WHO WON THE WAR ANYWAY?
ON THE BOOKSHELF
MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES
TO THE STARS & BEYOND
WORLD CAPITAL MUSEUMS
100
This empire was victorious in wars Gallic & Punic
The Roman Empire
100
Winston Smith works at the Ministry of Truth in this novel
1984
100
2011:
Maids like Aibileen Clark & Minny Jackson
The Help
100
About every two years this planet comes within 35 million miles of Earth, but at 54,000 miles per hour it doesn't stay in the neighborhood long
Mars
100
The Guinness Storehouse
Dublin
200
In 1949 this group won the Chinese Civil War
Les Communistes
200
A novel by Anne Rice begins, "I am the vampire" him. "I'm immortal. More or less"
Lestat
200
1999:
From the color of its floor tiles, a nickname for death row
The Green Mile
200
If you drive your Ford Galaxie to Bode's Galaxy, you'll cover 71 quintillion miles, or 12 million of these units
années lumières
200
The Edvard Munch Museum
Oslo
300
In the 1930s Fascist forces led by this general won the Spanish Civil War
Franco
300
In 3 weeks in 1960, Anthony Burgess wrote this ultraviolent book bout young psychopaths
A Clockwork Orange
300
2010:
Implanting an idea into someone's mind during a dream state
Inception
300
The antenna galaxies here are collapsing & merging into each other; in a few billion years the same fate awaits our own Milky Way & this galaxy
Andromeda
300
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington D.C.
400
The English Civil War was Parliament vs. this king, who surrendered in 1646
Charles I
400
The title of this Dickens novel refers to a residence near St. Albans
Bleak House
400
1987:
Term for ammo fully encased in a copper alloy
Full Metal Jacket
400
If we could peer down on the Milky Way galaxy from above, we'd see why it's classified as one of this shape
spiral
400
The Borghese Gallery
Rome
500
South America's War of the Pacific ended in 1883 with this winning nation cutting off Bolivia from the sea
Chile
500
This monster in "Beowulf" was said to be descended from Cain
Grendel
500
1944:
A clause in a life insurance policy
Double Indemnity
500
Thousands of times as far away as the Earth from the Sun & potentially home to countless comets, the fuzzy edge of our solar system is this cloud
nebular
500
The Bauhaus Archives & Museum of Design
Berlin