Famous Poems
This poem by William Blake about an animal "burning bright" which asks " what immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry"
What is The Tyger?
The smash Broadway hit based on the a biography written by Ron Chernow
What is Hamilton?
What is a Bald Eagle?
The event that took place in America from 1861-1865
What is a Civil War?
The 27 edits or additions made to the United States Constitution
What are amendments?
This Edgar Allen Poe poem about the impending fear of death personified by a carrion animal.
What is The Raven?
This Netflix series that adapted a set of books by Daniel Handler (though he wrote under the name Lemony Snicket)
What is A Series of Unfortunate Events?
The sound of this iconic weapon was made by combining the hum of a projector and the buzz of interference from a TV set. Then waving the microphone in order to recreate the doppler effect.
What is a lightsaber?
This term for when an aircraft craft returns to the ground unexpectedly, but somewhat safely
What is a crash landing?
The first Secretary of the Treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This William Carlos Williams poem about this everyday item upon which "so much depends"
What is The Red Wheelbarrow?
The Broadway musical (and 2024 film) based on a spinoff from a L Frank Baum classic with its own musical and film.
What is Wicked?
This iconic scream, used in hundreds of films, originally comes from a 1951 sound effect recorded for the movie Distant Drums
What is the Wilhelm Scream?
This type of chocolate that contains between 65% and 80% cacao
What is Bittersweet?
This president, whose first name means "Father of a multitude", worked for the reunification of the United States and the Confederate States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This poem that first described Santa Claus including him having "a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly."
What is 'Twas the Night Before Christmas?
This Video Game Series and Netflix Show starring Henry Cavill (and now Liam Hemsworth) about a monster hunter is based on a novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski
What is The Witcher?
The sound of a boulder rolling after this adventuring archeologist was made by rolling a car without a motor, and a big, heavy lawn roller down a hill
Who is Indiana Jones?
The condition that occurs when frozen food is damaged by dehydration and oxidation due to exposure to air
What is Freezer Burn?
The larger language based group of Indigenous peoples that populated the Great Lakes region
Who are the Anishinaabe?
A Lewis Carrol poem about a mythical beast being slain by the Vorpal Blade.
What is The Jabberwocky?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This 2020 Netflix original film starred Millie Bobby Brown as the sister of a famous fictional detective portrayed by Henry Cavill
What is Enola Holmes?
The iconic sound for this 1993 Steven Spielberg film combined the sounds of a whale, lion, baby elephant, and alligator.
What is Jurassic Park?
This phrase that Charlie Brown uses in exasperation
What is Good Grief?
Thomas Jefferson's first Vice President
Who is Aaron Burr?
This Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem about a revolutionary warning of an impending invasion.
What is The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere?
This game series, loosely based on Vladimir Bartol's Alamut, takes the main phrase word for word: "Nothing is true, everything is permitted".
What is Assassin's Creed?
For the second film in this trilogy, the director spent half-time at a cricket match in New Zealand conducting 25,000 fired up crowd members to chant phrases in Black Speech
What is the Lord of the Rings?
This term to highlight intense indecision, also a 2008 film starring Ryan Reynolds
What is Definite Maybe?
The name of the national military cemetery located across the river from Washington D.C.
What is Arlington?
This Robert Frost poem that speaks of two paths diverging in the wood and the decision to take "the one less traveled by"
What is The Road Not Taken?
This Dreamworks and Universal animated fantasy film series (with characters like Prince Charming and Pinocchio) is based off of a 1990 book by the same name.
What is Shrek?
The sound used to punctuate this Spielberg alien character walking was made by combining the sounds of "packaged liver in a container, jelly in a wet towel and some popcorn in a bag"
Who is E.T.?
A musician who plays a number of instruments simultaneously using their hands, feet, limbs, and various mechanical or electronic contraptions
What is a one man band?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
A fort in Texas, the site of a 13 day siege during the Texas Revolution, that has become a rallying cry for Texan Independence and Patriotism.
What is the Alamo?
A poem about a baseball game centering on a mythic hero that ultimately strikes out, bringing sorrow to Mudville
What is Casey at the Bat?
This broadway musical and film are based on a book of animal centered poems written by TS Elliot and published in 1939
What is Cats?
The sound effect created for this Sam Raimi 2002 superhero film starring Tobey Maguire, was a mixture of plucked fishing line, magnetic film being cinched on a spindle, compressed air, shaving cream spurts, and the swish of old woven fly-fishing line.
What is Spiderman?
This type of disposable fork, knives, or spoons
What is plastic silverware?
The site of the end of the Civil War, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
An epic poem by Homer that centers on the history of Troy and the Trojan War
What is The Iliad?
This quintessential 1946 Christmas movie, where a man recognizes the importance of his life, is based on the 1943 book The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern.
What is It's A Wonderful Life?
This fibrous vegetable is used by films and theater alike to punctuate the sound of a breaking bone
What is celery?
This title for a college learner working in a school in order to further their education.
What is a Student Teacher?
The family of patriots from Boston that included a leader in the Sons of Liberty and the first Vice President of the United States
Who is the Adams Family?
This poem by Lord Byron centers on a character whose name has become shorthand for a "suave gentleman" and inspired the name for a 2013 film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson.
What is Don Juan?
This Bruce Willis action film that centers on a heist during Christmas was inspired by the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever
What is Die Hard?
This type of performer is the one who works to create sounds that match the expectation of sounds for films.
What is a Foley Artist?
This term for a foreign national living on an official basis in a country of which they are not a citizen
What is a Resident Alien?
The man for whom the American Continents are named.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?