Reel Knowledge
In the Tom Hanks film “Castaway”, what type of sports ball is Chuck Nolands companion, Wilson?
What is a volleyball?
“The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are works by which famous Gothic writer?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, went on to front which other famous rock band?
What is Foo Fighters?
Which French term that means “advanced guard” refers to novel, unusual, or experimental art?
What is avant-garde?
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, which two categories did she win?
What is Physics and Chemistry?
The nicknames, “Goose,” “Jester,” “Hollywood,” and “Wolfman,” are used for aviators in which 1986 film?
What is Top Gun?
Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?
What is The Shining?
Which Pink Floyd album features a prism on the cover?
What is Dark Side of the Moon?
Which Boston museum was the site of the infamous 1990 art heist in which thieves stole 13 works worth over $500 million dollars?
What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?
Which scientist’s contribution led to the discovery of the structure of DNA?
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
What is the sign-off quote that Ron Burgundy uses in the 2004 film, Anchorman?
What is "Stay Classy, San Diego"?
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?
Who are Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff?
What is the best-selling album of all time?
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
What fashion movement of the 1960s was heavily influenced by London street style and designers like Mary Quant?
What is Mod fashion?
Kimberle Crenshaw coined what term in 1989 that describes how aspects of identity, like race and gender, create overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage?
What is intersectionality?
In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle Woods wins her case by outing a perjuring witness. What hairstyle fills in the blank? “Isn’t the first cardinal rule of ____ maintenance that you’re forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours at the risk of deactivating the immonium thyglocolate?”
What is a perm?
What is the subtitle for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
What is The Modern Prometheus?
Who was the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Who is Aretha Franklin?
What is the term for the main female singer in an opera or an opera company?
What is the prima donna?
In A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women were not naturally inferior to men but appeared so only because of what major factor?
What is a lack of access to an equal education?
What hearing condition does Baby have in the film Baby Driver?
What is Tinnitus?
E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a fan fiction for which book series?
What is Twilight?
Jimi Hendrix only had one Top 40 hit song, which song was it?
What is All Along the Watchtower?
With over 10,000 performances, what is the longest-running Broadway musical?
What is The Phantom of the Opera?
Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. congress?
Who is Shirley Chisolm?