20th Century American Literature
Television Writers
2020 Deaths (Non-COVID Edition)
My Name Is Earl
Big Cats
Movies by the Numbers
600
Five people die when this title object collapses in a Thornton Wilder novel
What is The Bridge of San Luis Rey?
600
Jesse Armstrong has won the two most recent Emmy Awards for Writing for a Drama Series for this HBO show
What is Succession?
600
This musician, the lead guitarist in the band that shares his name, passed away on October 6
Who is Eddie Van Halen?
600
This former Chief Justice of the United States presided over landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona and Loving v. Virginia
Who is Earl Warren?
600
The so-called "king" of these big cats used to be Joe Exotic
What are tigers?
600
___ Angry Men
What is 12?
1200
This coming-of-age novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings tells the story of Jody Baxter and his pet deer
What is The Yearling?
1200
This writer has been nominated six times for an Emmy for writing, five of those times coming for episodes of The West Wing
Who is Aaron Sorkin?
1200
This actress, the wife of John Travolta, died on July 12, two years after her initial diagnosis of breast cancer
Who is Kelly Preston?
1200
This rapper, a friend of and frequent collaborator with Tyler the Creator, was born Thebe Kgositsile
Who is Earl Sweatshirt?
1200
This feline (Puma concolor) has many different names, including puma, mountain lion and catamount, but we're looking for the name that is the mascot for Washington State University
What is a cougar?
1200
___ Weeks Later
What is 28?
1800
Newland Archer pines after his fiancée May's cousin, the countess Ellen Olenska, in this 1920 novel by Edith Wharton
What is The Age of Innocence?
1800
This writer created The Thick of It for the BBC, then created Veep for HBO
Who is Armando Iannucci?
1800
This actor, star of The Thing and Cocoon and longtime advocate for "diabeetus" awareness, passed away on August 1
Who is Wilford Brimley?
1800
Capt. James Cook named the islands today known as Hawaii after John Montagu, 4th Earl of this town in the county of Kent
What is Sandwich (the Sandwich Islands)?
1800
This animal, Panthera onca, is the only member of its genus that is native to the Americas, and is featured prominently in the mythology of the native peoples of Central and South America
What is a jaguar?
1800
___ Days of Night
What is 30?
2400
This author wrote four novels and one novella centering around the character of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for two of them
Who is John Updike?
2400
One of the more prolific writers in television history, this man was the creator of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Taxi, and is responsible for developing The Simpsons... he also won an Oscar for writing Terms of Endearment
Who is James L. Brooks?
2400
This man, the former commissioner for the National Basketball Association, died on January 1
Who is David Stern?
2400
This man, the founder of the Green Bay Packers and the namesake for that team's stadium, had the given name Earl, but he was more commonly known by a nickname
Who is Curly Lambeau?
2400
Since the crest for England's national football team features three specific big cats, the team is sometimes nicknamed "The Three" these
What are lions?
2400
The ___ Blows
What is 400?
3000
This 1957 novel takes place during a time in which jazz was "somewhere between its Charlie Parker Ornithology period and another period that began with Miles Davis"
What is On the Road (by Jack Kerouac)?
3000
45 of the 73 episodes of Game of Thrones were written by these two men, the show's creators
Who are David Benioff & D.B. Weiss?
3000
This member of the Monty Python comedy team who passed away January 21 was also a well-respected medieval historian as well as a prolific children's author
Who is Terry Jones?
3000
Count Basie once said of this jazz musician, nicknamed "Fatha", that he was "the greatest piano player in the world"
Who is Earl Hines?
3000
This animal, the smallest of the "big cats", is native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia
What is a snow leopard?
3000
___: Conquest of Paradise
What is 1492?