Street art
The artist whose “OBEY” pieces inspired Thierry Guetta’s nickname (Mr. Brainwash).
Who is Shepard Fairey?
According to the Egyptian King Thamus, this technology gives humans “the reputation, not the reality, of wisdom.”
What is writing?
An accomplished golfer, she grew up with Daisy in Louisville.
Who is Jordan Baker?
Janie Crawford’s first husband—chosen for her by her grandmother.
Who is Logan Killicks?
The missing word in this quatrain:
Because I could not stop for _____ –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
What is “Death”?
The name of Thierry’s L.A. art show.
What is Life is Beautiful?
In the cave allegory, this is all that the chained prisoners can see of the world they live in.
What are shadows of puppets projected onto the cave wall?
Jay Gatsby’s name before he rows out to Dan Cody’s boat on Lake Superior.
What is James Gatz?
According to the narrator, this is where Janie’s “conscious life” begins.
What is under the pear tree?
The five-letter answer to the crossword puzzle hint, “A narrow fellow in the grass.”
What is “snake”?
The director of Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Who is Banksy?
This ring confers invisibility on whoever wears it (as long as the signet is pointed a certain way).
What is the ring of Gyges?
The Long Island peninsula where Nick and Gatsby live in the summer of 1922.
What is West Egg?
The first four words of the novel.
What are “Ships at a distance”?
The missing two words in this quatrain:
I died for Beauty - but was scarce
Adjusted in ___ ____
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room -
What is “the Tomb”?
The French street artist who is Thierry Guetta’s cousin.
Who is Invader?
Glaucon and Adeimantus.
Who were Plato’s brothers?
—or—
Who are Socrates’ interlocutors in the Republic?
Myrtle Wilson’s husband’s first name.
What is George?
What Janie wears to Tea Cake’s funeral.
What are overalls?
The popular meter Dickinson commonly wrote in (for example, in “I felt a funeral in my brain”), consisting of odd-numbered lines of tetrameter and even-numbered lines of trimeter.
What is hymn meter?
—or—
What is ballad meter?
The title of the MBW painting that shows Elvis Presley holding a Fisher Price toy gun instead of a guitar.
What is Don’t Be Cruel?
The three kinds of chair, according to Plato’s theory of forms, arranged in order of least to most importance to the philosopher.
What are a representation of a chair, an actual chair, and the idea of a chair (or an ideal chair)?
According to Nick Carraway, this is “the truth” about what Jay Gatsby sprang from.
What is Gatsby’s “own Platonic conception of himself”?
The large freshwater lake in southern Florida that broke its banks and flooded the surrounding region during a deadly 1928 hurricane.
What is Lake Okeechobee?
The missing three words in this quatrain:
When it comes, the Landscape listens -
Shadows - ____ _____ ______ -
When it goes, 'tis like the Distance
On the look of Death.
What is "hold their breath"?