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21ST LIT TRIVIA Flashcards

1
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  • Epics
  • “The Iliad”
  • “The Odyssey”
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Homer (Greek)

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  • Tragic dramas
  • Wrote over 100 plays, but only seven survived today
  • Influenced golden age of Elizabethan Drama
  • “Ajax”
  • “Oedipus the King”
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  1. Sophocles (Greek)
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  • “Aeneid” – national epic of Ancient Rome
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  1. Virgil (roman)
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  • “The Gospel of St. Mark”
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  1. The Evangelist, Mark
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  • “The Divine Comedy” – journey through hell > purgatory > paradise
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  1. Dante (italian)
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  • Great giant of english poetry
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  1. Geoffrey Chaucer`
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  • Monk and physician
  • “The life of Gargantua”
  • “Pantagruel”
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  1. Francois Rabelais (french)
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  • “Don Quixote”
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  1. Miguel Cervantes
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  • Jacobean poet
  • Priest
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  1. John Milton
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  • Baptist preacher
  • “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
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  1. John Bunyan
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Candide”

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  1. Voltaire (french)
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  • Also an artist
  • “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
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  1. William Blake
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  • “Pride and Prejudice”
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  1. Jane Austen
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  • Wrote fairytales
  • “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
  • “Thumbelina”
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  1. Hans Christian Andersen (danish)
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  • “Oliver Twist”
  • “A Tale of Two Cities”
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  1. Charles Dickens
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  • “Moby-Dick”
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  1. Herman Melville
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“Madam Bovary”

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  1. Gustave Flaubert
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“Crime and Punishment”

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  1. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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  • Father of science fiction
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  1. Jules Verne (french)
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  • “War and Peace”
  • “Anna Karenina”
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  1. Leo Tolstoy (russian)
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21
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  • Wrote poems
  • Used extensive dashes, dots
  • “Hope”
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  1. Emily Dickinson
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22
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  • Mathematician
  • “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
    o Sequel: “Through the Looking Glass”
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  1. Lewis Caroll
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Ulysses

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  1. James Joyce (irish)
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  • Wrote in German
  • “The Stoker”
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  1. Franz Kafka
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  • Awards:
    o US Medal of Freedom
    o Dante Gold Medal
    o Goethe Prize
    o Nobel Prize
  • “The Waste Land”
  • “Four Quartets”
  • “Murder in the Cathedral”
A
  1. T.S. Elliot (Thomas Stearns Elliot)
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  • “The Great Gatsby”
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  1. Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Wrote short fiction
  • “Ficciones”
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  1. Jorge Luis Borges (argentine)
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28
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  • “Animal Farm”
  • “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
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  1. George Orwell (irl: Eric Blair)
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  • Won Noble Prize for Literature 1982
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  1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (nickname: Gabi, Gabito) (colombian)
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30
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  • Existentialism
  • “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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  1. Friedrich Willhelm Nietzsche
31
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  • Titled “Bard of Avon”
  • “Romeo and Juliet”
  • “Hamlet”
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  1. William Shakespeare
32
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  • Jacob & Willhelm
  • “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”
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  1. Brothers Grimm
33
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  • “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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  1. Oscar Wilde (irish)
34
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  • Bad Blood
  • I Knew You Were Trouble
  • Lover
A
  1. Taylor Swift
35
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  • Cold Heart
  • Rocket Man
A
  1. Elton John
36
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  • Ashes to Ashes
  • Heroes
  • Ziggy Stardust
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  1. David Bowie
37
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  • Isn’t She Lovely
  • That’s What Friends Are For
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  1. Stevie Wonder
38
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  • Imagine
  • Hey Jude
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  1. John Lennon
39
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  • Purple Rain
  • Little Red Corvette
40
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  • Bohemian Rhapsody
  • We Will Rock You
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  1. Freddie Mercury
41
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  • Crazy for You
  • Like a Virgin
42
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  • Smooth Criminal
  • Billie Jean
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  1. Michael Jackson
43
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  • Wrote songs for Nirvana
    o Lithium
    o Aneurysm
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  1. Kurt Cobain
44
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  • Lead guitarist of Beatles
  • My Sweet Lord
  • What is Life
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  1. George Harrison
45
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  • Free Fallin’
  • Wildflowers
46
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  • Let’s Get It On
  • I Want You
A
  1. Marvin Gaye
47
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  • Thinking Out Loud
  • Perfect
A
  1. Ed Sheeran
48
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  • Without Me
  • The Real Slim Shady
49
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MEMOIR OF A FAMOUS MONARCH
(recent + controversial)

A

= “Spare” by Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex)

50
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a. Shikigami – spirit that appear as paper creatures
b. Yama-uba – mythical mountain witch
c. Mizuchi – water dragons

A
  1. Spirited Away
51
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a. Obake – shape-shifters (ghost/god/monster)
b. Bakeneko – cat turned yokai

A
  1. My Neighbor Totoro
52
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a. Kodama – forest spirits attached to trees (hear an echo in the woods? It’s a kodama)

A
  1. Princess Mononoke
53
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When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle

A
  1. Howl’s Moving Castle
54
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  • Legends:
    i. Red Thread
    ii. Dawn = supernatural events
55
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  • Teru teru bozu – believed to keep rain away
A
  1. Weathering with You
56
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  • Cats are said to be beings that lead you to another realm (Daijin guides Suzume across gates to another realm idk I havent watched the movie)
57
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  • First Asian Winner of nobel prize for literature
A

Rabindranath Tagore (India)

58
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  • Latest Asian Winner of nobel prize for literature
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Kazuo Ishiguro (born in Japan but represented the UK)

59
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  • Country with most winners of nobel prize for literature
60
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  • First recipient of nobel prize for literature
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Sully Prudhomme (France 1901)

61
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  • Latest recipient of nobel prize for literature
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Annie Ernaux (France 2022)

62
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PULITZER PRIZES (filos)

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  1. Carlos P. Romulo (1942)
  2. Cheryl Diaz Meyer (2004)
  3. Jose Antonio Vargas (2008)
  4. Alex Tizon (1997)
  5. Manuel Mogato (2018)
63
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  1. Best Picture oscars
A

Everything Everywhere All at Once

64
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  1. Best Actor oscars
A

Brandon Fraiser (The Whale)

65
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  1. Best Actress oscars
A

Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

66
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  1. Best Actor (supporting role) oscars
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Key Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

67
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  1. Best Actress (supporting role) oscars
A

Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

68
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  1. Best Director oscars
A

Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)

69
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  1. Best Original Song
A

Naatu Naatu

70
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Most Oscars:

A
  • Dead: Walt Disney (22)
  • Alive: Dennis Murren (9)
71
Q

Most nominations received by a single film oscars

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  • La La Land (2016) – 14 nominations, won 6 out of 17 categories
72
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Most total awards won by a woman oscars

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  • Edith Head (8) All costume design
  • Another fun fact: Edna from Incredibles is based on her
73
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highest prize awarded at Cannes Film Festival

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  • Palme d’Or (Golden palm)
74
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o Asian winner cannes

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Shohei Imamura (won 2x 1983, 1997)

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