Classic Cinema
Humphrey Bogart starred with Lauren Bacall in this 1946 film based on a Raymond Chandler novel.
What is The Big Sleep?
Before forming The Beatles, Lennon and McCartney performed in this early band
What is The Quarrymen?
he Marshall Plan was designed to rebuild this region after WWII.
What is Western Europe?
This physicist developed the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
He wrote The Old Man and the Sea.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This Alfred Hitchcock movie is famous for its dolly-zoom “vertigo shot.”
What is Vertigo?
This jazz trumpeter introduced bebop with Dizzy Gillespie.
Who is Charlie Parker?
The Korean War began in this year.
What is 1950?
The polio vaccine was created by this doctor in 1955.
Who is Jonas Salk?
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in this U.S. state.
What is Alabama?
The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard features this fading silent-film star played by Gloria Swanson.
Who is Norma Desmond?
The 1969 Woodstock Festival was held in this U.S. state.
What is New York ?
This 1956 crisis involved the nationalization of an important canal in Egypt.
What is the Suez Crisis
The transistor, invented in 1947, was created at this research laboratory.
What is Bell Labs?
This poet wrote “Do not go gentle into that good night.”
Who is Dylan Thomas?
This Japanese director created the 1954 film Seven Samurai.
Who is Akira Kurosawa?
This 1971 Carole King album became one of the best-selling albums of all time.
What is Tapestry?
This U.S. president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
This element, discovered by Marie Curie, glows faintly in the dark.
What is radium?
East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath were written by this author.
Who is John Steinbeck?
This 1948 Italian neorealist film follows a man searching for his stolen bicycle.
What is Bicycle Thieves?
Brian Wilson composed complex “pocket symphonies” for this 1966 Beach Boys album
What is Pet Sounds?
The Bay of Pigs invasion attempted to overthrow this Cuban leader.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This mathematician cracked the Enigma code during WWII
Who is Alan Turing?
This author’s 1932 novel Brave New World imagined a dystopian future.
Who is Aldous Huxley?