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An American novel starring a man who says ‘old sport’ way too often, and is really not that great overall.
The Great Gatsby
Name all four KCL campuses.
Guy's, Waterloo, Strand, Denmark Hill
Which writer was famously born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564?
William Shakespeare
Which two movies, upon being simultaneously released in 2023, caused much interest on the internet due to their contrasting aesthetics and content?
Barbie and Oppenheimer
What is the name of the piece that famously consists only of silence?
4'33"
A certain play that must not be directly named in theatres.
Macbeth
Which year was the university officially founded in?
1829
Which Romantic author and playwright was tried and jailed for homosexuality in 1895?
Oscar Wilde
What A24 film was released in 2022 and won Best Picture at the Academy Awards?
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Which Taylor Swift song references Romeo and Juliet throughout?
Love Story
A French novella featuring a rose, a fox and Asteroid B612.
Which British author and KCL alumnus lends their name to the (mostly) Arts & Humanities building on Kingsway?
Virginia Woolf
Which Ancient Greek poet was famously referred to as ‘the tenth Muse’?
Sappho
Which poet does Keating have a portrait of in the movie Dead Poets Society?
Walt Whitman
Who were the first K-pop girl group and boy group respectively to perform at Coachella? Bonus points if you can name the year.
BLACKPINK in 2019, ATEEZ in 2024
A 1719 novel most likely inspired by the lives of castaways who survived for years on desert islands.
Robinson Crusoe
Which part of the Strand campus previously served as the BBC Headquarters?
Bush House
In which city is the Villa Diodati, where Mary Shelley first wrote Frankenstein in 1816, located?
Geneva
What is the famously devastating Japanese animated film focusing on two war orphans at the close of the Pacific War in 1945?
Which French composer composed Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre?
Camille Saint-Saëns
Toni Morrison’s first and only short story.
Where is the unofficial secret fifth KCL campus located?
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
Who wrote the sonnet currently mounted on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
Emma Lazarus
Fill in the blanks in this famous monologue by Amy March from Little Women (2019).
"Well. I'm ___ _ ____, I'm a woman. And as a woman, I have no way to make money, not enough to ____ _ ______ ___ _______ __ ______. And even if I had my own money, which I don't, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. if we had children they would belong to him, not me. They would be ___ ________. So don't sit there and tell me that ________ ____ __ ________ ___________ _______ __ __.”
"Well. I'm not a poet, I'm a woman. And as a woman, I have no way to make money, not enough to earn a living and support my family. And even if I had my own money, which I don't, it would belong to my husband the minute we were married. if we had children they would belong to him, not me. They would be his property. So don't sit there and tell me that marriage isn't an economic proposition because it is.”
How many songs are there in Hamilton?
46