"Sorry, Right Number" Vocabulary

Question 1

Tracks/Dollies

Answer 1

Moves smoothly

Question 2

CNN

Answer 2

Abbreviation for Cable News Network

Question 3

Bela Lugosi

Answer 3

American actor known for portraying monsters in a number of films of the 1930s and 1940d

Question 4

Pans

Answer 4

Moves horizontally to reveal a series of images representing a continuous scene

Question 5

Hindenburg

Answer 5

An airship that exploded, crashed, and burned spectacularly in 1937

Question 6

Veteran hacks

Answer 6

Writers whose books sell well but are not great or even good in literature. “Through a shimmering film of tears” is Bill’s example of the sort of unimaginative overused phrases such writers turn out

Question 7

Decapitated

Answer 7

Beheaded

Question 8

Dissolve

Answer 8

Film technique for shifting scenes in which one scene fades out while the next appears and grows clearer

Question 9

Unmiliant aspect

Answer 9

Nonaggressive appearance

Question 10

Crypt

Answer 10

Underground burial chamber

Question 11

Reprise

Answer 11

To repeat something that happened earlier

Question 12

Slam cut

Answer 12

A sudden, sharp change of scene

Question 13

Vanna White

Answer 13

Letter turner on wheel of fortune

Question 14

Tube

Answer 14

Another word for television

Question 15

Lodge brothers

Answer 15

Members of the same men’s social organization. Lodges sometimes have special rituals or vocabularies ( mysterious to outsiders)