21ST LIT TRIVIA Flashcards
(74 cards)
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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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- Sophocles (Greek)
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- “Aeneid” – national epic of Ancient Rome
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- Virgil (roman)
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- “The Gospel of St. Mark”
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- The Evangelist, Mark
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- “The Divine Comedy” – journey through hell > purgatory > paradise
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- Dante (italian)
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- Great giant of english poetry
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- Geoffrey Chaucer`
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- Monk and physician
- “The life of Gargantua”
- “Pantagruel”
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- Francois Rabelais (french)
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- “Don Quixote”
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- Miguel Cervantes
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- Jacobean poet
- Priest
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- John Milton
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- Baptist preacher
- “The Pilgrim’s Progress”
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- John Bunyan
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Candide”
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- Voltaire (french)
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- Also an artist
- “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”
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- William Blake
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- “Pride and Prejudice”
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- Jane Austen
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- Wrote fairytales
- “The Emperor’s New Clothes”
- “Thumbelina”
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- Hans Christian Andersen (danish)
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- “Oliver Twist”
- “A Tale of Two Cities”
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- Charles Dickens
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- “Moby-Dick”
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- Herman Melville
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“Madam Bovary”
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- Gustave Flaubert
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“Crime and Punishment”
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- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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- Father of science fiction
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- Jules Verne (french)
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- “War and Peace”
- “Anna Karenina”
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- Leo Tolstoy (russian)
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- Wrote poems
- Used extensive dashes, dots
- “Hope”
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- Emily Dickinson
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- Mathematician
- “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
o Sequel: “Through the Looking Glass”
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- Lewis Caroll
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Ulysses
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- James Joyce (irish)
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- Wrote in German
- “The Stoker”
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- 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”
26. T.S. Elliot (Thomas Stearns Elliot)
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* “The Great Gatsby”
27. Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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* Wrote short fiction
* “Ficciones”
28. Jorge Luis Borges (argentine)
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* “Animal Farm”
* “Nineteen Eighty-Four”
29. George Orwell (irl: Eric Blair)
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* Won Noble Prize for Literature 1982
30. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (nickname: Gabi, Gabito) (colombian)
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* Existentialism
* “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
31. Friedrich Willhelm Nietzsche
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* Titled “Bard of Avon”
* “Romeo and Juliet”
* “Hamlet”
32. William Shakespeare
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* Jacob & Willhelm
* “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”
33. Brothers Grimm
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* “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
34. Oscar Wilde (irish)
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* Bad Blood
* I Knew You Were Trouble
* Lover
1. Taylor Swift
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* Cold Heart
* Rocket Man
2. Elton John
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* Ashes to Ashes
* Heroes
* Ziggy Stardust
3. David Bowie
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* Isn’t She Lovely
* That’s What Friends Are For
4. Stevie Wonder
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* Imagine
* Hey Jude
5. John Lennon
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* Purple Rain
* Little Red Corvette
6. Prince
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* Bohemian Rhapsody
* We Will Rock You
7. Freddie Mercury
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* Crazy for You
* Like a Virgin
8. Madonna
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* Smooth Criminal
* Billie Jean
9. Michael Jackson
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* Wrote songs for Nirvana
o Lithium
o Aneurysm
10. Kurt Cobain
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* Lead guitarist of Beatles
* My Sweet Lord
* What is Life
11. George Harrison
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* Free Fallin’
* Wildflowers
12. Tom Petty
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* Let’s Get It On
* I Want You
13. Marvin Gaye
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* Thinking Out Loud
* Perfect
14. Ed Sheeran
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* Without Me
* The Real Slim Shady
15. Eminem
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MEMOIR OF A FAMOUS MONARCH
(recent + controversial)
= “Spare” by Prince Harry (Duke of Sussex)
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a. Shikigami – spirit that appear as paper creatures
b. Yama-uba – mythical mountain witch
c. Mizuchi – water dragons
1. Spirited Away
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a. Obake – shape-shifters (ghost/god/monster)
b. Bakeneko – cat turned yokai
2. My Neighbor Totoro
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a. Kodama – forest spirits attached to trees (hear an echo in the woods? It’s a kodama)
3. Princess Mononoke
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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
4. Howl’s Moving Castle
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* Legends:
i. Red Thread
ii. Dawn = supernatural events
1. Your Name
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* Teru teru bozu – believed to keep rain away
2. Weathering with You
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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)
3. Suzume
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* First Asian Winner of nobel prize for literature
Rabindranath Tagore (India)
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* Latest Asian Winner of nobel prize for literature
Kazuo Ishiguro (born in Japan but represented the UK)
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* Country with most winners of nobel prize for literature
France
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* First recipient of nobel prize for literature
Sully Prudhomme (France 1901)
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* Latest recipient of nobel prize for literature
Annie Ernaux (France 2022)
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PULITZER PRIZES (filos)
1. Carlos P. Romulo (1942)
2. Cheryl Diaz Meyer (2004)
3. Jose Antonio Vargas (2008)
4. Alex Tizon (1997)
5. Manuel Mogato (2018)
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1. Best Picture oscars
Everything Everywhere All at Once
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2. Best Actor oscars
Brandon Fraiser (The Whale)
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3. Best Actress oscars
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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4. Best Actor (supporting role) oscars
Key Huy Quan (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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5. Best Actress (supporting role) oscars
Jamie Lee Curtis (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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6. Best Director oscars
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
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7. Best Original Song
Naatu Naatu
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Most Oscars:
* Dead: Walt Disney (22)
* Alive: Dennis Murren (9)
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Most nominations received by a single film oscars
* La La Land (2016) – 14 nominations, won 6 out of 17 categories
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Most total awards won by a woman oscars
* Edith Head (8) All costume design
* Another fun fact: Edna from Incredibles is based on her
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highest prize awarded at Cannes Film Festival
* Palme d’Or (Golden palm)
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o Asian winner cannes
Shohei Imamura (won 2x 1983, 1997)
