But looking at the list both Frozen films are on it so clearly I’m wrong about animation.
I don't know for a fact, but do they factor in marketing/advertising/etc into the cost? That was the reason the US didn't continue "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. It didn't make enough compared to the costs involved.
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Maybe part of it was having Reese Witherspoon on for a good amount of time but then leaving because she couldn't get the Scottish accent down. :^D
Maybe part of it was having Reese Witherspoon on for a good amount of time but then leaving because she couldn’t get the Scottish accent down. :^D
It still blows my mind that the main voice actress in Brave was the wife in "No Country For Old Men." WTF?!
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Answers to Friday, August 12, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are four films that have been released that tie for the title of “most expensive movie directed by a woman,” all with estimated budgets of $200 million. Name as many as you can for one point each. Zero total if you get any wrong.
“Mulan,” “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Black Widow,” “Eternals”
2. What hot sauce markets itself as the original hot sauce ingredient in Buffalo wings?
Frank’s
3. The first Black military pilots for the United States fought in a segregated unit in World War II. While they were nicknamed the “Red Tails,” they are better remembered today by what name?
The Tuskegee Airmen
4. What state will you have to travel to if you want to visit the famous covered bridges of Madison County?
Iowa
5. Today is August 12. Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes was born on this day in 1911. He was one of the most widely renowned Spanish-language comedians, although English-speaking audiences would most likely recognize him from 1956’s “Around the World in 80 Days.” By what one-word stage name was he credited?
Cantinflas
Questions for Monday, August 15, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. There are only two days in the calendar year on which the sun rises precisely due East. During which two months do those days occur?
2. Four Shakespeare plays have titles that contain an apostrophe. Only one of them contains two apostrophes. Name that play.
3. Naomi Sims was the first Black model to represent a major U.S. cosmetics company. She appeared in ads for what brand, whose current products include So Fierce mascara, Super Lustrous lipstick, and ColorStay eyeliner?
4. In a standard dominoes set, what is the highest number of pips possible on one piece?
5. What four-word proverb is often followed by the response, “but satisfaction brought it back”?
1. March and September
4. 12 pips (double-six)
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5 Curiosity killed the cat
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Love's Labour's Lost
3. Revlon
No, my wife didn't tell me. I remember from moving junk around at Cub Foods stores. 
Answers to Monday, August 15, 2022
1. There are only two days in the calendar year on which the sun rises precisely due East. During which two months do those days occur?
March, September
(the equinoxes)
2. Four Shakespeare plays have titles that contain an apostrophe. Only one of them contains two apostrophes. Name that play.
“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
3. Naomi Sims was the first Black model to represent a major U.S. cosmetics company. She appeared in ads for what brand, whose current products include So Fierce mascara, Super Lustrous lipstick, and ColorStay eyeliner?
Revlon
4. In a standard dominoes set, what is the highest number of pips possible on one piece?
12
5. What four-word proverb is often followed by the response, “but satisfaction brought it back”?
“Curiosity killed the cat”
Questions for Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Mexico shares its entire northern border with the United States. It shares the majority of its southern border with what country?
2. What online search engine, which peaked in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, took its name from a valet character created by author P.G. Wodehouse?
3. Juliette Gordon Low’s childhood nickname was “Daisy,” which is why the youngest members of the organization she founded in 1912 are now known as “Daisies.” What organization is that?
4. Fans of “Star Trek” actor Colm Meaney might know that adding fried onions and bell peppers to a plate of diced potatoes will earn your dish what last name?
5. The most geographically isolated team in Major League Baseball plays in a stadium that is more than 800 miles from the nearest rival stadium. Name that isolated team.
3. Girl Scouts
5. Seattle Mariners?
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
2 Ask Jeeves
5 Seattle Mariners
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
2. Ask Jeeves
5. Tampa Bay Rays? Not sure.
1 - Guatemala
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5. Colorado Rockies
4. O'Brien
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Answers to Tuesday, August 16, 2022
1. Mexico shares its entire northern border with the United States. It shares the majority of its southern border with what country?
Guatemala
2. What online search engine, which peaked in popularity in the late 1990s and early 2000s, took its name from a valet character created by author P.G. Wodehouse?
Ask Jeeves
3. Juliette Gordon Low’s childhood nickname was “Daisy,” which is why the youngest members of the organization she founded in 1912 are now known as “Daisies.” What organization is that?
Girl Scouts (of America)
4. Fans of “Star Trek” actor Colm Meaney might know that adding fried onions and bell peppers to a plate of diced potatoes will earn your dish what last name?
O'Brien
(Colm Meaney played Miles O’Brien on “The Next Generation” and “Deep Space Nine”)
5. The most geographically isolated team in Major League Baseball plays in a stadium that is more than 800 miles from the nearest rival stadium. Name that isolated team.
Seattle Mariners
Questions for Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. Thrift stores across the country reported record numbers of donations in 2019, thanks largely to the popularity of a Netflix series hosted by… whom?
2. The late U.S. senator Ted Stevens famously described the internet as a “series of tubes” in 2006. Which state did he represent?
3. Dona Bailey was the sole woman programmer at Atari in 1981 when she created what classic arcade video game, about a garden gnome ridding their mushroom field of an invasive pest?
4. Titan is the largest of the more than 80 moons orbiting which planet?
5. The soccer player who owns the world record for the most goals scored in a calendar year is named after the winner of the 1984 “Album of the Year” Grammy. What is their shared first name?
2 Alaska
4 Saturn
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
1. Marie Kondo
5. Lionel
3. Dig Dug?
Edit: I decided to look up the answer. I'm an idiot. I should have known that answer.
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3. Dig Dug?
Edit: I decided to look up the answer. I’m an idiot. I should have known that answer.
Had problems tracking the ball properly? 😉
Hardy Har. I was alright at (the answer) and also the sequel to the (answer).
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Answers to Wednesday, August 18, 2022
1. Thrift stores across the country reported record numbers of donations in 2019, thanks largely to the popularity of a Netflix series hosted by… whom?
Marie Kondo
(“Tidying Up with Marie Kondo”)
2. The late U.S. senator Ted Stevens famously described the internet as a “series of tubes” in 2006. Which state did he represent?
Alaska
3. Dona Bailey was the sole woman programmer at Atari in 1981 when she created what classic arcade video game, about a garden gnome ridding their mushroom field of an invasive pest?
“Centipede”
4. Titan is the largest of the more than 80 moons orbiting which planet?
Saturn
5. The soccer player who owns the world record for the most goals scored in a calendar year is named after the winner of the 1984 “Album of the Year” Grammy. What is their shared first name?
Lionel
(Messi and Richie)
Questions for Theme Thursday, August 18, 2022
All Bones About It: Bones! They help you stand up. But your skeleton is so much more! Here are five questions about your bones and beyond.
Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. The “U”-shaped hyoid is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone. In which part of the body can you find the hyoid?
2. Bone marrow produces the solid elements of blood—the blood cells and platelets. But it does not produce the liquid component of blood, which is called… what?
3. What type of tissue is less rigid than bone, less flexible than muscle, and acts as a shock absorber between bones? Hint: It’s what a shark’s skeleton is made of.
4. What five-letter word is Latin for “fold, curve, or hollow,” and now refers to one of the few areas of the human skeleton with air pockets within bone, though you probably only think about it when you’re sick?
5. True or false: Human teeth are bones.
3. Cartilage
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2 - Plasma ??
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4. Sinus
5. False
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
- Throat.
2 – Plasma ??
Serum. Though it’s a bit of a trick question. If it’s just blood it’s serum. If there’s an anticoag. it’s plasma.
Thanks, Dexter! :bye: B-)
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Answers to Thursday, August 18, 2022
1. The “U”-shaped hyoid is the only bone in the human body not connected to another bone. In which part of the body can you find the hyoid?
The throat
(it is connected to the larynx)
2. Bone marrow produces the solid elements of blood—the blood cells and platelets. But it does not produce the liquid component of blood, which is called… what?
Plasma
3. What type of tissue is less rigid than bone, less flexible than muscle, and acts as a shock absorber between bones? Hint: It’s what a shark’s skeleton is made of.
Cartilage
4. What five-letter word is Latin for “fold, curve, or hollow,” and now refers to one of the few areas of the human skeleton with air pockets within bone, though you probably only think about it when you’re sick?
Sinus
5. True or false: Human teeth are bones.
False
(Bones contain collagen. Teeth do not.)
Questions for Friday, August 19, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in Monday’s email.
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five islands in the Mediterranean Sea larger than 3,000 square miles. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
2. In 1960, actor Jackie Gleason threatened to sue the creators of a cartoon for plagiarism. What cartoon did he want to sue?
3. The “R” in “CPR” stands for “resuscitation.” What do the “C” and “P” stand for?
4. What alliterative cocktail, whose impressive list of ingredients typically includes gin, cherry brandy, lime juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, and Angostura bitters, gets its name from a tiny island located just off the Malay peninsula?
5. Today is August 19. Singer Johnny Nash was born on this day in 1940. He’s best known for what 1972 No. 1 hit song, which was covered by Jimmy Cliff for the “Cool Runnings” soundtrack in 1993?
2 Flintstones
When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in... as to just how dumb you are.
5. I can see clearly now…
3. Cardio Pulmonary
4. Singapore Sling
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
1. Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica
Sipping on a Singapore Sling poolside on top of the Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore was fantastic. :yes:
“When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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Answers to Friday, August 19, 2022
1. Quit While You’re Ahead: There are five islands in the Mediterranean Sea larger than 3,000 square miles. Name as many of them as you can for one point each. Zero points total if you get any wrong.
Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, Corsica, Crete
2. In 1960, actor Jackie Gleason threatened to sue the creators of a cartoon for plagiarism. What cartoon did he want to sue?
“The Flintstones”
(Fred Flintstone was based on his character from “The Honeymooners”)
3. The “R” in “CPR” stands for “resuscitation.” What do the “C” and “P” stand for?
“Cardiopulmonary”
4. What alliterative cocktail, whose impressive list of ingredients typically includes gin, cherry brandy, lime juice, pineapple juice, grenadine, and Angostura bitters, gets its name from a tiny island located just off the Malay peninsula?
Singapore Sling
5. Today is August 19. Singer Johnny Nash was born on this day in 1940. He’s best known for what 1972 No. 1 hit song, which was covered by Jimmy Cliff for the “Cool Runnings” soundtrack in 1993?
“I Can See Clearly Now”
Questions for Monday, August 22, 2022
Five questions to wake up your noodle. Answers in tomorrow’s email.
1. What kind of leaf was used to cover the genitalia of the statue “David,” after Queen Victoria expressed shock at its nudity?
2. What game, now owned by Hasbro, was introduced at the 1983 London Toy Fair, and gets its name from the Swahili for “to build”?
3. The largest landlocked country by area is Kazakhstan. What African country is the largest landlocked country by population?
4. Open pretty much any English-language book to the middle and look at the number of the right-hand page. Is it odd or even?
5. There are three legendary “Bs” in classical music: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Which of those three was born first?
4. Odd
Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes - Harry S Truman
3 - Ethiopia
“When your best friend is the son of God, you get tired of losing every argument.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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