Rand 3.5

Question 1

This anthology of English lit is now in its 10th edition, supervised by Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt

Answer 1

The Norton Anthology

Question 2

This scholar put together the most complete catalog of Mozart’s work in chronological order, the source of the K. numbers

Answer 2

Kochel

Question 3

More than 15,000 feet up, the world’s highest intl. paved road is the Karakoram Highway, shared by these 2 countries

Answer 3

Pakistan and China

Question 4

This English scholar was the first European to discover Lake Tanganyika

Answer 4

Sir Richard Burton

Question 5

In “The American Scholar”, he wrote that “Character is higher than intellect”

Answer 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson (Transcendentalism) “Self Reliance” “Nature” “The American Scholar”

Question 6

It’s the only state from which rainwater flows to the Pacific, the Atlantic & Hudson Bay

Answer 6

Montana

Question 7

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Answer 7

Old Ironsides poet

Question 8

This country is home to the highest mountain outside Asia

Answer 8

Argentina (Mt Aconcagua)

Question 9

the only country crossed by both the Tropic of Capricorn & the equator

Answer 9

Brazil

Question 10

This metal, the lightest solid element, was discovered here in Sweden by J.A. Arfvedson

Answer 10

Lithium

Question 11

The title character of this Puccini opera kisses her son goodbye before taking her own life with her father’s dagger

Answer 11

Madame Butterfly

Question 12

Wagner opera with “Here Comes the Bride”

Answer 12

Lohengrin

Question 13

Wagner called this not an opera but a music drama

Answer 13

Parsifal (Arthur knight Parsifal searches for the Holy Grail)

Question 14

Danish architect of Sydney opera house

Answer 14

Utzon

Question 15

Brazilian acrhitecture

Answer 15

Oscar Niemeyer

Question 16

Japanese states

Answer 16

Prefectures

Question 17

First black American in space

Answer 17

Guion Bluford

Question 18

Prominent Bostonians

Answer 18

Brahmins

Question 19

The Karakoram Highway connects China to this country via the Himalayas & Hindu Kush

Answer 19

Pakistan

Question 20

The shorter of the 2 great epic poems of ancient India, its title translates from Sanskrit as “Rama’s Exploits”

Answer 20

The Ramayana

Question 21

The Rio Grande forms part of the border between these 2 U.S. states

Answer 21

NM and Texas

Question 22

7 daughters of Atlas & Pleione are known as these

Answer 22

The Pleiades

Question 23

Brightest star night sky

Answer 23

Sirius (Dog Star)

Question 24

Atlas Shrugged character

Answer 24

John Galt

Question 25

Ain’t I a Woman

Answer 25

Sojourner Truth

Question 26

Most common woman’s right response

Answer 26

Susan B Anthony

Question 27

Vegas mobster, died in LA

Answer 27

Bugsy Siegel

Question 28

Named for its 2 distinct regions, this Canadian province on the Atlantic is the most easterly part of North America

Answer 28

Newfoundland and Labrador

Question 29

Franklin Pierce VP sworn in in Cuba

Answer 29

King, died shortly afterward

Question 30

“I had a lover’s quarrel with the world” is on the burial marker of this poet in a Bennington Cemetery

Answer 30

Frost

Question 31

First American evangelical

Answer 31

Cotton Mather

Question 32

Discovered Pluto

Answer 32

Tombaugh

Question 33

Discovered Neptune

Answer 33

Le Verrier

Question 34

Discovered Uranus

Answer 34

HERschel

Question 35

Discovered Saturn rings and Titan

Answer 35

Huygens

Question 36

Discovered gap in Saturn rings

Answer 36

Cassini

Question 37

Second largest asteroid

Answer 37

Vesta

Question 38

Greek God hunting

Answer 38

Artemis (Diana)— unmarried