This goo was worth a point in December 2024.

publication date: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (part of December 2024)

category: Movies

clue: She won an Oscar as the brassy girlfriend of a recent law school graduate, was nominated for another Oscar as the bedroom lover of another recent college grad, and joined the MCU raising a high school kid through his graduation year, but she never acted in The Graduate.

explanation: Tomei starred as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny, Natalie Strout in In the Bedroom, and May Parker in several Spider-Man films. more…

intended difficulty: very easy

solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky


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