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The Stone Breakers

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Gustave Courbet

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symphony based on its composer’s vacation to Spillville, Iowa

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New World Symphony

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New World Symphony

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Antonín Dvořák

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Toccata and Fugue in D minor

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J S Bach

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24 preludes and fugues

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Well-Tempered Clavier

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Golden Temple is in this city

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Amritsar

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Voodoo spirits such as Papa Legba

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Ioa

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Lyric Pieces

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Edvard Grieg

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collection written for the 200th birthday of a Norwegian-born playwright.

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Holberg Suite (Edvard Grieg)

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painting that depicts multiple images of the Venus de Milo in addition to a bullfighter

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The Hallucinogenic Toreador (Dali)

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Wife of Salvador Dali

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Gala Dali

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sect of Mahayana Buddhism is based on tantras

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Esoteric

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13
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1883 eruption created the loudest noise in recorded history

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Krakatoa

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14
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aria in which the Queen of the Night tries to persuade Pamina to kill her rival Sarastro.

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Der Holle Rache`

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Doctor Atomic

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John Coolidge Adams

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opera set in South Carolina

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Porgy and Bess (Gershwin)

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Rhapsody in Blue

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George Gershwin

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Biblically-inspired song in Porgy and Bess

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It aint necessarily so

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people who sculpted the Chimera of Arezzo

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Etruscans

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20
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metal used for most of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures

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Bronze

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21
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Concerto for Lute and Plucked Strings

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Vivaldi

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continuously crescendoing work that begins with a snare ostinato and a flute playing the main theme

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Bolero

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Russian ballerina who commissioned Bolero

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Rubinstein

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five-movement suite written to celebrate the signing of the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

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Music for the Royal Fireworks

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who wrote the coronation anthem Zadok the Priest

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Handel

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26
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capital at Basseterre, smallest carribean country

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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27
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21 nocturnes and the Revolutionary Étude

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Chopin

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28
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The sight of a small dog chasing its tail supposedly inspired this famous Chopin piece

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Minute Waltz

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29
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Nessun dorma

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Puccini

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30
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Lauretta threatens to throw herself into the Arno if her father does not approve of her marriage to Rinuccio

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O mio babbino caro (Puccini)

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31
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24 Caprices

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Paganini

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32
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Pesaro Madonna

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Titian

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33
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title figure wears a bracelet on her right arm, and her right hand holds a bunch of flowers

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Venus of Urbino (Titian)

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34
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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.

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Koans

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35
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Zen is said to have been originated from this sermon Siddhartha Gautama gave to his disciples

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Flower sermon

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36
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Orchestras tune to this instrument

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Oboe

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37
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Oboe Sonata in D Major

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Camille Saint-Saens

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38
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book containing hymns mostly dedicated to Agni and Indra

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Rig Veda

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39
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group of French composers

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Les six

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40
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Group of Russian composers

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The five

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41
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Desiccated Embryos

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Satie

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42
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contemporary art museum in Washington, D.C., that contains works by Jeff Koons in its sculpture garden

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Hirshhorn museum

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43
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Suite containing morning mood

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Peer Gynt (Grieg)

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44
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work inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry A. Wallace

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Fanfare for the common man (Copland)

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45
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The Night Cafe

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Van Gogh

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46
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L’Absinthe

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Degas

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47
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Diego De Landa led an inquisition against this civilization during the 1560s

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Mayans

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48
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Closing lines in Antony and Cleopatra delivered by this man

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Octavius Caesar

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49
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Alexandria Quartet

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Lawrence Durrell

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50
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Protagonist of this play dances the Tarantella

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A Doll’s House (Ibsen)

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51
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Lowest female voice type

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Contralto

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52
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Anvil Chorus

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Troubador (Verdi)

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53
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Sonata for this instrument begins with arpeggiated C sharp minor chords

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Piano

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54
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First horse to win an undefeated triple crown

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Seattle Slew

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55
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Character that becomes an assistant to yacht owner Dan Cody

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Jay Gatsby

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56
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Worlds largest lake

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Caspian sea

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57
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Capital of Azerbaijan

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Baku

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58
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25th amendment allows position to be filled

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Vice President

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59
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First published poet in the American colonies

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Anne Bradstreet

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60
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Title of Anne Bradstreet’s only poetry collection

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The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America

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61
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Two members of this family wrote Sisters First

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Bush

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62
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5th Mughal emperor

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Shah Jahan

63
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Shah Jahan built this mausoleum

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Taj Mahal

64
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Taj Mahal is in this city

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Agra

65
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Operation Euphrates Shield

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Turkey

66
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Oceans of Wisdom

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Hokusai

67
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Active Imagination

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Carl Jung

68
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Major export of Newcastle

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Coal

69
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York River

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Virginia

70
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Second capital of Virginia

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Williamsburg

71
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Native American chief’s confederacy

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Powhatan’s confederacy

72
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Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central

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Diego Rivera

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Battle of Germantown (revolutionary war)

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Philadelphia

74
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Cells that transmit signals across a synapse

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Neurons

75
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Lobe that contains the primary auditory cortex

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Temporal lobe

76
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Area of the brain that controls language comprehension

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Vernicke’s area

77
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Good Country People

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O Conner

78
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Country that expelled almost all Asians in 1972

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Uganda

79
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Twin brother of Artermis

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Appolo

80
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Mother of apollo

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Leto

81
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Leto labored for 9 days and nights on this island

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Delos

82
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6th of October bridge crosses Gezira Island

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Cairo

83
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Leader of the free french

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Charles De Gaulle

84
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Leader of Vichy french

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Petain

85
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This opera’s title character sings “En vain pour eviter”

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Carmen

86
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Mack the knife

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Kurt Weill

87
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jazz transformation of Mack the Knife

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Louis Armstrong

88
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Songs and Dances of Death

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Mussorgsky

89
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Vote McGovern

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Andy Warhol

90
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This dance was originally created by German peasants in the 13th century

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Waltz

91
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chiaroscuro style

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Woodcutting

92
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Seagram Murals

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Mark Rothko

93
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Mephisto Waltzes

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Lizst

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The Three Graces

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Raphael

95
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created the works Become Water and Inuksut to describe the nature of Alaska

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John Coolidge Adams

96
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A priest’s face nearly fills a church doorway in this work

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I and the Village (Chagall)

97
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Mozart’s final concerto was written for this instrument

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Clarinet

98
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Excavations at a site attributed to this civilization found a painting depicting bull leaping

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Minoan

99
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Self-Portrait with a Dog

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Gustave Courbet

100
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Who Composed Bethena

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Scott Joplin

101
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one of this man’s plays sees Jerry walk into a knife after arguing over the possession of a Central Park bench

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Edward Albee

102
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In a Jean-Leon Gerome painting, a sculptor performs this action to an ivory statue

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Kissing

103
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On the right, a figure sometimes identified as Pomona stands in front of an orange grove

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The birth of Venus (Botticelli)

104
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Hector Berlioz wrote a ninety-minute long work of this type for 100 strings

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Requiem

105
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A solo flute in G Major opens the finale of this composer’s Symphony No. 5

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Felix Mendelsson

106
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the Canzionere, or Songbook, which contains many poems dedicated to Laura

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Petrarch

107
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The subject of this painting wears a crescent tiara

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Madame X (John Singer Sargent

108
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Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc have paintings titled [this color]

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Blue

109
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Two figures walk along a bridge on the left of this painting

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The Scream (Munch)

110
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this performer sang “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” at MLK’s funeral

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Aretha Franklin

111
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The tallest mountain in this place is Victoria Peak

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Hong Kong

112
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This composition’s title refers to a collection of over one thousand songs and poems from medieval times that were found in Bavaria

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Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)

113
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“In Spring,” “In the Tavern,” and “Court of Love” are three sections of this piece

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Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)

114
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This piece was originally intended as the second movement of another piece, but the composer decided to make it into a stand alone work after it received a standing ovation at the premier

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Adagio for strings

115
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One of these musical pieces has two versions of its first movement cadenza

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Piano Concerto

116
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Pore Jud is Daid

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Oklahoma

117
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The sixth movement of this piece features a four note “spell” motif and staccato bassoons

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The Planets (Holst)

118
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The Thames, Westminster Bridge is one of close to 30 paintings of the Thames River by one founder of this art movement

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Fauvism

119
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Stars described by this adjective are white dwarfs that no longer emit significant light or heat due to cooling

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Black

120
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This era was divided into three phases, and it received its name from Portuguese word

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Baroque

121
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24 Caprices made for this instrument

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Violin

122
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“Black Mass” sonata

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Alexander Scriabin

123
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The Painter Surprised by a Naked Admirer

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Lucien Freud

124
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the Screaming Pope series

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Francis Bacon

125
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Rouen Cathedral series

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Claude Monet

126
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Founder of impressionism

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Claude Monet

127
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One of these objects made of Cor-Ten steel sits in the Rothko Chapel

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Obelisk

128
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Rothko Chapel

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Houston, Texas

129
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Its architect intended for visitors to ride to the top of the museum and descend down a single incline while viewing its artworks

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Gugenheim museum

130
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the training of living trees and shrubs into artificial, decorative shapes

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Topiary

131
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March 3rd holiday in Japan

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Doll’s day

132
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disappeared while traveling to entertain American troops in France in 1944

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Glenn Miller

133
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Hans von Bülow was the first to play all 32 of Beethoven’s works of this form in a single concert cycle

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Piano Sonata

134
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Who painted The Nightmare

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Henry Fuseli

135
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What country had the Years of Lead

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Italy

136
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What ballet follows 2 newlyweds

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Appalachin Spring (Copland)

137
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What work contains the sections “The Market at Limoges,” “The Hut on Hen’s Legs,” and “The Old Castle,”

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Pictures at an exhibition (Mussorgsky)

138
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Who made Peter and the Wolf

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Sergei Prokofiev

139
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What jazz artist released albums subtitled The Birthday Concert and Mack the Knife

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Ella Fitzgareld

140
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Who choreographed many of Tchaikovsky’s works

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Marius Petipa

141
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Who made Ride of the Valkyries

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Richard Wagner

142
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What opera is played annually at the Bayreuth festival

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Das Rhinegold (Wagner)

143
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Who wrote the Chorale Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.

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JS Bach

144
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Franz Liszt wrote six etudes for piano based on works by this composer

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Paganini

145
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Five topless girls and five naked boys taunt each other in this artist’s Young Spartans Exercising

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Degas

146
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This artist painted a series of pastels depicting women bathing in tubs

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Degas

147
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Emmanuel Chabrier wrote an orchestral piece of this type named for España

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Rhapsody

148
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Works numbered from 136 to 146 in the Searle catalogue are these kinds of pieces

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Etude

149
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This composer developed a secret method for playing third harmonics in pieces such as his variations on the aria “Di tanti palpiti.

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Paganini

150
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

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Rachmaninov

151
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typically used to train musicians

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Etude

152
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Used a ricochet playing style

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Paganini

153
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