October and December with some off hit list

Question 1

Verdi opera is about a hunchback and a duke

Answer 1

Rigoletto

Question 2

Wrote the Spoon River Anthology

Answer 2

Masters

Question 3

River that runs through Rome

Answer 3

Tiber

Question 4

Won the Democratic nomination without entering any of the 14 state primaries

Answer 4

Hubert Humphrey (lost to Nixon, was previously Johnson’s VP, running mate was Muskee)

Question 5

Chicago poet

Answer 5

Carl Sandburg

Question 6

Auld Mug

Answer 6

America’s Cup

Question 7

Wrote Flowers for Algernon

Answer 7

Keyes (about lab mouse that becomes smart)

Question 8

Was Helen Keller’s tutor

Answer 8

Anne Sullivan

Question 9

Mexican Revolution leader

Answer 9

Zapata

Question 10

Cross of Gold speech

Answer 10

William Jennnings Bryan (ran for President three times, SecState under Wilson, Boy Orator)

Question 11

Poet who could charm all living things, traveled with Jason and Argos

Answer 11

Orpheus

Question 12

Damn the torpedos!

Answer 12

Farragut

Question 13

Killed Medusa

Answer 13

Perseus

Question 14

Noble gas 36– weakens supers

Answer 14

Krypton

Question 15

Most important paleoanthropological site in Great Rift Valley

Answer 15

Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania

Question 16

Most common scale in Western music

Answer 16

Heptatonic

Question 17

Founder of Mormonism

Answer 17

Jospeh Smith– killed at Carthage

Question 18

Queen of Carthage

Answer 18

Dido

Question 19

Thornton Wilder Our Town setting

Answer 19

Grovers Corner, NH

Question 20

Turn of the Screw author

Answer 20

Henry JAMES(town–old)

Question 21

First personal Greek poet and source of much of mythology

Answer 21

Hesiod

Question 22

Fruit fly biologist

Answer 22

Morgan

Question 23

The Devil and Daniel Webster author

Answer 23

Stephen Vincent Benet

Question 24

Tiny gland in brain that regulates circadian rhythm

Answer 24

Pineal gland

Question 25

Philip Marlowe creator

Answer 25

Raymond Chandler

Question 26

Host of the Voice

Answer 26

Carson Daly

Question 27

wrote “The Odd Couple”, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Lost in Yonkers

Answer 27

Neil Simon

Question 28

Largest river in NW

Answer 28

Columbia

Question 29

Mr Cub baseball player

Answer 29

Ernie Banks

Question 30

Tried to restore Western empire, his general Belisarius, reconquered North Africa

Answer 30

Justinian

Question 31

18th President

Answer 31

Grant

Question 32

Invented the term “gas” (from the Greek word “chaos”)

Answer 32

Van Helmont

Question 33

Geisel, penn name

Answer 33

Dr Seuss

Question 34

To a Skylark poem

Answer 34

Percy Shelley

Question 34

Shakespeare play about Trojan War

Answer 34

Troilus and Cressida

Question 35

Mary Shelley mother

Answer 35

Mary Wollstonecraft (A Vindication of the Rights of Woman authoress)

Question 36

Four books of Gospel

Answer 36

MMLJ (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John)

Question 37

Flows from MN and ND border to Lake Winnipeg in Manitoba and eventually into Hudson Bay

Answer 37

Red River of the North

Question 38

Largest non Great Lake lake in Canada

Answer 38

Great Bear Lake

Question 39

Longest river Mexico

Answer 39

Rio Grande

Question 40

Longest river UK

Answer 40

Severn

Question 41

Longest river India

Answer 41

Indus

Question 42

Magum opus of this poet is "The Prelude"

Answer 42

Wordsworth

Question 43

Style of Renaissance architecture associated with Michelangelo and balance

Answer 43

Mannerism

Question 44

Author son killed in WW1

Answer 44

Kipling

Question 45

Married Ted Hughes

Answer 45

Sylvia Plath

Question 46

Wrote Marley and Me

Answer 46

Joe Grogan

Question 47

First African to win NP for Literature

Answer 47

Soyinka

Question 48

Dutch exotic dancer executed by Germans in WW1 for spying

Answer 48

Mata Hari

Question 49

Centremost of Seven Hills of Rome

Answer 49

Palatine

Question 50

French comet hunter

Answer 50

Messier

Question 51

Old Kingdom of Egypt opera

Answer 51

Aida by Verdi (premiered in Cairo, then moved to La Scala in Milan)

Question 52

Anesthesia creator Boston

Answer 52

Morton (like smelling salts)

Question 53

Roman "Geography"

Answer 53

Strabo

Question 54

Music notation at ease

Answer 54

adagio

Question 55

"Fire when ready, Gridley"-- in Manila

Answer 55

Dewey

Question 56

The Colossus and Other Poems

Answer 56

Sylvia Plath

Question 57

Father of History

Answer 57

Herodotus

Question 58

Latin: "from one party only"

Answer 58

ex parte

Question 59

Roman architect

Answer 59

Vitruvius

Question 60

Declined knighthood, buried at Westminster Abbey

Answer 60

Kipling

Question 61

Nebraska fort in Old West

Answer 61

Fort Kearny

Question 62

Canyon Evil Knievel jumped

Answer 62

Snake River Canyon in Idaho

Question 63

New York City playwright

Answer 63

Neil Simon

Question 65

Uncle Vanya playwright

Answer 65

Chekov

Question 68

The Myth of Sisyphus, Caligula playwright

Answer 68

Camus

Question 72

The Night of the Iguana playwright

Answer 72

Tennesse Williams

Question 73

Works with chimps in Tanzania

Answer 73

Goodall

Question 74

Agatha Christie female detective

Answer 74

Miss Marple

Question 75

Worked with gorillas, killed in Rwanda

Answer 75

Fossey

Question 76

The Ice Man Cometh playwright

Answer 76

Eugene O'Neill

Question 77

The Queen of Country

Answer 77

Reba McEntire

Question 78

These numbers are in order

Answer 78

Ordinal

Question 79

Black Canadian American inventor of steam engine lubricator

Answer 79

Elijah McCoy

Question 80

Most famous Greek playwright

Answer 80

Sophocles (Electra, Ajax)

Question 81

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Answer 81

Dee Brown takes its title from the final phrase of Stephen Vincent Benét (author of The Devil and Daniel Webster story) poem "American Names".

Question 82

Author who was first person to use a truth tree

Answer 82

Lewis Carroll (Dodgson)

Question 83

Dune author

Answer 83

Frank Herbert

Question 84

Ode to a kNightengale

Answer 84

Keats

Question 85

Oxygen number on periodic table

Answer 85

8

Question 85

Most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body

Answer 85

oxygen

Question 86

These two gave birth to the Titans and the Cyclopes

Answer 86

Gaia and Uranus

Question 87

20th c Barcelona surrealism

Answer 87

Miro

Question 88

Previously known as Saigon

Answer 88

Ho Chi Minh City (he put his name on it after he conquered it)

Question 89

Property law acquisition by squatting

Answer 89

adverse possession

Question 90

Observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years

Answer 90

Moore's law

Question 91

Most goals in soccer-- Canadian woman

Answer 91

Sinclair (Ronaldo has most for men)

Question 92

Black Boy author

Answer 92

Richard Wright (from MS)

Question 93

Hot Jewish chick from Community

Answer 93

Alison Brie (married to Dave Franco)

Question 94

Bella Ramsey is kid actress in this HBO dystopian show

Answer 94

The Last of Us

Question 95

also known as the Black or Japan Current or the Black Stream

Answer 95

Kuroshio Current

Question 96

High Fidelity and About a Boy

Answer 96

Nick Hornby