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This 1953 Arthur Miller play dramatizes the Salem witch trials as an allegory for McCarthyism.
What is The Crucible?
This 2014 Christopher Nolan film explored wormholes and time dilation.
What is Interstellar?
The iconic bassline in Queen's "Under Pressure" was famously interpolated without credit for this rapper's 1990 hip-hop hit.
This 1915 Franz Kafka novella features Gregor Samsa waking up as a giant insect.
What is The Metamorphosis?
This 1984 David Lynch film adapted Frank Herbert’s desert planet saga and was recently remade.
What is Dune?
During a 1994 taping of "MTV Unplugged," this grunge band's frontman tuned his guitar to an open chord and wrote the song "About a Girl" on the spot.
Who is Kurt Cobain?
This 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play was the first by an African American woman produced on Broadway.
What is a Raisin in the Sun?
This 1988 Japanese anime, most famous for its bike scene, by Katsuhiro Otomo depicted a dystopian Neo-Tokyo.
What is Akira?
At this 2009 award show, Kanye West infamously interrupted Taylor Swift's VMA acceptance speech for Best Female Video.
What is the VMA's?
This 1962 Anthony Burgess novel introduced the invented slang “Nadsat,” spoken by its ultraviolent teenage protagonist.
What is A Clockwork Orange?
This 1957 Sidney Lumet courtroom drama revolved around one juror’s doubt.
What is 12 Angry Men?
The soaring female vocal on "Titanium" by David Guetta was originally offered to Mary J. Blige, but the final version features this Australian singer, who was a former contestant on a TV talent show.
Who is Sia?
This 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus details the absurdity and questions the meaning of life.
What is The Myth of Sisyphus?
This 2001 Richard Kelly film starred Jake Gyllenhaal and a creepy rabbit named Frank.
What is Donnie Darko?
In "N.Y. State of Mind," Nas sets a scene with a literary reference: "I never sleep, 'cause sleep is the cousin of ___." This phrase is borrowed from a 1992 film.
What is Death?