It's Lit..erature
Independence Day
Grant Thornton
NYC
Boston
100

The Iliad, set during the Trojan War and tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles, is attributed to this author.

Who is Homer?

100

This inalienable right documented in the Declaration of Independence had a wording change by Thomas Jefferson from “pursuit of property” to this.

What is “the pursuit of happiness”?

100

Name the city where Grant Thornton was founded.

What is Chicago?

100

The nickname for NYC.

What is the Big Apple?

100

The name of America first subway.

What is the T (built in 1897)?

200

Go Set a Watchman is the sequel to this book featuring Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s return to her hometown Maycomb, Alabama.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

200

The word “Independence” derives from the medieval word “depenre” which is from this language.

What is French?

200

This current golf player is sponsored by GT.

Who is Rickie Fowler?

200

The river that separates NYC from the state of New Jersey.

What is the Hudson River?

200

This hotel is known for making the Boston Cream Pie famous.

What is Omni Parker?

300

This Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel.

What is The Shining?

300

The Declaration of Independence was signed in this city (hint their state house is known as Independence Hall).

Where is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?

300

The number of states GT currently has offices in.

What is 28 states?

300

Another name for the 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

What is the Avenue of the Americas?

300

This is the oldest school in America established in the 17th century.

What is Boston Latin?

400

“It was a pleasure to burn” was the ironic opening line by a fireman in this famous novel.

What is Fahrenheit 451?

400

There are 26 cities named “Independence” in the US, this other country also has a city with the name “Independence” (according to geotargit.com).

What is Belize?

400

These two states have over 5 office locations.

What is California and Florida?

400

The only Brooklyn neighborhood that shares its name with a Disney movie.

What is Dumbo?

400

Boston shares this commonality with 5 other capitals in the US (Providence Annapolis, Honolulu, Juneau, Olympia)

What is border an ocean?

500

This 1961 Joseph Heller novel coined the term defined as a dilemma or circumstance from which there is no escape due to mutually conflicting conditions.

What is Catch-22?

500

"Independence Day" starring Will Smith and Bill Pullman was directed by this man.

Who is Roland Emmerich?

500

This is GT’s latest (4th) Purple Paladin that was announced on 6/30/2020.

What is Invisible Hands Deliver?

500

The 7 spikes worn on the crown of the Statue of Liberty represent this.

What is the 7 seas and 7 continents?

500

Name 3 presidents who have attended Harvard University.

Who is John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy (undergraduate); Rutherford B. Hayes and Barack Obama (law school); George W. Bush (business school)?

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