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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)