Movie Quotes
"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
What is "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" - 1975
If this punctuation mark could change colors in order to camouflage itself, maybe Boy George would have made a song about it
What is the comma
This word denotes a group of Oysters
What is a bed
This acronym, popular in modern communication media, is used when two or more people have the same thought at the same time.
What is "GMTA"
In this take on a classic 1813 novel, Victorian England is overrun by the living dead
What is "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
This heat process discovered in 1856, and named after its French inventor, was found to destroy food borne pathogenic microorganisms
What is pasteurization
"It ends tonight."
"I know it does, I've seen it! That's why the rest of me is just going to enjoy the show, because they all know that I'm the one that beats you."
What is The Matrix - Revolutions - 2003
This punctuation mark creates a pause between two independent clauses that are closely related
What is the semicolon
This word denotes a group of Vipers
What is a nest
E.g.
What is Exempli Gratia (for example).
In this 1949 dystopian novel, any expression of individuality including free thought, history and language are controlled by an ever-present government called The Party
What is "1984"
1823 saw the invention of the raincoat, named this after its Scottish inventor
What is the Mackintosh
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
What is "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" - 1986
There are two different types of this punctuation mark: The "em" and the "en"; the former denoting a separation in a sentence to allow for extra information, and the latter being used to denote ranges
What is a dash
This word denotes a group of Locusts
What is a plague
Deriving from the Latin "libra pondo" more than two thousand years ago, this abbreviation is still in use today both as a unit of weight and of currency.
What is lb.
In this existential novel, three people with conflicting personalities are trapped in a room together for eternity
What is "No Exit"
Alfred Nobel, creator of the prestigious prize that bears his name, became famous for his own invention in 1867 - a much more stable alternative to nitro glycerin
What is trinitro toluene (TNT)
"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or if not smithies, per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of endless wanderin'?"
What is "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" - 1999
This punctuation mark designates the beginning of a new paragraph
What is a pilcrow
This word denotes a group of Owls
What is a parliament
The person who manages our databases just spun off another child company
What is a DBA's DBA
This writer's 1922 novel is an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, set in Dublin
Who is James Joyce
These three inventors all battled for control over the type and generation of electricity that would be used across the United States
Who are Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla
"When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter."
What is "Groundhog Day" - 1999
This unconventional punctuation mark is the combination of a question mark and an exclamation point.
What is an interrobang
Either of these two words may denote a group of Larks
What is an exaltation, or an ascension
In order to view the graduate student's artwork, you need both your password and the code sent to your phone.
What is the MFA's MFA
In this 1968 novel, four main characters represent opposing philosophical views of morality. Central to the theme is the precept of the 'weightlessness' caused by a life that cannot be repeated in order to make different choices, and therefore be compared in any moral sense.
What is "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
The majority of 19th and 20th century inventions were mechanistic in nature, building upon Sir Isaac Newton's and Renee Descarte's theory of a 'Clockwork Universe' - which was disproved in the early 20th century by this field of study
What is Quantum Physics