Atlas Shrugged Trivia-Bring It!
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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Bonus 1, who was talking to him.
Bonus 2, where was the load headed.
Bonus: Which characters were present for this conversation?
Floyd Ferris to Hank Rearden:
"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. "You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against . . . We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted, and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
I then a few days later reached that section of Atlas Shrugged. I would not have believed it, and kinda shrugged it off in previous readings. This time with the struggle I had faced with tax code a few days earlier it really hit me. It has been one of my favorite sections of the book ever since.
The looters have finally found a fool proof way to raid Retirement Plans and lucky me, my plan is the test case. I find myself being ordered to comply with a "Court Appointed Receiver" but it directly conflicts with Internal Revenue who is supposed to be overseeing retirement plans. My choice is between who do I fear the most.
Rearden & Dr Floyd Ferris
"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.
Galt said something along the lines we didn't build a gulch to escape reality and you don't get to either.
I don't remember about whether she apologizes. stumped me!
"Jess Allen, ma'am."
p.625 (paperback)
Gerald Starnes, Jr., Ivy Starnes, and Eric Starnes, his heirs.
Amalgamated Service Company, Lee Hunsacker, President.
Mr. Bascom, Mayor (Rome, Wisc.)
Mark Yonts
People's Mortgage Company and one other group--Mark Yonts sold the factory twice and scrammed.
The real-life Patrick Henry College may be found in Chesapeake, Virginia.
1. Where did John Galt go, instead of remaining at the Patrick Henry University?
2. Whom did Stadler accost out in the hallway after his abortive last meeting with John Galt?
3. What did Stadler blurt out/otherwise say to this person?
For normal credit, name the town and State.
For extra credit: name the Native American name for the river and the valley, and the tribe that once owned it.
As a bonus: Midas Mulligan tells Dagny he cut off all means of ground access, except a single road, which he carefully camouflaged. If you can tell which real-life formation was most likely to have been the location of Mulligan's Valley, name the road most likely to have been the road Midas left open.
1. What are his other two names?
2. One of those two names turns out to be misspelled. Which name is misspelled, and how?
Bonus: tell whether the legislative branch has one chamber or two, and how many seats in it/each.
Legislative branch I can't remember.
List in order the representative passengers, one in each railcar, that the novel then describes. Give their exact reservation, as "Bedroom X", "Roomette Y", "Seat Z," or whatever.
Bonus question: name the recent reviewer of Atlas Shrugged who, by his own admission, declined to re-read the rest of the novel after re-reading that scene. Also name the earlier reviewer and what infamous line the more-recent reviewer said that scene reminded him of.
I never skip any part of the book when re-reading-- even the most heartbreaking parts. I suppose I consider it akin to "faking reality".
I can imagine the reviewer being irate about Rand's implication that they did not deserve to live. After all, that was her implication.
Would you mind PM'ing the review you are referring to?
1. Which enterprise was that?
2.. Why did he call it a company?
3. Did anyone in addition to him own a piece of that enterprise? And if so, who?
As a bonus: list whatever other valuable document(s) and/or wall hanging(s) Dagny took with her, and where she got them from.
2. In the novel, a breathless radio announcer gives a cause for the Comet abruptly stopping so it could not start again.
2A: What was that cause?
2B: The novel does not identify the passenger involved. But the movie does. Who, in the movie version, stopped the Comet?
3. Novel and movie have the collision occurring in two different ways. What kind of collision took place in the novel version and in the movie version?
I've often asked myself: what if a few of the genders were reversed, and I found myself portraying Dagny Taggart--as a man? Would I leave the valley? Or would I see this deal the way Hank Rearden saw it at that meeting at the Wayne-Falkland?
At other times--oh, how I wish I had a multi-million-dollar purse, and I'd been the one to produce the AS movies--or bring it to TV as a "limited series." I would have wanted to portray Henry Rearden myself--and would have cast Matilda Swinton as Dagny. And Angela Lansbury as Mother Rearden. That's just for starters...!
Engineer Joe Scott took the Comet into the Tunnel with a coal-burning steam locomotive to pull her. Questions right back at you:
1. Identify that engine by number.
2. Name the fireman who accompanied Engineer Scott on that run, and who ended up being the sole survivor.
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