Plot Detective
The narrator of The Great Gatsby.
"Excessive consumption and dependency on alcohol" / Fitzgerald was know to have this.
What is alcoholism?
The "musical" name for this period of time from 1920-1930, marked by economic prosperity. Great Gatsby is intertwined with the culture of this period.
What is the "Jazz Age"?
The highest mountain in France. Perhaps Gatsby had a chance to see it after his deployment.
What is Mont Blanc?
The U.S. Amendment that created a black-market economy that was the "actual" source of Gatsby's wealth in the novel, The Great Gatsby.
What is the 18th Amendment (Prohibition)?
Gatsby's real birth name.
What is James Gatz?
Mentor and close friend turned literary rival of Fitzgerald.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This dance form was popular in the 1920s and was explicitly referenced at Gatsby's parties.
What is the foxtrot?
The Mediterranean Sea borders these three countries between Morocco and Egypt. Gatsby spent plenty time in the Mediterranean on Dan Cody's yatch, but did not mention visiting any of these countries.
What is Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya?
It could be someone employed by the Dutch East India Company as early as 1623.
What is a bond salesman?
The specific crime that Meyer Wolfsheim takes responsibility for fixing.
What is the 1919 World Series?
Fitzgerald's wife and the inspiration for Daisy.
Who is Zelda Fitzgerald.
The first instrument that Nick Carraway mentions when describing the lavish scale of music at Gatsby's party. "It was no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of..."
What are oboes?
Bemidji is a city in this US State, the State which Nick Carraway came from before moving to New York in The Great Gatsby.
What is Minnesota?
This Rolls-Royce automobile model replaced the Silver Ghost, which was speculated to have been Gatsby's car in the novel, as Roll-Royce's primary luxury car in 1925, and still exists today.
What is the Rolls-Royce Phantom?
The medal that Gatsby shows Nick as proof of his wartime heroism.
What is the medal of Montenegro?
The novel that launched Fitzgerald's career.
What is "This Side of Paradise"?
This American Jazz pianist and composer is most famous for his song, "Take the A Train", composed in 1939, well after the events of the Great Gatsby.
Who is Duke Ellington?
The capital city of the country in which Gatsby claims to have provided him a medal of valor.
What is Podgorica, Montenegro?
What is the Battle of Verdun?
The book that Tom Buchanan is reading when Nick first visits the Buchanans for dinner.
What is "The Rise of the Colored Empires"?
Fitzgerald dropped out of this Ivy League school to join the US Army in WW1.
What is Princeton University?
This modern day music superstar has both a jazz album and has publicly performed with a "piano accordion" on stage.
Who is Lady Gaga?
The underground glacial feature that runs beneath Manhattan, influencing its bedrock and skyscraper construction.
What is the Manhattan Schist?
Who is Arnold Rothstein?