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Porgy and ________
Bess
Tristan und ______
Isolde
What surname is shared by these people: John, Edmund G., Charles Brockden?
Brown
Bay bounded by Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec and connected with the Atlantic Ocean by a strait of the same name
Hudson (Bay)
Canadian province that is the setting for Anne of Green Gables
Prince Edward Island
Priest known as "The Apostle of the Scottish Reformation"
John Knox
U.S. State known as the "Garden State"
New Jersey
Sea Urchins are members of which class?
Echinoidea
Smallest Central American country in area
El Salvador
Kind of bond consisting of pairs of shared electrons
Covalent
Which author created Henry Fleming?
Stephen Crane
Which author created Jay Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Pancreas (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Torso
Plant whose name means "noble white" in German
Edelweiss
What surname is shared by these people: William, Evangeline Cory, John Wilkes?
Booth
Sinclair Lewis' George F. ________
Babbitt
Bands of high radiation circling the Earth
Van Allen Belts
Sartorius (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Extremities
U.S. President who said, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy . . ."
FDR
Shakespearean play subtitled the Prince of Denmark
Hamlet
English author of Sonnets From the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English "Father of Philosophy" and author of Opus Majus
Roger Bacon
T.S. Eliot's J. Alfred ______
Prufrock
Richard Wright's Bigger ________
Thomas
Greek word meaning "5 books" or "5 scrolls" or the first 5 books of the bible
Pentateuch
Compilation of maxims, aphorisms, and discourses of Confucius from the 5th-6th centuries B.C.
The Analects
Duodenum (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Torso
Gulf connected with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea through the Strait of Hormuz
Persian Gulf
English nurse Edith Louisa _______
Cavell
Term in chemistry for a product of 2 or more substances that are not chemically combined
mixture
"Father of English Poetry" and author of The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
British politican Neville ______
Chamberlain
Prayer book of the Anglicans
Book of Common Prayer
Lobsters and crabs are members of which class?
Crustacea
J.D. Salinger's Holden ________
Caulfield
Republicans Reagan and Bush defeated Democrats Mondale and Ferraro
1984
Atlantic Ocean bay in Canada renowned for its record breaking tides
Bay of Fundy
Aurora in the Northern Hemisphere; "Northern Lights"
Aurora Borealis
Word represented by R in RICO, the act allowing the government to freeze assets suspected of being illegally acquired
Racketeer(ing)
Cloud of gas-and-dust remains in interstellar space
Nebula
Horses are members of which class?
Mammalia
1807 Act closing U.S. ports to all foreign ships and known humorously as the "O-Grab-Me" Act
Embargo Act
Chinese "Book of Changes"
I Ching
Which property in algebra justifies that c(x + y) = cx + cy?
Distributive
What is the cube root of the positive square root of 64?
2
Which author created Ichabod Crane?
Washington Irving
Single landmass that split apart about 200 million years ago to form Gondwana and Laurasia
Pangea
Body system of which the kidneys are a part
Excretory
Object suspended by a single thread over the head of Damocles to illustrate the threat of impending danger
Sword( of Damocles)
Truman Capote's Holly ________
Golightly
Acronym for the social security tax shared equally by employers and workers
FICA
1941 act providing permitting the President to transfer weapons and other supplies to any nation
Lend-Lease Act
Exxon ship that spilled gallons of oil in Prince William Sound in 1989
Exxon Valdez
What surname is shared by these people: Michael, Shirley, Stonewall?
Jackson
1883 act establishing the principle of federal employment based on merit and competitive examination
Pendleton (Civil Service) Act
Author of The Prince of Tides, a book describing life in South Carolina
Pat Conroy
"Father of the English Novel" and author of Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
Pacific Ocean Gulf between Baja, California and the mainland of Mexico
Gulf of California
Orpheus and ________
Eurydice
Which author created John Proctor?
Arthur Miller
What surname is shared by these people: Miles, Bette, Jefferson?
Davis
Republicans Hoover and Curtis defeated Democrats Smith and Robinson
1928
"Father" of French Tragedy" and author of Le Cid
Pierre Corneille
In meiosis, number of daughter cells produced by a single cell
4
Democrats Johnson and Humphrey defeated Republicans Goldwater and Miller
1964
U.S. President who said "I want you all to stonewall it."
Richard Nixon
1765 act designed to raise funds for the British army stationed in America
Stamp Act
What property of addition is illustrated by the equality 7 + 2 = 2+ 7?
Commutative Property (of Addition)
Country whose capital is Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Bay that is the site of the U.S. naval base in Cuba
Guantanamo Bay
Last major presidential candidate to be single, a contender in both 1952 and 1956
Adlai Stevenson
Artist Georgia _______
O'Keef(f)e
Ilium (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Torso
Cochlea (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Head
What surname is shared by these people: Howard, Charles Evans, Langston?
Hughes
How many degrees are in the smaller angle formed by the hand of a clock at 8 o'clock?
120 (degrees)
Margaret Mitchell's Scarlett ______
O'Hara
Teamster leader James Riddle _______
Hoffa
If 5 inches on a map represents 100 miles, how many inches on the map represent 160 miles?
8( inches)
Republicans Grant and Wilson defeated Democratic-Liberal Republicans Greeley and Brown
1872
Samson and _______
Delilah
Sacred book discovered and translated by Joseph Smith
Book of Mormon
Hansel and _________
Gretel
What surname is shared by these people: John Moses, Robert, Elizabeth Barrett?
Browning
Landlocked province of Canada whose capital is Regina
Saskatchewan
Country whose capital is Caracas
Venezuela
What is the principal square root of 289?
17
Egyptian god slain by his evil brother Seth and known as the prince of the dead
Osiris
Harper Lee's Atticus _______
Finch
Russian ballet star Vaslav ______
Nijinsky
What is the next consecutive prime number after 97?
101
U.S. Vice President who resigned his office
Spiro Agnew
Atlantic Ocean bay between Maryland and Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Celestial body composed of a dense nucleus of forzen gases, ice, and rock
Comet
Madama _______
Butterfly
Producer and director George M. ______
Cohan
French "Father of Modern Philosophy" and author of Discours de la Methode
Rene Descartes
What surname is shared by these people: Marshall, Eugene, Cyrus West?
Field
French "Father of Science Fiction" and author of Voyage to the Center of the Earth
Jules Verne
Fishes, in general are members of which (super)class?
Pisces
Odds in favor of rolling a 3 on a single toss of a fair die
1:5
Soviet leader who supposedly said "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
English "Father of Modern Prose Fiction" and author of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
Leader whose Domesday Book is a Latin record of a census and survey of England
William( the Conqueror)
Hebrew name meaning "law" for the first 5 books of the bible
Torah
Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf
(Sergei) Prokofiev
U.N. Country whose name is last alphabetically
Zimbabwe
At $1.50 per gallon, what would be the cost of gas for a 300 mile trip in a car that averages 15 mpg?
$30
Democrats Cleveland and Stevenson defeated Republicans Harrison and Reid
1892
Which author created Natty Bumppo?
James (Fenimore) Cooper
George Lucas' Darth ______ (Character)
Vader
Spanish artist Salvador ______
Dali
Republicans Nixon and Agnew defeated Democrats McGovern and Shriver
1972
What surname is shared by these people: Bobby, Inigo, John Paul?
Jones
Octopuses and squids are members of which class?
Cephalopoda
If a person runs a mile in 4 minutes, how many miles will he run in 3 hours at the same pace?
45 (miles)
H.T. Webster's Caspar ________
Milquetoast
Theoretical explosion that began the universe
Big Bang
Atlantic Ocean bay near Miami, Florida
Biscayne Bay
Name for the trunk of an insect
Thorax
Ballet for 2 dancers
Pas de deux
Democrats Kennedy and Johnson defeated Republicans Nixon and Lodge
1960
French "Father of Ridicule" and author of Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
Cosi _______
Fan Tutte
Moon or satellite's point of orbit farthest from the earth
Apogee
Gulf bounded by the U.S., Cuba, and Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
Complete or partial blocking of light from one celestial body to another
Eclipse
English poet, sometimes called the "Prince of Poets" who authorized Samson Agonistes and went blind at age 43.
John Milton
What is the common log of 25 to the base 5?
2
What number increased by 30% of itself equals 39?
30
Which theorem states that for any right triangle the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse?
Pythagorean (Theorem)
Which geometric solid contains a maximum volume for a given surface area?
Sphere
Kangaroos are members of which class?
Mammalia
Principality headed by Prince Rainier III
Monaco
Entire body of Hindu sacred writings
Vedas
Emperor of Mexico executed in 1867
Maximilian
Collective name for the first 4 books of the New Testament
(The )Gospels
Novel that includes the line, "This here is William James Joad, died of a stroke, old, old, man."
The Grapes of Wrath
What real number is equal to the square of the number i?
-1
Author of Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
William Faulkner's Benjy ________
Compson
"Father of English Inductive Philosophy", and author of The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon
Possession mid-18th century French physiocrats believed was the source of all wealth
Land
Patella (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Extremities
Actor Edward G. _______
Robinson
In Hamlet, what Shakespeare said is "the soul of wit"
Brevity
Neck, especially the back of the neck, as well as part of the uterus
Cervix
What integer does the 5th root of -32 equal?
-2
1973 act requiring the President to inform Congress within 48 hours before deploying troops into hostile areas
War Powers Resolution
Which author created Ashley Wilkes?
Margaret Mitchell
Spiders are members of which class?
Arachnida
What surname is shared by these people: Byron Raymond, E.B., Margaret Bourke?
White
Cerebellum (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Head
Republicans Hayes and Wheeler defeated Democrats Tilden and Hendricks
1876
Russian composer of The Firebird
(Igor) Stravinsky
What is the largest positive 3-digit multiple of 3?
999
Collection of dust, gas, and stars thousands of light years in diameter
Galaxy
By what geometric name do we know the graph of the equation: y = x + 1?
(Straight) Line
Amahl and the ________
Night Visitors
Which author created Nurse Ratched?
Ken Kesey
Italian author of The Prince, a 1513 political treatise
Niccolo Machiavelli
1919 act providing for enforcement of national prohibition of liquors
Volstead Act
Englishman known for Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Celestial sources of variable radio signals
Pulsar
Zachary Taylor's victorious Mexican battle site whose name means "Good View"
Buena Vista
Baseball player George Herman ______
Ruth
Which author created Amy March?
Louisa May Alcott
Whigs Taylor and Fillmore defeated Democrats Cass and Butler
1848
1887 act requiring American Indians to give up their tribal lands in return for citizenship
Dawes (Severalty) Act
What is the sum, in degrees, of the measures of the interior angles of a convex pentagon?
540 (degrees)
Biceps (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Extremities
Only U.S. President to remain single
James Buchanan
Which author created Wang Lung?
Pearl Buck
What is the value of the geometric mean of 2 and 18?
6
Capital of Novia Scotia
Halifax
Sacred text of Islam
Koran
Grand Prince who became a Christian about 989 and converted many Russians to Christianity
Vladimir( the Great)
Explosion of a star
Supernova
South Pacific Ocean bay south of Sydney
Botany Bay
What is the formula for finding the area of a circle?
pi * r^2
Which author created Yossarian?
Joseph Heller
St. Jerome's 4th Century Latin version of the Bible
Vulgate
German "Founder and Father of Modern Communism" and author of Das Kapital
Karl Marx
Frogs are members of which class?
Amphibia
Vena cava (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Torso
Adenoids (is it "Head", "Torso", or "Extremities")
Head
Republicans Lincoln adn Johnson defeated Democrats McClellan and Pendelton
1864
Sharks are members of which class?
Chondichytes
Pelleas and _______
Melisande
What surname is shared by these people: Magic, Samuel, James Weldon?
Johnson
Singer Elvis Aaron ________
Presley
The Flying _______
Dutchman
Geometric term used to describe 3 or more lines that intersect at a single point
Concurrent
Pacific Ocean sound that curves deep into Washington state
Puget Sound
Humans are members of which class?
Mammalia
Last book of the Bible
Revelation
Country whose capital is Bern
Switzerland
Gymnosperm that is the single surviving species of an order that flourished at the time of the dinosaurs
Gingkgo
Moon or satellite's orbit point nearest to the Earth
Perigee
1964 act banning discrimination because of color, race, national origin, religion, or sex
Civil Rights Act (of 1964)

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