publication date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 (part of Winter 2015)

category: Movies

clue: His films have involved anthropomorphized pachyderms, missing roads, direct tales, paired mountaintops, and a street in Los Angeles.

explanation: Lynch made The Elephant Man, Lost Highway, The Straight Story, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and Mulholland Drive. more…

intended difficulty: medium

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Justin Woods, Joanna Woods, and Mike Rothstein

trivia: There were two guesses for Christopher Walken and one guess for Jon Voight.


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