Authors
The English author of The Jungle Book (1894).
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was born in British India and became a major writer of the British imperial period.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - / I took the one less traveled by..." Name the poet.
Robert Frost
The lines come from The Road Not Taken (1915).
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This 1961 musical film retells Romeo and Juliet through rival gangs in New York City.
West Side Story
The Jets and Sharks transform Shakespeare's feud into a story about ethnicity, territory and belonging.
The 1776 document that announced the thirteen American colonies' separation from Britain.
The Declaration of Independence
Its language about equality and rights became central to U.S. political culture.
The American author who wrote The Tell-Tale Heart and helped develop detective fiction.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poe is a central figure in American Gothic literature.
"We are striving to form a union that is perfect" echoes the opening of which U.S. founding document?
The U.S. Constitution
Its preamble begins with 'We the People' and the aim of forming 'a more perfect Union.'
This British rock band released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.
The Beatles
The album became a landmark in popular music and studio experimentation.
The 1920s cultural movement centered in New York that included Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
The Harlem Renaissance
It was a major flourishing of African American literature, music, art and intellectual life.
This Irish writer wrote The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Oscar Wilde
Wilde is famous for social satire, aestheticism and epigrammatic wit.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..." Name the poem AND author.
The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
Published in 1845, the poem helped make Poe famous.
This British rock band released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.
The Beatles
The album became a landmark in popular music and studio experimentation.
The English philosopher who described life without common authority as 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.'
Thomas Hobbes
In Leviathan (1651), Hobbes argues that political authority is needed to escape violent insecurity.
This Nigerian novelist wrote Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958.
Chinua Achebe
The novel became a landmark of modern African literature in English and postcolonial writing.
"Four score and seven years ago..." Name the speaker AND speech.
Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address
Lincoln delivered the address in 1863 during the U.S. Civil War.
This British artist and poet created illuminated works such as The Ancient of Days and wrote Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
William Blake
Blake combined poetry and visual art and is central to British Romantic culture.
The 1947 event that created the independent states of India and Pakistan after British colonial rule.
The Partition of India
Partition produced mass migration, communal violence and long-lasting political consequences.
"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths... Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." Name the Irish poet.
W. B. Yeats
The poem is commonly known as He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.
The 1998 agreement that helped end most of the violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The Good Friday Agreement / Belfast Agreement
It created a power-sharing framework and was approved in referendums.