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History 4 I think Flashcards

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In what election year did Thomas Eagleton’s history of electroshock therapy cost him a spot on the democratic ticket

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1972

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What man’s argument in Smith v Allwright led to the end of all white primaries

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Thurgood Marshall

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What war had a battle where the commander of the Niagara defeated Robert Barclay’s fleet at Put-In-Bay

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War of 1812

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What man surrendered aboard the HMS Bellerophon to end the Hundred Days

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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What empire’s forces repulsed an attack by Lord Cardigan at the Battle of Balaclava

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Russia

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What order from Andrew Jackson required government land to be paid for with gold and silver, and caused the Panic of 1837

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Specie Circular

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What country’s king met with FDR on the USS Quincy after he left the Yalta conference

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Saudia Arabia

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What woman did Henry the 8th marry following Anne Boelyn’s execution

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Jane Seymour

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What king was the successor to Henry the 8th

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Edward the 6th

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What daughter of Anne Boleyn outlived Edward VI and Mary I and became queen of England 1558

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Elizabeth I

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What Argentinian Nazi was captured and executed in Israel

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Adolf Eichmann

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What king gained hegemony over Greece after his victory at Chaeronea

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Phillip II

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What empire sparked a wider conflict by destroying an enemy fleet at the Battle of Sinop

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Russia

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What country’s Sampo generation refers to young people who have given up on marriage and children

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South Korea

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What organization carried out the covert Operation Wrath of God in the 1970s to assassinate members of Black September

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Mossad

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What text’s earliest portions were made for the Great Wife Mentuhotep and describes a negative confession which denies performing any of 42 sins that tip the scale of Maat

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Book of the Dead

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What war did Theodore Roosevelt write a naval history of

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War of 1812

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Who is the president of Brazil

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Lula da Silva

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What country was formerly known as British Honduras

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Belize

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What is the most populous country in central America

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Guatemala

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What man was exiled for 6 years in the Longwood House Mansion

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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What communist revolutionary group was supressed during the 1990s by the government of Alberto Fujimori

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Shining Path

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What country were Shining Path and Tupac Amaru active

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Peru

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What position was held by Alberto Fujimori and Kofi Annan

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Secretary General of the United Nations

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What country contains the Little Belt and Great Belt straits on it’s island of Funen in the Kattegat

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Denmark

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What period’s ending was protested by the student Jan Palach by public self-immolation

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Prague Spring

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What person was stabbed with a letter opener by Izola Curry during a book signing in an incident he recalled where he repeated the phrase “If I had sneezed”

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MLK

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What real life River is called the Sindhu River in the Rig Veda

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Indus River

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What man arranged Wilhem the firsts coronation and unified Germany in his role as Prussian chancellor

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Otto Von Bismarck

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What drive was started by Otto Von Bismarck and Adalbert Falk to reduce catholic influence in Germany

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Kulturkampf

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What city’s regulations were struck down in Yick Wo v Hopkins

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San Francisco

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What justice wrote that the Chinese were utterly foreign and was the lone dissenter in Plessy v Ferguson

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John Marshall Harlan

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What lake borders and is named for a Swiss City

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Geneva

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What kingdom’s soldiers were killed at Blood River by troops under Andries Pretorius

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Zulu

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What woman founded the Women’s Social and Political Union along with her sister Christabell

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Emille Pankhurst

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What country was the home of an explorer that led the first team to fly over the North Pole in an airship

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Norway

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What man caused Roscoe Conkling to resign due to his appointments which defied the stalwart Republicans

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James Garfield

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What term refers to the tumultuous division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan

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Partition

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What Muslim leader led Pakistan during the partition

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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What woman succeeded John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court in 2010

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Elena Kagan

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What position represents the federal government before the Supreme Court

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Solicitor General

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What king was saved from defeat by his enemies delay after the Battle of Kunersdorf and by the death of Russia’s Empress Elizabeth

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Frederick the Great

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Who signed a 1903 treaty along with John Hay, and served as Panama’s ambassador to the US

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Philippe Bunau-Varilla

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What man returned to the Theseus to have his right arm amputated before continuing to command a failed attack on the Canary Islands

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Horatio Nelson

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In what year did student protest strikes almost topple Frances government

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1968

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What man gained his highest office after Tom Clark resigned so that Clark’s son Ramsey could become attorney general

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Thurgood Marshall

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What prison west of Baghdad was abused by the US military during the Iraq War

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Abu Ghraib

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What journalist broke the Abu Ghraib scandal and the My Lai massacre as a reporter in Vietnam

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Seymour Hersh

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What man took over in South Korea after Douglass Mcarthur was dismissed

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Matthew Ridgeway

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50
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What man was shot along with JFK

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John Connally

51
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What campaign slogan was used to endorse William Henry Harrison in the election of 1840

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Tippecanoe and Tyler Too

52
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What party did William Henry Harrison run with

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Whigs

53
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What party nominated James G Birney twice and drew votes from Henry Clay in the election of 1844

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Liberty party

54
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What country’s explorer discovered and named Labrador

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Portugal

55
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In what state was Abraham Lincoln’s friend Elmer Ellsworth shot while lowering a confederate flag at the Marshall house

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Virginia

56
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What quantity did St Louis provide at Pruitt-Igoe

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Housing

57
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What conflict’s results were unsuccessfully overturned by the Project National Glory

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Chinese Civil War

58
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What family had two sons of the same name, one called The Unfortunate, and the other The Gouty

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Medici

59
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What man’s economic development program ended in the so called ‘great break’

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Vladimir Lenin

60
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What man was provided with a general uniform and filmed battles by the Mutual Film Company

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Pancho VIlla

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What type of ancient military unit was usually formed from a group of cohorts

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Roman legion

63
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What emperor cried out ‘Quintillius Varus give me back my legions’

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Augustus caeser

64
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What president and his wife Lou spoke in Chinese to have private conversations in the White House

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Herbert Hoover

65
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What ancient city’s name comes from the Sindhi word for mound of the dead

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Mohenjo daro

66
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What country’s were involved in the Auld Alliance

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Scotland and France

67
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What country’s invasion caused Edward I to construct the largest trebuchet ever built

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Scotland

68
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What country was victorious at Stirling Bridge

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Scotland

69
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What man was victorious at Sterling Bridge but was later betrayed by John de Menteith

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William Wallace

70
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What character is humiliated in the aria ‘questa Donna conoscete’

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La Traviata (or Violeta Valery)

71
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What painting can be seen hanging in an artist’s portrait of Emile Zola

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Olympia (Manet)

72
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What figure is depicted in a Raphael painting where Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara flank the title woman

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Mary

73
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What 31 BC naval battle did Octavian beat Mark Antony and Cleopatra

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Battle of Actium

74
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What prohibition era crime fighter was the public safety director of Cleveland and helped bring down Al Capone

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Eliot Ness

75
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What committee ruled France at the height of the Reign of Terror

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Committee of Public Safety

76
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Who founded an all black college in Daytona Florida and was known as the First Lady of the Struggle

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Mary McLeod Bethune

77
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What group advises the president on issues of national defense

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Joint chiefs of staff

78
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In what absurdist play by Eugene Ionesco do the inhabitants of a French town turn into rampaging animals

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Rhinoceros

79
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What confederate general commanded the assault on Fort Sumter

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PGT Beauregard

80
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What Bosch painting depicts the earth as a grihzye sphere

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Garden of Earthly Delights

81
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What author of The Idea of Order at Key West broke his hand punching Ernest Hemingway

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Wallace Stevens

82
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What piano piece’s four movements are all named for literary figures

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Concord Sonata

83
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Who wrote In Cold Blood and Answered Prayers

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Truman Capote

84
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What city’s Thomas Eagleton Courthouse is the largest courthouse in the US

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St Louis

85
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What country’s communist leader was executed along with his wife Elena on Christmas

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Romania

86
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What island contained the labyrinth

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Crete

87
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Who was the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women

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Betty Friedan

88
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What is the only African country where Spanish is an official language

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Equatorial Guinea

89
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What type of contrapuntal compositions feature expositions

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Fugue

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What composer was inspired by Bach to write a work that alternates fugues and interludes in every key

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Paul Hindemith

91
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What British economist wrote the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

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Keynes

92
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What 1933 play is set in small town Connecticut

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Ah! Wilderness

93
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What American bay comes from a word meaning ‘of the small point’

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Narragansett Bay

94
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What empire did the Duke of Kasheass fight for in the war of the triple alliance

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Brazil

95
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What book does the explorer Raphael Hythloday narrate most of

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Utopia

96
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What abstract computational machines are named for a UK scientist

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Turing Machine

97
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What poem ends by describing the ‘herbs and flowers’ of the title location

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The Garden

98
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What poem describes a woman reluctant to love the speaker

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To his Coy Mistress

99
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Who wrote The Garden and To His Coy Mistress

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Andrew Marvell

100
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What alkali metal’s ores are sylvite and langbenight

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Potassium

101
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What ‘massacre’ did Richard Nixon spark by ordering Elliot Richardson to fire the Watergate special prosecutor

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Saturday Night Massacre

102
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Who was the Watergate Special Prosecutor

A

Archibald Cox

103
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What solicitor general fired Archibald Cox and was rejected for his 1987 nomination to the Supreme Court

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Robert Bork

104
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What school of philosophers was named for a German city

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Frankfurt School

105
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What movement did Immanuel Kant define as ‘man’s emergence from his self-incurred immaturity’

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Enlightenment

106
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What French Jesuit missionary joined an expedition led by Louis Joliet the explored much of the Mississippi River

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Marquette

107
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What river runs from Colorado to the Mississippi River

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Arkansas River

108
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In what second to last process of mitosis is a replicated chromosome pulled in two

A

Anaphase

109
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What protein tags other proteins for degradation in almost all eukaryotic types

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Ubiquitin

110
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What structures on sister chromatids do spindle fibers attach to

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Kinetochores

111
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What author wrote The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope

112
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What author wrote of the ‘Art of Sinking in Poetry’ in his treatise Peri Bathous

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Alexander Pope

113
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What British physician did Alexander Pope ask ‘who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel’ referring to a form of torture

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John Arbuthnot

114
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What Roman author did Alexander Pope create ‘imitations of’

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Horace

115
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What curves appear on snail shells

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Spirals

116
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What artist depicted an eye whose iris is a cloud-filled sky in The False Mirror

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Rene Magritte

117
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What man painted a series in which daytime skies are contrasted with nighttime streets in The Empire of Light

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Rene Magritte

118
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What poems narrator criticizes the ‘zest’ of a friend who tells the ‘old Lie’ to children ardent for some desperate glory

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Dulce et Decorum Est

119
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What man sailed by Greenland after hearing of Brian Herjolfsson’s voyage

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Leif Eriksson

120
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What structures can be observed using quinacrine banding

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Chromosomes

121
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What structures can be observed by fluorescence in Situ hybridization

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Chromosomes

122
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What man’s band’s saxophonist Paul Gonsalves played a 27 chorus solo in his ‘Crescendo and Diminuendo in Blue’

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Duke Ellingtin

123
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What musician wrote ‘Jeep’s Blues’ for his band mate Johnny Hodges

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Duke Ellington

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What musician led the Cotton Club Orchestra in the 1920s

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Duke Ellington

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