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Atlas Shrugged Trivia-Bring It!

Posted by khalling 9 years ago to Entertainment
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From the Movies or from the book-stump us, or tweak our newbies by asking a question we have to answer-Oh, I want easter eggs from the movies! but also from Atlas Shrugged, the book. Let's compile a bunch of questions to tempt gulchers to delve-either re-watch Parts I-III or crack the spine of that beloved piece of life-changing novel. no rules-have fun. You don't have to answer any of the questions-just give points for the ones you think are good-later I will post again and ask for answers. Ready, set, Go!

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  • Posted by $ winterwind 8 years, 12 months ago
    at 5 days, 12 hours ago, there was a question about the line "Brother, you asked for it!"
    further question: What distinction doe this line hold in the book?
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    There is an Exec order 10289 that broadens some powers of the Tresury secretary to presidential powers. Signed under Truman in 1951
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  • Posted by Wonky 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    How about 367 (the number of Galt's address on some unknown street on the east river)?
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  • Posted by Wonky 9 years ago
    One more... I hope no one can actually answer this.

    How many times did Galt use the phrase "blank out" in his speech?
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  • Posted by Wonky 9 years ago
    Name any 3 differences between the mystics of muscle and the mystics of spirit. Prove that they are, in fact, differences.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Me either. Or project X, or Cheryl on the parapet, or the meeting between rearden and his family..... I'll stop there.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I kept waiting for the Tony the Wet Nurse scene. That was not something I would have cut from the movie.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Now this thread has all three of my favorite lines from AS. I use "Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatsoever." on my students after one or more of them has cheated on one of my tests.
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  • Posted by Wonky 9 years ago
    Damn it. Name all of the named, condemned characters in the novel that were casualties but which were on the path. Without them, the story loses so much. Name all of those who, had they lived, or had we discovered their fate, would have joyously helped to rebuild the world.
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  • Posted by ohiocrossroads 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    OK, this one took me a while, but Frank Adams is that name that Francisco took when he went to work at Rearden Steel as a furnace foreman after he left the world. He organized the force of Rearden workers that fought back against the rent-a-mob that the government sent to stage a riot, which would have given the looters the pretext to nationalizing Rearden Steel.
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  • Posted by Wonky 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Exactly. Had Galt sacrificed his love for her for Francisco's (or anyone else's sake), he would have violated the code of the Gulch.

    "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

    It (for me), finally tied together all of the unconventional (and sometimes difficult to understand) sexual themes and inextricably connected them to the core philosophy.
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