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Origination
100
The film where the heroine, Katniss Everdeen, volunteers as tribute.
What is The Hunger Games
100
A novel by Lois Lowry about a boy named Jonas who is given the job 'the receiver.'
What is the Giver
100
A german philosopher and revolutionary socialist
Who is Karl Marx
100
The man who coined the term "utopia"
Who is Sir Thomas More
200
The first film based on a fictional trilogy about societal divisions, called factions, that classify citizens based on their aptitudes and values. The factions are Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), Erudite (the intelligent), Abnegation (the selfless), and Candor (the honest)
What is Divergent.
200
Novel by Ray Bradbury. The title holds significance because it describes the temperature at which paper paper burns.
What is Fahrenheit 451
200
This historical "utopia" was founded in 1967 in Virginia
What is Twin Oaks
200
The year Utopia was coined in.
What is 1516
300
A utopian satirical comedy starring Jim Carrey as Truman Bank, in which he lives in a '24-hour a day reality TV show' and doesn't know that his entire life is a perfectly set up tv show.
What is the Truman Show
300
The novel by Aldous Huxley anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning.
What is Brave New World
300
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. It is a branch of socialism
What is Communism
300
One of the two Greek translations of Utopia meaning "good place"
What is eu-topos
400
A film in future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. This movie was also based on a graphic novel.
What is V for Vendetta
400
A novel by George Orwell consisting of the popular terms such as "Big Brother," "doublethink," "thoughtcrime" and "Room 101."
What is 1984
400
The American cult under the leadership of reverend Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana. This place was responsible for the popular phrase "don't drink the Kool-Aid."
What is Jonestown
400
One of the two Greek translations of Utopia that means "no place" or "nowhere."
What is ou-topos
500
A random class of 42 ninth-grade students in dystopian Japan is selected by a fascist government lottery. They are taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, in a game.
What is Battle Royale
500
A 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.
What is Lord of the Flies
500
Periods in widespread fear and government paranoia by a society or state, about a potential rise of communism, anarchism, or radical leftism.
What is the Red Scare
500
Although the word "utopia derived in Greek, Thomas Moore's novel on utopia was written in this language.
What is Latin