Literature
Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel
To Kill A Mockingbird
In 1915 Thomas Lyle Williams began selling mascara under this brand name that honored his sister.
Maybelline
The 7th president of the United States and the founder of the Democratic party, invented/used the spoil system, passed the Indian Removal Act even thought the Supreme Court was against it
Andrew Jackson
What musical features the song “If I Were a Rich Man”?
Fiddler on the Roof
Won Best Picture in 1943
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco
Casablanca
This character says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye"
Holden Caufield
Let's see...I need some gas, a patio set and 27 boxes of cereal at this retailer whose roots trace back to 1976.
Costco
Illinois lawyer that won the election of 1860, becoming the first republican president
Abraham Lincoln
What is the longest-running musical in Broadway history?
Phantom of the Opera
Won Best Picture in 1951
the romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl, and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of World War II
An American in Paris
Part one of Les Miserables is "Fantine"; part two is named for this daughter of hers
Cosette
Failing to live up to its name, this largest video rental chain filed for bankruptcy in 2010.
Blockbuster
The 15 million dollar land deal between France and America, that almost doubled the size of America
LouisianaPurchase
What famous Broadway musical features the songs “Dancing Queen,” “Honey, Honey,” and “Chiquitita”?
Mamma Mia!
Won Best Picture in 1964
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society
My Fair Lady
He's the only human in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" stories
Christopher
During WWI the U.S. government confiscated the assets of this German aspirin company and sold off the name.
Bayer
The theater where President Lincoln was watching My American Cousin when John W Booth shot him.
Ford's theater
Why is Jean Valjean imprisoned in Les Misérables?
Stealing a Loaf of Bread
Won Best Picture in 1975
focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than at a prison work farm
One Flew Over The Cookoos Nest
The narrator of this Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute"
Tell-Tale Heart
In 1917 the son of an Illinois bookseller joined with a New York store and started this company.
Barnes and Noble
City that held the Constitutional Convention and was the first nation capital till 1800
Philadelphia
Where are the Sharks from in West Side Story?
Puerto Rico
Won Best Picture in 1994
a childlike man who unknowingly takes part in some of the most significant moments in modern American history, sometimes becoming an accidental hero
Forrest Gump