Hearths and Salamanders
This Founding Father is listed, dubiously, as having established the first fire department of the United States in 1790.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Faber worked at the very last one of these prior to taking a forced retirement, clearly realizing his tenure did not amount to much.
What is a college/university?
Faber tells Montag that he is heading for safety to this city in Missouri, known for its trademark arch serving as "The Gateway to the West."
What is St. Louis?
This infamous hun laid siege to large parts of Germany in 451 AD, probably setting a lot of his own fires to the cities he sacked and destroyed in the process.
Who is Atilla?
Ray Bradbury helped design the original exhibit in this massive trademark spherical structure at Walt Disney World.
What is Epcot Center/Spaceship Earth?
Mildred mentions she and Montag own one of these types of compact automobiles that, introduced in Germany in 1938, was a quirky favorite of American commuters by the time the novel was published in 1953.
What is a beetle?
Faber reads from this book of the Bible to Montag, one fittingly about a man who suffers intensely to understand and be thankful for his insights into truth and himself.
What is Job/the Book of Job?
Montag attempts to confuse the Hound's scent tracking by dousing himself with this alcohol made from distilled mash and aged in wooden barrels.
What is whiskey/alcohol/liquor?
HTTP error 451 is provided when a web page is unavailable due to this reason.
What is censorship?
Bradbury was close friends with artist Charles Addams, himself best known for creating this creepy and kooky comic cartoon family.
What is the Addams Family?
According to Clarisse, if you can rub some of this flower off under your chin, it means you are in love.
What is a dandelion?
Montag and Beatty play this game while facing off at the fire house, one symbolically important in this scene because of the game's focus on "bluffing" the other players.
What is poker?
This last name of the leader of Montag's group is probably not related to Hermione; it was also the name of a famous typewriter manufacturer in the 19th and 20th centuries.
What is Granger?
The Air Force's 451st Air Expeditionary Group is assigned to Khandahar Airfield in this country. Fun fact: the group's predecessor was activated on 1 May 1943 at Tucson's own Davis Monthan Air Force Base!
What is Afghanistan?
Among Bradbury's closest friends was Gene Roddenberry, best known as the creator of this long-running and influential sci-fi TV and film series.
What is Star Trek?
According to Mildred, Clarisse was killed in this horrifically violent fashion, something Montag himself almost experiences towards the end of the novel during his escape from the city.
What is being hit by a car?
Montag smuggled this book into his home and later wants to bring it to a printer, a good choice for value as it is actually at least 66 other books bound together.
What is the Bible?
Montag is assigned to memorize and "be" this book of the Old Testament, one famous for its philosophical and poetic passages.
What is Ecclesiastes?
There seems to be poetic justice for whomever in California wrote law section 451, a law criminalizing this dangerous and destructive action.
What is arson?
Upon Bradbury's death on June 5, 2012, this American politician released a public statement saying, "His gift for storytelling reshaped our culture and expanded our world."
Who is Barack Obama?
Also known as paraffin or coal oil, the firemen in the novel rely upon this flammable liquid to start their fires
When Montag says he will read this type of writing to Mildred and her friends, Mrs. Bowles says she would "hate it" while Mrs. Phelps thinks it would be "very interesting."
What is poetry?
Montag finally remembers that he and Mildred met in this large Midwestern city, although a bit too late to enjoy it with her again.
What is Chicago?
Ontario's Ministry of Transportation calls it Highway 451, but this Canadian roadway is better know for being named after this famous British ruler who reigned with her husband from 1936 to 1952.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
The NASA Curiosity rover's landing site at this place is named the "Bradbury landing" in the author's honor.
What is Mars?