AUGUST 14ths
1945--This famous comedian and wild and crazy guy was born.
Who is Steve Martin?
This legendary queen will be the focus of Margot's next independent study.
Who is Dido?
In August 1966, when Margot's dad was 14 years old, he saw this band live in Memphis on the American leg of what would be their final tour.
Who are the Beatles?
This jangly indie rock band is the high school favorite of both Margot Story and Ben Rutter.
Who are The Sundays?
This morally changeable witch and computer genius is Margot's favorite character in the 1997 series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Who is Willow Rosenberg?
1040--This scottish King was slain by his rival Macbeth in a battle that Shakespeare would later immortalize.
Who was Duncan I?
These four other people share Margot's birthday of August 14th. (100 points per person correct)
Who are Casper Levitt, Adriana Villegas, Max Sobel, and Ben Rutter?
Margot's parents hail from these two drastically different states in drastically different parts of the United States.
What are Maine and Mississippi?
This sci-fi classic is Margot's favorite film, or so she claims........
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
In Latin, the word manuum is plural, genitive, and of this gender
What is feminine?
1947--This South Asian country known for its Mughal architecture and passion for cricket gained its independence from the British empire.
What is Pakistan?
This subconsciously-plagiarized semi-religious 1970 hit by George Harrison is Margot's favorite post-Beatles Beatle song.
What is "My Sweet Lord"?
This sleepy town in northwest Connecticut is where Margot's elusive older sister Stella, whether she is taking care of rats or packing cucumbers, spends her days.
What is West Cornwall?
Margot's poetry collection "Short Talks" are based off the 1992 collection of the same name by this Canadian author.
Who is Anne Carson?
Korea's King Sejong created this completely phonetic alphabet in 1443 to improve literacy rates. Margot began learning it in sixth grade.
What is hangul?
1935---Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law this "patriotic" act which would cement a major American system of economic benefit which has remained relatively unchanged.
This up-and-coming Brooklyn dancer, actor, and Saint Ann's student was the first person to capture Margot's heart, becoming engaged to her at the young age of five.
Who is Tanner Quirk?
Margot fervently dreamed of having this profession for the entirety of her childhood, and was shaken with grief when she realized it was unattainable due to this undeniable fact. (two part question)
What is being an astronaut---and having horrible eyesight?
This 1997 6-and-a-half minute progressive rock song off Ok Computer is credited with introducing Margot to Radiohead, one of her favorite bands.
What is "Paranoid Android"?
Ann, yam, egg, plain, plant, bland...
Her?
2007--These car bombings in the Iraq war killed nearly 800 people and are the third deadliest act of terrorism in world history. (Also Margot was born.)
What were the Kahtaniyah bombings?
This blonde Jewish-American keyboardist and vocalist is Margot's favorite Beatles photographer---and was known for her line of vegetarian recipes and meal kits.
Who was Linda McCartney?
When she was three years old, Margot was sent to the ER after trying and failing to host a tea party by herself with not tea, but this substance.
What is children's liquid Tylenol?
This Spanish word meaning hoary or greyish is Margot's favorite.
What is grisáceo?
In Margot's IMR research, she outlines this mid 20th-century philosopher's two dogmas of empiricism: that of the analytic/synthetic truth distinction and of Western reductionism.
Who is W. V. O. Quine?