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2016 ICT Flashcards

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Who wrote the collection The Troll Garden?

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Willa Cather

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Who wrote the poem Gerontion?

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T.S. Eliot

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What model consists of a lattice of points with values of one or negative one and represent ferromagnetism?

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Ising model

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Who collaborated on Apollo with George Balanchine?

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Igor Stravinsky

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At what battle did the losing commander kill the winning commander’s standard bearer, Sir William Brandon?

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Battle of Bosworth Field

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At what battle did the Stanley brothers switch to the winning side?

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Battle of Bosworth Field

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What is a rock intrusion that is perpendicular to existing rock layers?

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Dike

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What is a rock intrusion that is parallel to existing rock layers?

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Sill

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Who wrote The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?

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Umberto Eco

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What inversion applies to Sn2 reactions and switches a molecule from one enantiomer to another?

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Walden inversion

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Who was George McClellan’s vice presidential candidate?

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George Pendleton

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What is the name for a memory disturbance, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive?

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Confabulation

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What set-shifting card test is used to test frontal lobe function?

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Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

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What party was founded by Barnburners and Liberty Party members in Buffalo?

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Free Soil Party

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Who depicted the Small Cowper Madonna?

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Raphael

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16
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Who painted La Disputa?

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Raphael

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What Platonic Dialogue concerns a man who meets Socrates in the Agora while going to sue his father for the crime of leaving a slave in a ditch to starve to death?

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Euthyphro

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18
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Who composed the Quartet for the End of Time?

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Olivier Messiaen

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Who engaged in the Leipzig Debate with Johann Eck?

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Martin Luther

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20
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Who wrote the novel The Bostonians?

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Henry James

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At what battle did Dmitri of Moscow defeat the Golden Horde under Mamai?

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Battle of Kulikovo

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Who wrote the novel Dean’s December, in which Albert Corde travels with his wife to visit her dying mother in Bucharest?

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Saul Bellow

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Who wrote Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses?

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Mark Twain

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24
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What site has the Temple of the Three Windows?

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Macchu Picchu

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What site contains the Temple of the Condor?

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Macchu Picchu

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Who wrote Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for his friend Pablo de Sarasate?

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Camille Saint-Saens

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27
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Who wrote Comus?

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John Milton

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28
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What company recieved rebate via the South Improvement Company scheme?

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Standard Oil

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29
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What can be identified using the ABCDE mnemonic for moles?

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Cancer

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30
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What is the type of melanin found in red hair?

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Pheomelanin

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31
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Who designed La Pedrera?

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Antoni Gaudi

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32
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Who won the Battle of Sedgemoor against Duke of Monmouth?

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John Churchill

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33
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What war included the Battle of Blenheim?

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War of Spanish Succession

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34
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What war included the Battle of Ramillies?

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War of Spanish Succession

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What war included the Battle of Oudenarde?

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War of Spanish Succession

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36
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What group is formed when ethylene loses a hydrogen?

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Vinyl

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37
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What event was protested by Walter Forward, who resigned from his post as Secretary of the Treasury?

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Annexation of Texas

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38
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What country was bombed in Operation Barrel Roll?

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Laos

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39
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What king drank bull’s blood to suicide after being defeated by the Cimmerians?

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King Midas

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The speaker of what body sits on a red cushion called the Woolsack?

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House of Lords

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During what country’s civil war, also known as the Secret War, did the CIA recruit Hmong mercenaries to fight Communist insurgents?

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Laos

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42
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Who wrote the rags-to-riches novel Tattered Tom?

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Horatio Alger

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43
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What are the majority carriers in p-type semiconductors?

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Electron holes

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44
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What curve gives you the long term relation between unemployment and inflation

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NAIRU

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45
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What pope wrote Pastoral Care about the responsibilities of the clergy?

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Gregory 1

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46
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Which pope resigned to end the Western Schism?

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Gregory XII

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47
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What phenomenon is characterized by a thawing model which describes it using an equation of state parameter w that increases from -1?

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Dark energy

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What phenomenon is characterized by a freezing model which describes it using an equation of state parameter w that decreases to -1?

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Dark Energy

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What tsar was killed by a bomb grown by Ignacy Hryniewiecki, a member of the People’s Will?

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Alexander II

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50
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Stephan Khalturin tried to assassinate what tsar by placing a mine below his dining table?

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Alexander II

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51
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Who wrote The Order of Things?

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Michel Foucalt

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52
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Who accused Pat Brown of being soft on crime for delaying Caryl Chessman’s execution

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Richard Nixon

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53
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What is the name for a layer of metamorphosized rock surrounding an igneous intrusion?

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Aureole

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54
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Who composed the comic opera Albert Herring?

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Benjamin Britten

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55
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Who composed Peter Grimes?

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Benjamin Britten

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56
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The Carrera brothers fought for the independence of what country?

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Chile

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57
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What war resulted in Chile annexing the Antofagasta region?

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War of the Pacific

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58
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What plant’s stamens store elastic energy and eject pollen at half the speed of sound?

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Mulberry tree

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59
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Who wrote The History of Sir Charles Grandison?

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Samuel Richardson

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60
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What conflict included outright fighting at Olompali?

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Bear Flag Revolt

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61
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What equation describes the equilibrium between ionization and recombination?

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Saha equilibrium

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62
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What relations connect ionization and recombination?

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Milne Relations

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63
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Who lived at 2 Place Lamartine

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Vincent Van Gogh

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64
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Who painted Bedroom in Arles?

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Vincent Van Gogh

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65
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What novel contains a short dictionary of misunderstood words?

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Unbearable Lightness of Being

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66
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Plutarch said that the Spartans replied with the word If after what ruler gave them an ultimatum?

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Phillip II of Macedonia

67
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What country contains the Tower of Hercules

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Spain

68
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What part of the humerus contains the funny bone?

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Medial epicondyle

69
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What is the name of the teres minor

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Rotator Cuff

70
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What government restricted working hours under the Matignon Agreements?

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French Third Republic

71
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What leader of the French Third Republic roasted Phillipe Petain and Vichy France?

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Leon Blum

72
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What organelle contains amino acid oxidase?

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Peroxisome

73
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What organelle is the site of the formation of myelin precursors?

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Peroxisome

74
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What organelle is the site of the conversion of ethanol into acetaldehyde?

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Peroxisome

75
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Who defeated a giant by using a cake laced with iron?

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Finn MacCool

76
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Whose two dogs, Bran and Sceolan, rescued his wife Sadhbh, who Fear Doirich had turned into a deaf?

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Finn MacCool

77
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Who satirized Hitler as a Chicago gangster who corners the cauliflower market in the play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui?

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Bertolt Brecht

78
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Who proposed that actors should be difficult to relate to in his “alienation effect”?

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Bertolt Brecht

79
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Who granted the White Sheep Turks some land to oppose the power of the Black Sheep Turks?

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Tamerlane

80
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The type 2 of what disease can cause mosaic gentian warts?

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HPV

81
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Some clinical trials suggest local injection of Candida antigens is effective in treating what condition?

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Wart

82
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The borders of what country are fortified by the Morice Line?

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Algeria

83
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Who made the wood piece The Prodigal Son?

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Constantin Brancusi

84
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Whose birth was preceded by his mother dreaming about giving birth to a lion?

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Pericles

85
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Who was taught by the musician Damon?

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Pericles

86
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Who wrote North Labrador?

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Hart Crane

87
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Who wrote the poem For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen?

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Hart Crane

88
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Who wrote the treatise Opus Majus at the request of Pope Clement IV?

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Roger Bacon

89
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Who wrote a work in which a German prisoner is blown up when a British soldier puts a grenade under his pillow, One Man’s Initiation?

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John Dos Passos

90
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Who wrote Three Soldiers?

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John Dos Passos

91
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Who was excommunicated for murdering his rival, John Comyn?

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Robert the Bruce

92
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Who convinced Bishop William Lamberton to support the overthrow of King John Balliol?

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Robert the Bruce

93
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Who painted Cerberus?

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Salvador Dali

94
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Who painted The Face of War?

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Salvador Dali

95
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Who painted The Metamorphosis of Narcissus?

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Salvador Dali

96
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Who accused the US of complicity in the explosion of the French vessel La Coubre?

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Fidel Castro

97
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Who was interviewed by Herbert Matthews when he was a guerilla in the Sierra Maestra mountains?

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Fidel Castro

98
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Success I’ve occurrences of what event causes namesake boulder tongues?

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Avalanche

99
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What is the top of an avalanche?

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Staunchwall

100
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What is the bottom of an avalanche?

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Crown Fracture

101
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Who is the “gadfly form the north” who will defeat the “handsome heifer”, Egypt?

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Nebuchadnezzar II

102
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What group was led by Colonel Apis

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Serbia

103
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Who composed the opera Stubborn Lovers?

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Antonin Dvorak

104
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The pattern of attachment to what structures is called phyllotaxy?

A

Stem

105
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Who painted the Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand, which depicts the crucifixion of Christian Roman soldiers by Shapur I?

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Albrect Durer

106
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Who painted A Man with a Quilted Sleeve

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Titian

107
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Who had the nickname “The Sun among the Stars”?

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Titian

108
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Who tasked the Curetes with making noise to drown out the baby Zeus?

A

Rhea

109
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Who wrote The Decay of the Angel?

A

Yukio Mishima

110
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Who wrote The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea?

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Yukio Mishima

111
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Who wrote Rocket Man, a story where a wife and son become nocturnal after a man crashes into the sun?

A

Ray Bradbury

112
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Who fictionalized his early life in Waukegan, Illinois in Dandelion Wine?

A

Ray Bradbury

113
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Wha theorem says that a system with a time-independent Lagrangian will exhibit conservation of energy

A

Noether’s Theorem

114
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Who wrote The Well of Saints?

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John Synge

115
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Who wrote A Bell for Adano?

A

John Hersey

116
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Who allied with Sigobert the Lame to dominate the Alemanni at the Battle of Tolbiac?

A

Clovis

117
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Who conquered the rump state of former Roman commander Syagrius at the battle of Soissons?

A

Clovis

118
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What element combines with samarium to form a rare-earth magnet?

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Cobalt

119
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What disease can be prevented using the vaccine Zostavax?

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Chickenpox Virus

120
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Who wrote the rondeau “We Wear the Mask”?

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

121
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Who wrote The Sport of the Gods?

A

Paul Laurence Dunbar

122
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Who was buried under the name Wolfgang Gerhard?

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Josef Mengele

123
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In what massacre did Mormons dress up as Paiute Indians and attack the Baker-Fancher wagon train?

A

Mountain Meadows Massacre

124
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What king executed William Douglas at the Black Dinner?

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James II

125
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What king died battling Thomas Howard in an attempt to honor the Auld Alliance at the Battle of Flodden?

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James IV

126
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Who wrote the opera The Spanish Hour?

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Maurice Ravel

127
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Who wrote the opera The Child and the Enchantments?

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Maurice Ravel

128
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What Rutulian King is killed by Aeneas when he is seen wearing the belt of Pallas?

A

Turnus

129
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What political party’s namesake Review was edited by Henry Dana Ward?

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Anti-Masonic Party

130
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What party held the first nominating convention in US history?

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Anti-Masonic Party

131
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Who cofounder the City Lights bookstore with Peter Martin?

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti

132
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Who wrote Reveries of a Solitary Walker?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

133
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Who fled the battlefield after losing to Erispoe at the three-day-long Battle of Jengland?

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Charles the Bald

134
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During what war did the Czechoslovakian Legion seize most of the Trans-Siberian railway?

A

Russia Civil War

135
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In what novel does Lily Bart kill herself hours before Lawrence Selden arrived to propose marriage?

A

The House of Mirth

136
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What pseudo vector equals the curl of the velocity field?

A

Vorticity

137
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Who illustrated The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?

A

William Blake

138
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What protein-sequencing method uses phenyl isothiocyanate to remove the N-terminal amino acid with each cycle?

A

Edman degradation

139
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Who translated History of the Peloponnesian War?

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Thomas Hobbes

140
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Who wrote De Cive?

A

Thomas Hobbes

141
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Who dedicated his first violin concerto to the virtuoso David Oistrakh?

A

Dmitri Shostakovich

142
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Who wrote the book The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table?

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

143
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Who wrote a poem in which an old man is compared to the title part of a plant, The Last Leaf?

A

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

144
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What is the monomer of natural rubber?

A

Isoprene

145
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Who invented a pie chart called the coxcomb?

A

Florence Nightingale

146
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In what war did the Battle of Piqua take place ?

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Revolutionary War

147
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In what war did the Battle of Lindley’s Fort take place?

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Revolutionary War

148
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Who wrote but did not publish the autobiographical novel Maurice, which touches on homosexuality?

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E.M. Forster

149
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Who described a trip to the Holy Land aboard the steamship Quaker City, The Innocents Abroad?

A

Mark Twain

150
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What disease agent can be treated using didanosine?

A

HIV

151
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Who wrote Magnalia Christi Americana?

A

Cotton Matther

152
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What novel has enigmatic strings of 100 or 101 words called thunder words?

A

Finnegans Wake

153
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Who wrote the work The English Mail-Coach?

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Thomas De Quincey

154
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Who was the Lion of Idaho?

A

William Borah

155
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Who wrote The Prisoner of the Caucasus about a Russian captive’s romance with a Circassian girl while he himself was living in exile in the region?

A

Alexander Pushkin

156
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Who wrote Sevastopol Sketches?

A

Leo Tolstoy

157
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Who wrote the play Prometheus Bound?

A

Aeschylus

158
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Who wrote A Curtain of Green?

A

Eudora Welty

159
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Who wrote The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World?

A

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

160
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Who wrote A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?

A

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

161
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What battle secured Greek Independence?

A

Battle of Navarino

162
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Who painted Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi?

A

Eugene Delacroix

163
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In what tale does a dishonest miller get cuckolded and beaten?

A

Reeve’s Tale

164
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Who wrote the tone poem Francesca da Rimini?

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Pyotr Tchaikovsky

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