Movies
This Orson Welles film is often called the greatest movie ever made.
Citizen Kane
This jazz saxophonist was nicknamed “Bird.”
Charlie Parke
Before becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill won a Nobel Prize — not for peace, but in this field.
Literature
He wrote The Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck
This desert, stretching across much of northern Africa, is the largest hot desert in the world.
Sahara
Greta Garbo starred as this tragic French queen in the 1938 film of the same name.
Marie Antoinette
This 1935 Duke Ellington hit, co-written with Billy Strayhorn, became one of the most famous jazz standards of all time.
Take the 'A' Train
This empire, ruled by Genghis Khan and his descendants, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Mongol Empire
This author created detective Sherlock Holmes.
Don Quixote was written by this Spanish author.
This country straddles both Europe and Asia and has its largest city split between two continents.
Turkey
Alfred Hitchcock’s only Best Picture winner was this 1940 gothic film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine.
Rebecca
This Broadway composer wrote Oklahoma! and The Sound of Music.
Rodgers and Hammerstein
This 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Don Quixote was written by this Spanish author.
Miguel de Cervantes
Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, is located in this country.
Russia
The 1927 silent film Wings featured this young actor, who would later become famous as the first “Tarzan” in sound films.
James Pierce
Before becoming famous for musicals, this composer wrote ballet music including Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.
Aaron Copland
She was the longest-reigning British monarch until Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015.
Queen Victoria
Emily Brontë wrote this novel about Heathcliff and Catherine.
Wuthering Heights
This landlocked African nation was formerly known as Abyssinia.
Ethiopia
The 1950 film Sunset Boulevard opens with the narrator doing this unusual thing.
(What is narrating from beyond the grave / after his death?)
This pioneering blues musician’s 1927 song Cross Road Blues fueled myths that he sold his soul to the devil for his talent.
Robert Johnson
This 1945 conference, attended by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, helped shape the post–World War II order.
Yalta Conference
This 1922 novel by James Joyce is considered one of the most challenging books ever written.
Ulysses
The line of latitude at approximately 23.5° south is known as this.
the Tropic of Capricorn