Everybody Knows That

""I was re-reading Moby-Dick the other day and--oh, I haven't read it since... I'm sure none of us has. It's worth picking up again. It's about this whale...""

- Ruth, Wonderful Town

Sometimes, Popcultural Osmosis only works part of the way, and as a result, certain famous works or events are only known for one or two lines.

For example, Everybody Knows That Martin Luther King Jr. made a famous speech where he pronounced "I have a dream"... though -- sad as it may be -- it's getting increasingly rarer to find people who could tell you anything else about that speech, or what it was even about.

To make things worse, a show which attempts to parody said event will only include that one line.

Often the result of Never Live It Down and All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game", and is a common cause of It Was His Sled. If this phenomenon is blown out of proportion enough that the original context seems to become irrelevant, it's Memetic Mutation. See also Common Knowledge.

The Game

Underneath each item is a list of "stock facts" that everybody seems to know about a person, place, event, or work. Try to guess as many of them as possible before looking at the spoilers. Double points if you know the specific significance or context of each fact.

Possible answers will be:
 * The premise
 * Events
 * Specific details or facts
 * Well-known quotes
 * Completely incorrect information which somehow got associated with it. (Triple points for these, if you both know it and understand why it's wrong!)

Guideline when adding new entries: It must be something that the majority of people, not just you, or a specific niche of the fandom, are able to recall from memory.

Also, you may add an explanation if you so choose, but it's not mandatory.

Finally, Be warned: There are many spoilers!

Everybody Knows That...

 * 2001 A Space Odyssey and series
 * 300
 * Ace Attorney
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Albert Einstein
 * Alexander Nevsky
 * Director Alfred Hitchcock
 * American Pie
 * Anything Goes
 * Barack Obama
 * The Beatles
 * Benjamin Franklin
 * The Bible - The Old Testament
 * The Bible - The New Testament
 * Bill Clinton
 * The film Casablanca
 * Castlevania
 * The film Citizen Kane
 * Clint Eastwood
 * The Crying Game
 * The Dark Knight
 * Disgaea
 * Doctor Who
 * Don Quixote
 * Dracula
 * 1932 film:
 * Dragonball Z
 * ET the Extraterrestrial
 * The Exorcist
 * F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
 * Fatal Attraction
 * A Few Good Men
 * (Also an example of a Beam Me Up, Scotty)
 * Fight Club
 * Final Fantasy IV
 * Final Fantasy VII
 * Final Fantasy VIII
 * Forrest Gump
 * Frankenstein
 * George Washington
 * George W. Bush
 * The Godfather
 * Godzilla
 * Gone With the Wind
 * The Good the Bad And The Ugly
 * Hamlet
 * Harry Potter
 * Henry VIII
 * Home Improvement
 * Inception:
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * James Bond
 * Actor James Cagney
 * John F Kennedy
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * King Kong
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Lion King
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Lost
 * Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * The Maltese Falcon
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * The Matrix
 * Moby Dick
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * The film Casablanca
 * Castlevania
 * The film Citizen Kane
 * Clint Eastwood
 * The Crying Game
 * The Dark Knight
 * Disgaea
 * Doctor Who
 * Don Quixote
 * Dracula
 * 1932 film:
 * Dragonball Z
 * ET the Extraterrestrial
 * The Exorcist
 * F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
 * Fatal Attraction
 * A Few Good Men
 * (Also an example of a Beam Me Up, Scotty)
 * Fight Club
 * Final Fantasy IV
 * Final Fantasy VII
 * Final Fantasy VIII
 * Forrest Gump
 * Frankenstein
 * George Washington
 * George W. Bush
 * The Godfather
 * Godzilla
 * Gone With the Wind
 * The Good the Bad And The Ugly
 * Hamlet
 * Harry Potter
 * Henry VIII
 * Home Improvement
 * Inception:
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * James Bond
 * Actor James Cagney
 * John F Kennedy
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * King Kong
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Lion King
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Lost
 * Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * The Maltese Falcon
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * The Matrix
 * Moby Dick
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Forrest Gump
 * Frankenstein
 * George Washington
 * George W. Bush
 * The Godfather
 * Godzilla
 * Gone With the Wind
 * The Good the Bad And The Ugly
 * Hamlet
 * Harry Potter
 * Henry VIII
 * Home Improvement
 * Inception:
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * James Bond
 * Actor James Cagney
 * John F Kennedy
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * King Kong
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Lion King
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Lost
 * Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * The Maltese Falcon
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * The Matrix
 * Moby Dick
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Home Improvement
 * Inception:
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * James Bond
 * Actor James Cagney
 * John F Kennedy
 * Kingdom Hearts
 * King Kong
 * The Legend of Zelda
 * The Lion King
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Lost
 * Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * The Maltese Falcon
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * The Matrix
 * Moby Dick
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * The Lord of the Rings
 * Lost
 * Ludwig Van Beethoven
 * The Maltese Falcon
 * Marilyn Monroe
 * The Matrix
 * Moby Dick
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Monty Python and The Holy Grail
 * Nethack
 * Paul Revere
 * Pirates of the Caribbean
 * Pogo
 * Pokémon anime
 * Portal
 * Power Rangers
 * The Princess Bride
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Samuel L Jackson
 * Snakes On a Plane
 * Pulp Fiction
 * The Incredibles
 * Saw
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * The Simpsons
 * The Sixth Sense
 * Sonic the Hedgehog
 * Soylent Green
 * Spider Man
 * Star Fox
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Superman
 * Super Mario Bros
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Star Trek
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Star Wars
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Theodore Roosevelt
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Twilight
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Titanic
 * Troll 2
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * The Twilight Zone
 * Uncle Toms Cabin
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * War Games
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * Winston Churchill
 * World War 2:
 * World War 2:
 * World War 2:
 * World War 2:
 * World War 2:
 * World War 2: