Love, Death, and (Giant) Robots
This 2013 film directed by Guillermo del Toro depicts battle bots called “Jaegers” defending the world from sub-aquatic monsters.
What is Pacific Rim?
His laconic prose in The Old Man and the Sea earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
His composition for organ, Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, became a staple of spooky movies.
Who is J. S. Bach?
This American astronaut and physicist became the third woman to fly in space in 1983
Who is Sally Ride?
The name of this multicolored gemstone comes from the Sanskrit word upala (उपल)
What is opal?
This 1979 anime TV series became hugely popular due to the sale of plastic model kits depicting the titular robots
What is Mobile Suit Gundam?
This former U.S. Poet Laureate is the only poet to have received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.
Who is Robert Frost?
One of Camille Saint-Saëns’ best known compositions, this suite of 14 movements includes pieces such as L’Éléphant, Aquarium, and Le Cygne.
What is Carnival of the Animals?
This astronomer and mathematician from Alexandria was murdered by a Christian mob in 415 AD
Who is Hypatia?
The Viennese version of this breaded meat dish is made with veal and served with potato salad
What is Schnitzel?
Protagonist Solid Snake must defend the world from a nuclear-armed mech in this 1998 title for the Playstation.
What is Metal Gear Solid?
Her speculative fiction work such as the Earthsea series won her eight Hugo Awards and six Nebulas.
Who is Ursula K. Le Guin?
This composer’s cycle of epic musical dramas, Der Ring des Nibelungen, takes 15 hours across four nights at the opera to complete.
Who is Richard Wagner?
She ruled the Russian Empire from 1762-1796 after overthrowing her husband Peter III
Who is Catherine the Great?
The name of this small wildcat is native to Africa is derived from the Portuguese word for lynx
What is a serval?
This 1995 anime TV series redefined the mecha genre with its mix of teen pilots, religious symbolism, and psychological depth.
What is Neon Genesis Evangelion?
In a first for the Nobels, he won the 2016 Literature prize “for having created new poetic expressions in the great American song tradition”
Who is Bob Dylan?
This composer of Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini fled to the US from Russia following the October Revolution in 1917.
Who is Sergei Rachmaninoff?
She was the sixth pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th Dynasty and oversaw the construction of monuments like the Karnak Temple Complex
Who is Hatshepsut?
This hormone is produced in the adrenal gland and helps regulate the body’s response to stress
What is cortisol?
The titular robot of this 1972 manga is constructed with a fictional metal called “Super-Alloy Z”.
What is Mazinger Z?
Toni Morrison won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for this haunting novel set in the aftermath of the American Civil War
What is Beloved?
This 1952 experimental piece by John Cage consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds of total silence.
What is 4'33"?
This Marxist theorist co-founded the Spartacus League in 1914 and advocated against German involvement in the First World War.
Who is Rosa Luxemberg?
Akbar the Great ruled this South Asian empire from 1556-1605
What is the Mughal Empire?