Brit Lit
This renowned Agatha Christie mystery novel was recently remade into a movie, though its reviews were certainly more mixed than the original novel.
What is Murder on the Orient Express?
In 1994, Arafat, Rabin, and Peres were all awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work towards peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict and their key participation in these agreements.
What are the Oslo Accords?
Walter Hartwell White famously stars in this crime TV series that received great praise from critics and provided great enthusiasm for memers.
What is Breaking Bad?
Bass Reeves, the first African-American U.S. deputy marshal, is notable for being this, meaning to be able to use both hands with equal skill.
What is ambidextrous?
This 14th-century poet created the wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales, and was key in putting Middle English on the literary scene in England.
Who was Chaucer?
Ernest Hemingway, the adventure-loving author and creator of the iceberg theory, was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in literature for this novel about a geriatric Cuban fisherman.
What is The Old Man and the Sea?
A black & white newsreel in this 1941 film begins: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree".
What is Citizen Kane?
This capital on the island of Hispaniola was first called l'Hopital, and suffered a major earthquake about a decade ago.
What is Port-au-Prince?
This poem by T.S. Eliot was notable for being an important modernist work, with a name that makes you think of a garbage location.
What is The Waste Land?
This Chicago school economist won the Nobel Prize in 1976, and is notable for his support of free-market principles and advisory of Reagan and Thatcher.
Who is Milton Friedman?
Who is Mario Puzo?
This adjective can refer to something complex or requiring keen engagement, like a specific maze from Greek mythology that found the Minotaur.
What is labyrinthine?
This Brontë sister wrote Wuthering Heights, writing under the male pen name of Ellis Bell. However, it certainly wasn't as well-received back then as it is now.
Who is Charlotte (Brontë)?
Ernest Rutherford discovered that radioactive particles have these properties, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1908.
What are half-lives?
What is Ben-Hur?
This European-originated intellectual early-to-mid 19th century movement focused on emotion in its views of beauty, with followers known as these.
What are Romanticists?
Virginia Woolf is notable for writing this satirical novel on English literature, which was inspired by the turbulent genealogical past of one of her close friends.
What is Orlando?
This British author who grew up in modern-day South Africa won the Nobel Prize for "her epicis[m] of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny."
Who is Doris Lessing?
This still-running sitcom produced by Larry David in 2000 is notable not only for its memes, but for its critical acclaim and fictionalized version of David himself.
What is Curb Your Enthusiasm?
This word describes substances that are impure due to the input of toxins or poisons into the original substance, which can be very dangerous in the real world.
What is contaminated?