Full Slam Dunks Flashcards
1
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C6H6
Aromatic Hydrocarbon
A
Benzene
2
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NH3
A
Ammonia
3
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Most electronegative halogen
A
Fluorine
4
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Ruler of Argentina
A
Juan Peron
5
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Painter associated with Surrealism
A
Salvador Dali
6
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Open Door Policy
A
John Hay - China
7
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Cubism
A
Pablo Picasso
8
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Death of a Salesman
Willie Loman
A
Arthur Miller
9
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Swiss psychologist
A
Carl Jung
10
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche Dubois
A
Tennessee Williams
11
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David Copperfield
Uriah Heep
A
Charles Dickens
12
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Dream Deferred
A
Langston Hughes
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Era of Good Feelings
A
James Monroe
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Monster - Beowolf
A
Grendel
15
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Opposition to flow of charge
A
Resistance
16
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Black Body
Two laws of circuits
A
Gustav Kirchhoff
17
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Test for startch
A
Iodine
18
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India river
A
Ganges
19
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Beard tax
A
Peter the Great
Peter I
20
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Les Miserables
Jean Valjean
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Victor Hugo
21
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Dictator of Uganda
A
Idi Amin
22
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Scandal - Warren Harding
A
Teapot Dome
23
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Fagin or Artful Dodger
A
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
24
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Pop art
A
Andy Warhol
25
Paris Cabaret
Moulin Rouge
26
November 1923 attempt to seize power
Beer Hall Putsch
27
# .
Enforced catholic doctrine
Spanish Inquisition
28
Nitrogen bond
Triple bond
29
Performed 12 labors
Heracles (Hercules)
30
Final solution
Holocaust
31
Trade route between Rome and China
Silk road
32
Religion associated with Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science
33
Religion associated with Haile Selassie
## Footnote
Jah
Rastafarianism
34
Atacama Desert
Chile
35
Howard Hughes' plane
Spruce Goose
36
Richard Nixon speech
Checkers
37
Cross of Gold speech
William Jennings Bryan
38
# Pea plants
Pioneer of genetics
Gregor Mendel
39
Norwegian traitor
Vidkun Quisling
40
# Elephants over the Alps
Carthaginian general
Hannibal Barca
41
Artist - Saturday Evening Post
Norman Rockwell
42
Architect of Geodesic Dome
Buckminster Fuller
43
# DTP
Pertussis
Whooping Cough
44
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace
14 points
45
# Slaughterhouse Five
Firebombing of Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut
46
Pope - First Crusades
Urban II
47
British physician who ran the mile in under 4 minutes
Roger Bannister
48
Created the modern periodic table
Dimitri Mendeleev
49
# Spanish Civil War
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
50
Nephritis
Kidneys
51
Finnish composer
Jean Sibelius
52
Polish astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
53
Aztec leader
Montezuma II
54
# The Birds and The Clouds
Greek writer of comedies
Aristophanes
55
Greek mountain home to the gods
Mt. Olympus
56
Who said "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
57
Battle fought 26 miles north of Athens
Marathon
58
Patagonia
Argentina
59
Artist - Mobiles
Alexander Calder
60
Highest Tariff
Hawley-Smoot
61
Treacherous son of King Arthur
Mordred
62
Wife of King Arthur
Guinivere
63
Temple - Athens
Parthenon
64
Elliptical orbits
Johannes Kepler
65
Underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
66
# ~23,000
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
Antietam
67
Vitamin - Calcium
Vitamin D
68
# William the Conqueror
Census Book
Domesday Book
69
Election slogan - "He kept us out of war"
Woodrow Wilson
70
English wall
Hadrian's Wall
71
French protestants
Huguenots
72
Roman slave revolt
Spartacus
73
# 1215
Signed Magna Carta
John I
| John Lackland
74
# Ballet
Bolero
Ravel
75
Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway
The Great Gatsby
76
Oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery
Juneteenth
77
Huns - Scourge of god
Attila the Hun
78
Muslim holy war
Jihad
79
Ethiopian king
Haile Selassie
80
Emerald Isle
Ireland
81
# "I will fight no more forever"
Nez Perce chief
Joseph
82
Death and Life-in-Death play dice game
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
| Samuel Coleridge
83
# China
Long March
Mao Zedong
84
Religion associated with L. Ron Hubbard
Scientology
85
Pointillism
George Seurat
86
# Florida
Fountain of Youth
Ponce de Leon
87
# Bilirubin
Yellow skin
Jaundice
88
Female Prime Minister of Israel
Golda Meir
89
Female Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi
90
Female Prime Minister of Britain
Margaret Thatcher
91
Female Prime Minister of Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto
92
Ruling family associated with Austria
Hapsburg
93
Ruling family associated with Prussia
Hohenzollern
94
Ruling family associated with Russia
Romanov
95
Ruling family associated with The Netherlands
Orange
96
# The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes
Ernest Hemingway
97
# Dante Alighieri
Italian Epic Poem
The Divine Comedy
98
# John Keats
"Beauty is truth, and truth, beauty"
Ode on a Grecian Urn
99
Laws governing springs
Hooke's Law
100
Capital of Bolivia
La Paz
101
# Death March
1942 forced march
Bataan
102
# USSR
1986 space station
Mir
103
Rotational force
Torque
104
# Jellyfish
Stinging cells
Nematocysts
105
# Sense and Sensibility
Dashwood sisters
Jane Austen
106
# Declaration of Sentiments
Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
107
Russian monk
Grigori Rasputin
108
Paris prison
Bastille
109
French art museum
Louvre
110
Green Mountains boys
Ethan Allen
111
Norwegian composer
Edvard Grieg
112
# Georgia
Confederate prison
Andersonville
113
Norwegian painter of The Scream
Edvard Munch
114
# Fairy tales
German brothers
Grimm
115
Socialist candidate for president
Eugene V. Debs
116
Capital of Canada
Ottawa
117
# Toleration to Huguenots
1598 Edict
Edict of Nantes
118
Hugo Chavez
Venezuela
119
Decay of radioactive sample
Half-life
120
Polymer found in plant cell walls
Cellulose
121
Italian mathematician's sequence
Fibonacci
| Leonardo Bonacci
122
Same chemical formula, different structure
Isomer
123
Different forms of the same element (O2, O3)
Allotrope
124
Virus that infects bacteria
Bacteriophage
125
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli
126
# Alkane
Simplest hydrocarbon
Methane
127
# Nelson Mandela
Apartheid
South Africa
128
# 36-30
1820 Compromise
Missouri Compromise
129
Federal commission/Insider trading
Securities & Exchange (SEC)
130
Acetyl-CoA
Krebs/Citric Acid Cycle
131
# Salt
March to Dandi
Mahatma Gandhi
132
1830 text by Joseph Smith
Book of Mormon
133
Machu Picchu
Peru
134
# Mediterranean
War against pirates
Barbary Wars
135
# Heisenberg
Wave-particle duality
Quantum Theory
136
Death of Richard III
Battle of Bosworth Field
137
# Adulterous characters
Gameskeeper Oliver Mellors
Lady Chatterley's Lover
| D.H. Lawrence
138
Sand
Silicone Dioxide
139
Double-helix
DNA
| Watson/Crick
140
The Gates of Hell
Auguste Rodin
141
The Golden Horde
Mongol
| Gengis Khan
142
Sydney Carton/Charles Darnay
A Tale of Two Cities
| Charles Dickens
143
Luncheon on the Grass
Edouard Manet
144
Bolivian president
Evo Morales
145
First republican presidential candidate
John C. Fremont
146
SI unit of pressure
Pascal
147
Beethoven opera
Fidelio
148
Scale of mineral hardness
Moh's
149
Indian language during WWII
Navajo
150
Renal artery
Kidney
151
Interchangable parts
Eli Whitney
152
US detective agency
Pinkerton
## Footnote
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
153
Theater - Abraham Lincoln
Ford's Theater
154
# Governor of:
James Oglethorpe
Georgia
155
Ancient library
Alexandria, Egypt
156
WWI naval battle
Battle of Jutland
| Denmark
157
Yankee clipper
Joe Dimaggio
| Joltin' Joe
158
Exclusion principle
Wolfgang Pauli
159
Phobos and Deimos
Mars
| Moons of
160
US President between two terms of Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
161
# The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield
J.D. Salinger
162
# Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
First Sherlock Holmes' story
A Study in Scarlet
163
Only member of Congress to vote against war on Japan
Jeanette Rankin
164
American composer of Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
165
Deepest lake in the United States
Crater Lake
| Oregon
166
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Richard III
| William Shakespeare
167
# For Whom the Bells Toll
Robert Jordan
Ernest Hemingway
168
Dogberry
Much Ado About Nothing
| William Shakespeare
169
Enlightened despot
Catherine the Great
170
# Union General
Battle of the Wilderness
Ulysses S. Grant
171
# Greek author
The Elements
Euclid
172
# "...grassy and wanted wear"
"...two roads diverged"
The Road Not Taken
| Robert Frost
173
Wisconsin governor
Scott Walker
174
Surprise Symphony
Joseph Haydn
| Hymns
175
# Holy Grail
Knight
Galahad
176
Architect of Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright
177
The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill
178
Appalachain Spring
Aaron Copland
179
# Trafalgar
British admiral
Horatio Nelson
180
# Verdi
Aida
Ethiopian Princess
| Opera
181
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
182
Queen of the Night
The Magic Flute
| Mozart opera
183
"Paris is well worth a mass"
Henry IV
| First Bourbon ruler
184
Discovered electrons
J.J. Thompson
185
Oil drop experiment
Robert Milkman
186
Discovered neutrons
James Chadwick
187
Rotational analog of mass
Moment of Inertia
188
Nephrons
Kidney
189
Loop of Henle
Kidney
190
Forced inward on a curved path
Centripetal
191
3, 4, 5
Pythagorean triple
192
Last Theorum
Fermat
193
Killed Minotaur
Theseus
194
Built labryinth
Daedalus
195
Killed son with scepter
Ivan the Terrible
196
Candide
Voltaire
197
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
198
Great Leap Forward
Mao Zedong
199
Discovered isolated oxygen
Joseph Priestly
200
# Berkshire Hathaway
Sage of Omaha
Warren Buffett
201
Polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
202
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
203
USS Yorktown sunk
Battle of Midway
204
Wax wings
Icarus
205
The Frogs
Aristophanes
206
Returned the Panama Canal
Jimmy Carter
207
Rose of Sharon
The Grapes of Wrath
| John Steinbeck
208
Openings in leaves
Stomata
209
Rocinante, Dulcinea
Don Quixote
| Miguel de Cervantes
210
Separated by boiling points
Distillation
211
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
212
Wind Cave
South Dakota
213
Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
214
Summa Theologica
Thomas Aquinas
215
Clyde Tombaugh
Pluto
216
First FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover
217
Nine Days Queen
Lady Jane Grey
218
Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
219
First woman to serve in the US Congress
Jeannette Rankin
220
Russian doctor and author
Anton Chekov
221
Composer of the Ring Cycle
Richard Wagner
222
Lago
Othello
| Shakespeare
223
Reform slogan - Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt
224
Reform slogan - New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
225
Reform slogan - Fair Deal
Harry Truman
226
Reform slogan - New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson
227
Reform slogan - New Frontier
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
228
Reform slogan - Great Society
Lyndon Baines Johnson
229
Father of modern chemistry
Antoine Lavoisier
230
Battle/Stonewall Jackson killed
Chancellorsville
231
First Pope
St. Peter
232
Grasslands of Argentina
Pampas
233
# Carries water and nutrients
Woody tissue in vascular plants
Xylem
234
# Carries food from the leaves
Living tissure in vascular plants
Phloem
235
# Swedish king associated with the 30 Years' War
Lion of the North
Gustavus Adolphus
236
Study of peas
Gregor Mendel
237
Greek teacher - taught Plato
Socrates
238
Greek teacher - taught Aristotle
Plato
239
Greek teacher - taught Alexander the Great
Aristotle
240
Uncertainty principle
Werner Heisenberg
241
# Communist offensive - 1968
Vietnamese New Year
Tet
242
Slapping a soldier
George S. Patton
243
Sea that touches Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Baltic Sea
244
Williamette Valley
Oregon
245
Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
246
Novel set in London and Paris
A Tale of Two Cities
| Charles Dickens
247
President Madison's War
War of 1812
248
President Truman's War
Korean War
249
President Polk's War
Mexican-American War
250
Sacbut
Trombone
251
Stone mountain
Georgia
252
Artist associated with Henry VIII
Hans Holbein the Younger
253
Great Compromiser
Henry Clay
254
Campbell's Soup Cans
Andy Warhol
| Diabetes
255
Leopold Bloom
Ulysses
| James Joyce
256
White Man's Burden
Rudyard Kipling
257
Architecture - Early 20th century Germany
| Associated with Walter Gropius
Bauhaus
258
Lightest of the Halogens
Fluorine
259
Lord protector of England
Oliver Cromwell
260
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin
261
Society of Jesus
Jesuits
| Loyola
262
Group of schoolboys stranded on an island
Lord of the Flies
| William Golding
263
Italian violinist
Niccolo Paganini
264
Tom and Laura Wingfield
The Glass Menagerie
| Tennessee Williams
265
Large desert in Namibia
| Bushmen of...
Kalahari
266
Latin phrase "Out of many, one"
E Pluribus Unum
267
Rubaiyat
Omar Khayyam
268
The Planets
Gustav Holst
269
Demeter's Crew
Dracula
| Bram Stoker
270
Winston Smith
1984
| George Orwell
271
Angiosperms
Flowering plants
272
Gymnosperms
Conifers, cycads, ginko
273
All phases at equilibrium
Triple point
274
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mocking Bird
| Harper Lee
275
# British PM
David Cameron
Labour Party
276
First president of France's fifth republic
Charles de Gaulle
277
Islet of Langerhans
Pancreas
| Diabetes
278
Virgin Queen - Last monarch of the house Tudor
| Reigned during the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Elizabeth I
279
French government during WWII
Vichy France
| Philippe Pétain
280
1794 Pennsylvanian rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
281
Swedish chemist
Alfred Nobel
282
Son of Pepin the Short
Charlemagne
| First HRE Emperor
283
Son of Agamemnon
Orestes
284
My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle
285
City of God
St. Augustine
286
"...with all deliberate speed"
Brown v Board of Education
287
Short-short-short-long motif
| Fate knocking at the door
Beethoven's Symphony No. 5
288
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
289
# Bivalve
Radula
Mollusca
290
This Is Not a Pipe
| The Treachery of Images
Rene Magritte
291
Jack the Dripper
Jackson Pollock
292
Electrons emitted from a metal when exposed to light
Photoelectric effect
293
Ramon Mercader assassinated
Leon Trotsky
294
# Spanish Civil War
Bombing of a Basque Town
Guernica
295
English king at the Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
296
Ore from which we get Aluminum
Bauxite
297
Northernmost capital in the world
Reykjavik, Iceland
298
French town that British troops evacuated
Dunkirk
299
Afro-American cultural movement of the 1920's
Harlem Renaissance
300
Polish leader of solidarity
Lech Walesa
301
Three sisters who spun the thread of human destiny
Fates
302
Russian alphabet
Cyrillic
303
Heaviest element to be liquid at room temperature
Mercury
304
Moscow cathedral
St. Basil's
305
Stores bile
Gall Bladder
306
Japanese emperor during WWII
Michinomiya Hirohito
307
Painter of landscapes of the southwest
Georgia O'Keefe
308
Tiny air sacs in the lungs
Alveoli
309
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekov
310
Chemical element that makes up most of Pewter
Tin
311
Largest artificial lake in the United States
Lake Mead
| Nevada/Arizona
312
The Waltz King
Johannes Strauss
313
"Call me Ishmael"
Moby Dick
| Herman Melville
314
Voltaire novel
Candide
315
19th century meeting which called for women's rights
Seneca Falls Convention
316
20th century movement in drama led by Samuel Beckett
Theater of the Absurd
317
Fossilized resin of ancient trees
Amber
318
Founder of the Quaker Protestant Faith
George Fox
319
Founder of the Jehovah's Witness Protestant Faith
Charles T. Russell
320
Founder of the Mormon Protestant Faith
Joseph Smith
321
Founder of the Methodism Protestant Faith
John Wesley
322
Founder of the Presbyterian Protestant Faith
John Calvin
323
Opera - Opening of the Suez Canal
Aida
| Giuseppe Verdi
324
Bowman's capsules
Kidneys
325
The Third of May 1808
Francisco de Goya
326
Palace - Grenada, Spain
Alhambra
327
# Greek word for air
Solo voice with instrumental accompaniment often associated with opera
Aria
328
River in Venezuela
Orinoco
329
Transylvania
Romania
330
Becky Sharp
Vanity Fair
| William Makepeace Thackeray
331
Island - Paul Gaugin
Tahiti
332
Wedge shaped writing
Cuneiform
333
18th century American preacher and his sermon
Jonathon Edwards
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
334
County in Mississippi associated with Faulkner
Yoknapatawpha
335
First Jewish Supreme Court justice
Louis Brandeis
336
Roman road
Appian Way
337
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Only state to have unicameral legislature
Nebraska
338
Presidents of Universities - Princeton
Woodrow Wilson
339
Presidents of Universities - Columbia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
340
Africa's largest lake
Lake Victoria
| Uganda/Tanzania
341
Madrid art museum
Prado
342
Aztec god
Quetzalcoatl
343
The Frond
| French uprising
Louis XIV
344
Trisomy 21
Down Syndrome
345
Prehistoric french cave
Lascaux Cave
346
Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus
Rosa Parks
347
First state to grant suffrage to women
Wyoming
348
"I Shall Return"
Douglas MacArthur
| Phillipines
349
Cuban Hill
San Juan Hill
| Thoedore Roosevelt
350
Form of Japanese Theater using singing, dancing and makeup
Kabuki
351
Lake which connects the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers
| On the border of New York and Vermont
Lake Champlain
352
Tacoma and Seattle are found on which body of water
Puget Sound
353
Welsh alcoholic
Dylan Thomas
354
Hard covering of the pupa of a butterfly
Chrysalis
355
The two territories on the German/French border
Alsace - Lorraine
356
Earliest Mesopotamian civilization
Sumerians
357
Battle between ancient Egyptians and the Hittites
Kadesh
| Syria/Lebanon border
358
Model parliament
Edward I
359
Membrane surrounding the lungs
Pleura
360
Ancient Incan city Degas
Machu Picchu
361
King of Crete
Minos
362
Father of public education in the US
Horace Mann
363
Mountain range of North Africa
Atlas Mountains
364
Australian rock
| Middle of Australia
Ayers
365
Prehistoric cliff dwellings in Colorado
Mesa Verde
366
Tom and Maggie Tulliver
Mill on the Floss
| George Eliot
367
Lennie Small and George Milton
Of Mice and Men
| John Steinbeck
368
Temple in Cambodia
Angkor Wat
369
Art - Wild beasts
Fauvism
370
Philanthropic steel magnate
| Libraries
Andrew Carnegie
371
Oil magnate
John D. Rockefeller
372
Railroad magnate
| The Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt
373
Author who typed his name in lowercase letters
ee cummings
374
Union of two gametes
Zygote
375
# Dominican monk
Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition
Tomas de Torquemada
376
Produced by the Haber process
Ammonia
| NH3
377
First female in space
Valentina Tereshkova
378
First female American in space
Sally Ride
379
Muslim holy month
Ramadan
380
Portuguese dictator
Antonio Salazar
381
President of North Vietnam
| Formerly
Ho Chi Minh
382
Washington Irving story
Rip Van Winkle
383
Formosa
Taiwan
384
Drip painting
Jackson Pollock
385
Polish composer
Frederic Chopin
386
# Stuck head in oven to commit suicide
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
387
Addok
Aleution islands
| Alaska
388
"those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana
389
Liberty Leading the People
Eugene Delacroix
390
Most abundant protein in the body
Collagen
391
Good Earth
Pearl Buck
392
Founder of the Jesuits
Ignatius Loyola
393
Property of a metal that describes its ability to be hammered into shapes
Malleability
394
First president to live in the White House
John Adams
395
Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray
396
Two natural satellites of Mars
Phobos and Deimos
397
Who was the leader of the French Impressionist movement and painted Water Lilies?
Claude Monet
398
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
John Jay
399
Proper name for the stirrup shape ossicle in the middle ear
Stapes
400
Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
401
What battle did Napoleon consider to be his most impressive victory?
Austerlitz
402
In which of Shakespeare's plays is the title character named Antonio?
Merchant of Venice
403
Martha Jane Canary
Calamity Jane
404
What English metaphysical poet wrote the lyric poem To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
405
What scientist was in charge of the project which achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942?
Enrico Fermi
406
Where in the body would you find the Tympanic Membrane?
Ear
407
Who was the Russian author of the Cherry Orchard?
Anton Chekov
408
What Sinclair Lewis novel tells of Carol Kenicott, a city woman who marries a small town doctor in the Midwest
Main Street
409
Which opera star was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?
Jenny Lind
410
What Nazi occupied nation in the Second World War was led by a puppet government under Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling?
Norway
411
Who is given credit for inventing the air brake for trains?
George Westinghouse
412
Who is the only 20th century president never to attend college?
Harry Truman
413
What famous Greek dramatist wrote the play Antigone?
Sophocles
414
What was the name give to the nationalistic western congressmen who were eager for war against Britain before the War of 1812?
War Hawks
415
Who was the first Republican to be elected president?
Abraham Lincoln
416
What mythical place serves as the setting for James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon?
Shangri-La
417
Which amendment prohibits double jepardy?
5th
418
Which modern scientist proved that blood circulates through the body?
William Harvey
419
Who wrote Far From the Madding Crowd?
Warren Harding
420
What is the mineral name for rock salt?
Halite
421
Who were the two brothers of Helen of Troy? They were placed together in the constellation Gemini
Castor and Pollux
422
Name the fifth wife of Henry VIII. She was convicted of adultery and beheaded
Catherine Howard
423
What famous literary character was described by his creator as "a boy who wouldn't grow up"?
Peter Pan
424
What is the largest lake in Africa?
Lake Victoria
425
Name the Robert Louis Stevenson character that narrated Treasure Island
Jim HawkinsI
426
Identify the famous author of the Aeneid
Virgil
