U.S. History (easy)
U.S. History (for sickos)
Film (easy)
Film (for sickos)
Before and After
100
This woman urged her husband to "remember the ladies" and claimed "all men would be tyrants if they could" in letters she wrote to him while he was participating in the Continental Congress
Who is Abigail Adams?
100
This woman, who developed Arthurdale, WV, had a column called "My Day," and led the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all while mending her husband's polio diagnosis
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
This director's signature double dolly shot, which gives the effect of a character floating, debuted in Mo' Better Blues, but was more famously utilized in his film Malcolm X
Who is Spike Lee?
100
Alan Menken is the single name most associated with this specific era, wherein the namesake company experienced a resurgence in popular and critical appeal in the 1980s and 90s
What is the Disney Renaissance?
100
This 1995 film, an adaptation of The Sheep-Pig, cast James Cromwell as the farmer Arthur Hoggett, rather than this Civil War-era president whose 6'4" frame mimics that of Cromwell
What is Baberaham Lincoln?
200
This war of the 1990s saw the defeat of the forces of Saddam Hussein, the "Highway of Death" campaign, and the false testimony of Nurse Nayirah
What is the Gulf War? (accept: Desert Storm, Desert Shield, First Iraq War)
200
This American established a Brazilian city to collect the raw materials he sought to secure for his Dearborn-based company
Who is Henry Ford?
200
This country is the setting of a 2017 film about a teenage girl who rescues a super-pig and befriends the Animal Liberation Front
What is South Korea? (the film is Okja)
200
A director from this country utilized an overhead shot to show a detective reaching the top of a mansion's staircase, then surreally depicted him falling down those stairs, in a 1960 film whose architecture was inspired by Edward Hopper's "House by the Railroad"
What is the United Kingdom? (The director is Alfred Hitchcock)
200
This conflict, incited by the explosion of the USS Maine, featured massive "tripods" from outer space that were vulnerable to Earth's microbes
What is the Spanish-American War of the Worlds?
300
This man, who presided over the court case Chisholm v. Georgia, wrote a few Federalist Papers prior to being the first Supreme Court Chief Justice
Who is John Jay?
300
The quote "war is hell" is attributed to this man, whose namesake neckties were used to destroy railways in a famous 1864 scorched earth campaign in the Peach State
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
Neorealism, a movement most prominent in this country, is exemplified by a film where a father and son seek to find the thieves of their bicycle in its capital city
What is Italy? (the film is Bicycle Thieves)
300
Split-second flashes of a make-up test for its lead actress feature in this film that dominated the box office in 1973, in spite of the fact ambulances were routinely stationed outside of movie theaters to assist fainting patrons
What is The Exorcist?
300
This oration, which ends by repeating "free at last," didn't feature any of these experimental scenes found in Vertigo or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
What is "I Have a Dream Sequence"?
400
Sallie Gardner, one of these animals, belonged to railroad magnate Leland Stanford, and was captured by Eadward Muybridge using chronophotography
What is a horse?
400
This organization, which was created in 1792, started heavily censoring material following the Comstock Law, was made into a corporation under Nixon, was formerly led by Benjamin Franklin, and features a mascot named Mr. Zip
What is the U.S. Postal Service? (accept USPS)
400
The song "Daisy Bell" is sung by a character in this film who murders several members of a crew in a particularly quiet scene; that character had previously read the lips of two characters scheming to turn him off
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
400
Club Silencio is one setting in this surrealist masterpiece, where a character faints after encountering a nightmare incarnate behind Winkie's Diner; this film is the highest film in the Sight & Sound poll for a director who passed away in Jan. 2025
What is Mulholland Dr.?
400
This type of commodity, product, or service, like radio, clean air, and street lights, are commonly found in this 1990 Scorsese film where all his life, the main character wanted to be a gangster
What is Public Goodfellas?
500
Assassinated in 1935 by Carl Weiss, this Louisiana "Kingfish" campaigned through the "Share Our Wealth" plan, which sought to limit annual income
Who is Huey Long?
500
Gallaudet University educates these people, some of whom oppose "oralism" in education; a protest at that university in 1988 sought to oust Elisabeth Zinser, who is not one of these people, as part of the DPN movement
Who are deaf people?
500
This director used footage from an erupting Mount Etna in one of his films that were inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress; he chose James Earl Jones to voice a character whose most famous line is often misquoted
Who is George Lucas?
500
A Francis Bacon painting was inspired by a weeping nurse in this film, whose scene of a baby carriage tottering down the Odessa Steps was parodied in Terry Gilliam's film Brazil
What is Battleship Potemkin?
500
This idealist author wrote about a war between red and black ants while evading his taxes, though his transcendentalist ideas aren't as prevalent in this 2017 Anya Taylor-Joy and Olivia Cooke film about former horse girls who scheme to kill one of their stepfathers
What is Henry David Thoroughbreds?