Books Starting With "The"
Neighborhoods in Queens
Forty Love
Great Paintings
Times The West Has Fallen
Famous Innocent People Who Won The Heisman Trophy in 1968
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Nick Carraway narrates this novel about his mysterious, fabulously wealthy neighbor in West Egg.
What is "The Great Gatsby?"
400
Once known for a large Greek-American population, this northwest Queens neighborhood is home to the Museum of the Moving Image.
What is Astoria?
400
This word represents a score of zero in tennis.
What is love?
400
Vincent van Gogh painted this swirling 1889 night sky while staying at an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.
What is The Starry Night?
400
Historians traditionally this event to 476, when Emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the barbarian Odoacer.
What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
400
Famous innocent person O.J. Simpson was a longtime runningback for this NFL team.
Who are the Buffalo Bills?
800
The murder of Fyodor Pavlovich and the suspicion surrounding his sons drive the plot of this final novel by Dostoevsky.
What is "The Brothers Karamazov?"
800
One of New York’s largest Chinatowns can be found in this Queens neighborhood, also the namesake of the nearby Meadows-Corona park.
What is Flushing?
800
This Spaniard won a record 14 men’s singles titles at the French Open.
Who is Nadal?
800
The painter himself appears at his easel in this complex Velázquez masterpiece depicting the Spanish royal household.
What is Las Meninas?
800
In 410, Rome was sacked by the this group of East Germanic people under Alaric, the first capture of the city by a foreign enemy in roughly eight centuries.
Who are the Visigoths?
800
O.J. Simpson played college football for this Los Angeles university.
What is USC?
1200
This William Faulkner novel takes its title from a line in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and includes sections narrated by members of the Compson family.
What is The Sound and the Fury?
1200
What is Ozone Park?
1200
These were the first ever set of sisters to win Olympic gold medals in tennis.
Who are the Williams sisters? (Serena and Venus)
1200
The Arnolfini Portrait depicts Italian merchant Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife (as well as a famous mirror) in the 1434 painting by this painter.
Who is Jan van Eyck,
1200
The 1527 sack of Rome was carried out largely by mutinous imperial troops serving this Holy Roman Emperor.
Who is Charles V?
1200
During the famous 1994 low-speed police pursuit, Simpson was a passenger in a white SUV of this model.
What is a Ford Bronco?
1600
Thomas Mann sends Hans Castorp to a tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps in this 1924 novel.
What is "The Magic Mountain?"
1600
Bordering Brooklyn’s Bushwick, this Queens neighborhood is known for long blocks of early-20th-century brick rowhouses, many within historic districts.
What is Ridgewood?
1600
The French Open is played at this Paris tennis complex, whose name is often used interchangeably with that of the tournament.
What is Roland-Garros?
1600
This is a self-portrait of this modern French artist.
Who is Henri Matisse?
1600
What is the Thirty Years War?
1600
This attorney delivered the memorable rhyme “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” during Simpson’s 1995 criminal trial.
Who is Johnny Cochrane?
2000
This 1907 Joseph Conrad novel follows Adolf Verloc, a London anarchist and secret agent ordered to carry out a bombing.
What is The Secret Agent?
2000
The Douglas Manor Historic District and waterfront homes along Little Neck Bay are found in this northeastern Queens neighborhood.
What is Douglaston?
2000
In 1988, this female German became the only singles player ever to achieve a calendar-year “Golden Slam”: all four majors plus Olympic gold.
Who is Steffi Graf?
2000
A horrific 1816 shipwreck inspired this enormous Romantic painting by Théodore Géricault depicting survivors desperately signaling a distant vessel.
What is "The Raft of the Medusa?"
2000
Britain and France invaded Egypt during this 1956 crisis, only to withdraw under international pressure—often regarded as a stark demonstration of their reduced postwar power.
What is the Suez Crisis?
2000
Prior to being falsely accused of murdering his wife and a waiter, OJ Simpson played Detective Nordberg the first three entries of this series with Leslie Nielsen.
What is The Naked Gun?