JIM LINDSAY AT THE MOVIES
WORLD MONUMENTS
BEFORE AND AFTER:
CFR BOARD
CFR IN THE 1950s
CONSPIRACIES
200

JIM RECOMMENDED THIS 1990 SEAN CONNERY FILM ABOUT A SUBMARINE CAPTAIN DEFECTING FROM THE SOVIET UNION

WHAT IS THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER? 

200

THE BEST KNOWN ISLAMIC MONUMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE, THIS PALACE IS IN GRENADA, SPAIN

WHAT IS THE ALHAMBRA?

200

FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR BECOMES HEAD OF NBC

WHO IS AUGUSTUS CESAR CONDE? 

200

ETHIOPIAN EMPEROR WHO SPOKE AT CFR IN 1954

WHO IS HAILE SELASSIE? 

200

ENLIGHTENED SECRET SOCIETY BEGUN IN GERMANY IN THE 18TH CENTURY AND PERHAPS CONTINUING TODAY IN THIS BUILDING

WHO ARE THE ILLUMINATI? 

400

ONE OF TWO PETER SELLERS COMEDIES ON JIM'S LIST, THIS ONE SUBTITLED "OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB"

WHAT IS DR. STRANGELOVE? 

400

THE MOAI - OR GIANT STATUES - ARE FOUND ON THIS REMOTE PACIFIC ISLAND KNOWN NOW AS RAPA NUI AND EARLIER AS THIS

WHAT IS EASTER ISLAND?

400

NBA SUPERSTAR BECOMES SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY

WHO IS DR J/EH JOHNSON? 

400


CFR BOOK BY HENRY KISSINGER THAT BECAME AN UNEXPECTED BEST SELLER IN 1957

400

TRANSPORT VEHICLE ASSOCIATED WITH CFR CONSPIRACIES

WHAT IS A BLACK HELICOPTER? 

600

A SEARCH FOR A MOLE IN BRITAIN'S SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IS AT THE HEART OF THIS 2011 OF A JOHN LE CARRE NOVEL

WHAT IS TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY ?

600

MASSIVE TEMPLE COMPLEX IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA

WHAT IS ANGKOR WAT?

600

ROCKY HORROR CATCHPHRASE BECOMES FORMER GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

WHAT IS DAMMIT, JANET NAPOLITANO ? 

600

THIS COUNCIL MEMBER JOINED THE BOARD IN 1958 AFTER LOSING THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION - TWICE - TO DWIGHT EISENHOWER 

WHO IS ADLAI STEVENSON? 

600

THIS GROUP USED TO PROTEST OUTSIDE CFR EVERY SEPTEMBER 10

WHO ARE THE TRUTHERS? 

800


A CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS, A CIA AGENT, AND AFGHAN FIGHTERS COME TOGEHER IN THIS 2007 FILM

800

ANCIENT CITY NOT FOUND IN LONG ISLAND BUT INSTEAD NEAR BAGHDAD

WHAT IS BABYLON?

800

FORMER FDA COMMISSIONER BECOMES A 1970s CULINARY DELIGHT

WHAT IS PEGGY HAMBURG/ER HELPER ? 

800

1953 SAW THIS FORMER WORLD BANK PRESIDENT AND HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR GERMANY BECOME CHAIRMAN OF CFR'S BOARD (AND CAN BE SEEN IN THE ROCKEFELLER ROOM) 

WHO IS JOHN MCCLOY? 

800

THREE WORD PHRASE APPLIED TO THE GLOBAL TOTALITARIAN GOVERNMENT CFR WANTS TO CREATE (SUPPOSEDLY) 

WHAT IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER? 

1000

FROM 1951, AND THE ONLY SCI-FI FILM ON JIM'S LIST, IN WHICH KLAATU EMERGES FROM A SPACESHIP TO TRY TO WARN HUMANITY FROM LEADING TO ITS OWN DOOM

WHAT IS THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL?

1000

THIS EDIFICE IS ONE OF PORTUGAL'S MOST FAMOUS AND IS THE "GATEWAY TO LISBON"

WHAT IS THE TOWER OF BELEM? 

1000

Simpsons Super Villain becomes Secretary of the Treasury

WHO IS SIDESHOW BOB RUBIN?

1000

THIS VERY DIFFERENT BEST-SELLING BOOK BY A CFR STAFF MEMBER - PATRICK DENNIS - CAME OUT IN 1955 AND SOON BECAME A PLAY, A MOVIE, A MUSICAL, AND A MOVIE OF THE MUSICAL

WHAT IS AUNTIE MAME?

1000
VIRULENTLY ANTI-CFR RIGHT-WING ORGANIZATION WITH AN ARBOREAL NAME THAT MANAGED TO PLACE A MOLE IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS

WHAT IS THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY? 

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