World History
Movie Quotes
Socrates, Plato, & Aristotle
Books and Authors
100

It took 12 years, 1847-1859, to find out what became of John Franklin, who died searching for this Arctic passage

The Northwest Passage


100

"I'd never given much thought to how I would die..."

tWIGHLOT
100

Most of Plato's works are in this form; Socrates is among the speakers in all but one

A dialogue

100

In 2015 she published "It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!"

Chelsea Clinton

200

The ancient world had 2 important cities named Thebes: one in Greece & one in this land

Egypt

200

"Yeah McLovin, how is it going with the ladies?"

Superbad

200

Aristotle explores how to live a happy & virtuous life in works called "Nicomachean" & "Eudemian" these

Ethics

200

At age 33 Mary Wollstonecraft published "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"; at 21 this daughter published a classic

Mary Shelley

300

This '50s & '60s Soviet leader who told the West "we will bury you" is himself buried at Novodevichy Cemetery

Khrushchev

300

"Maui was struck from the sky, never to be seen again. And his magical fishhook and the Heart of Te Fiti were lost to the sea."

Darcy's fav movie, Moana

300

Bill summarizes for Ted:
"Socrates: the only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know" this

Nothing

300

 an 1870s photo of this French author looking pretty miserable

Victor Hugo

400

This national liberation front came to power in Nicaragua in 1979 & is ruling once again

The Sandinistas
400
"Well what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today."

Groundhog Day

400

Aristotle wrote that for this genre, the plot must "imitate actions arousing fear and pity"

Tragedy

400

He followed up "Between the World and Me" with "We Were Eight Years in Power"

Ta-Nehisi Coates
500

Around 1310 Pope Clement V, moved the papacy from Italy to this French city & it stayed there for almost 70 years

Avignon

500
"Donny was a good bowler. And a good man."

The Big Lebowski

500

According to "The Republic", we live in this dark place where we only see the shadows of reality

The Cave

500

His crime: joining the Petrashevsky circle; his punishment: many months in prison in 1849, ending with a mock execution

Fyodor Dostoevsky