LearnedCompanion: LL84 MD21 (March 18, 2020)
The following are "companion questions" to those appearing on the LearnedLeague website on March 18, 2020.
1. John Greenleaf Whittier, a 19th century abolitionist and poet, is perhaps best remembered today for which narrative poem about people exchanging stories while trapped in their estate during a wintry storm?
2. New Guinea, along with the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji, among other islands, make up which broad subregion of Oceania?
3. In the film version of Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins hands Carter incriminating photos at which iconic Hollywood location? Notably the setting of the switchblade fight in Rebel Without a Cause, this location was also visited by Mia and Sebastian in the film La La Land.
4. Martin Campbell, who directed Goldeneye and Casino Royale, also directed which 1980's British miniseries about a man searching for answers after the murder of his daughter? Campbell also directed the 2010 film adaptation starring Mel Gibson.
5. The 1973 U.S.-backed military coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power over which democratically elected leftist leader, the 28th President of Chile?
6. Archibald "Archie" Leach was the birth name of which iconic leading man of classic Hollywood, who appeared in numerous screwball comedies, and who ironically played a character named Archibald in 1939's Gunga Din?
1. John Greenleaf Whittier, a 19th century abolitionist and poet, is perhaps best remembered today for which narrative poem about people exchanging stories while trapped in their estate during a wintry storm?
2. New Guinea, along with the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, and Fiji, among other islands, make up which broad subregion of Oceania?
3. In the film version of Devil in a Blue Dress, Easy Rawlins hands Carter incriminating photos at which iconic Hollywood location? Notably the setting of the switchblade fight in Rebel Without a Cause, this location was also visited by Mia and Sebastian in the film La La Land.
4. Martin Campbell, who directed Goldeneye and Casino Royale, also directed which 1980's British miniseries about a man searching for answers after the murder of his daughter? Campbell also directed the 2010 film adaptation starring Mel Gibson.
5. The 1973 U.S.-backed military coup which brought Augusto Pinochet to power over which democratically elected leftist leader, the 28th President of Chile?
6. Archibald "Archie" Leach was the birth name of which iconic leading man of classic Hollywood, who appeared in numerous screwball comedies, and who ironically played a character named Archibald in 1939's Gunga Din?
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