publication date: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 (part of Winter 2020)

category: Movies

clue: This dope actor is passing out death notes telling people to get out, because he's about to purge everyone caught in the spider's web. If that meaningless sequence of titles was annoying, I'm sorry to bother you.

explanation: Stanfield starred in Dope, Death Note, Get Out, The Purge: Anarchy, The Girl in the Spider's Web, and Sorry to Bother You. more…

intended difficulty: easy

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Matthew Preston, and Erik Bates


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