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1
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What is Venus De Miller

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A sculpture created by unknown person

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2
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What is a Sonatina

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a small sonata

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3
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What is a Concertino

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A small concerto

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What is a Concerto Grosso

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a baroque composition in which a small group of solo instruments play with an orchestra

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5
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Who is D’Artagnan

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a character created by Dumas in the three musketeers

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6
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Who is Gatsby

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A character created by Fitzgerald in the Great Gatsby

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7
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Who is Victor Hugo

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He wrote Les Miserables

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8
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Who is Mendelssohn

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a 19th century composer 1809-1847

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9
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Who was the majority party in in revolutionary Russia

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Bolshevik

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10
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Who were the Minority party in Revolutionary Russia

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Mensheviks

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11
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Who is Peirce

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major philosopher in the pragmatist movement

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12
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Who is Sartre

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major philosopher in the existentialist movement

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13
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C# (c sharp) instrumentally are played the same as what note

A

Dd

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14
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B# ( B sharp) is played the same as what note

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C

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15
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What did Sousa compose

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He composed primarily Marches

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16
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What did Verdi compose

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Primarily Operas

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17
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What is an invocation

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It starts a religious service.

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18
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What is a benediction

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it finishes a religious service

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What is a diocese

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a district under the care of a Bishop

20
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Where was David the painter from

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France

21
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Where was Van Dyck the painter from

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Flanders. He was Flemish. ( a part of Belgium)

22
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What is Deontology

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The study of ethics

23
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Who was Calvin Coolidge

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30th President

24
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Who was Franklin Pierce

A

14th President

25
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Who is Pontius Pilate

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He sentenced Jesus to Death

26
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Who is Creon

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He sentenced Antigone to death

27
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What is the last book in the bible

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Deuteronomy

28
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What is the origin of the name Diana

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Roman for the goddess of the moon and hunting

29
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What is the origin of the name Artemis

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Greek for the goddess of the moon and hunting

30
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What is the origin of the name Hera

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Greek goddess of women and marriage

31
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What is the origin of the name Minerva

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Roman goddess of warriors, poetry, and medicine

32
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What is Minerva Greek name

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Athena

33
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Who is Eugene Debs

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A social who ran for president and lost

34
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Who is Adlai Stevenson

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A democrat who ran for president and lost

35
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what is a steeple

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it protrudes from a top a church

36
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What is a Minaret

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it protrudes from a top of a Mosque

37
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Who is August Strindberg

A

He wrote plays

38
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Who is Leonard Bernstein

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He was a conductor

39
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Who is Arthur Rubinstein

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He was a Pianist

40
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Who assassinated President Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

41
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Who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand in 1914

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Gavrilo Princip

42
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What instrument did John Coltrane play

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Saxophone

43
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Where was prophet Mohamed born

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Mecca

44
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Who guards the gates to heaven according to some beliefs

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St. Peter

45
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Who guards the gates to Hades according to some beliefs

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Cerberus - The 3 headed dog

46
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Who wrote the non-sensical poem Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll

47
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Who wrote the non-sensical poem r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r

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e.e Cummings

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