Poe Money, Poe Problems
This famous Poe poem features a mysterious bird repeatedly saying “Nevermore.”
What is "The Raven"?
This Baroque composer wrote The Four Seasons.
Who is Antonio Vivaldi?
This Baltic country has a capital city named Riga.
What is Latvia?
This award is given annually for the best film of the year. This category used to have only 5 nominees, but now allows for 10.
What is Best Picture?
World War II officially began in 1939 when Germany invaded this country.
What is Poland?
Poe is often credited with inventing this literary genre, featuring characters like C. Auguste Dupin.
This multi-movement instrumental work was a major Baroque form and often featured a soloist contrasted with an ensemble.
What is a concerto?
This African country’s capital is Tripoli.
What is Libya?
This actor has won the most Oscars for acting, with four wins.
Who is Katherine Hepburn?
This December 7, 1941 attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This short story by Poe involves a narrator haunted by the sound of a beating heart beneath the floorboards.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
This keyboard instrument, common in Baroque music, is a predecessor to the modern piano.
What is the harpsichord?
This Southeast Asian country is the only landlocked nation in the region.
What is Laos?
This film, about a "child of deaf adults" pursuing music education, became the first streaming-service production to win Best Picture in 2022.
What is CODA?
This official code name for "D-Day" referred to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944.
What is Operation Overlord?
Poe died in 1849 after being found delirious in this city, wearing clothes that were not his own.
What is Baltimore?
This German composer of the Baroque era wrote Brandenburg Concertos.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
This European microstate is the only country that borders exactly two other countries: Belgium and Germany.
What is Luxembourg?
A modern thriller directed by Bong Joon Ho, this was the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
This conference brought together Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to discuss postwar Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Poe story is considered one of the earliest examples of psychological horror and features a feline named Pluto
What is "The Black Cat"?
This musical technique, heavily used in Baroque compositions, involves the imitation of a melody across voices.
What is counterpoint?
This southern African country starting with “L” is completely surrounded by South Africa.
What is Lesotho?
Three films hold the record for the most Academy Awards won, with 11. Buzz in and name any one of them.
What is Ben Hur OR Titanic OR LOTR: Return of the King?
This was the last major German offensive on the Western Front, launched in December 1944.
What is The Battle of the Bulge?