Literature
Which British author became world-wide famous after publishing the adventures of a young sorcerer in 1997?
J.K. Rowling (still good books, but author = cancelled)
Who is the director of « 2001 A Space Odyssey » and « The Shining » ?
Stanley Kubrick
Name a famous street artist.
Banksy, JR ...
Why was Rosa Parks was a central figure in the Civil -Rights Movement?
In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white man in a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and sparked a year-long bus boycott. Dr Martin Luther King, Jr led the Montgomery black community to victory.
What word corresponds to an expression, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object ?
ex: "The mind is an ocean“ "the city is a jungle“
Who is Frankenstein?
A doctor who created a monster using human body parts.
This book written by Margaret Atwood in 1985 was turned into a famous TV series by Bruce Miller in 2017. What is the title both of the book and the TV series ?
The handmaid’s Tale
Who created works of art with Marilyn Monroe's face replicated?
Andy Warhol
Name as many Commonwealth countries* as you can.
* former territories of the British Empire
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New-Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica, Botswana, Malta, Cyprus, Trinidad and Tobago, Namibia, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brunei, Bahamas, Rwanda, Malawi.
What do you call a phrase that uses a parallel grammar structure to emphasize important differences between opposing ideas, things or people?
ex: "No pain, no gain."
Antithesis
What famous detective was created by Agatha Christie?
Hercule Poirot
Tim Burton is an American filmmaker. He is known for pioneering goth culture in the American film industry and is revered for his fantasy, horror and romantic films. Name as many of his films as you can.
Beetlejuice (1988), Edward Scissorhands (1990), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Dark Shadows (2012) + TV series Wednesday (2022). + the superhero films Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), the sci-fi film Planet of the Apes (2001), the fantasy-drama Big Fish (2003), the musical adventure film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), and the fantasy films Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Dumbo (2019), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Name two museums in London.
The British Museum, The Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Gallery
What do they celebrate on July 4th in the United States?
The Declaration of Independence
What is the stylistic device when the author gives human characteristics to an object, an animal or a concept?
Personification
List as many Shakespeare plays as possible.
"Henry VI "Richard III" "The Comedy of Errors" "Titus Andronicus" "The Taming of the Shrew" "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"
"Love’s Labour’s Lost" "Romeo and Juliet" "Richard II"
"A Midsummer Night’s Dream" "King John" "The Merchant of Venice"
"Henry IV "Much Ado About Nothing" "Henry V"
"Julius Caesar" "As You Like It" "Twelfth Night" "Hamlet"
"The Merry Wives of Windsor" "Troilus and Cressida"
"All’s Well That Ends Well" "Measure for Measure" "Othello"
"King Lear" "Macbeth" "Antony and Cleopatra" "Coriolanus"
"Timon of Athens" "Pericles" "Cymbeline" "The Winter’s Tale" "The Tempest" "Henry VIII" "The Two Noble Kinsmen"
What musical inspired by Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and set in the mid-1950s in New York City (then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood) explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs?
West Side Story
The dove
England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
BANG, the little drummer takes a solo, reaching his young hands all over traps and kettles and cymbals and foot-peddle BOOM in a fantastic crash of sound-12 years old- what will happen? ( Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels, 1965)
What do you call the act of creating or using words that include sounds that are similar to the noises the words refer to ?
An onomatopoeia /ˌɒn.əˌmæt.əˈpiː.ə/
He was born in 1812 and he died in 1870. A British writer and social critic, he portrayed the Victorian society and underclass. He is considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Who is he?
He is Charles DICKENS
Who made the films "Pscyho" and "The birds"?
Alfred Hitchcock
Which artist is at the center of the "abstract expressionist" movement?
Jackson Pollock
Name as many U.S. states as you can.
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
What do you call the following stylistic device?
« I wasn’t unhappy to see you »
It’s litotes /laɪˈtəʊtiːz/
Use of a negative statement in order to emphasize a positive meaning or to create an understatement
"a not inconsiderable amount of money (= a considerable amount of money)"