Who was the last person to bat .400 in a season? Ted Williams?! Hell naw, it was Ray Waller. Let’s go!
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) In the movie the main character has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which ends his baseball career. MS is an autoimmune disease where the immune system attacks the insulating covers of nerve cells called what?
2) Wyatt Russell, son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, plays a professional baseball player in the film. He actually was a professional athlete for the Richmond Sockeyes, Langley Hornets, and Brampton Capitals among other amateur and professional teams. What sport do these teams represent?
3) Kerry Condon plays the AI voice F.R.I.D.A.Y. in the MCU. The name doesn’t seem to mean anything, or at least no reputable source claims to have an official reason behind it. In actuality it appears to merely be a reference to what Daniel Dafoe book?
4) The Judas Priest song You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ is on the soundtrack, and it is the only US charting song for the heavy metal band. It isn’t the highest UK sharting song though, that honor belongs to both Living After Midnight and what three word song (a song title often chanted by Beavis & Butthead)?
5) Produced by Blumhouse, there has been over 100 productions by the company in the 25 years of its existence. The company though really got started with the release of what film which ended up being a hugely lucrative franchise for the company?
Bonus NYTimes Listing Question: Spare yourself from this similarly named horror film:
What is this film?
Answers
1) That would be myelin. There are a wide variety of such diseases, but interestingly a deficiency in B12 causes demyelination. That is what can happen to vegans after years and years of not consuming any meat products at all, although it is rare.
2) Those are all professional hockey teams, the hint being Capitals. He retired due to injury. The Brampton Capitals were maybe the highest level he reached as that as an “A” level junior team in Ontario. He played in Europe too.
3) Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday. The actual title of the book is: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself.
4) Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law! Breaking the Law, Breaking the Law! I’m stunned that Beavis & Butthead isn’t mentioned at all on the song’s wiki page. It is 100% the only thing I know about the song.
5) That would be the Paranormal Activity series. There have been seven films in the series, and three for sure qualify and Next of Kin went straight to streaming during the pandemic.
Bonus NYTimes Listing Answer: That would be Nightwing. I’m quite sad this came out in 1979, it looks like such a funny dumb film. Would have loved it to be a BMT.
But alas, our rules for BMT are rigid … or are they? Maybe we CAN do Nightwing for BMT! … but probably not.
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