Oscars Week 2019
These seven goos were inspired by this year's batch of Oscar-nominated films and filmmakers. While you play, don't forget to enter Funeratic's Predict the Oscars contest for your chance to win a prize.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
publication date: Saturday, February 16, 2019
category: 
Justice
clue: This Clinton nominee reigns supreme as the most "notorious" justice in the highest court.
explanation: Ginsburg has been nicknamed "The Notorious RBG." more…
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Lee Israel
publication date: Friday, February 15, 2019
category: 
Crime
clue: It takes a writer to impersonate a writer.
explanation: Israel, a once-successful biographer, turned to forging letters from famous authors to support herself. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Alfonso Cuarón
publication date: Thursday, February 14, 2019
category: 
Movies
clue: He's made character-driven dramas about a Mexico City neighborhood and a mother too, sci-fi thrillers about paternal children and a force of attraction, stilted romantic films about AIDS and a wealthy Florida woman, and children's-book adaptations about a royal servant and a magic prisoner.
explanation: Cuarón directed Roma, Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, Gravity, Sólo con Tu Pareja, Great Expectations, A Little Princess, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. more…
intended difficulty: easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Dick Cheney
publication date: Wednesday, February 13, 2019
category: 
Government
clue: He's been called a dick and the "president of vice," but he's still the most powerful person ever to hold his particular office.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Victor Hugo Green
publication date: Tuesday, February 12, 2019
category: 
Literature
clue: If you were black and you wanted to travel in the Jim Crow South, green was the way to go.
explanation: Green published The Negro Motorist Green Book that listed and reviewed businesses that were accepting of African American patrons in the segregated South. more…
intended difficulty: medium
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Chris Lemler, and Richard Slominsky
Freddie Mercury
publication date: Monday, February 11, 2019
category: 
Music
clue: This rhapsodic singer died in 1991 but lives on as rock royalty.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Glenn Close
publication date: Sunday, February 10, 2019
category: Movies
clue: To date, she's been nominated for six Oscars without winning, for indelible performances in movies like The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, and Albert Nobbs. This year, she's this close to winning with nomination #7.
intended difficulty: very easy
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Erik Bates, and Stan Iwanchuk
Other Themes in Winter 2019
Gothic Goodbye
The RPG Gothic Earth> has been set in a world of literary creations roughly contemporary to its 1899 setting, with characters like Sherlock Holmes and Count Dracula driving much of the storyline. After a decade of play, the game is now in its final weeks. Here's sending it off with a two-week retrospective of authors of that era whose works captured the popular imagination, in the order in which they shaped the world of Gothic Earth. Go »
