Historical Films

GREEK GEOGRAPHY
STARTS WITH "G"
RENAISSANCE LITERATURE
SCIENCE CLASS
100

One of the silent masterworks is 1928's "The Passion of" this 15th century woman

Joan of Arc

100

At about 9,570 feet, it's Greece's highest & arguably best-known peak

Mount Olympus

100

Grab some shade in one of these turreted garden houses that as the name suggests is good for a nice view

a gazebo

100

Influenced by Petrarch, Joachim du Bellay brought this poetic form into French with a collection of 50 of them

sonnets

100

In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body

oxygen

200

As her, Natalie Portman says, "There won't be another Camelot"

Jacqueline Kennedy

200

Thessaloniki is the capital city of Central this region, also the name of Philip II's ancient kingdom

Macedonia

200

Eugene Field's poem "The Duel" featured the Calico Cat & this dog

a Gingham Dog

200

The play "Antonius", Mary Sidney's translation of a French work, helped revive this form of "lone speaking" monologue

the soliloquy

200

Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits

opium

300

Seen here, this actress played an astronomer in 4th century Alexandria in "Agora"


Rachel Weisz

300

Greece's 3 main geographic areas are the islands, the mainland & joined by an isthmus, this peninsula, that lent its name to a war 


the Peloponnesian (Peninsula)

300

This type of full-rigged sailing ship popular in the 16th & 17th centuries might have one or 2 tiers for guns

a galleon

300

A romantic epic, him "Innamorato" was followed nearly 30 years later by him "Furioso" in 1516

Orlando

300

Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal

iron

400

The Charlton Heston film "55 Days at Peking" is set during this 1900 rebellion

the Boxer Rebellion

400

The setting of plays like "Oedipus" & "Antigone", this Greek city shares its name with a capital city of Ancient Egypt

Thebes

400

The mascot seen here represents these University of South Carolina sports teams

the Gamecocks

400

Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this "Mount" near Jerusalem

the Mount of Olives

400

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive

nitroglycerin

500

This 2023 film is based on the true story of Joseph Bologne, a Black violinist & composer in 18th century France

Chevalier

500

Corfu is in this sea on Greece's west coast

the Ionian

500

Latin for "sword" gives us the name of this flower

a gladiola (gladiolus)

500

Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian

Boccaccio

500

Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity

 

a fruit fly

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