Jesus in the Movies
Mel Gibson made this movie highlighting the most gruesome details of Good Friday
The Passion of the Christ
Tulips
"Silent Spring" was a groundbreaking book written about the importance of lies of the chemical industry and what was at stake for all of us. Who wrote it?
Rachel Carson
"The Road Not Taken" is probably one of the most iconic poems in American literature. Who wrote it?
Robert Frost
Who is hopping up the bunny trail in this Thornton Burgess text?
Peter Cottontail
Ben-Hur interacts with the Life of Christ through the eyes of a rich Jewish merchant. Who played Judah Ben-Hur?
Charlton Heston
This rather grisly murder of Elizabeth Short in 1940s Los Angeles has this floral name.
The Black Dahlia Murder
What began as a celebration across over 2,000 college campuses in the United States in 1970, this is now the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated every April 22.
Earth Day
Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is the inspiration for the famous line "Stay Gold Ponyboy" used in this 1960s novel.
The Outsiders
Bambi has a loyal friend who is a sweet and hyper little rabbit named what?
Thumper
Graham Chapman can't run away from being mistaken for Jesus Christ, leading to him singing a rousing number of "Look on the Bright Side of Life" during his wrongful Crucifixion in this iconic British comedy.
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Comedian John Mulaney married Anna Tendler, and inherited this adorable French Bulldog with the name of a common flower who also gives him some strange messages before his stand up special "The Comeback Kid"
Petunia
The Truffula Tree is made famous in this children's picture book that made environmentalism easy to grasp for younger audiences (and I am convinced radicalized my generation).
The Lorax
He loved to write odes to the parts of the natural world that mesmerized him. "To Autumn..." is probably his most famous. Who is he?
John Keats
Beatrix Potter created this mischievous little bunny as he steals carrots from Mr. McGregor's garden.
Peter Rabbit
What's the Buzz? asks the people of Jerusalem as they hear of this strange Jesus character coming into town. What musical written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice came to theaters in 1973 and gave Jesus and his disciples a few groovy musical numbers?
Jesus Christ Superstar
Dorothy can see the Emerald City in "The Wizard of Oz" but she she can't help but feel sleepy because of a field of these flowers.
Poppies
This lawyer who paved the way for environmental justice had a biopic made about her fight for justice starring Julia Roberts.
Erin Brockovich
These two friends loved to write poems and essays about nature in the mid 19th century. One wrote "Walden" making a rather normal pond in Massachusetts infamous, and the other's essay "Self-Reliance" examines our relationship to nature.
Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grace Slick belted out the trippy lyrics "Go ask Alice/I think she'll know" to this song on her album "Surrealistic Pillow" with her then band Jefferson Airplane.
White Rabbit
Charlton Heston, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, and Max von Sydow star in this 1965 film that features an ensemble cast and a painfully long 4 hour and 20 minute runtime.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Violet
An old (and rather racist) ad from the Keep America Beautiful anti-littering campaign features what is now known as "The Crying Indian." Years later, the sequel to this Saturday Night Live inspired film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey features a spoof of "The Crying Indian" in helping them prepare for Waynestock.
Wayne's World
She is a Palestinian American poet who writes heartbreaking poems about war and beautiful poems of nature, some of her most famous being "Catalogue Army" and "The Man Who Hated Trees." Her first name is also the name of Ruth's mother-in law
Naomi Shihab Nye
David Lynch is iconic for Twin Peaks and films such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead, however, it's his 2002 horror miniseries, named after this furry animal, that could make for a creepy Easter viewing.
Rabbits