Where There's a Wall There's a Way
This famous wall, erected in 1961, divided East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Early in Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, Macbeth's hallucination of this bloody weapon hovering before his eyes provides the final push he needs to murder the sitting King Duncan.
What is a dagger?
One of the best-selling horror authors of all time, Stephen King created this Maine town as the county seat and backdrop of his fictional universe.
What is Derry?
This famous author of the coming of age Tulsa Oklahoma gang book "The Outsiders" changed her first name from Susan Hinton to this set of initials.
What is S.E.?
Signed in 1776, this document declared the thirteen American colonies independent from British rule.
What is "The Declaration of Independence"?
The wall of coral that is known as The Great Barrier Reef is located off the coast of this country.
What is Australia?
In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony's famous speech asks "Friends, Romans, and Countrymen" to lend him these sensory organs.
What are ears?
Based on Harper Lee's real life hometown of Monroeville Alabama, this fictional town became the setting of her famous novel "To Kill a Mockingbird".
What is Maycomb?
Garnering a total number of works sold of 2 billion copies, rivaled only by Agatha Christie, the writings of this playwright have been in print for over 400 years.
Who is William Shakespeare?
According to popular tradition, this famous Abraham Lincoln speech was hastily written on the back of an envelope.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
One of the last remaining 7 wonders of the ancient world, this wall is also the longest man-made structure in the world, with a total length of about 13,171 miles.
What is "The Great Wall of China"?
In this famous speech from Hamlet, the protagonist asks "To be or not to be" in contemplation of this sensitive topic.
What is suicide?
The title character of Suzanne Collin's Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, hails from District 13 in this post-apocalyptic global nation state.
What is Panem?
Considered the first "Billion Dollar Author" by Forbes magazine, this writer has amassed a whopping $7.7 billion dollars in revenue from book sales alone.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
Delivered in 1963 during the March on Washington, this speech became a rallying cry for civil rights.
What is MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech?
A former defensive fortification of the Roman province of Britannia, this wall was begun in AD 122 in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian.
What is Hadrian's Wall?
In Shakespeare's famously nihilistic "Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow" speech, Macbeth compares a man's life to "a poor ____________ that struts and frets his hour upon the stage".
What is "player"?
H.P. Lovecraft created several fictional towns, including Arkham, Kingsport, and Innsmouth, said to be located with this rebranded version of New England named for the author.
What is Lovecraft Country?
This best-selling mystery novelist has sold over 2 billion books.
Who is Agatha Christie?
Issued on January 1, 1863, this proclamation declared that all slaves in Confederate states were to be set free.
What is "The Emancipation Proclamation"?
This sacred site in Jerusalem, known commonly as "The Wailing Wall," is also referred to as this, a reference to its far Western position in the temple.
What is "The Western Wall"?
In Henry V, this speech is delivered before the Battle of Agincourt and begins with, "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."
What is Henry V's St. Crispin Day Speech?
This fictional southern county is the setting for all the works of William Faulkner and based on his real-life Mississippi home.
What is Yoknaphathawpha?
This author of famed prison chronicles "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile" sells an average of 400 million copies a year; roughly half the total number of books sold worldwide.
Who is Stephen King?
This document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English monarchy and is considered one of the cornerstones of modern constitutional law.
What is the Magna Carta?