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Slam Dunks Flashcards

1
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C6H6

Aromatic Hydrocarbon

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Benzene

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2
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NH3

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Ammonia

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3
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Most electronegative halogen

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Fluorine

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4
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Ruler of Argentina

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Juan Peron

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5
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Painter associated with Surrealism

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Salvador Dali

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6
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Open Door Policy

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John Hay - China

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7
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Cubism

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Pablo Picasso

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8
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Death of a Salesman

Willie Loman

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Arthur Miller

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9
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Swiss psychologist

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Carl Jung

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10
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A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche Dubois

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Tennessee Williams

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11
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David Copperfield

Uriah Heep

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Charles Dickens

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12
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Dream Deferred

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Langston Hughes

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13
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Era of Good Feelings

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James Monroe

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14
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Monster - Beowolf

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Grendel

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15
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Opposition to flow of charge

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Resistance

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16
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Black Body

Two laws of circuits

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Gustav Kirchhoff

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17
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Test for startch

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Iodine

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18
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India river

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Ganges

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19
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Beard tax

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Peter the Great

Peter I

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20
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Les Miserables

Jean Valjean

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Victor Hugo

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21
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Dictator of Uganda

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Idi Amin

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22
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Scandal - Warren Harding

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Teapot Dome

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23
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Fagin or Artful Dodger

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Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

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24
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Pop art

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Andy Warhol

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25
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Paris Cabaret

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Moulin Rouge

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26
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November 1923 attempt to seize power

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Beer Hall Putsch

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27
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.

Enforced catholic doctrine

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Spanish Inquisition

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28
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Nitrogen bond

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Triple bond

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29
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Performed 12 labors

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Heracles (Hercules)

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30
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Final solution

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Holocaust

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31
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Trade route between Rome and China

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Silk road

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32
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Religion associated with Mary Baker Eddy

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Christian Science

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33
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Religion associated with Haile Selassie

Jah

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Rastafarianism

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34
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Atacama Desert

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Chile

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35
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Howard Hughes’ plane

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Spruce Goose

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36
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Richard Nixon speech

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Checkers

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37
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Cross of Gold speech

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William Jennings Bryan

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38
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Pea plants

Pioneer of genetics

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Gregor Mendel

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39
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Norwegian traitor

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Vidkun Quisling

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40
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Elephants over the Alps

Carthaginian general

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Hannibal Barca

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41
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Artist - Saturday Evening Post

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Norman Rockwell

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42
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Architect of Geodesic Dome

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Buckminster Fuller

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43
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DTP

Pertussis

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Whooping Cough

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44
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Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace

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14 points

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45
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Slaughterhouse Five

Firebombing of Dresden

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Kurt Vonnegut

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46
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Pope - First Crusades

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Urban II

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47
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British physician who ran the mile in under 4 minutes

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Roger Bannister

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48
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Created the modern periodic table

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Dimitri Mendeleev

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49
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Spanish Civil War

Guernica

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Pablo Picasso

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50
Q

Nephritis

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Kidneys

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51
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Finnish composer

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Jean Sibelius

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52
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Polish astronomer

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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53
Q

Aztec leader

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Montezuma II

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54
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The Birds and The Clouds

Greek writer of comedies

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Aristophanes

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55
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Greek mountain home to the gods

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Mt. Olympus

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56
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Who said “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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57
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Battle fought 26 miles north of Athens

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Marathon

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58
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Patagonia

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Argentina

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59
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Artist - Mobiles

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Alexander Calder

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60
Q

Highest Tariff

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Hawley-Smoot

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61
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Treacherous son of King Arthur

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Mordred

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62
Q

Wife of King Arthur

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Guinivere

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63
Q

Temple - Athens

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Parthenon

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64
Q

Elliptical orbits

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Johannes Kepler

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65
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Underground railroad

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Harriet Tubman

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66
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~23,000

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War

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Antietam

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67
Q

Vitamin - Calcium

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Vitamin D

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68
Q

William the Conqueror

Census Book

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Domesday Book

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69
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Election slogan - “He kept us out of war”

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Woodrow Wilson

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70
Q

English wall

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Hadrian’s Wall

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71
Q

French protestants

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Huguenots

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72
Q

Roman slave revolt

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Spartacus

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73
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1215

Signed Magna Carta

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John I

John Lackland

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74
Q

Ballet

Bolero

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Ravel

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75
Q

Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway

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The Great Gatsby

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76
Q

Oldest known celebration of the ending of slavery

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Juneteenth

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77
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Huns - Scourge of god

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Attila the Hun

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78
Q

Muslim holy war

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Jihad

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79
Q

Ethiopian king

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Haile Selassie

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80
Q

Emerald Isle

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Ireland

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81
Q

“I will fight no more forever”

Nez Perce chief

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Joseph

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82
Q

Death and Life-in-Death play dice game

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Coleridge

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83
Q

China

Long March

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Mao Zedong

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84
Q

Religion associated with L. Ron Hubbard

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Scientology

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85
Q

Pointillism

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George Seurat

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86
Q

Florida

Fountain of Youth

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Ponce de Leon

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87
Q

Bilirubin

Yellow skin

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Jaundice

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88
Q

Female Prime Minister of Israel

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Golda Meir

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89
Q

Female Prime Minister of India

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Indira Gandhi

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90
Q

Female Prime Minister of Britain

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Margaret Thatcher

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91
Q

Female Prime Minister of Pakistan

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Benazir Bhutto

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92
Q

Ruling family associated with Austria

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Hapsburg

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93
Q

Ruling family associated with Prussia

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Hohenzollern

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94
Q

Ruling family associated with Russia

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Romanov

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95
Q

Ruling family associated with The Netherlands

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Orange

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96
Q

The Sun Also Rises

Jake Barnes

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Ernest Hemingway

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97
Q

Dante Alighieri

Italian Epic Poem

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The Divine Comedy

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98
Q

John Keats

“Beauty is truth, and truth, beauty”

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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99
Q

Laws governing springs

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Hooke’s Law

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100
Q

Capital of Bolivia

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La Paz

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101
Q

Death March

1942 forced march

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Bataan

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102
Q

USSR

1986 space station

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Mir

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103
Q

Rotational force

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Torque

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104
Q

Jellyfish

Stinging cells

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Nematocysts

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105
Q

Sense and Sensibility

Dashwood sisters

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Jane Austen

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106
Q

Declaration of Sentiments

Seneca Falls Convention

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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107
Q

Russian monk

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Grigori Rasputin

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108
Q

Paris prison

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Bastille

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109
Q

French art museum

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Louvre

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110
Q

Green Mountains boys

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Ethan Allen

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111
Q

Norwegian composer

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Edvard Grieg

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112
Q

Georgia

Confederate prison

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Andersonville

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113
Q

Norwegian painter of The Scream

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Edvard Munch

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114
Q

Fairy tales

German brothers

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Grimm

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115
Q

Socialist candidate for president

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Eugene V. Debs

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116
Q

Capital of Canada

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Ottawa

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117
Q

Toleration to Huguenots

1598 Edict

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Edict of Nantes

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118
Q

Hugo Chavez

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Venezuela

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119
Q

Decay of radioactive sample

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Half-life

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120
Q

Polymer found in plant cell walls

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Cellulose

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121
Q

Italian mathematician’s sequence

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Fibonacci

Leonardo Bonacci

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122
Q

Same chemical formula, different structure

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Isomer

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123
Q

Different forms of the same element (O2, O3)

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Allotrope

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124
Q

Virus that infects bacteria

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Bacteriophage

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125
Q

The Birth of Venus

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Sandro Botticelli

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126
Q

Alkane

Simplest hydrocarbon

A

Methane

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127
Q

Nelson Mandela

Apartheid

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South Africa

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128
Q

36-30

1820 Compromise

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Missouri Compromise

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129
Q

Federal commission/Insider trading

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Securities & Exchange (SEC)

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130
Q

Acetyl-CoA

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Krebs/Citric Acid Cycle

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131
Q

Salt

March to Dandi

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Mahatma Gandhi

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132
Q

1830 text by Joseph Smith

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Book of Mormon

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133
Q

Machu Picchu

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Peru

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134
Q

Mediterranean

War against pirates

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Barbary Wars

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135
Q

Heisenberg

Wave-particle duality

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Quantum Theory

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136
Q

Death of Richard III

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Battle of Bosworth Field

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137
Q

Adulterous characters

Gameskeeper Oliver Mellors

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D.H. Lawrence

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138
Q

Sand

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Silicone Dioxide

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139
Q

Double-helix

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DNA

Watson/Crick

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140
Q

The Gates of Hell

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Auguste Rodin

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141
Q

The Golden Horde

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Mongol

Gengis Khan

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142
Q

Sydney Carton/Charles Darnay

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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

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143
Q

Luncheon on the Grass

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Edouard Manet

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144
Q

Bolivian president

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Evo Morales

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First republican presidential candidate

A

John C. Fremont

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SI unit of pressure

A

Pascal

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Beethoven opera

A

Fidelio

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Scale of mineral hardness

A

Moh’s

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Indian language during WWII

A

Navajo

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150
Q

Renal artery

A

Kidney

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Interchangable parts

A

Eli Whitney

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US detective agency

A

Pinkerton

Pinkerton National Detective Agency

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Theater - Abraham Lincoln

A

Ford’s Theater

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Governor of:

James Oglethorpe

A

Georgia

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155
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Ancient library

A

Alexandria, Egypt

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WWI naval battle

A

Battle of Jutland

Denmark

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Q

Yankee clipper

A

Joe Dimaggio

Joltin’ Joe

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158
Q

Exclusion principle

A

Wolfgang Pauli

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Q

Phobos and Deimos

A

Mars

Moons of

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Q

US President between two terms of Grover Cleveland

A

Benjamin Harrison

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The Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield

A

J.D. Salinger

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

First Sherlock Holmes’ story

A

A Study in Scarlet

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Q

Only member of Congress to vote against war on Japan

A

Jeanette Rankin

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164
Q

American composer of Porgy and Bess

A

George Gershwin

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Q

Deepest lake in the United States

A

Crater Lake

Oregon

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Q

“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”

A

Richard III

William Shakespeare

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For Whom the Bells Toll

Robert Jordan

A

Ernest Hemingway

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Q

Dogberry

A

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

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Q

Enlightened despot

A

Catherine the Great

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Union General

Battle of the Wilderness

A

Ulysses S. Grant

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Greek author

The Elements

172
Q

“…grassy and wanted wear”

“…two roads diverged”

A

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

173
Q

Wisconsin governor

A

Scott Walker

174
Q

Surprise Symphony

A

Joseph Haydn

Hymns

175
Q

Holy Grail

Knight

176
Q

Architect of Fallingwater

A

Frank Lloyd Wright

177
Q

The Iceman Cometh

A

Eugene O’Neill

178
Q

Appalachain Spring

A

Aaron Copland

179
Q

Trafalgar

British admiral

A

Horatio Nelson

180
Q

Verdi

Aida

A

Ethiopian Princess

Opera

181
Q

Cry, the Beloved Country

A

Alan Paton

182
Q

Queen of the Night

A

The Magic Flute

Mozart opera

183
Q

“Paris is well worth a mass”

A

Henry IV

First Bourbon ruler

184
Q

Discovered electrons

A

J.J. Thompson

185
Q

Oil drop experiment

A

Robert Milkman

186
Q

Discovered neutrons

A

James Chadwick

187
Q

Rotational analog of mass

A

Moment of Inertia

188
Q

Nephrons

189
Q

Loop of Henle

190
Q

Forced inward on a curved path

A

Centripetal

191
Q

3, 4, 5

A

Pythagorean triple

192
Q

Last Theorum

193
Q

Killed Minotaur

194
Q

Built labryinth

195
Q

Killed son with scepter

A

Ivan the Terrible

196
Q

Candide

197
Q

The Waste Land

A

T.S. Eliot

198
Q

Great Leap Forward

A

Mao Zedong

199
Q

Discovered isolated oxygen

A

Joseph Priestly

200
Q

Berkshire Hathaway

Sage of Omaha

A

Warren Buffett

201
Q

Polio vaccine

A

Jonas Salk

202
Q

To Kill a Mockingbird

A

Harper Lee

203
Q

USS Yorktown sunk

A

Battle of Midway

204
Q

Wax wings

205
Q

The Frogs

A

Aristophanes

206
Q

Returned the Panama Canal

A

Jimmy Carter

207
Q

Rose of Sharon

A

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

208
Q

Openings in leaves

209
Q

Rocinante, Dulcinea

A

Don Quixote

Miguel de Cervantes

210
Q

Separated by boiling points

A

Distillation

211
Q

Mammoth Cave

212
Q

Wind Cave

A

South Dakota

213
Q

Carlsbad Caverns

A

New Mexico

214
Q

Summa Theologica

A

Thomas Aquinas

215
Q

Clyde Tombaugh

216
Q

First FBI director

A

J. Edgar Hoover

217
Q

Nine Days Queen

A

Lady Jane Grey

218
Q

Cyrano de Bergerac

A

Edmond Rostand

219
Q

First woman to serve in the US Congress

A

Jeannette Rankin

220
Q

Russian doctor and author

A

Anton Chekov

221
Q

Composer of the Ring Cycle

A

Richard Wagner

222
Q

Lago

A

Othello

Shakespeare

223
Q

Reform slogan - Square Deal

A

Theodore Roosevelt

224
Q

Reform slogan - New Deal

A

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

225
Q

Reform slogan - Fair Deal

A

Harry Truman

226
Q

Reform slogan - New Freedom

A

Woodrow Wilson

227
Q

Reform slogan - New Frontier

A

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

228
Q

Reform slogan - Great Society

A

Lyndon Baines Johnson

229
Q

Father of modern chemistry

A

Antoine Lavoisier

230
Q

Battle/Stonewall Jackson killed

A

Chancellorsville

231
Q

First Pope

232
Q

Grasslands of Argentina

233
Q

Carries water and nutrients

Woody tissue in vascular plants

234
Q

Carries food from the leaves

Living tissure in vascular plants

235
Q

Swedish king associated with the 30 Years’ War

Lion of the North

A

Gustavus Adolphus

236
Q

Study of peas

A

Gregor Mendel

237
Q

Greek teacher - taught Plato

238
Q

Greek teacher - taught Aristotle

239
Q

Greek teacher - taught Alexander the Great

240
Q

Uncertainty principle

A

Werner Heisenberg

241
Q

Communist offensive - 1968

Vietnamese New Year

242
Q

Slapping a soldier

A

George S. Patton

243
Q

Sea that touches Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

A

Baltic Sea

244
Q

Williamette Valley

245
Q

Hall of Mirrors

A

Versailles

246
Q

Novel set in London and Paris

A

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

247
Q

President Madison’s War

A

War of 1812

248
Q

President Truman’s War

A

Korean War

249
Q

President Polk’s War

A

Mexican-American War

250
Q

Sacbut

251
Q

Stone mountain

252
Q

Artist associated with Henry VIII

A

Hans Holbein the Younger

253
Q

Great Compromiser

A

Henry Clay

254
Q

Campbell’s Soup Cans

A

Andy Warhol

Diabetes

255
Q

Leopold Bloom

A

Ulysses

James Joyce

256
Q

White Man’s Burden

A

Rudyard Kipling

257
Q

Architecture - Early 20th century Germany

Associated with Walter Gropius

258
Q

Lightest of the Halogens

259
Q

Lord protector of England

A

Oliver Cromwell

260
Q

First man in space

A

Yuri Gagarin

261
Q

Society of Jesus

A

Jesuits

Loyola

262
Q

Group of schoolboys stranded on an island

A

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

263
Q

Italian violinist

A

Niccolo Paganini

264
Q

Tom and Laura Wingfield

A

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

265
Q

Large desert in Namibia

Bushmen of…

266
Q

Latin phrase “Out of many, one”

A

E Pluribus Unum

267
Q

Rubaiyat

A

Omar Khayyam

268
Q

The Planets

A

Gustav Holst

269
Q

Demeter’s Crew

A

Dracula

Bram Stoker

270
Q

Winston Smith

A

1984

George Orwell

271
Q

Angiosperms

A

Flowering plants

272
Q

Gymnosperms

A

Conifers, cycads, ginko

273
Q

All phases at equilibrium

A

Triple point

274
Q

Atticus Finch

A

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Harper Lee

275
Q

British PM

David Cameron

A

Labour Party

276
Q

First president of France’s fifth republic

A

Charles de Gaulle

277
Q

Islet of Langerhans

A

Pancreas

Diabetes

278
Q

Virgin Queen - Last monarch of the house Tudor

Reigned during the defeat of the Spanish Armada

A

Elizabeth I

279
Q

French government during WWII

A

Vichy France

Philippe Pétain

280
Q

1794 Pennsylvanian rebellion

A

Whiskey Rebellion

281
Q

Swedish chemist

A

Alfred Nobel

282
Q

Son of Pepin the Short

A

Charlemagne

First HRE Emperor

283
Q

Son of Agamemnon

284
Q

My Fair Lady

A

Eliza Doolittle

285
Q

City of God

A

St. Augustine

286
Q

“…with all deliberate speed”

A

Brown v Board of Education

287
Q

Short-short-short-long motif

Fate knocking at the door

A

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5

288
Q

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”

A

Julius Robert Oppenheimer

289
Q

Bivalve

Radula

290
Q

This Is Not a Pipe

The Treachery of Images

A

Rene Magritte

291
Q

Jack the Dripper

A

Jackson Pollock

292
Q

Electrons emitted from a metal when exposed to light

A

Photoelectric effect

293
Q

Ramon Mercader assassinated

A

Leon Trotsky

294
Q

Spanish Civil War

Bombing of a Basque Town

295
Q

English king at the Battle of Agincourt

296
Q

Ore from which we get Aluminum

297
Q

Northernmost capital in the world

A

Reykjavik, Iceland

298
Q

French town that British troops evacuated

299
Q

Afro-American cultural movement of the 1920’s

A

Harlem Renaissance

300
Q

Polish leader of solidarity

A

Lech Walesa

301
Q

Three sisters who spun the thread of human destiny

302
Q

Russian alphabet

303
Q

Heaviest element to be liquid at room temperature

304
Q

Moscow cathedral

A

St. Basil’s

305
Q

Stores bile

A

Gall Bladder

306
Q

Japanese emperor during WWII

A

Michinomiya Hirohito

307
Q

Painter of landscapes of the southwest

A

Georgia O’Keefe

308
Q

Tiny air sacs in the lungs

309
Q

The Cherry Orchard

A

Anton Chekov

310
Q

Chemical element that makes up most of Pewter

311
Q

Largest artificial lake in the United States

A

Lake Mead

Nevada/Arizona

312
Q

The Waltz King

A

Johannes Strauss

313
Q

“Call me Ishmael”

A

Moby Dick

Herman Melville

314
Q

Voltaire novel

315
Q

19th century meeting which called for women’s rights

A

Seneca Falls Convention

316
Q

20th century movement in drama led by Samuel Beckett

A

Theater of the Absurd

317
Q

Fossilized resin of ancient trees

318
Q

Founder of the Quaker Protestant Faith

A

George Fox

319
Q

Founder of the Jehovah’s Witness Protestant Faith

A

Charles T. Russell

320
Q

Founder of the Mormon Protestant Faith

A

Joseph Smith

321
Q

Founder of the Methodism Protestant Faith

A

John Wesley

322
Q

Founder of the Presbyterian Protestant Faith

A

John Calvin

323
Q

Opera - Opening of the Suez Canal

A

Aida

Giuseppe Verdi

324
Q

Bowman’s capsules

325
Q

The Third of May 1808

A

Francisco de Goya

326
Q

Palace - Grenada, Spain

327
Q

Greek word for air

Solo voice with instrumental accompaniment often associated with opera

328
Q

River in Venezuela

329
Q

Transylvania

330
Q

Becky Sharp

A

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

331
Q

Island - Paul Gaugin

332
Q

Wedge shaped writing

333
Q

18th century American preacher and his sermon

A

Jonathon Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

334
Q

County in Mississippi associated with Faulkner

A

Yoknapatawpha

335
Q

First Jewish Supreme Court justice

A

Louis Brandeis

336
Q

Roman road

A

Appian Way

337
Q

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Only state to have unicameral legislature

338
Q

Presidents of Universities - Princeton

A

Woodrow Wilson

339
Q

Presidents of Universities - Columbia

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

340
Q

Africa’s largest lake

A

Lake Victoria

Uganda/Tanzania

341
Q

Madrid art museum

342
Q

Aztec god

A

Quetzalcoatl

343
Q

The Frond

French uprising

344
Q

Trisomy 21

A

Down Syndrome

345
Q

Prehistoric french cave

A

Lascaux Cave

346
Q

Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus

A

Rosa Parks

347
Q

First state to grant suffrage to women

348
Q

“I Shall Return”

A

Douglas MacArthur

Phillipines

349
Q

Cuban Hill

A

San Juan Hill

Thoedore Roosevelt

350
Q

Form of Japanese Theater using singing, dancing and makeup

351
Q

Lake which connects the Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers

On the border of New York and Vermont

A

Lake Champlain

352
Q

Tacoma and Seattle are found on which body of water

A

Puget Sound

353
Q

Welsh alcoholic

A

Dylan Thomas

354
Q

Hard covering of the pupa of a butterfly

355
Q

The two territories on the German/French border

A

Alsace - Lorraine

356
Q

Earliest Mesopotamian civilization

357
Q

Battle between ancient Egyptians and the Hittites

A

Kadesh

Syria/Lebanon border

358
Q

Model parliament

359
Q

Membrane surrounding the lungs

360
Q

Ancient Incan city Degas

A

Machu Picchu

361
Q

King of Crete

362
Q

Father of public education in the US

A

Horace Mann

363
Q

Mountain range of North Africa

A

Atlas Mountains

364
Q

Australian rock

Middle of Australia

365
Q

Prehistoric cliff dwellings in Colorado

A

Mesa Verde

366
Q

Tom and Maggie Tulliver

A

Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

367
Q

Lennie Small and George Milton

A

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

368
Q

Temple in Cambodia

A

Angkor Wat

369
Q

Art - Wild beasts

370
Q

Philanthropic steel magnate

Libraries

A

Andrew Carnegie

371
Q

Oil magnate

A

John D. Rockefeller

372
Q

Railroad magnate

The Commodore

A

Cornelius Vanderbilt

373
Q

Author who typed his name in lowercase letters

A

ee cummings

374
Q

Union of two gametes

375
Q

Dominican monk

Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition

A

Tomas de Torquemada

376
Q

Produced by the Haber process

A

Ammonia

NH3

377
Q

First female in space

A

Valentina Tereshkova

378
Q

First female American in space

A

Sally Ride

379
Q

Muslim holy month

380
Q

Portuguese dictator

A

Antonio Salazar

381
Q

President of North Vietnam

Formerly

A

Ho Chi Minh

382
Q

Washington Irving story

A

Rip Van Winkle

383
Q

Formosa

384
Q

Drip painting

A

Jackson Pollock

385
Q

Polish composer

A

Frederic Chopin

386
Q

Stuck head in oven to commit suicide

The Bell Jar

A

Sylvia Plath

387
Q

Addok

A

Aleution islands

Alaska

388
Q

“those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

A

George Santayana

389
Q

Liberty Leading the People

A

Eugene Delacroix

390
Q

Most abundant protein in the body

391
Q

Good Earth

A

Pearl Buck

392
Q

Founder of the Jesuits

A

Ignatius Loyola

393
Q

Property of a metal that describes its ability to be hammered into shapes

A

Malleability

394
Q

First president to live in the White House

A

John Adams

395
Q

Vanity Fair

A

William Makepeace Thackeray

396
Q

Two natural satellites of Mars

A

Phobos and Deimos

397
Q

Who was the leader of the French Impressionist movement and painted Water Lilies?

A

Claude Monet

398
Q

First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

399
Q

Proper name for the stirrup shape ossicle in the middle ear

400
Q

Author of Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim

A

Joseph Conrad

401
Q

What battle did Napoleon consider to be his most impressive victory?

A

Austerlitz

402
Q

In which of Shakespeare’s plays is the title character named Antonio?

A

Merchant of Venice

403
Q

Martha Jane Canary

A

Calamity Jane

404
Q

What English metaphysical poet wrote the lyric poem To His Coy Mistress

A

Andrew Marvell

405
Q

What scientist was in charge of the project which achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in 1942?

A

Enrico Fermi

406
Q

Where in the body would you find the Tympanic Membrane?

407
Q

Who was the Russian author of the Cherry Orchard?

A

Anton Chekov

408
Q

What Sinclair Lewis novel tells of Carol Kenicott, a city woman who marries a small town doctor in the Midwest

A

Main Street

409
Q

Which opera star was known as the “Swedish Nightingale”?

A

Jenny Lind

410
Q

What Nazi occupied nation in the Second World War was led by a puppet government under Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling?

411
Q

Who is given credit for inventing the air brake for trains?

A

George Westinghouse

412
Q

Who is the only 20th century president never to attend college?

A

Harry Truman

413
Q

What famous Greek dramatist wrote the play Antigone?

414
Q

What was the name give to the nationalistic western congressmen who were eager for war against Britain before the War of 1812?

415
Q

Who was the first Republican to be elected president?

A

Abraham Lincoln

416
Q

What mythical place serves as the setting for James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon?

A

Shangri-La

417
Q

Which amendment prohibits double jepardy?

418
Q

Which modern scientist proved that blood circulates through the body?

A

William Harvey

419
Q

Who wrote Far From the Madding Crowd?

A

Warren Harding

420
Q

What is the mineral name for rock salt?

421
Q

Who were the two brothers of Helen of Troy? They were placed together in the constellation Gemini

A

Castor and Pollux

422
Q

Name the fifth wife of Henry VIII. She was convicted of adultery and beheaded

A

Catherine Howard

423
Q

What famous literary character was described by his creator as “a boy who wouldn’t grow up”?

424
Q

What is the largest lake in Africa?

A

Lake Victoria

425
Q

Name the Robert Louis Stevenson character that narrated Treasure Island

A

Jim HawkinsI

426
Q

Identify the famous author of the Aeneid

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