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What is Camelot?
This fictional kingdom was the home to King Arthur and the knights of the roundtable.
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What is Brokeback Mountain?
Two sheepherders fall in love in this Ang Lee adaptation of an Annie Proulx short story.
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What is El Dorado?
Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada, Pedro de Ursua, Gonzalo Pizarro and Sir Walter Raleigh all made expeditions in attempt to reach this mythical South American locale.
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Who is Harvey Milk?
Sean Penn won Best Actor at the 81st Academy Awards for his portrayal of this San Francisco politician, the first openly gay elected official in California.
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Who are the Maya?
This civilization believed the entrance to the world, which they Xibalba, was located near the present-day city of Coban, Guatemala.
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What is Call Me By Your Name?
This 2017 movie based on the book of the same name by Andre Aciman opens with the words "Somewhere in Northern Italy..."
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What is Shangri-La?
Described as a mystical, harmonious valley located in the Kunlun Mountains by British author James Hilton, this hyphenated fictional place lent its name to a 60's teen girl group.
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What is Carol?
The Price of Salt, a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith, later was adapted into this movie, staring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.
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What are the Hesperides?
These nymphs, along with the dragon Ladon, guarded a titular garden in which grew a tree with golden apples in Greek mythology.
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What is Paris Is Burning?
This documentary, filmed in the 1980's and highlighting the Black and Latino LGBT population in New York, is named after an event in the Franco-Prussian War.
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