Musical Theatre
Film Firsts
NYC
Science Fiction
Classic Rock
100

Bright Star, the Bluegrass Musical by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin takes place in this state.

North Carolina

100

This animated film about a cat was the first Latvian film to win an Oscar.

Flow (your move, Estonia)

100

It's the tallest building in Manhattan

The Liberty Tower/One WTC

100

It's often considered the first sci-fi novel

Frankenstein

100

This singer and his regal band have a song about his desire to ride his biycle

Freddie Mercury (and Queen)

200

Fun Home is a Tony winning musical based on a graphic novel of the same name by this test-having author.

Alison Bechdel

200

Tick, Tick... Boom! was the film directorial debut for this theatre savant.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

200

Which of these isn't a real subway line

A, Z, 8, 7

8

200

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the short story that is the basis for this legendary sci-fi film

Blade Runner

200

Wings is the second band of this bug-themed bassist

Paul Mccartney

300

Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 is based off of 70 pages this Russian novel

War and Peace

300

It's the title of Celine Song's debut feature that was nominated for best picture in 2023.

Past Lives

300

It's the most populous of NYC's five boroughs

Brooklyn

300

This Cixin Liu novel was recently made into a super mid Netflix series

Three Body Problem

300

The second half of this Beatles album is referred to as The Long One by nerds.

Abbey Road

400

Burrows and Loesser famously wrote the music and lyrics for Guys and Dolls, but they won a Pulitzer prize for this long-titled musical.

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

400

It was the first movie to use synchronized dialogue sequences (not quite a talkie)

The Jazz Singer

400

It was the year NYC was founded

1624

400

The Aliens in Slaughterhouse-Five are from this planet

Tralfamadore

400

Heart famously covered this song at the Kennedy Center Honors for Led Zeppelin

Stairway to Heaven

500

Preludes is a musical about this Russian Composer's hypnosis therapy.

Rachmaninoff

500

Janet Planet was the debut feature from this Pulitzer winning playwright of The Flick.

Annie Baker

500

It's the only non-shuttle subway line that has both its terminuses in the same borough 

the M

500

The Mars series (Red, Blue and Green Mars) is speculative fiction by this author.

Kim Stanley Robinson

500

This Massachusetts City is also known as "The Granite City"

Quincy

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