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Literature through the years
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Daily Double!
Jimmy Stewart plays George Bailey, whose life changes on Christmas eve in this movie classic.
What is 'it's a wonderful life?'
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Ang Lee's 2000 classic that is the highest-grossing foreign-language film in American history; one clue - search for a stolen sword called the Green Dragon.
What is Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
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This country celebrates Unity Day every 3rd October.
What is Germany?
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This classic work of dystopia takes its title from the purported fact that 'it is the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns.'
What is Farenheit 451?
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In the song "Winter Wonderland", these "ring, are you listening"
What are Sleigh bells?
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This manga that began in 1990 tells the story of a future athlete that was rejected by 50 girls in his high school life, getting into basketball for a girl.
What is Slam Dunk?
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Edward Woodward is the ghost of Christmas present in a 1984 tv version of this tale set on December 24
What is a Christmas Carol?
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The longest film of director Akira Kurosawa's career, this 1954 Japanese epic tells the tale of a group of samurai protecting a village from bandits seeking to steal their crops.
What is Seven Samurai?
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Daily double!
Celebrated on the full moon of the lunar month of Vesākha, usually in April, May or June, Vesak is a major holiday in this religion.
What is Buddhism?
800
First published in 1859 by Charles Dicken, this historical novel is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It has been adapted into film 7 times, the latest of which was made in 1980 starring Chris Sarandon and Alice Krige.
What is a Tale of Two Cities?
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This long-necked lute of India is played with a plectrum
What is a Sitar?
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Referred to by some as the 'Star Wars' of anime, this anime aired from Jan 8, 1988 to Mar 17, 1997 by studios K-Factory, Kitty Film Mitaka Studio where the monarchic Galactic Empire and the democratic Free Planets Alliance are embroiled in a never-ending war.
What is Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu? (Or Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
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"All is calm, all is bright" in this song whose 200th birthday is Christmas eve 2018
What is silent night?
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2002 Brazilian crime film by Fernando Meirelles that traces the devolution of a housing project from the 60s to the 80s and shows unflinching gang warfare.
What is City of God?
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Tết is the most important celebration of this Country's culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on this Country's calendar, which is mostly based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar and usually has the date in January or February in the Gregorian calendar.
What is Vietnam?
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First Impressions which was also a 1959 Broadway musical was the original title of this famous 1813 novel of manners about a woman who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
What is Pride and Prejudice?
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This is a term for a stringed musical instrument with a keyboard, including "The Well-Tempered" one.
What is a clavier?
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This titular anime protagonist lives in the continent of Telesis, as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery as an "auto memory doll" at the end of the Great War.
Who is Violet Evergarden?
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His heart is 2 sizes too small -- that's why he sets out at night to ruin Christmas in Who-ville.
Who is the Grinch?
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This remarkable and Oscar-winning 2006 German drama shows the workings of the dreaded Stasi through the eyes of a cold agent Wiesler that becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple that he is tasked to spy on.
What is The Lives of Others?
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During this Festival, people dance through the streets and use water guns and water balloons filled with coloured dye to paint each other.
What is Holi?
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This novel written in 2002 by a Japanese author tells the story of two men. One, a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Oedipal curse, and two, an old disabled man with the uncanny ability to speak to cats.
What is Kafka on the Shore.
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Ricola ads have featured this Swiss horn
What is an alpenhorn (alphorn)?
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Set in a fictional version Ikebukuro, Mikado Ryuugamine and his friends get mixed up in supernatural happenings as they explore the urban myths in this downtown district, beginning with the headless "Black Rider".
What is Durarara!!?
2000
You've gotta "Love" the Christmas Eves cene in this movie where Andrew Lincoln declares his love to Keira Knightley
What is Love Actually?
2000
This 1971 Taiwanese film directed by King Hu that is considered 'the' wuxia film features a princess on the run; the first Chinese language action film ever to win a prize at the Cannes.
What us A Touch of Zen?
2000
Las Posadas is a novenario and is celebrated chiefly in Latin America. It is typically celebrated each year between December 16 and December 24, and celebrates this event that happens in the bible.
What is Joseph and Mary’s journey from Bethlehem to Nazareth?
2000
42. What else do you need, you have the answer to everything!
What is the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy?
2000
Head to the end of the alphabet for this stringed instrument.
What is a zither?
2000
Based on the 10th century Japanese folk tale of the same title, this 2013 movie that embodies the art of eastern ink and brush paintings tells the story of a princess that is thrust into an unwanted life of royalty by her parents.
What is The Tale of the Princess Kaguya? (Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari)