Jesus in the Movies
Flower Power
For the Beauty of the Earth
Shall I Compare Thee?
What's Up Doc?
100

Mel Gibson made this movie highlighting the most gruesome details of Good Friday

The Passion of the Christ

100
The Dutch are known for having festivals around this flower, who's bulbs were more valuable than gold in the 1600s in Amsterdam. 

Tulips

100

"Silent Spring" was a groundbreaking book written about the importance of lies of the chemical industry and what was at stake for all of us. Who wrote it?

Rachel Carson

100

"The Road Not Taken" is probably one of the most iconic poems in American literature. Who wrote it?

Robert Frost

100

Who is hopping up the bunny trail in this Thornton Burgess text?

Peter Cottontail

200

Ben-Hur interacts with the Life of Christ through the eyes of a rich Jewish merchant. Who played Judah Ben-Hur?

Charlton Heston

200

This rather grisly murder of Elizabeth Short in 1940s Los Angeles has this floral name.

The Black Dahlia Murder

200

What began as a celebration across over 2,000 college campuses in the United States in 1970, this is now the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated every April 22.

Earth Day

200

Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is the inspiration for the famous line "Stay Gold Ponyboy" used in this 1960s novel.

The Outsiders

200

Bambi has a loyal friend who is a sweet and hyper little rabbit named what?

Thumper

300

Graham Chapman can't run away from being mistaken for Jesus Christ, leading to him singing a rousing number of "Look on the Bright Side of Life" during his wrongful Crucifixion in this iconic British comedy.

Monty Python's Life of Brian 

300

Comedian John Mulaney married Anna Tendler, and inherited this adorable French Bulldog with the name of a common flower who also gives him some strange messages before his stand up special "The Comeback Kid"

Petunia

300

The Truffula Tree is made famous in this children's picture book that made environmentalism easy to grasp for younger audiences (and I am convinced radicalized my generation). 

The Lorax

300

He loved to write odes to the parts of the natural world that mesmerized him. "To Autumn..." is probably his most famous. Who is he?

John Keats

300

Beatrix Potter created this mischievous little bunny as he steals carrots from Mr. McGregor's garden.

Peter Rabbit

400

What's the Buzz? asks the people of Jerusalem as they hear of this strange Jesus character coming into town. What musical written by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice came to theaters in 1973 and gave Jesus and his disciples a few groovy musical numbers?

Jesus Christ Superstar

400

Dorothy can see the Emerald City in "The Wizard of Oz" but she she can't help but feel sleepy because of a field of these flowers.

Poppies

400

This lawyer who paved the way for environmental justice had a biopic made about her fight for justice starring Julia Roberts.

Erin Brockovich 

400

These two friends loved to write poems and essays about nature in the mid 19th century. One wrote "Walden" making a rather normal pond in Massachusetts infamous, and the other's essay "Self-Reliance" examines our relationship to nature. 

Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

400

Grace Slick belted out the trippy lyrics "Go ask Alice/I think she'll know" to this song on her album "Surrealistic Pillow" with her then band Jefferson Airplane.

White Rabbit

500

Charlton Heston, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer, and Max von Sydow star in this 1965 film that features an ensemble cast and a painfully long 4 hour and 20 minute runtime.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

500
"A Series of Unfortunate Events" centers around three orphaned children that are constantly running from Count Olaf. Their names are Klaus, Sunny, and what?

Violet

500

An old (and rather racist) ad from the Keep America Beautiful anti-littering campaign features what is now known as "The Crying Indian." Years later, the sequel to this Saturday Night Live inspired film starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey features a spoof of "The Crying Indian" in helping them prepare for Waynestock.

Wayne's World

500

She is a Palestinian American poet who writes heartbreaking poems about war and beautiful poems of nature, some of her most famous being "Catalogue Army" and "The Man Who Hated Trees." Her first name is also the name of Ruth's mother-in law

Naomi Shihab Nye

500

David Lynch is iconic for Twin Peaks and films such as Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, and Eraserhead, however, it's his 2002 horror miniseries, named after this furry animal, that could make for a creepy Easter viewing. 

Rabbits