World History
Movie Quotes
Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle
Books and Authors
100
It took 12 years, 1847-1859, to find out what became of John Franklin, who died searching for this Arctic passage
The Northwest Passage
100
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die..."
tWIGHLOT
100
Most of Plato's works are in this form; Socrates is among the speakers in all but one
A dialogue
100
In 2015 she published "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!"
Chelsea Clinton
200
The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land
Egypt
200
"Yeah McLovin, how is it going with the ladies?"
Superbad
200
Aristotle explores how to live a happy & virtuous life in works called "Nicomachean" & "Eudemian" these
Ethics
200
At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic
Mary Shelley
300
This '50s & '60s Soviet leader who told the West "we will bury you" is himself buried at Novodevichy Cemetery
Khrushchev
300
"Maui was struck from the sky, never to be seen again. And his magical fishhook and the Heart of Te Fiti were lost to the sea."
Darcy's fav movie, Moana
300
Bill summarizes for Ted:
"Socrates: the only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know" this
Nothing
300
an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable
Victor Hugo
400
This national liberation front came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 & is ruling once again
The Sandinistas
400
"Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today."
Groundhog Day
400
Aristotle wrote that for this genre, the plot must "imitate actions arousing fear and pity"
Tragedy
400
He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power"
Ta-Nehisi Coates
500
Around 1310 Pope Clement V, moved the papacy from Italy to this French city & it stayed there for almost 70 years
Avignon
500
"Donny was a good bowler. And a good man."
The Big Lebowski
500
According to "The Republic", we live in this dark place where we only see the shadows of reality
The Cave
500
His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution
Fyodor Dostoevsky