Literary Legends
This author of Pride and Prejudice wrote under the pseudonym "A Lady."
Who is Jane Austen?
This 1941 film, directed by Orson Welles, is often called the greatest movie of all time.
What is Citizen Kane?
This planet in our solar system rotates on its side compared to the others.
What is Uranus?
The Treaty of Versailles officially ended this war.
What is World War I?
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This American author wrote The Sound and the Fury.
Who is William Faulkner?
This Alfred Hitchcock thriller features the infamous shower scene.
What is Psycho?
This is the phenomenon by which light bends as it passes around a massive object in space.
What is gravitational lensing?
This empire, founded by Genghis Khan, became the largest contiguous land empire in history.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The epic poem Paradise Lost was written by this blind poet.
Who is John Milton?
This 1968 science fiction film directed by Stanley Kubrick is subtitled A Space Odyssey.
What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?
DNA stands for?
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
The Meiji Restoration in the late 19th century transformed this country into a modern industrial power.
What is Japan?
This convention, held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, marked the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This Russian author penned the novel Crime and Punishment.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This 1959 movie, starring Charlton Heston, won 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
What is Ben-Hur?
What planets literally rain diamonds?
What are Saturn and Jupiter
is famous conqueror was tutored by Aristotle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This law, signed in 1862, provided settlers with 160 acres of public land in exchange for a small fee and five years of continuous residence.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Divine Comedy is an Italian epic poem divided into these three parts.
What are Inferno, Purgatorio*, and Paradiso*?*
This 1942 romantic drama features the line, “Here’s looking at you, kid.”
What is Casablanca?
This type of chemical bond occurs when atoms share electron pairs.
What is a covalent bond?
The Black Death pandemic originated in this region of the world before spreading to Europe.
What is Central Asia?
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?