Show:
Name the Work
HBO
The Tales of Dustin Hoffman
Ancient Rome
Leftovers
100
Cervantes: "At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember"
What is Don Quixote?
100
Larry David (playing a version of himself) gets into uncomfortably funny situations on this show
What is Curb Your Enthusiasm?
100
Both Hoffman & Streep won Oscars as the title duo in this film
What is Kramer vs. Kramer?
100
Rome captured this largest Mediterranean island in the First Punic War & made it the first Roman province
What is Sicily?
100
His remains lie in the main entrance of the original Smithsonian building
Who is James Smithson?
200
Verne: "Certainly an Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was a Londoner"
What is Around the World in Eighty Days?
200
Bill Paxton juggles 3 wives & 7 kids on this series
What is Big Love?
200
Dustin says, "I was a better man with you, as a woman... than I ever was with a woman, as a man" in this 1982 film
What is Tootsie?
200
King Ancus Marcius is said to have built the Sublician Bridge, the first bridge across this river, in the 7th c. B.C.
What is the Tiber?
200
Jakob Roggeveen discovered this South Pacific island 2 days after Good Friday, 1722
What is Easter Island?
300
Melville: "Captain Vere was an exceptional character"
What is Billy Budd?
300
The Eulogy is the official newsletter of this dearly departed HBO series
What is Six Feet Under?
300
Dustin spent more than a weekend as Bernie in this 2004 Stiller & De Niro sequel
What is Meet the Fockers?
300
In 27 B.C. Octavian became the first Roman emperor & took this name that means "exalted"
What is Augustus?
300
You place your hands & feet on colored circles to play this game; it's perfect for contortionists
What is Twister?
400
Jack London: "'The Ghost' was rolling slightly on a calm sea without a breath of wind"
What is The Sea Wolf?
400
This show follows the trials & tribulations of a 2-man digi-folk band from New Zealand
What is Flight of the Conchords?
400
"Frankly, you're beginning to smell and for a stud in New York, that's a handicap", says Dustin in this 1969 film
What is Midnight Cowboy?
400
Members of Rome's oldest & richest families were called patricians; the rest of Rome's citizens were called this
What are plebeians?
400
Picasso's daughter, her signature is on tubes of her signature lipstick, Mon Rouge
Who is Paloma Picasso?
500
O. Henry: "Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a present"
What is The Gift of the Magi?
500
Based on an Israeli series, this show follows psychoanalyst Paul Weston through his week
What is In Treatment?
500
Laurence Olivier sets dentistry back about 1,000 years as he works on Dustin in this film; that's not safe at all
What is Marathon Man?
500
The first book of this Roman poet's "Ars Amatoria", or "Art of Love", instructs its readers how to find a lover
Who is Ovid?
500
Houdon's most famous mythological statue is of this Roman goddess holding a bow
Who is Diana?