THE BEAUTIFUL
AMERICA
19th CENTURY LIT
THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY
WHO WAS THE U.S. VEEP?
200
'Her famed rendition of "That Old Black Magic" appears in the 1956 film "Bus Stop"'
Marilyn Monroe
200
'Among state capitals, it's first alphabetically'
Albany, New York
200
'"Tevye the Dairyman", published beginning in 1894, inspired this Broadway & movie musical'
Fiddler on the Roof
200
'Films from 1940 include this Disney puppet tale & the ever-popular "Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse"'
Pinocchio
200
'On Nov. 3, 1992, the day Bill Clinton was elected president'
Dan Quayle
400
'Enrique is the real first name of this Puerto Rican who knows how to "Shake Your Bon-Bon"'
Ricky Martin
400
'It's the U.S. state that reaches the farthest south'
Hawaii
400
'His first novel was "Hans of Iceland", 8 years before "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"'
Victor Hugo
400
'In 7 years he directed 3 films on the registry: "Mean Streets", "Taxi Driver" & "Raging Bull"'
Martin Scorsese
400
'When Sputnik 1 went up'
Richard Nixon
600
'The success of "The Philadelphia Story" as a play & a film helped her shake the reputation of "Box Office Poison"'
Katharine Hepburn
600
'Of the U.S. states with active volcanoes, this state is the largest in area'
Alaska
600
'The infamous opening of Bulwer-Lytton's "Paul Clifford" is "It was" this type of "night"'
Dark and stormy
600
'Pauline Kael called this 1967 Dunaway-Beatty choice "A landmark movie"'
Bonnie and Clyde
600
'When the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima'
No one
800
'He was the title character in 1991's "Johnny Suede"'
Brad Pitt
800
'A city named Beach is found in this landlocked U.S. state wedged between Montana & Minnesota'
North Dakota
800
'This English romantic poet who died at 25 wrote the sonnet "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"'
John Keats
800
'The newest film on the registry is this 1989 Spike Lee film set on a hot Brooklyn day'
Do The Right Thing
800
'When Moscow hosted the Olympics'
Walter Mondale
1000
'In a 1957 film photographer Fred Astaire loved her "Funny Face"'
Audrey Hepburn
1000
'This state's 6,680-foot Mount Mitchell is the highest point east of the Mississippi River'
North Carolina
1000
'Frenchman famous for realistic novels & for an open letter published Jan 13, 1898'
Emile Zola ("J\'Accuse")
1000
'The title of this 1957 film with Burt Lancaster & Tony Curtis lends the registry a pleasant aroma'
The Sweet Smell of Success
1000
'When South Carolina seceded from the Union'
John C. Breckenridge
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