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The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The original book was published in 1900 in Chicago, Ill.
What is The Wizard of Oz
100
Written in 1968 by this famous British Male singing group, Harrison's 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps,' with a guitar solo by Harrison's pal Eric Clapton, rises above the chaos. What group made this song.
What is the Beatles
100
2014 American historical drama, it is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by James Bevel, Hosea Williams, Martin Luther King, Jr., and John Lewis.
What is Selma
100
Leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Holding the post of the General secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he was effectively the dictator of the state, known as the Man of Steel.
What is Josef Stalin
100
A high school student, wants a day off from school and he's developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father's prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city has to offer school principal Ed Rooney is convinced that Ferris is, not for the first time, playing hooky for the day and is hell bent to catch him out.
What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off
200
Protagonist Thomas is held in solitary confinement, but is eventually released by Assistant Director Janson, who tells the Gladers and Group B that there is a cure for the Flare (a deadly disease). Many of those present were immune to the Flare while some, including Newt, were not, and escaping would serve no purpose, for people in the outside world despise the Immunes.
What is The Death Cure
200
One of the most truly iconic R&B groups in music history. The group redefined popular R&B and continues to create timeless hits that appeal to fans across all generations. The trio holds the distinction of being the best-selling R&B group of all time, with an astounding 60 million albums sold. Past hits include: “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “One Sweet Day,” “Motownphilly” and many others.
What is Boyz II Men
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2013 period drama film, In 1841, Solomon Northup is a free African-American man working as a violinist, who lives with his wife, Anne Hampton, and two children, Margaret and Alonzo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him a two-week job as a musician if he will travel to Washington, D.C., with them. Once there, they drug Northup and deliver him to a slave pen owned by James Burch.
What is 12 Years a Slave
200
With 11 national titles, UCLA has the record for the most NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships; who coached UCLA to 10 of its 11 titles.
What is John Wooden
200
In Los Angeles, a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets, detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. He trains rookie Jake Hoyt over a 24-hour period. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
What is Training Day
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Novel by Harper Lee published in 1960, Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
What is To Kill A Mockingbird
300
Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner
What is Francis Scott Key
300
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
What is Zero Dark Thirty
300
A fictional professor, archaeologist, and adventurer - the main protagonist of the 1981 adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark. Notable for his trademark bullwhip, fedora, leather jacket, and fear of snakes.
What is Indiana Jones
300
What movie is this famous quote from..."My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
What is Gladiator
400
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of African-American women in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture. Celie, the protagonist and narrator, is a poor, uneducated, fourteen-year-old black girl living in the American South.
What is the Color Purple
400
One of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression, performed by Bing Crosby. In the song a beggar talks back to the system that stole his job, The song asks why the men who built the nation built the railroads, built the skyscrapers who fought in the war (World War I), who tilled the earth, who did what their nation asked of them should, now that the work is done and their labor no longer necessary, find themselves abandoned and in bread lines.
What is Brother, Can you Spare Me a Dime
400
Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.
What is American Sniper
400
Antonio Raimundo "Tony" Montana is a fictional character and the villain protagonist of the 1983 film Scarface. He is portrayed by...
What is Al Pacino
400
Minature green monsters tear through the small town of Kingston Falls. Hijinks ensue as a mild-mannered bank teller releases these hideous loonies after gaining a new pet and violating two of three simple rules: No water (violated), no food after midnight (violated), and no bright light. Hilarious mayhem and destruction in a town straight out of Norman Rockwell.
What is Gremlins
500
The unforgettable story of a child whose courage and unyielding determination enabled him to survive extreme life-threatening odds. As a child, Dave was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous games--games that left him Dave nearly dead. With only his willpower to survive, Dave learned how to play his Mother's sinister games in order to survive because she no longer considered Dave a son but a slave, and no longer a boy but an "It."
What is A Child Called It
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Song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States
What is Strange Fruit
500
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba.
What is Godfather
500
A naïve and slow-witted native of Alabama who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century, who had the famous quote, "Life is like a box of chocolates..."
What is Forrest Gump
500
Mikey Walsh and Brandon Walsh are brothers whose family is preparing to move because developers want to build a golf course in the place of their neighborhood -- unless enough money is raised to stop the construction of the golf course, and that's quite doubtful. But when Mikey stumbles upon a treasure map of the famed "One-Eyed" Willy's hidden fortune, Mikey, Brandon, and their friends Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, Andrea "Andy" Carmichael, Stefanie "Stef" Steinbrenner, and Richard "Data" Wang, set out on a quest to find the treasure in hopes of saving their neighborhood.
What is The Goonies