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Question 1

BBC gang show set in Birmingham after WW1 with Adrien Brody

Answer 1

Peaky Blinders

Question 2

One of the first Sophists, from Sicily, rhetoric

Answer 2

Gorgias

Question 3

Hippocrates was from

Answer 3

Kos

Question 4

Only Pres to have two VPs die under him

Answer 4

Madison (Gerry and Clinton)

Question 5

Elevator safety device inventor

Answer 5

Otis

Question 6

Russian for West

Answer 6

Zapad

Question 7

Former PL-DE border river

Answer 7

Oder

Question 8

the little fleshy hanging ball in the back of your throat

Answer 8

uvula (means grape)

Question 9

He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Wrote Metamorphosis

Answer 9

Ovid

Question 10

Poet and scholar who helped start the Italian Renaissance. Wrote Canzoniere

Answer 10

Petrarch

Question 11

Roman Emp era Greek Historian, biographer, and priest who wrote Parallel Lives and Moralia

Answer 11

Plutarch.

Served as a priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi

Question 12

Title of the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi

Answer 12

Pythia

Question 13

World’s first postage stamp

Answer 13

Penny Black (Queen Victoria, 1840)

Question 14

the first African American featured on a U.S. postage stamp

Answer 14

Booker T Washington

Question 15

Swedish diplomat who helped save tens of thousands of Jews during WWII

Answer 15

Wallenberg

Question 16

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, she brought her danse sauvage to Paris in 1925 & became a French citizen in 1937

Answer 16

Josephine Baker

Question 17

Black female American opera singer

Answer 17

Leontyne Price

Question 18

Representing Texas from 1973 to 1979, she was the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress

Answer 18

Barbara Jordan