Famous Authors and Their Works
During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”
Zora Neale Hurston
This film series starred Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint.
What is Harry Potter?
This composer of the Queen of the Night aria the Marriage of Fiagro was just 5 years old when he started writing music.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
In 1928, she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airplane.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
The word sesquipedalian means...
what is "having many syllables"
The Sherlock Holmes series was written by what author in the 1800s?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This movie and book series follows a girl who wants to be a vampire. Her best friend is a werewolf who does not want her to become a vampire but to stay with him as a human.
What is Twilight?
What band sang the song 'Enter Sandman'?
What is Metallica?
He was the 26th President of the United States
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
The word abalienation means...
the act of transferring a legal title.
These three sisters published their novels under the names Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.
Who are Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte?
This character was raised by gorillas after his family was killed by a leopard. He grows up and later meets a girl from England named Jane.
Who is Tarzan?
Who is Bob Dylan?
This African-American woman worked with Abraham Lincoln to raise money for African-American soldiers and help end slavery. Her real name was Isabella Van Wagenen.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The word hyperaeolism means...
A hypercorrection or incorrect substitution of non-Aeolic Ancient Greek word forms and morphology to match those of Aeolic Greek.
In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff is hopelessly in love with this woman.
Who is Cathy Earnshaw?
This actor played the title character and protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise
Who is Harrison Ford?
Who is Michael Jackson?
This person led the case for Brown vs. Board of Education and ended segregation in public schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
The word intempestive means...
untimely, happening at an inappropriate moment
Robert Heinlein, who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, is known as a pioneer in this literary genre.
What is science fiction?
In this film, a former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
What is "Gladiator?"
This band wrote and recorded the chart-topper "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Who is "Queen?"
In 1860 she opened the first school for nurses, and she provided care for soldiers during the Crimean War. Her nickname was "the lady with the lamp"
Who is Florence Nightengale?
A narcokleptocracy is...
A society in which criminals involved in the trade of narcotics have undue influence in the governance of a state.