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Hungary Capital
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Budapest
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President June 21, 1798 said to break off relations with France
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John Adamas
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Last German Offensive in the West During WWII "You've won the ardennes"
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Battle of the Bulge
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Peanuts little "siren"
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Little Red Haired Girl
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City Where Dixieland Jazz Originated
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New Orleans
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Hemingway Novel about American Soldier/Ambulance Driver in love w/an English Nurse in WWI
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Farewell to Arms
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1961 attempt by US to send american trained Cuban Exiles to invade Cuba
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Bay of Pigs
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Secretary of Interior Albert B Fall was convicted of accepting Bribes having to do with oil fields in Wyoming & California in this scandal of 1920's
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teapot dome scandal
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Hamlet Kills him thinking he is the King
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Polonius
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Capital of Indonesia
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Jakarta
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An angel who was the greatest of angels and fell from heaven to Hell for rebelling against God
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Lucifer
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17th C. English Philosopher who argued that governments depend on the consent of the governed and against the divine right of kings
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John Locke (his political ideas were taken by the American Founding Fathers & Influenced the Dec of Independence.
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Australian for a stagnant pool of backwater
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Billabong
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Pastor tells eerie tale of "Haunted" Boy partly inspired this 1971 Bestseller
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The Exorcist
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Festival held the day before Ash Wednesday
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Mardi Gras
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What european country has 26 Cantons
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Switzerland
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Mormons moved west under the leadership of him
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Brigham Young
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16th C German priest who began the reformation by posting 95 Theses
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Martin Luther
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the book revealed to mormom founder Joseph Smith
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Book of Mormon
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Artist in a mental Hospital
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Van Gogh
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Capital of Canada's Smallest Province
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Charlottetown, PEI
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pirsig: "____ and the art of Motorcycle maintenance"
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Zen
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who attacked Rome 408 AD
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Visigoths (they wanted pepper)
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1st solo hit was "cry me a river"
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Justin Timberlake
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In cold Blood author
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Truman Capote
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Kingdom formed by
King of Al-Hijaz |
Saudi Arabia
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N.C. Coastal Island settled in 1580
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Roanoke
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19th Cent Amer Writer of
The Pit and the Pendulum (story) |
Edgar Allan Poe
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The Raven poet
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Edgar Allan Poe
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19th C Amer writer of poem The Bells
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Cask of Amantillado writer
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Edgar Allan Poe
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When Paul had his famous vision what city was he going to?
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Damascus
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20th C Amer Photographer noted for black & white of American West including Yosemite
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Ansel Adams
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Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Joseph Smith
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Protestant Denomination founded by John Wesley & his Brother Charles Wesley in 18th Century
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Methodists
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Birthplace of Muhammad
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Mecca
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Saga of a young doctor's adventures during WWI and the Russian Revolution
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Doctor Zhivago
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Muslims believe the Koran was dictated to him by an angel from God
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Muhammad
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Goal of early crusades during Middle Ages was conquest of this city
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Jerusalem
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City in Portugal on the Tagus River (Neutral city that was center for international political activity in WWII)
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Lisbon
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Catholic Priests administer 7 of these acts like Penance & Holy Orders
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sacraments
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instrument of Benny Goodman
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Clarinet
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Style of Painting assoc w/ Degas, Manet, Monet & Renoir
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impressionism
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Style of painting known for indistinct outlines & small brushstrokes, often pastels
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impressionism
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author of Mission Earth
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L. Ron Hubbard
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Atlas Shrugged
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ayn rand
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Jimi Hendrix was born & buried in this city
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Seattle
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Youngest person to become president
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Theodore Roosevelt
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meaning "holy wisdom" was once the central church building of the Easter Orthodox church. Now a Museum
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hagia Sophia
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Actor Good friend of Hemingway starred in Farewell to Arms
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Gary Cooper
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President that was president of princeton1902-10 then governer of NJ 1911-13
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Woodrow Wilson
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Award given for science fiction or fantasy every year since 1955.
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Hugo Award - named after Hugo Gernsback ..founder of the sci fi magazine Amazing Stories
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wrote 2001: A space Odyssey
knighted by Britain Received Sri Lanka's highest civil honor - Sri Lankabhimanya |
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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Who wrote 1984
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George Orwell
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To Kill a Mockingbird author
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Harper Lee
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16th President 1861-1865
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Abraham Lincoln
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Republican National President with VPs Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson
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Lincoln
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Lincoln's two VPs
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Hannibal Hamlin & Andrew Johnson
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Composer/Lyricist wrote lyrics for West Side Story & Gypsy
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Steven Sondheim
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Composer/Lyricist for Sunday in the Park with George
into the Woods Assassins |
Steven Sondheim
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Composer/lyricist who studied with Hammerstein and wrote Into the Woods
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Steven Sondheim
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Lord of the Rings Author
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J.R.R. Tolkein
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Vacation spot of Tyrol is in this Country
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Austria
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State Motto is Eureka!
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California
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Death of Salesman playwright
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Arthur Miller
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Railway Sleeping Car inventor
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Pullman
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Brave New World Author
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huxley
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Physically the Heaviest President ever elected
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Taft
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last us. president to have facial hair while in office
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Taft
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Lawyer & poet late 18th-19thC
wrote the Star Spangled Banner |
Francis Scott Key
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Turretted Castle in this SE city is Britain's "Key To England"
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Dover
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"love me two time" artist
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The Doors
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A kind of carving of sculpture in which figures are raised a few inches from flat background
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bas-relief
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Basis of Arab-israeli conflict
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Arab opposition to Jewist State on what they consider Arab territory
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Confederate Commander in charge of rebel forces at Bull Run. turned it into "Good Looking" victory
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Beauregard
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3 stringed Russian Instrument with triangular body
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balalaika
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Mountains in Western Massachussetts
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Berkshires
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"Proud Mary" artist
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Credence Clearwater Revival
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Last British Monarch Buried in Westminster Abbey
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George II
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Ouagadougou is capital of
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Burkina Faso
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Burkina Faso capital
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Ouagadougou
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O'Casey: "______ and the paycock"
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Juneau
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Cosmopolitan Editor who wrote Sex and the Single Girl
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Helen Gurley Brown
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A very slow musical tempo
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adagio
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17th Century English Author of The Pilgrim's Progress
(main character Christian journeys from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City" |
John Bunyan
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17th Century art movement
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Rococo
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most famous painters of the Rococo movement
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Jeane Antoine Watteau, François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard.
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Jeane Antoine Watteau painted in this style
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Rococo
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François Boucher painted in this style
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Rococo
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted in this style.
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Rococo
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Month Supreme Court annual term starts in
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First Monday in October
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First black person to sing with Metropolitan Opera of NYC.
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Marian Anderson
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20th Century African American Controalto known for opera and spirituals
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Marian Anderson
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Mount Rushmore State
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South Dakota
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Country HQ to EU & NATO
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Belgium
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Who sings The Tracks of My Tears
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Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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NYC Manhattan neighborhood known for Bohemian lifestyle
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Greenwich Village
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Andrew Jackson home
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The Hermitage
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Where is Cathedral of Hagia Sophia located
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Istanbul Turkey
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Playwright of:
The Seagull The Cherry Orchard Uncle Vanya Three Sisters (Russian) |
Anton Chekov
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Mexican City in Baja California norte known for racetracks and bullfights
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Tijuana
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Japanese Religion
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Shinto
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Male singing voice higher than bass, lower than tenor
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Baritone
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Vitamin needed for healthy eyes discovered by McCollum 1913
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Vitamin A
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British explorer David Livinstone visited here in 1851, was Northern Rhodesia from 1953-1964.
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Zambia
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20th Century African American jazz pianist & bandleader. Real first name is William. Known for "Big Band" sound fo 30's & 40's
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Count Basie
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Common name of the sacrament of Communion
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Mass
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"Devil Inside" Singers
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INXS
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T.S. in T.S. Elliot
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Thomas Stearns
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Swan Lake composer
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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2 Countries Bordering Panama
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Columbia & Costa Rica
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A belief in 1 god
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Monotheism
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"Katyn" From this country, story of killing of army officers by soviets in 1940.
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Poland
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PM Mossadegh of this country was to be toppled; cia representative kermit Roosevelt. Operation Ajax
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Iran
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Lemony Colored Quartz
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Citrene
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Aztec God of the Sun
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Tonatiuh
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Slaughterhouse Five was based on Authors experience where?
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Kurt Vonnegut's time as POW in Dresden
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Who wrote Slaughterhouse Five
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Patriotic American song sung to tune of "God Save the Queen"
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"America"
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Who sailed the ship Pelican which was renamed The Golden Hind
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Sir Frances Drake
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11th President, Democratic, March 4, 1845-March 4 1849. VP George M Dallas
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James K Polk
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Who invented Jet engine?
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Frank Whittle
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Major Mountain Range from east. former Yugoslavia through Bulgaria to Black Sea
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Balkans
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Popular resort, British Comonwealth member in West Indies
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Barbados
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What are Timpani AKA
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Kettle Drums
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Most prominent of the Apostle's
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Peter
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Who played Lt. Col. Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now"
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Robert Duvall
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Artistic style of Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, George Rouault
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Expressionism
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Van Gogh painted in this style
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Expressionism
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Edvard Munch painted in this style
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Expressionism
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George Rouault painted in this style
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Expressionism
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NBC Sunday morning news show
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Meet The Press
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Losing Presidential Ticket 1968
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Pres Humphrey & VP Muskie
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Losing Presidential Ticket 1976
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Pres Ford & VP Dole
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Losing Presidential Ticket 1952
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VP Sparkman & Pres Adlai Stevenson
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Arm of Mediterranean Sea bordered by Italy to the West & North, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovinia, Yugoslavia & Albania to the East
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Adriatic
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Year of the Arab Oil Embargo
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1973
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Mexico's southern border (2 nations)
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Belize & Guatemala
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Romulus and Remus who killed who?
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Romulus killed Remus. Romans made Romulus a god. Rome Named for Romulus
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Tahitian landscape artist
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Paul Gauguin
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A Woman of No Importance 'wit' playwright
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Oscar Wilde
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Wrote "The Importance of Being Earnest"
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Oscar Wilde
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Wrote "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
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Oscar Wilde
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Title of Arabian Nights story including "Open sesame" to open a cave door
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
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American Frontier life Author of My Antonia
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Willa Cather
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Poem & Poet on Statue of Liberty
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"The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
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Capital of Bavaria, location of the Beer Hall Putsch
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Munich
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The Cornhusker State
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Nebraska
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2 native American civilizations in Mexico before the Spanish
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Mayan, Aztec
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Highest point in Europe
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Mount El'brus Russia
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Lowest point in Europe
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Caspian Sea
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Largest Continent
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Asia
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Smallest continent
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Australia
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2nd largest Continent
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Africa
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Vinson Massif is the highest point of what continent
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Antarctica
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Deep Lake is the lowest point on this continent
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Antarctica
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3rd largest continent
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North America
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4th largest continent
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South America
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5th largest continent
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Antarctica
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6th largest continent
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Europe
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Highest point in Africa
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Mt. Kilimanjaro
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Mt. Kilimanjaro is in this country
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Tanzania
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Lowest point in Africa
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Lake Assal In Djibouti
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In 1917 this president declared war on Germany
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Woodrow Wilson
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"Buttonhole" in French
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Boutonnière
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Mount Aconcagua is the highest point on which continent
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South America
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Mount Aconcagua is located in this country
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Argentina
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Laguna Del Carbon is the lowest point on which continent
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South America
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Laguna Del Carbon is located in which country
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Argentina
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18th Century Scottish Author "Life of Samuel Johnson"
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James Boswell
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James Boswell is known for this type of written work
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Biography
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What is the lowest point in Asia
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Dead Sea
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What is the highest point in Asia
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Mt. Everest
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Dead Sea is bordered by which 2 countries?
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Israel & Jordan
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What is June's birthstone
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Pearl
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Ancient retreat of Inca Royalty in Southeast Peru
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Machu Picchu
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Who is the son of Daedalus (died when escaping from labyrinth with artificial wings)
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Icarus
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Worlds highest waterfall
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Angel Falls in Venezuela
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Where is Angel Falls located
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Venezuela
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God with Winged Sandals & Cap
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Hermes / Mercury
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Roman Goddess married to Jupiter who protected marriage, known for jealousy
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Juno
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Who wrote "La Comedie Humaine"
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Balzac
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Where is Tikal National Park
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Ancient Mayan ruins in Northern Guatemala
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87th Precinct Novels written by Evan Hunter under what pen name
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Ed McBain
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The only president to be a US Representative to the U.N.
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George H. W. Bush
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Kuala Lumpur towers
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Petronas Towers
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Who sculpted Statue of Liberty
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
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Statue of Liberty's real name
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Liberty Enlightening the World
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World's 3rd tallest free standing tower
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CN Tower in Toronto
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World's tallest building
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Burj Khalifa in Dubai UAE
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World's tallest free standing tower
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Tokyo Sky Tree
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Dniester, Danube, Dnieper Rivers all flow into this sea
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Black Sea
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Venezuelan Lake
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Lake Maracaibo
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Norma Desmond is a character from this....
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Sunset BLVD
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Who sings Stairway to Heaven
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Led Zeppelin
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Who sings I Walk the Line
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Johnny Cash
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Who sings Help!
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The Beatles
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Pearl Street Power station 1882 1st in this city
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NYC
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Power company that was one of the first 12 in the Dow Jones
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GE
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Official name of the UK
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Great Britain consists of these 3 countries
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England, Scotland, Wales
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Sea between Black & Aegean Sea
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Sea of Marmara
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Connects Aegean & Marmara Sea
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Dardanelles Strait
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Connects Marmara Sea & Black Sea
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Bosporus Strait
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Vaiaku Village is the capital of
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Tuvalu
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Lusaka is the capital of
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Zambia
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Zambia's capital is
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Lusaka
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Tuvalu's capital is
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Vaiaku Village
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Where is Mount Everest located?
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Tibet & Nepal border
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How tall is Mount Everest?
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29,029 feet (official) but really 29,035 feet.
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When was Mount Everest first climbed? & By who?
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1953, Tenzing Norgay & Edmund Percival Hillary of New Zealand
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20th Century Female British author of "Children of Violence", "The Golden Notebook" and short stories book "African Stories"
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Doris Lessing
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Capital of Ukraine
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Kiev
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Kiev is the capital of?
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Ukraine
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Kiev is on which river?
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Dnieper
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Watership Down author (A story about rabbits)
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Richard Adams
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"What'd I say" is a song by
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Ray Charles
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Who sang "A change is Gonna Come"
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Sam Cooke
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Who sings Blowin' In the Wind
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Bob Dylan
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Provincial capital of Ontario
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Toronto
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Toronto is located on what lake?
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Lake Ontario
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Who wrote "Diary of a Madman"
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Nikolai Gogol
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Who wrote "The Great White Hope"
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Howard Sackler
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Capital city on the Vltava River
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Prague (River eventually merges with the Elbe)
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7 Countries on the Arabian Peninsula
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UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
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The Allegory of Love was written by this 20th Century British Author
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C.S. Lewis
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What 2 authors died on the day JFK was assassinated?
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C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley
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20th Century British author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia
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C.S. Lewis
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20th Century British author wrote Mere Christianity
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C.S. Lewis
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20th Century British author wrote The Screwtape Letters
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C.S. Lewis
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20th Century British author wrote The Space Trilogy
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C.S. Lewis
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20th Century British author wrote Till We Have Faces
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C.S. Lewis
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20th Century British author wrote Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
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C.S. Lewis
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Also called the azure coast "Cote d'Azur"
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French Riviera
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Renaissance master sculptor with angels pointing (was also a Baroque architect)
succeeded Michelangelo |
Bernini 1598-1680
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What is Papal Conclave?
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It is the meeting of Cardinals during a period of vacancy in the papal office to elect a Bishop of Rome who becomes Pope
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Ohio Doctor accused of murdering his pregnant wife in 1954
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Sam Shepherd (convicted 1954 overturned after almost 10 years in prison, retried in 1966 and acquitted)
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Ashgabat is the capital of
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Turkmenistan
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Trukmenistan's capital
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Ashgabat
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Ljubljana is the capital of
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Slovenia
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Slovenia's capital is
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Ljubljana
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Paramaribo is the capital of
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Suriname
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Suriname's capital is
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Paramaribo
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"Beyond Good & Evil" Author 1886
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nietzsche
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Mid 17th Century View Painter in Venice, Joseph Smith Patron
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Canaletto
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Czech Composer of "The Bartered Bride"
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Bedřich Smetana
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Promoted Back to Africa Movement in 1920's, Jamaican
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Marcus Garvey
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Wessex ruler 871-899
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Alfred the Great
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Maugham "The Moon and ?????"
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Sixpence
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Who wrote "Of Human Bondage"
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Who wrote "The Letter"
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W. Somerset Maugham
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32nd president 1933-1945
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fdr
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democratic president with v.p.s John Nance Garner, Henry A Wallace & Harry S Truman
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FDR
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20th c dutch born artist known for geometric paintings w/ perpendicular lines & planes of pure primary colors
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Piet Mondrian
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Dutch born artist
"Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue" & "Broadway Boogie Woogie" |
Piet Mondrian
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who wrote Rain
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W. Somerset Maugham
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who wrote The Razor's Edge
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Late 19th Century Poet, Casey at the Bat, set in Mudville
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Ernest Thayer
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Range of the Appalachians Southern PA to Northern GA
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Blue Ridge Mountains
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Term for dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 aka De Stijl
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neo plasticism (coined by Piet Mondrian)
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Year of Cuban Revolution
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1959
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author of " An essay on man"
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Alexander pope
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Source of "Hope springs eternal..
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An essay on man by alexander pope
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"The course of true love never did run smooth" from which shakespeare play
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A midsummer night's dream
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Movement that stresses people are entirely free and responsible for what they make of themselves
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existentialism
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i think therefore I am
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descartes
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belief that events are determined by an impersonal fate and cannot be changed by human beings
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fatalism
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"locksley Hall" poet
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TEnnyson
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the charge of the light brigade poet
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lord tennyson
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Idylls of the king poet
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Tennyson
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ulysses (blank verse) poet
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tennyson
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Aeneas, Jason & Odysseus had to sail between this 6 headed monster on one side of a strait, and a whirlpool on the other. What are the monster and whirlpool's names?
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Scylla (SIL-UH) and Charybdis (Kuh-Rib-Dis)
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"Don't Give Up The Ship" comes from which war?
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From Commander James Lawrence during a battle in the War of 1812
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"The Quiet American" author
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Graham Greene (one of most cinematic 20th century authors, at least 66 titles based on his material from 1934-2010)
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What play has the line "Discretion is the better part of valor"
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Falstaff spoke it in King Henry IV Part One
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20th century Mexican writer of "The Death of Artemio Cruz"
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Carlos Fuentes
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The Old Gringo (1985) was written by
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Carlos Fuentes (Mexican)
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"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast" (beast is oft substituted incorrectly) comes from "the Mourning Bride" by him
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William Congreve (English 1670-1729)
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned" paraphrased to "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" comes from "The Mourning Bride" by
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William Congreve (English 1670-1729)
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Maputo is the capital of
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Mozambique
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Mozambique's capital is
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Maputo
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a futile endeavor may be called a "labor of ?????"
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Sisyphus
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Jewish folk music
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Klezmer
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The novel "Mason & Dixon" (1997) includes learned english dogs, written by
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Thomas Pynchon (1937- postmodern American)
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3rd and most celebrated Novel "Gravity's Rainbow" (1973) was written by
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Thomas Pynchon (1937- postmodern American)
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20th Century Russian author wrote Doctor Zhivago winning 1958 Nobel Prize but was forced to reject it (it was banned in USSR)
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Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)
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Author of Frankenstein (who is the doctor who makes the monster)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (married to percy Shelley)
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20th Cent Amer Poet
The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Mending Wall |
Robert Frost
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Poem that includes "miles to go before I sleep"
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
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Poem that includes "good fences make good neighbors"
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Mending Wall by Robert Frost
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Pirate who's ship was Queen Anne's Revenge
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Blackbeard
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Decade of the Panama Canal
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1910s
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Baroque Composer famous for cantatas
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Bach
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Speech made by Nixon in 1952 to keep himself on the ballot as VP w/eisenhower defending his finance .
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Checkers speech
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other name for "Volstead Act" that was vetoed by Wilson in 1919 but still passed by Congress
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National Prohibition Act
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May Birthstone
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Emerald
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Lenin Led this "majority" revolutionary power
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the Bolsheviks
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Napoleon Birthplace. Part of France SE of the mainland north of Sardinia Italy
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Corsica
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"the Little Corporal"
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Napoleon
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city that was capital of eastern roman empire then byzantine empire then ottoman empire consecutively. And seat of the Easter Orthodox church
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Istanbul (Constantinople)
|
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River in Idaho
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Snake River
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Rock type that changed form
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metamorphic
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nation of five small islands south of sicily. Independent in 1964 with close ties to Britain
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Malta
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Group in power in afghanistan 1995-2001 imposed strict & repressive islamic law
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Taliban
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The moluccas (islands) rich in nutmeg and cloves in eastern part of indonesia are called this
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spice islands
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Invasion of this country by Germany in 1939 precipitated wwii
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poland
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Headwater reservoir for the Nile River
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Lake Victoria
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Lake explored by Henry Stanley in 1875
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Lake Victoria
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a brisk, lively musical tempo
Italian for Cheerful |
allegro
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painter of "american gothic"
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grant wood
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Capital(s) of Bolivia
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La Paz (admin) & Sucre (judicial)
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Arm of Atlantic Ocean northwest of Central Europe Oil discovered in 1970
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North Sea
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broadway show - alfred hitchcock classic about Snave Londoner who meets a mysterious woman and gets caught up in her dangerous world
Over 100 roles are played by 4 actors |
the 39 steps
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Federal Reserve Act creating Federal Reserve System & the central Banking system signed into law by this pres
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Woodrow Wilson
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Country w/ highest per capital national income in Latin America (due to oil exports) was a founder of OPEC
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Venezuela
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Charlie Chaplin Character who wore shabby black suit, derby hat, floppy shoes, walked w/cane
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the Little tramp
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1890s furniture style inspired by California Churches
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Mission
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Called Rommel a "magnificent bastard" on film
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Patton
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The desert fox
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Erwin Rommel German field master of WWII
|
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Grapes of Wrath author
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John Steinbeck
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Main Characters of the Grapes of Wrath
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the Joads a family of sharecroppers
|
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War in which Joan of Arc Fought
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The Hundred Year's War
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A Farewell to Arms author
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Hemingway
|
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Book about Lt Frederic Henry who is ambulance driver in Italy in WWI
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A Farewell to Arms
|
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Most populous city in Asia Mainlaind /Largest city in China
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Shanghai
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chinese city that sits at the mouth of the yangtze river
|
shanghai
|
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Thoroughbred breed traces back to which 2 breeds
|
Arabian Stallion & english mare
in 17th&18th cent england. (74 mares/3 stallions) |
|
Religious and civil leader of Tibet forced into exile in 1959 when the chinese annexed the country
|
Dalai Lama
|
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Don Juan writer known for Brooding Letharios
|
Lord Byron
|
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vast grassy plains associated w/easter Russia and Siberia
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steppes
|
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1898 battle of San juan hill from what war
|
Spanish - American War
|
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1951 Battle of Heartbreak Ridge from what war
|
Korean War
|
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1971 song ---- was a bull frog
|
jeremiah
|
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omelette made with ham onion and green peppers
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denver
|
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his company had monopoly on steamships on hudson river
|
robert fulton
|
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oldest roman road
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appian way
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where is san simeon state park
|
california
|
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showman with mansion called "iranastan"
|
pt barnum
|
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prohibition amendment number
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18
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Caesar's last words in play Julius Caesar
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et tu brute
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greek province associated with alexander the great
|
macedonia
|
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18th c irish author - Gulliver's travels
|
Jonathan swift
|
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18th c irish author - a modest proposal
|
Jonathan swift
|
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Site of first atomic bomb dropped in populated area - august 6, 1945
|
hiroshima
|
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Site of 2 atomic bomb dropped in populated area aug 9 1945
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nagasaki
|
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1990-91 war when iraq invaded kuwait - u.n. forces led by the US
|
Persian Gulf War
|
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lowest point in N American desert in SE Calif & SW Nevada
|
Death Valley
|
|
Santa Fe Trail End points
|
Santa Fe, NM and Independence,MO (or Franklin, MO)
|
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Area in Paris on South Side of the Seine River known for artistic & student life
|
the left bank
|
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2 states divided by mason-dixon line
|
maryland & pA
|
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Part of Appalachians runs north-south in Vermont
|
Green Mtns
|
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15000 black american freed slaves settled in this african country that had civil war 1989-mid 19902 claiming 150,000 lives
|
liberia
|
|
distinctively shaped alp mountain on border of italy & switzerland
|
the matterhorn
|
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river that was the scene of Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist
|
Jordan River
|
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region containing countries on the arabian peninsula - egypt, iran, iraq, israel, jordan, lebanon, syria, turkey
|
middle east
|
|
Elemental fusion in the sun
|
H + H -> He
|
|
narrow strip of land connecting larger land masses with water on both sides
|
isthmus
|
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the old curiousity shoppe author
|
charles dickens
|
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Paul McCartneys Fashion Designer Daughter
|
Stella McCartney
|
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Hemorrhage inhibiting vitamin
|
K
|
|
Famous Easter Egg Roll
|
white house
|
|
Star of the Good, the bad & the ugly
|
Clint Eastwood
|
|
what italian city film festival awards Golden Lion
|
Venice
|
|
2nd most populous country
|
INdia
|
|
Largest city in Turkey
|
Istanbul
|
|
Former names of Istanbul
|
Constantinople & Byzantium
|
|
Stonehenge is on what plain in wiltshire?
|
Salisbury Plain
|
|
Paul McCartney's other band in 1976
|
wings
|
|
Sirius steamship was first to cross which ocean by steam power only
|
Atlantic Ocean
|
|
Commanded 7th Cavalry
|
George Custer
|
|
October Birthstone
|
Opal
|
|
Who sang My Girl
|
The Temptations
|
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Who sang Ring Of FIre
|
Johnny Cash
|
|
Assissinated Robert F Kennedy in 1968
|
sirhan sirhan ( a palestinian)
|
|
Other terms for the same area include Canaan, Zion, the Land of Israel, Syria Palaestina, Southern Syria, Jund Filastin, Outremer, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant.[8]
|
palestine
|
|
Broadway Musical - Nathan detroit bets sky masterson that he can't romance sarah brown ( a missionary).
|
Guys & Dolls
|
|
Broadway musical with songs:
"i've never been in love before" "more i cannot wish you" "sit down you're rockin the boat" "luck be a lady" "adelaide's lament" |
Guys & Dolls
|
|
Broadway musical- based on british film about motherless boy who wants to give up boxing for dancing - northern england in mid-1980s
|
Billy Elliot
|
|
broadway musical - with puppets. recent university grad moves into his first apartment
|
Avenue Q
|
|
broadway musical with songs - "the internet is great for ..." "if you were gay"
|
Avenue Q
|
|
Boers from this country first settled South africa
|
Netherlands
|
|
first manned lunar mission in 1968
|
apollo 8
|
|
Frank Borman, James Lovell, & William Anders - became the first humans to travel past Earth's Low orbit, first to see earth as a whole planet, first to see dark side of the moon directly were on this apollo mission
|
apollo 8
|
|
River rises in the rockies and forms the arizona california border
|
colorado river
|
|
president when california gold rush began
|
polk
|
|
how many companies in dow jones
|
30
|
|
"8th wonder of the world" dam
|
grand cooley dam
|
|
"sweet" composition by ferde groefe
|
The grand canyon suite
|
|
horatio hornblower job
|
sailor (officer)
|
|
lew archer job
|
P.I.
|
|
howard roark job
|
architect
|
|
george smiley job
|
spy
|
|
conquest of gaul in 58-51 b.c.by this leader
|
julius caesar
|
|
irish is a form of this language
|
gaelic
|
|
priestly class of celts
|
druids
|
|
woman of the fairies - in celtic folklore whose mournful wails & screams foretold death
|
banshee
|
|
name of james cook's ship
|
the endeavor
|
|
what day is d-day
|
june 6 1944
|
|
branch of math with arabic name
|
algebra
|
|
macarthur foundation gives a fellowship nicknamed this:
|
genius award
|
|
nazi captured in argentina
|
eickmann
|
|
orbited earth once in april 1961
|
yuri gagarin
|
|
year of bay of pigs
|
1961
|
|
mario puzo novel published in 1969
|
the godfather
|
|
father who worked with lepers in hawaii
|
father damian
|
|
"god it'll get you for that, walter" sitcom
|
maude
|
|
charles & david brothers no. 18&19 on forbes richest list that are big in conservative politics
|
koch
|
|
ferdinand is one of these in a beloved children's tale
|
bull
|
|
he suggested sun was center of solar system
|
copernicus
|
|
theory by truman thought that a nation's fall to communism would cause neighboring nations to follow suit
|
the domino theory
|
|
cat scans use this type of electromagnetic radiation
|
xrays
|
|
sigmund freud coined term of therapy - "psych"
|
psychoanalysis
|
|
"birthplace of california"
|
san diego
|
|
fort that is birthplace of star spangled banner
|
fort mchenry
|
|
birthplace of aviation
|
dayton ohio
|
|
massachussetts city birthplace of basketball
|
springfield
|
|
ring cycle composer (ring cycle has 4 operas)
|
wagner
|
|
french term meaning a feat requiring great strength
|
tour de force
|
|
hero who kills medusa by aiming his sword by looking at her reflection in a shield
|
perseus
|
|
nickles are 75% this element
|
copper
|
|
killed nine headed monster hydra
|
hercules
|
|
families involved in war of the roses
|
lancaster & york
|
|
roman god of metalworking & fire "the blacksmith of the gods" - son of jupiter
|
Vulcan
|
|
greek name for vulcan
|
Hephaestus
|
|
roman name of Hephaestus
|
Vulcan
|
|
king who ordered labyrinth built
|
minos
|
|
opera that Pinkerton is in
|
Madame Butterfly
|
|
in medieval times an act of bravery got you dubbed a knight & won you a pair of golden these
|
spurs
|
|
articles of confederation were written by this meeting
|
2nd continental congress
|
|
estonia capital
|
tallinn
|
|
333 bc darius III was king of this
|
Persia
|
|
central American country w/english as official language
|
belize
|
|
1880s transcon railroad went through gadsen purchase land
|
southern pacific
|
|
Battle of belleau wood
|
WWI
|
|
Composer of Aida
|
Giuseppi Verdi
|
|
Verdi's opera about ancient egypt
|
Aida
|
|
Opera with characters: Radames, high priest Ramfis, Amneris
|
Aida
|
|
Barber of Seville Opera Composer
|
Giachino Rossini
|
|
Rossini opera with characters: Figaro, Bartolo, Rosina, Count Almaviva, maid Berta
|
Barber of Seville
|
|
Formerly called Zaire
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo also formerly Belgian Congo
|
|
Movie Quote: "Plastics"
|
The Graduate
|
|
1994 "Live From Hell" comedy album, cue scream....
|
Sam Kinison
|
|
Other DC River
|
Anacostia
|
|
Capital of Bulgaria
|
Sofia
|
|
Benjamin Britten Opera based on Herman Melville novel
|
Billy Budd
|
|
Billy Budd opera's English composer
|
Benjamin Britten
|
|
20th Cent English Composer, Conductor & Pianist with operas "Peter Grimes" , Paul Bunyan, The Turn of the Screw, Owen Wingrave,
|
Benjamin Britten
|
|
Don Giovanni opera Composer
|
Mozart
|
|
Mozart opera with characters: leporello (servant) and the Commendatore
|
Don Giovanni
|
|
Sofia is the capital of
|
Bulgaria
|
|
Where & Who of Easter Rebellion
|
Dublin, Irish against British rule
|
|
Rollover Beethoven
|
Chuck Berry
|
|
Bach's greatest choral work
|
Mass in B Minor
|
|
Capital of San Marino
|
San Marino
|
|
"The Gathering Place" island
|
Oahu
|
|
Capital of Cyprus
|
Nicosia
|
|
Nicosia is the capital of
|
Cyprus
|
|
2008 top US General in Iraq named to run central command
|
David Petraeus, currently director CIA
|
|
Water snake constellation
|
Hydra
|
|
italian composer of L'elisir d'amore (the elixir of Love) opera
|
Donizetti
|
|
New Baroque opera with lovers from "a midsummer night's dream" are shipwrecked on island of "the tempest"
with music from handel, vivaldi, rameau |
The Enchanted Island
|
|
Composer of Ernani opera. where don juan of aragon has lost his title and takes on this name of Ernani
|
Verdi
|
|
Faust german playwright
|
Goethe
|
|
English author of "the history of Doctor Faustus"
|
Christopher Marlowe
|
|
Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese artists from this city
|
Venice
|
|
Defending the Caveman playwright
|
Rob Becker
|
|
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress author
|
Robert Heinlein 20th century american science fiction writer
|
|
wrote Stranger in a Strange Land
|
Robert Heinlein 20th century american science fiction writer
|
|
Rwanda gained independence from this country in 1962
|
Belgium
|
|
Thomas mann 1947 book about german legend
|
Doctor Faustus
|
|
Opera with characters: Valentin, Marguerite, Mephistopheles & Siebel
|
Faust
|
|
The Ring Cycle composer
|
Richard Wagner
|
|
Gotterdammerung is a piece of this work by Wagner
|
The Ring Cycle
|
|
Composer of Madame Butterfly
|
Puccini
|
|
Puccini Opera with characters Pinkerton, Suzuki, & Cio-Cio-San aka Title character
|
Madame Butterfly
|
|
Broadway musical based on Madame Butterfly
|
Miss Saigon
|
|
19th C. Russian Composer innovator of Russian music in the romantic period. Works: Boris Godunov, Khovanschina, Night on Bald Mountain
|
Mussorgsky
|
|
Composer of Macbeth Opera
|
Giuseppe Verdi
|
|
Verdi's opera based on Shakespeare play about scottish prince
|
MacBeth
|
|
3 named scientist came up with natural selection
|
Alfred Russell Wallace 19-20th century British (Welsh) naturalist
|
|
"The Joke" & "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" & The Unbearable Lightness of Being author
|
Milan Kundera (20-21 century Czech born now French)
|
|
"Invictus" poem - Latin for "unconquered"
|
William Ernest Henry (English late 19th century)
|
|
20th Century Female American writer & critic "The groves of Academe" & "The Group", "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood"
|
Mary McCarthy
|
|
Who wrote Toys in the Attic
|
Lillian Hellman (20th century American)
|
|
Czech Composer (1854-1928) of operas "the Makropoulos affair" "her stepdaughter" "from the house of the dead"
|
Leos Janacek
|
|
late 19th early 20th c french composer best known for operas Manon & Werther
|
Jules Massenet
|
|
Massenet's opera where the main character is supposed to enter a convent but doesn't
|
Manon
|
|
Tosca composer
|
Giacomo Puccini
|
|
Puccini opera where main character is a singer whose lover dies in a firing squad
|
Tosca
|
|
La Traviata Composer
|
Giuseppe Verdi
|
|
Opera with "the red dress"
|
La Traviata
|
|
Verdi Opera with lead role of Violetta
|
La Traviata
|
|
Verdi Opera that translates to "the fallen woman"
|
La Traviata
|
|
Wagner's work that consists of these parts:
Das Rheingold (The Rhine Gold) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) |
The Ring Cycle
|
|
Dutch-born 20th Century American artist who was a leader of Abstract Expressionism. Highly colored, often violent include "Woman" 1950's
|
Willem de Kooning
|
|
Writer of "The Decameron" also called Prince Galehaut & also wrote "On Famous Women"
|
Giovanni Boccaccio (14th century Italian)
|
|
Last president born in the 19th Century, oversaw cease-fire of Korean War
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
|
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For band
|
U2
|
|
Good Golly Miss Molly
|
Little Richard
|
|
Das Rheingold is what part of ring cycle
|
1st part
|
|
Die Walkure is what part of ring cycle
|
2 part
|
|
Siegfried is what part of ring cycle
|
3rd part
|
|
Gotterdammerung (twilight of the Gods) is what part of ring cycle
|
4th part
|
|
Puccini Opera Rent is based on
|
La Boheme
|
|
Composer of La Boheme
|
Puccini
|
|
fairy tale opera composed by Englebert Humperdinck
|
Hansel and Gretel
|
|
The Magic Flute composer
|
Mozart
|
|
The Marriage of Figaro Composer
|
Mozart
|
|
Rigoletto composer
|
Verdi
|
|
la cenerentola opera composer
|
Rossini
|
|
Turandot composer
|
Puccini
|
|
Lucia di Lammermoor composer
|
Donizetti
|
|
Pagliacci composer
|
Leoncavallo
|
|
Cosi Fan Tutte composer
|
Mozart
|
|
Composer of "Funeral Music for Queen Mary" used in "A Clockwork Orange"
|
Henry Purcell (17th Century English Baroque)
|
|
Country where President died in 1994 in suspicious plane crash. Hutu militia killed 500k tutsis in act of genocide
|
Rwanda
|
|
Who sings "Georgia on My Mind"
|
Ray Charles
|
|
Who sings "Heartbreak Hotel"
|
Elvis Presley
|
|
"The Times They Are A Changing"
|
Bob Dylan
|
|
il trovatore opera composer
|
verdi
|
|
Faust composer
|
Gounod
|
|
Die Fledermaus composer
|
J. Strauss
|
|
l'elisir d'amore composer
|
donizetti
|
|
Lynchburg Whiskey
|
Jack Daniels
|
|
What is the official name of South Korea
|
Republic of Korea
|
|
"Front Porch" campaign, 1880 Ohio Candidate
|
James Garfield
|
|
18th Century Austrian Classical composer. Credited with establishing symphony "Surprise Symphony" Clock Symphony" & many string quartets
|
Franz Josef Haydn
|
|
Who wrote The Handmaid's Tale
|
Margaret Atwood
|
|
Who wrote Death comes for the Archbishop
|
Willa Cather
|
|
Painters known as "The Primitives" including Van Eyck
|
Flemish
|
|
1829 Novelist of "Les Chovans"
|
Balzac (19th century French novelist/playwright)
|
|
"magnus opus" or masterpiece of Balzac
|
La Comédie humaine (a series of short stories & novels set in the years after the fall of Napoleon in 1815)
|
|
Musical direction meaning "to be performed loudly" opposite is piano
|
Forte
|
|
Where is Marrakesh?
|
Morocco
|
|
Amendment requiring jury trials in civil suits where value exceeds $20
|
7th
|
|
Ernest Rutherford discovered this in 1911
|
Nucleus (He was a Kiwi worked in London and Canada too) Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1908. Discovered concept of "half-life", father of nuclear physics, widely credited for splitting the atom in 1917.
|
|
Who beat the Danes in 886 to keep all of England from being conquered
|
King Alfred the Great, 9th century, house of Wessex, only "The Great" British, king 871-899
|
|
Quetzalcoatl was an ancient nature god & Legendary ruler of these people of Mexico, usually a plumed serpent
|
Toltec (800-1000) CE, Aztecs (14-16th century) saw them as predecessors
|
|
Source of "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread"
|
"An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope (18th century English poet, 3rd most quoted in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after Shakespeare & Tennyson; he is known for heroic couplet)
|
|
What stables did Hercules have to clean in his Labors?
|
Augean Stables
|
|
Danish Astronomer
|
Tycho Brahe 16th century (from Scania now Sweden then Denmark last of the great 'naked eye' astronomers)
|
|
State Motto, "The Last Frontier"
|
Alaska
|
|
State Motto, "The Keystone State"
|
Pennsylvania
|
|
Last book by James Joyce
|
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce is an early 20th century Irish novelist and poet)
|
|
Who wrote Dubliners
|
James Joyce (early 20th century Irish novelist and poet)
|
|
Who wrote A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
|
James Joyce (early 20th century Irish novelist and poet)
|
|
Who wrote Exiles and poetry
|
James Joyce (early 20th century Irish novelist and poet)
|
|
Who wrote Ulysses
|
James Joyce (early 20th century Irish novelist and poet)
|
|
Festival commemorating the exodus of Jews from Slavery in Egypt
|
Passover
|
|
acts done to make up for sin
|
Penance
|
|
religious order of men that spearheaded the counter reformation
|
jesuits
|
|
members of the society of Jesus
|
Jesuits
|
|
Members of the religious order founded by Ignacius of Loyola
|
Jesuits
|
|
Founder of the jesuits
|
Ignacius of Loyola
|
|
Shaolin order is a chinese order of this religion
|
Buddhism
|
|
Carmelites, Dominicans, Fransciscans are known as these groups
|
Religious Orders
|
|
Religious orders sometimes known has black friars due to the black cloak they wear over their white habit
|
Dominicans
|
|
Founder of Dominicans in the 1200s
|
Saint Dominic
|
|
Religious order known has Jacobins in France b/c their first convent in Paris was built near church of Saint Jacques
|
Dominicans
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latin pun on the name of this religious order gives them nickname hounds of the lord
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Dominicans = domini canes
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Saint Bertold is reported to be the founder this religious order
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Carmelites
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How religious order carmelites got their name
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B/c they were founded near Mt. Carmel
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Playwright of "A Doll's House", "Hedda Gabler", "Peer Gynt", "Pillars of Society", "Ghosts", "An Enemy of the People", "The Wild Duck" - Norwegian
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Henrik Ibsen (19th century Norwegian playwright, theater director, and poet)
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Who sings "Yesterday"
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The Beatles
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Who sings "Louie Louie"
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The Kingsmen
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Who sings Layla
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Derek and the Dominoes
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Who sings "She Loves You"
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The Beatles
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Mbabane is the capital of
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Swaziland
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Swaziland's capital is
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Mbabane
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1930-40's catchphrase Who's Yehoodi? "Men" fiddler, one of 20th Century's greatest violin virtuoso
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Yehudi Menuhin (happened on the bob hope show when he was a guest, continued on after that show)
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The Silver State
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Nevada
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The Garden State
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New Jersey
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Who sings Light My Fire
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The Doors
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You've Lost That Loving' Feeling
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The Righteous Brothers
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2nd wife of Henry VIII Bore QE 1
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Anne Boleyn, accused of adultery, lost her head
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"Paris of the North"
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Copenhagen
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Who sings "Crying"
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Roy Orbison
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Baltimore paper
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the Sun
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Milwaukee paper
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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The "sage of baltimore"
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HL mencken
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Who gave the scopes trial the "monkey" trial nickname
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HL Mencken
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how wrote "the american language" and "happy days" (his memoir
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HL Mencken
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Fresno paper
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The Fresno Bee
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German Painter & engraver 15th-16th c @ beginning of reformation. Notable woodcuts and many religious subjects
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Albrecht Durer
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His well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the Devil (1513), Saint Jerome in his Study (1514) and Melencolia I (1514), he was known for woodcuts & engravings
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Albrecht Durer
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Roman Goddess of agriculture
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Ceres
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Greek counterpart of Roman Goddess Ceres
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Demeter
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Who Sings "Love and Happiness"
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Al Green
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Who directed the film "La Strada"
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Federico Fellini (20th century Italian director and screenwriter)
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This Amendment ensures gender cannot be used as a voting criteria
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19th
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19th Amendment
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gender cannot be used as a voting criteria
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Film director John Woo's home city
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Hong Kong
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mother of persephone
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Demeter
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Goddess -queen of underworld - who is obliged to spend half the year in the underworld
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Persephone
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2 Chicago Papers
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tribune & Sun-times
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Salt Lake City Paper
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The Salt Lake tribune
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The prince of tides book & screenplay author
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pat conroy
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Two books by Pat Conroy that were made into oscar nominated films
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Prince of tides & the great santini
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San Diego paper
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Union Tribune
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Charlotte PaPER
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The Charlotte Observer
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Seattle Papers (2)
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the Seattle Times & the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Play about Inez choosing hell face to face
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No exit
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US Standard lock type started 1965
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yale
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Who sings Sunshine of Your Love
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Cream
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Who sings Dead or Alive
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Bon Jovi
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Who sings Rollover Beethoven
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Chuck Berry
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Who sings walk on By
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Dionne Warwick
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Who wrote "Knowledge is Power"
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626 English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method)
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Amendment ensured no tax could be charged to vote for any federal office 1964
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24
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24th amendment
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no tax charged to vote for any federal office
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City formerly known as Petrograd (start of WWI to 1924) then Leningrad (1924 to fall of communism)
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St. Petersburg
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Source of "Eat, Drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die"
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Bible, Ecclesiastes & Isaiah
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Existentialist author of "No Exit" play
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Jean Paul Sartre
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13th letter of the Greek Alphabet
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Nu
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Broadway play - comedy about extravagant & incompetent king. His first wife queen marguerite trys to convince him he only has 90 minutes left to live (starred geoffrey rush & susan sarandon)
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Exit the King
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Romanian/French playwright of the theater of the absurd who wrote Exit the King
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Eugene Ionesco
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"absurd" writer whose works include: The Lesson (1951), The Chairs (1952), and Rhinoceros (1959).
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Eugene Ionesco
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18th-19th c German Composer Fifth Symphony & Ninth Symphony ("choral")
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Greek and Roman God fo the west wind considered the most pleasant of the winds
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Zephyr
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Happily found time to finish "trout" quintet
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Franz Schubert
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Austrian Composer with a famous "unfinished symphony" - eighth
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Franz Schubert
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18th-19th c prolific austrian composer from early romantic period.
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Franz Schubert
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Hideous female monsters who relentlessly pursued evildoers
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Furies
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"The love of money is the root of all evil" who said
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Paul in First Epistle of Paul to Timothy (new testament)
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Venezuelan Lake
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Lake Maracaibo
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Rutherford discovered this particle in 1919
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Proton
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17th Century French author known for his Fables in which he pokes fun at the human condition
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Twins in Gone with the wind
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Tarleton twins
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Year Gone with the wind won best picture/actress/supporting actress/screenplay/director/cinematography etc.
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1940
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Father of PAN
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Hermes/Mercury (or zeus or odysseus)
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Type of being Pan is most like
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satyr
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He is on the $20 bill
|
Andrew Jackson
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He is on $1 bill
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Washington
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He is on $5 bill
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Lincoln
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He is on $2 bill
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Jefferson
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He is on $10 bill
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Alexander Hamilton
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he is on $50 bill
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Grant
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He is on $100 bill
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Ben Franklin
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he is on the $100,000 bill
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Woodrow Wilson
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Treasury secretary under lincoln (and 6th Chief Justice of supreme court) on $10,000 bill
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Salmon P Chase
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"free Soil" party senator from Ohio 1849-1855
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Salmon P Chase
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Bill with Salmon P Chase that was printed 1928-1946
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$10,000
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Chief Justice who presided over impeachment of Andrew Johnson trial, and admitted John Rock - first african american attorney to argue a case in front of the supreme court
|
Salmon P Chase
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he is on $5000 bill
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James Madison
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Largest denomination of bill that was only printed December 18, 1934 through January 9, 1935 and not released to circulation
|
$100, 000
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Current denominations of paper money
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1, 2, 5, 10 ,20, 50 , 100
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president on the $1000 bill
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Grover Cleveland
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Mckinley is on this large denomination bill
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$500
|
|
Alexander hamilton is on what bill
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$10
|
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Grover Cleveland is on this large denomination bill
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$1000
|
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Salmon P Chase was on this large bill
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$10,000
|
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James Madison was on this large bill
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$5,000
|
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Woodrow wilson was on this large bill
|
$100,000
|
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New Orleans Paper
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Times-Picayune
|
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President that was a leader of Bourbon Democrats (conservative democrats)
|
Grover Cleveland
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1876-1904 democrats who represented business interests, fought corrupt city bosses including Boss Tweed
|
Bourbon Democrats
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early biographer of george washington who told story of washington cutting down cherry tree
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Mason Weems
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|
Mason ("Parson") weems most famous work is about the life of this president
|
Washington
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King Arthur kinsman and enemy who causes his downfall
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Mordred/Modred (some consider his illegitimate son, some nephew)
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Mother of Titans & the cyclops
|
Gaia (greek)
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Cormac McCarthy title from yeats poem
|
No country for old men
|
|
Cormac McCarthy book that became a best picture winner
with Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones & Josh Brolin |
No country for old men
|
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Greek Hero in the trojan war that conceived of the Trojan Horse
|
Odysseus
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Haitian American Graffiti Artist
|
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Indianapolis Newspaper
|
Indianapolis star
|
|
great exhibition hall built in London in mid 19th c one of the first prefabricated buildings and w/large expanses of glass wall
|
Crystal Palace
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king nicknamed "beauclerc" & "lion of justice" 1100-1135
|
Henry I
|
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Number of Henry that succeeded his brother William II to the throne in 1100
|
Henry the first aka (beauclerc & Lion of Justice)
|
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Long epic poem by Ovid w/numerous classical mythology stories. Many deal with miraculous transformations
|
Metamorphoses (Ovid was Roman 43bc-ad17or 18)
|
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Composer of Così fan tutte (1790)
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mozart (late 18th century Salzburg Austria was Holy Roman Empire @ that time; Classical style)
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|
Principal composers of Baroque period
|
JS Bach, George Frederick Handel
|
|
Order of musical styles
|
Baroque (Bach), Classical (Mozart & Beethoven), Romantic (Beethoven)
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Crusading Irish Journalist Veronica
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Veronica Guerin (late 20th century murdered by drug lords)
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14th President 1853-1857 democratic with VP william R King ( the VP died in office)
|
Franklin Pierce
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The hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified Latin for "place of the skull" & its ancient name
|
calvary aka golgotha
|
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Ft Worth Paper
|
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
|
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St. Louis Paper
|
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
|
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He interpreted the handwriting on the wall that the king & his kingdom would fall
|
Daniel
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King that is killed by persians shortly after Daniel interprets the handwriting on the wall (written by a supernatural hand))
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Belshazzar
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Armenia Capital
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Yerevan
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Oklahoma paper
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The oklahoman
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Asmara is capital of
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Eritrea
|
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Tarawa Atoll is capital of
|
Kiribati
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Japanese warrior ritual of suicide
|
hara kiri (har-i-keer-ee)
|
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Libyan currency
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dinar
|
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Island nation of Kiribati was originally named this after the Britsh Captain who sighted them in 1788
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Gilbert Islands
|
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Porto Novo is capital of
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Benin
|
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Cincinnati Paper
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The Cincinati Enquirer
|
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Buffalo Paper
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buffalo News
|
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Thimphu is capital of
|
Bhutan
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Democratic Replublic of the Congo capital
|
Kinshasa
|
|
Portugal Dictator served as PM from 1932-1968
|
Antonio de Salazar
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Amer Officer William PRescott at the Battle of Bunker Hill is famous for this quote
|
Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes
|
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in 1940 Life magazine called him "the greatest Portuguese since Prince Henry the Navigator"
|
Antonio de Salazar
|
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He founded & led Estado Novo (New state) that controlled Portugal 1932-74
|
Antonio de Salazar
|
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Battle with quote: "don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"
|
Battle of Bunker Hill
|
|
Roman Name for the Titan who was the father of zeus
|
Saturn
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Roman name for Zeus
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Jupiter
|
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Greek name for Saturn
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Cronus
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Roman counterpart for Cronus
|
Saturn
|
|
Zodiac sign March 21-april 20
|
Aries
|
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Jacob and Esau's mother
|
Rebecca
|
|
12th president 1849-1850 Whig with Millard Fillmore VP
|
Zachary Taylor
|
|
Sacramento paper
|
The Sacramento Bee
|
|
Tampa Paper
|
Tampa Tribune
|
|
17th Century French mathmetician scientist, and religious thinker whose religious thoughts are collected in Pensées (thouhts)
|
Blaise Pascal (mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher)
|
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1st solo hit "Mother and Child Reunion"
|
Paul Simon
|
|
What is in a lock
|
Tumblers and cylinders
|
|
Ballet composer of "Fancy Free"
|
Leonard Bernstein (20th century american conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, & pianist)
|
|
1740 Book, "Pamela: Or ????? Rewarded" written by Samuel Richardson
|
Virtue
|
|
She is currently on current $1 "golden dollar" coin
|
Sacagawea
|
|
he is on the dime
|
FDR
|
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he is on the nickel
|
Jefferson
|
|
Toledo paper
|
The Blade
|
|
story of two friends. one set to be excuted. other stayed in his place while he went home to get affairs in order. King impressed by their friendship.
|
Damon & Pythias
|
|
Story of king tired of a nobleman's flattery sat him at a banquet under a sword hung by a single hair
|
sword of damocles
|
|
US Poet indicted for treason for fascist propaganda in wwii
|
Ezra Pound
|
|
"traitorous" poet that wrote "the cantos" or "the pisan cantos"
|
Ezra Pound
|
|
21st President - Republican 1881-1885 no vp
|
Chester Arthur (no vp b/c of assassination of garfield)
|
|
1883 act that stipulated government jobs should be awarded based on merit
|
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act aka Pendleton Act
|
|
King Arthur's Nephew - Brash warrior, loyal to king, consummate ladies man, defender of poor
|
Sir Gawain
|
|
Sir Gawain appears in a story with this color Knight
|
Green
|
|
Star of Chico & the Man
|
Freddie Prinze
|
|
the division between sunni & shi'ite
|
dispute over muhammad's successor. sunni's thought should be by election/consensus/majority.
Shi'ite thought should be from family |
|
First section of "the Divine Comedy" by Dante
|
Inferno
|
|
epic poet with last name alighieri
|
Dante
|
|
Epic Poem in 3 parts (canticas) Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
|
Divine Comedy
|
|
Author of Divine Comedy
|
Dante
|
|
men's fraternal organization that claim descent from the builders of the temple of Jerusalem
|
Freemasons
|
|
President assassinated by Charles J Guiteau
|
James Garfield
|
|
Made the first solo round the world flight in 1933 improving on his previous time record for around the world with navigator Harold Gatty
|
Wiley Post
|
|
Will Rogers died in a plane crash with this pilot
|
Wiley Post
|
|
Mountain upon which Noah's ARk came to rest
|
Mt Ararat
|
|
what amelia earhart was trying to do when she disappeared in 1937
|
fly around the world
|
|
reached the South Pole 1st & 2nd
|
1st - Roald Amundsen, 2nd Robert Scott
|
|
First person undisputedly reach both north & south poles
|
Roald Amundsen
|
|
British explorer Robert F Scott was the second to arrive here
|
South Pole
|
|
US Frederick Cook & Brit Robert Peary claim to be the first here in 1908 & 1909 respectively
|
North Pole
|
|
Musicals, Funny Girl and Funny Lady are based on her life
|
Fannie Brice
|
|
1960 Summer Olympics location
|
Rome
|
|
She headlined Ziegfield Follies in 1910-1911 and was played by Barbara Streisand
|
Fannie Brice
|
|
A change is gonna come singer
|
Sam cooke
|
|
Priest in Troy during Trojan war "I am wary of greeks even when they are bringing gifts" - he & his 2 sons are killed by two enormous snakes sent by poseidon or athena
|
Laocoon
|
|
Irish poet (and playwright) of Leda and the Swan (about zeus as a swan seducing Leda)
|
W.B. Yeats
|
|
Little Rock Paper
|
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
|
|
San Antonio paper
|
San Antonio Express News
|
|
Columbus Paper
|
The Columbus Dispatch
|
|
Hannukkah celebrates Jewish vicotry over who in 2nd century bc
|
Syrians
|
|
Qatar capital
|
Doha
|
|
Bhagavad Gita & the vedas are sacred writings of this religion
|
Hinduism
|
|
Composer of The Barber of Seville
|
Gioacchino Rossini - about Figaro
|
|
Fairy tale character poisoned by a poisoned apple
|
Snow White
|
|
15th President 1857-1861 democrat with John C Breckenridge VP
|
James Buchanan
|
|
Boston Papers (2)
|
Globe & Herald
|
|
Arizona paper
|
The Arizona Republic
|
|
Orlando paper
|
The Orlando Sentinel
|
|
Tree in Garden of Eden
|
Tree of Knowledge of good and evil
|
|
who discovered jamaica
|
christopher columbus
|
|
"De Mian" is a bildungsroman by this german novelist & poet
|
herman hesse
|
|
German-swiss poet/author won nobel prize in literature in 1946 best known works include: Steppenwolf,Siddhartha the glass bead game
|
Herman hesse
|
|
San Jose Newspaper
|
San Jose Mercury News
|
|
Tulsa paper
|
Tulsa World
|
|
Who created detective Philip Marlowe
|
Raymond Chandler
|
|
Fictional detective in "the big sleep" & "the long goodbye" by raymond chandler
|
Philip Marlowe
|
|
22nd president 1885-1889 Democratic - vp was thomas a Hendricks (who died)
|
Grover Cleveland
|
|
22nd & 24th President
|
Grover Cleveland
|
|
P.M sirimavo Bandaranaike (1960)
|
Sri Lanka
|
|
Artist who popularized donkey & elephant for us political parties
|
Thomas Nast
|
|
German-born american artist and caricaturist credited with modern version of santa claus & uncle sam
|
Thomas Nast
|
|
editorial cartoonist considered "father of the american cartoon"
|
Thomas Nast
|
|
Stadium billed as the Eighth wonder of the world
|
Astrodome
|
|
What is Butterfield 8
|
Telephone Exchange 288 - service to ritzy Manhattan Upper East Side
|
|
God made covenant w/him priomising to give his family the land of canaan
|
abraham
|
|
Port Said is on what canal
|
Suez Canal
|
|
world's widest river
|
amazon
|
|
Angel in Jewish, Christian and muslim belief as a messenger from god including appearing to Mary
|
Gabriel
|
|
conquest, War, Famine & Plague are who?
|
4 Horsemen of the Apocolypse
|
|
4 Horsemen of the Apocolypse have what color horses
|
White-Conquest, Red - War, Famine - Black, Plague - Pale
|
|
elvis presley middle name
|
aaron
|
|
Former british possession on chinese mainland
|
hong kong
|
|
New York City political organization run by boss tweed
|
Tammany Hall or Society of St. Tammany or Sons of St Tammany
|
|
Tammany hall was weakened by the election of this mayor on a republican fusion ticket in 1934
|
Fiorello La Guardia
|
|
Bible book containing the four horsemen of the apocalypse
|
Revelation
|
|
Calf killed for the return of the prodigal son
|
the fatted calf
|
|
the greatest virtue according to Paul
|
Charity
|
|
The three great virtues for Christians in the new testament
|
faith, hope & charity
|
|
1st racehorse to win $1,000,000 (late 40s/early 50s)
|
Citation
|
|
what erupts every hour at yellowstone
|
old faithful
|
|
america's first national park
|
Yellowstone
|
|
National park in wyoming, montana & idaho
|
Yellowstone
|
|
What did archimedes say when discovering principal of bouyancy
|
eureka!
|
|
200s BC Greek physicist, mathematician, engineer, inventor (from syracuse)
|
Archimedes
|
|
Greek with a screw named after him - and who had to determine if silver was used in a gold crown
|
Archimedes
|
|
Old testament book containing reflections of "the PReacher" philosopher
|
ecclesiastes
|
|
Ecclesiastes means this in hebrew
|
Preacher
|
|
author of this book of bible introduces himself as "Son of david, king of jerusalem"
|
Ecclesiastes
|
|
book of the bible with quotes: "the sun also rises" , "nothing new under the sun", "he who increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow"
|
Ecclesiastes
|
|
It is believed King Solomon might be the author of this book of the bible
|
ecclesiastes
|
|
What is the Golden Rule
|
do unto others as you would have them do unto you
|
|
a follower of jesus - adhered to his teaching and transmitted it to others
|
disciple (the 12 closest are the apostles)
|
|
Collection of writings containing nearly all of the old testatment found in a cave in 1940s
|
Dead sea scrolls
|
|
Who played lois lane in 1978 super man movie?
|
Margot kidder
|
|
According to the Gospels, Jesus is descended from this king
|
David
|
|
Country bounded in part by indian ocean, coral sea & tasman sea
|
australia
|
|
Successor to King Saul
|
David
|
|
First king of the united kingdom of Israel
|
Saul
|
|
Main account of King Saul's life is in this book of the bible
|
Book of Samuel
|
|
Bible king who fell on his sword to avoid capture by PHilistines. His son-in-law David succeeded him
|
King Saul
|
|
King Saul comes from this tribe from the youngest son of Jacob by Rachael
|
Benjamin
|
|
Bible man renamed "israel" by an angel
|
Jacob
|
|
Bible king famed as a harpist
|
David
|
|
Goliath was a giant warrior of these peopLE
|
Philistines
|
|
city on crete aka labyrinth excavated by Sir Arthur Evans
|
Knossos
|
|
town that was probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan society
|
Knossos/Labyrinth
|
|
He was thrown in a lions' den but emerged unharmed the next day
|
Daniel
|
|
Sun God of Ancient Egypt
|
Ra
|
|
What the Roman SOldiers put on the head of Jesus before the crucifixion
|
Crown of thorns
|
|
Egyption god of the afterlife/underworld/dead
|
Osiris
|
|
Egyptian god oldest son of Earth God Geb & Sky God Nut married his sister Isis
|
Osiris
|
|
Egyptian Goddess depicted with throne on her head married her brother Osiris
|
Isis
|
|
Egyptian god of earth
|
Geb
|
|
Egyptian god of sky
|
Nut
|
|
Isis is oft considered the mother of this hawk-headed god of war and protection
|
Horace
|
|
Other son of Geb & Nut who married twin Nepthys and conflicted with Osiris, isis & Horace
|
Set
|
|
Egyptian god whose depiction is part "typhonic" beast
|
Set
|
|
In the bible an agreement between God and his people
|
Covenant
|
|
The Four Gospels in the BIble
|
Matthew, Mark, Luke & John
|
|
Teachings of Jesus - From latin for "blessed" including: blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"
|
Beatitudes
|
|
Set of teachings of Jesus that appear in Matthew & Luke
|
Beatitudes
|
|
Sermon on the Mount containing 8 beatitudes appears in this book of the bible
|
Matthew
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who wrote "the dragons of eden" & "broca's Brain"
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carl sagan
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American astronomer/writer who one pulitzer prize for literature in 1978 (book written in 1977)
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Carl Sagan
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American astronomer known for his television series Cosmos
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Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan wrote this novel that became a Hugo Award winning film starring Jodie Foster
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Contact
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He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. & helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957
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MLK, Jr
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Year MLK delivered his I have a dream speech at the March on Washington
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1963
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Year & Place MLK was assassinated
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1968, Memphis, TN at the Lorraine Motel
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Who Assassinated MLK, Jr
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James Earl Ray
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He was known for the concepts of perestroika & glasnost
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Russian word for economic/political restructuring
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perestroika
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russian word for openness
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glasnost
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Attempt to overthrow Gorbachev in 1991 aka with this "monthly" name
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August Putsch or August Coup
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First president of the Russian Federataion 1991-1999
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Boris Yeltsin
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Second president of the Russian Federation (after yeltsin) and current prime minister
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Vladimir Putin
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His attempt to seek a third non-consecutive term as president is believed to have caused the 2011 Russian election protests
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Vladimir Putin
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West Bank is "west bank" of what river
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Jordan River
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Country previously known as the "united arab republic"
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egypt
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War in 1967 where Israel gained control of West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip & East Jerusalem
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Six Day War
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Aka Third Arab-Israeli War
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Six Day War
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Burmese diplomat who was the third UN Secretary General after Hammarskjold died
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U Thant
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Third UN Secretary General serving 1961-1971
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U Thant (from Burma)
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Former Capital of Burma (myanmar) that is still the largest city . Where crisis occurred over burial of U Thant
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Rangoon
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This country has a "built to order" capital - Nai Pyi Taw that replaced Rangoon/Yangon as the capital
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Burma/myanmar
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Honiara is the capital of the now-independent country where JFK shipwrecked
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Solomon Islands
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JFK's Boat
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PT-109
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Battle in the solomon islands that was codenamed "Operation Watchtower" by the allied forces whose victory helped changed from defensive to strategic postition for the Allies
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Battle of Guadalcanal
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War with Battle of Guadalcanal
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WWII
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African American author/essayist known for Essay "notes of a native son" and 1st book "go tell it on a mountain"
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James Baldwin
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Novel by Richard Wright telling the storry of 20 year old african american Bigger Thomas growing up in poverty in Chicago
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Native Son
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Playwright's last play was "finishing the picture" the story of the making of "the misfits"
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Arthur Miller
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1961 Movie that was the last film appearance for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe,where screenplay was written by Arthur Miller
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The Misfits
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Death of Salesman playwright
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Arthur Miller
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The Crucible playwright
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Arthur Miller
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A View from the Bridge playwright
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Arthur Miller
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Daniel Day Lewis is the son in law of this American playwright
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Arthur Miller
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3 wives of this american playwright are: Mary Slattery, Marilyn Monroe, Inge Morath
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur Miller married this famous actress
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Marilyn Monroe
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Play about the Salem Witch Trials by Arthur Miller
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The Crucible
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Playwright interviewed by the house of reps committee on Un-american Activities and convicted of "contempt of congress" in 1956
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Arthur Miller
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Arthur MIller play that won 1949 Pulitzer prize for Drama & Tony award for best play
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Death of a Salesman
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The "salesman" in Death of a Salesman
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Willy Loman
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Arthur miller play about Eddie Carbone, an italian american longshoreman with inappropriate feelings toward his niece Catherine
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A View from the Bridge (the bridge is the Brooklyn Bridge)
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"sweet" appalachian folk instrument
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Dolcemer
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Blind Propeht who revealed the truth of Oedipus
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Tiresias
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The blind prophet of Thebes in Greek Mythology famous for clairvoyance & being transformed to a women for 7 years
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Tiresias
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Roman Goddes of the Hearth and home (cities were supposed to have a public hearth w/fire constantly burning dedicated to her)
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Vesta
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Greek Goddes of the Earth who gave birth to sky, mountains & the sea
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Gaea or Gaia
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Source of "nothing will come of nothing" -
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King Lear in Shakespeare's King Lear - telling daughter Cordelia that she will not get anything from him if she does not make elaborate speeches regarding love for him.
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Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown - source
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King Henry IV Part Two -by shakespeare
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Goneril, Regan & Cordelia are his daughters
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King Lear
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Duke of Albany, husband to Goneril[4]
Duke of Cornwall, husband to Regan Earl of Gloucester (sometimes written as Gloster) Earl of Kent, are characters in this Shakespeare play |
King Lear
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Source of "pride goeth before the fall"
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adapted from sayings in Proverbs
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A little Night Music Composer (for orchestra)
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Mozart
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German-born 20th c architect was a founder of Bauhaus school & functionalism
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Walter Gropius
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Walter Gropius found this school of architecture
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Bauhaus
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Roman god of doors and gatewys and beginnings. January is named for him/her
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Janus
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the proof of the pudding is in the eating - source book
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Don quixote by cervantes
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British king 1901-10 first of the house Saxo-Coburg and Gotha - which his son George V renamed House of Windsor
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Edward VII
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Son of Queen Victoria who held the title of Prince of Wales the longest
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Edward VII
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King popularly called the "peacemaker" for good relations with European countries, but still could not prevent WWI (in 1914 4 years after his death)
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Edward VII
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Number of King George 1910-36
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George V
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Son of King George V that succeeded him
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Edward VIII
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One of the shortest reigns of King at 326 days - abdicated throne to marry Wallis Simpson - American divorcee
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Edward VIII
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Prince Albert Became this king upon abdication by his brother Edward VIII
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George VI
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Number of Labors of Hercules
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12
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George Santayana (spanish born amer. author) 19th-20th C said "those who cannot remember the past are --- --- --- --
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Condemned to repeat it
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We have me the enemy and they are us - referred to this in comic strip "pogo"
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the turmoil caused by Vietnam War - adaptation of Oliver Perry saying - "we have met the enemy and they are ours" after naval battle
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tragedy by sophocles where title character is punished for burying her brother
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Antigone
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Author who introduced the GLass family in 1948 short story - " a perfect day for bananafish"
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j. d. salinger
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Fictional family of characters in several short stories by J. D. Salinger
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Glass Family
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Operation Barbarossa - was the code name of Nazis invading this country
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Russia
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Baroque composer who worked for Frederick the Great
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Bach
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"The Musical Offering" is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces by this composer dedicated to Frederick the Great -
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Bach
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Book where the title character Emma, is dissatisfied w/her marriage and seeks happiness in adultery. finally commits suicide.
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Madame Bovary
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French Author of Madame Bovary(1857)
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Gustave Flaubert
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According to Roman poet, who spent half life as man & half as woman and blinded by Juno
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Tiresias
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Automotive Flop named for only child of Henry FOrd
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Edsel
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Book where the title character Emma, is dissatisfied w/her marriage and seeks happiness in adultery. finally commits suicide.
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Madame Bovary
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What to the French Call La Manche
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English Channel
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French Author of Madame Bovary(1857)
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Gustave Flaubert
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Book where the title character Emma, is dissatisfied w/her marriage and seeks happiness in adultery. finally commits suicide.
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Madame Bovary
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According to Roman poet, who spent half life as man & half as woman and blinded by Juno
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Tiresias
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Automotive Flop named for only child of Henry FOrd
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Edsel
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French Author of Madame Bovary(1857)
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Gustave Flaubert
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What to the French Call La Manche
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English Channel
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Book where the title character Emma, is dissatisfied w/her marriage and seeks happiness in adultery. finally commits suicide.
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Madame Bovary
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According to Roman poet, who spent half life as man & half as woman and blinded by Juno
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Tiresias
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Book where the title character Emma, is dissatisfied w/her marriage and seeks happiness in adultery. finally commits suicide.
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Madame Bovary
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French Author of Madame Bovary(1857)
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Gustave Flaubert
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Automotive Flop named for only child of Henry FOrd
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Edsel
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French Author of Madame Bovary(1857)
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Gustave Flaubert
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According to Roman poet, who spent half life as man & half as woman and blinded by Juno
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Tiresias
|
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What to the French Call La Manche
|
English Channel
|
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According to Roman poet, who spent half life as man & half as woman and blinded by Juno
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Tiresias
|
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Automotive Flop named for only child of Henry FOrd
|
Edsel
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Automotive Flop named for only child of Henry FOrd
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Edsel
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What to the French Call La Manche
|
English Channel
|
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What to the French Call La Manche
|
English Channel
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4th president that was on the $5,000 bill
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Madison
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Joseph & benjamin's mother
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Rachel
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Another name for Satan from Milton's Paradise Lost - starts & ends in "B"
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Beelzebub
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17th c english poet of Paradise Lost
|
John Milton
|
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Epic poem recounting the Fall of Man - The temptation of Adam & Eve by Satan
|
Paradise Lost
|
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Milton's purpose in writing this was to "justify the ways of God to men"
|
Paradise Lost
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Milton poem that deals with the temptation of Christ as recounted in Gospel of Luke
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Paradise Regained
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the story of jesus when he fasted for 40 days after baptism and was tempted by Satan - which he declined. Told in Matthew, Mark & Luke
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Temptation of Christ
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who got a "coat of many colors" and from whom?
|
Joseph got the coat from Jacob
|
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President 22 & 24 was on the $1,000 bill
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Grover Cleveland
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What country's currency is the bolivar
|
Venezuela
|
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Venezeulan millitary & political leader who witnessed the coronation of Napolean at Notre Dame while in Paris
|
Simon Bolivar
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Venezuelan military & political leader who led fight for independence for Colombia (aka New Granada), and the areas of venezuela, peru..etc
|
Simon Bolivar
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UNESCO headquarters building is in what city
|
Paris
|
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Son Cursed by Noah for not turning away when NOah was drunk & naked
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Ham
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Austin Paper
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Austin American- Statesman
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Portland, OR paper
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The Oregonian
|
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rum + coconut milk +pineapple
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Pina colada
|
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COuntry with the most Dams
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The US
|
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Dam in Washington that is the largest electric power producing facility in the US
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Grand Coulee dam
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State & River of Grand Coulee Dam
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Washington Columbia River
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State(S) & River of the Hoover Dam
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Border of Arizona & Nevada - Colorado river
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Dam once known as Boulder Dam
|
Hoover Dam
|
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Lake on one side of Hoover Dam
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Lake Mead
|
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Boulder City, NV is a municipality original created for workers on this construction project
|
Hoover Dam construction
|
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what is a cherub (plural cherubum)
|
Angel
|
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Who did the burning bush appear to?>
|
Moses
|
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Where did burning bush appear?
|
Mt. Sinai
|
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Book of Bible with story of Moses
|
Exodus
|
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Original use of Leaning Tower of Pisa
|
Bell Tower
|
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Pittsburgh Paper
|
Pittsburgh post-Gazette
|
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AL Capone's nickname
|
Scarface
|
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Brooklyn born gangster - moved to Chicago and had many prohibition-era Bootlegging & smuggling activities
|
Al 'scarface" Capone
|
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Chicago Gangster involved in St Valentine's Day Massacre when 7 rival gang members (of Bugs Moran)were executed
|
Al 'scarface' Capone
|
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Al "scarface" Capone spent 1934-1939 term in prison at this newly opened prison
|
Alcatraz
|
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Name shared by a gang in NYC in the mid 19th cent & group of fictional NYC characters subject of films from 1946-58
|
Bowery Boys
|
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The Cisco Kid's Faithful sidekick
|
Pancho
|
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Group of 13 federal agents led by Elliot Ness to take down Al "scarface" Capone . They were legendary for being fearless & incorruptible
|
The Untouchables
|
|
Kevin Costner, Robert DeNiro & Sean Connery star in this 1987 crime drama directed by Brian de Palma & written by David Mamet (based on a bookO)
|
The Untouchables
|
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First tv series filmed in color - about two desperados
|
The Cisco Kid
|
|
The Cisco Kid was first introduced in a story by this gift of the maji author
|
O Henry
|
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Their horses were named Diablo & Loco
|
Cisco & Pancho
|
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Creator of Peter Rabbit
|
Beatrix Potter
|
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The beginning and end of the Greek Alphabet
|
Alpha & Omega
|
|
Cy Young Award is for this position
|
Pitcher
|
|
He pitched the first perfect game in baseball's "modern era" - and holds the record for most career innings pitched and career games started
|
Cy Young
|
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Word for someone who is not a Jew
|
Gentile
|
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Best knwon work of 20th C French Writer and aviator chronicled early years in commerical aviation w "wind, sand and stars" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
|
The little prince
|
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Greek God of the Wedding feast
|
Hymen
|
|
Frequently recurring bit of melody, usually in Opera associated w/person, thing or emotion - particularly associated with Richard Wagner operas
|
Leitmotif
|
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Gene Hackman played this role in The French Connection
|
Popeye Doyle (1971 film by William Friedkin, first r rated Oscar Best Picture, fictionalized account of heroin trade france to NYC Best actor Hackman, Best director, Best film editing, Best adapted screenplay)
|
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'Dis' is another name for him
|
Hades/Pluto - Dis Pater was roman (gaulish) god of the underworld later subsumed by Hades/Pluto
|
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Who was replaced by Castro
|
Fulgencio Batista leader of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and from 1952 to 1959
|
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My Kingdom for a Horse? Shakespeare
|
King Richard the Third (1591)
|
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Fabled Inca stone fortress in Peru
|
Machu Picchu (15th century, unknown to spanish, incomplete)
|
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Odette is a character in what ballet
|
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky 1875-6) Bolshoi Ballet premier 1877
|
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20th Century American playwright known for theater of the absurd. "A Delicate Balance", "Tiny Alice", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", "The Zoo Story", "The Goat:or who is sylvia", "The american dream"
|
Edward Albee (American playwright 1928-
|
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2nd longest Chinese river
|
The Yellow River
|
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Siberian Lake - The world's deepest
|
Lake Baikal
|
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Darwin's ship
|
the beagle
|
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Musical containing bali Hai
|
South Pacific
|
|
washington irving character had "an insuperable aversionn to all kinds of profitable labor"
|
rip van winkle
|
|
"franny" & "zoe" stories author -
|
JD Salinger
|
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories "tales of" this - first is "my last flappers"
|
The jazz age
|
|
Alf Landon state
|
Kansas
|
|
english poet thomas hoccleve, a contemporary of this man, called him the "firste fyndere of our fair language"
|
Chaucer
|
|
Medieval English Writer often called "Father of English Literature"
|
Chaucer
|
|
what movie:
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." |
Gone with the wind - Rhett Butler(clark gable) 1939
|
|
what movie:
"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." |
Don Vito Corleone (Brando) in The Godfather (to Johnny fontane about Woltz) -1972
|
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What movie:
"You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." |
Terry Mallow (Marlon Brando) in On the Waterfront - 1954
|
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"Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore"
|
Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz 1939
|
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"here's looking at you, kid"
|
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in Casablanca
|
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"Go ahead, make my day"
|
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Sudden Impact (4th in Dirty Harry series films) 1983
|
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"All Right, Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my close-up"
|
Norma Desmond(Gloria Swanson) in Sunset Boulevard
|
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"may the force be with you"
|
Han Solo (harrison ford) in Star Wars
|
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"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night."
|
Margo Channing (Bette Davis) in All About Eve
|
|
"You talkin' to me?"
|
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver
|
|
Marmee is a character in this book?
|
Little Woman
|
|
From Latin "to Suffer" describes couples who get along
|
Compatible
|
|
U.S. bay that is submerged valley of the Susquehanna river
|
Chesapeake Bay
|
|
Fairy tale character from Charles Perrault, monstrous villain who marries seven women kills first 6 of them for disobedience for looking behind a certain door
|
Bluebeard
|
|
From the sublime to the ridiculous is ??? ??? ????
|
But a step (attributed to Napoleon & Talleyrand french statesman)
|
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Play based on 1954 novel: mother discovers her daughter Rhoda is an amoral murderer
|
The Bad Seed
|
|
20th Century French architect & city planner known for buildings w/unusual curves and unconventional shapes
|
Le Corbusier
|
|
Broadway Muscial about northern Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, score includes Latin, hip-hop & old fashioned ballads
|
In the Heights (final performance 4/3/2011, 2008 tony best musical)
|
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Russian Czar 1547-84
|
Ivan the Terrible
|
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Rick James song (a very kinky girl)
|
Superfreak
|
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Commonwealth day in england originally on may 24 birthday of 19th century queen
|
Victoria
|
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20th century british author "Sons and Lovers" "Women in Love" "Lady Chatterly's Lover"
|
D.H. Lawrence
|
|
20th Century American Composer and Band Leader "In The Mood", "Moonlight Serenade" band known for numbers like those
|
Glenn Miller
|
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16th Century French writer known for his "Essays"
|
Michel de Montaigne, father of Modern Skepticism, Renaissance
|
|
Hubert Selby Jr. Brooklyn Novel
|
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) 20th century american writer, died 2004
|
|
"what we've got here is failure to communicate"
|
Captain (strother martin) Cool Hand Luke 1967
|
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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."
|
Lt. Col Bill Kilgore (robert duvall) apocalypse Now 1979
|
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"Love means never having to say you're sorry"
|
Jennifer Cavilleri (ali macgraw) Love Story 1970
|
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"the stuff that dreams are made of."
|
Sam Spade (humphrey bogart) The Maltese Falcon 1941
|
|
"E.T. phone home"
|
ET (pat welsh) E.T. the extra-terrestrial 1982
|
|
"they call me mister tibbs!"
|
Virgil Tibbs (sidney poitier) In the heat of the night 1967
|
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"rosebud."
|
Charles Foster Kan (Orson Welles) Citizen Kane 1941
|
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"Made it, Ma! Top of the World!"
|
Arthur "cody" jarrett (james cagney) White Heat 1949
|
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"I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
|
Howard Beale (Peter Finch) Network 1976
|
|
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
|
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca
|
|
"Bond. James Bond"
|
james Bond (sean connery) Dr. No 1962
|
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"There's no place like home"
|
Dorothy Gale (judy garland) the wizard of oz 1939
|
|
"I am big! It's the pictures that got small."
|
Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) Sunset Boulevard 1950
|
|
"show me the money!"
|
Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr) Jerry Maguire 1996
|
|
"why don't you come up sometime and see me?"
|
Lady Lou (Mae West) She done him wrong 1933
|
|
"I'm walking here! I'm walking here!"
|
"ratso" Rizzo (dustin Hoffman) Midnight Cowboy 1969
|
|
The only X rated film ever to win Best Picture
|
Midnight Cowboy
|
|
"Play it, Sam. Play "as time goes by""
|
Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) Casablanca 1942
|
|
"You can't handle the truth!"
|
Col. Nathan R Jessep (jack nicholson) A Few Good men 1992
|
|
"I want to be alone"
|
Grusinskaya (greta garbo) Grand Hotel 1932
|
|
Who wrote "The Assistant"
|
Bernard Malamoud (20th century american jewish author) First book was The Natural
|
|
Author of "The Social Contract" an important influence on the french revolution
|
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (18th century Swiss born )
|
|
This straight connect Sea of Marmara with Aegean Sea
|
Dardanelles
|
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No excessive bail or fines and no cruel or unusual punishments ammendment
|
8th amendment
|
|
20th century austrian author of "the Trial" and "the metamorphosis"
|
Franz Kafka (1883-1924 born in Prague jewish)
|
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"After All, tomorrow is another day!"
|
Scarlett O'Hara (vivien Leigh) Gone with the wind 1939
|
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"round up the usual suspects."
|
Capt Louis Renault (Claude Rains) Casablanca
|
|
"I'll have what she's having"
|
Customer (estelle reiner) When Harry met Sally... 1989
|
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"You know how to whistle, don't you steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
|
Marie "slim" Browning (Lauren Bacall) To have and have not 1944
|
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"You're gonna need a bigger boat."
|
Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) Jaws 1975
|
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"badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
|
"Gold Hat" (Alfonso Bedoya) The treasure of the sierra Madre 1948
|
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"I'll be back"
|
The Terminator (arnold schwarzenegger) The Terminator 1984
|
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"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth"
|
Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) The Pride of the Yankees 1942
|
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"if you build it, he will come"
|
Shoeless Joe Jackson (ray Liotta -voice) Field of Dreams 1989
|
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"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
|
Forrest Gump (Tom hanks) Forrest Gump 1994
|
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"we rob banks."
|
Clyde barrow. (Warren Beatty) Bonnie and Clyde 1967
|
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"Plastics."
|
Mr. Maguire (walter brooke) the graduate 1967
|
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"we'll always have paris"
|
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca 1942
|
|
"I see dead people"
|
Cole sear (haley Joel Osment) The Sixth Sense 1999
|
|
"Stella! Hey, Stella"
|
Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) A streetcar named desire 1951
|
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"oh, jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars."
|
Charlotte Vale (bette davis) Now, Voyager 1942
|
|
"shane. Shane. Come back!"
|
Joey Starrett (Brandon De Wilde) shane 1953
|
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"Well, Nobody's perfect."
|
Osgood Fielding III (Joe E Brown) Some Like it Hot 1959
|
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"it's alive! It's alive!"
|
Henry Frankenstein (colin Clive) Frankenstein 1931
|
|
"Houston, we have a problem"
|
Jim Lovell (tom hanks) apollo 13 1995
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"Boer" & Paul Kruger = what country
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South Africa
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North extension of Pacific Ocean between Siberia and Alaska
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Bering Sea (connects to arctic through Bering Strait)
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Hungarian Piano Virtuoso aka "Napoleon of the Piano"
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Liszt (19th century)
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First public electric supply in 1881 in this country
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England
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Chinua Achebe wrote what book?
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"Things Fall Apart" (Chinua Achebe born 1930- Nigerian) 8 million copies translated into 50 languages.
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Most prestigious international prize for mathematicians given every 4 years
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Fields Medal
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River runs from BC to pacific & passes between Oregon & Washington. Bonneville & Grand Coulee Dams, great salmon runs
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Columbia river
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Names of Space Shuttles
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Columbia, challenger, discovery, atlantis, endeavor
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Space Shuttle that blew up 73 seconds after take off
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Challenger
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Space Shuttle that blew up on reentry
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Columbia
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chrissie hynde is guitarist/singer in this group
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the pretenders
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Dave Grohl band that recorded "wasting light" in 2011
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The Foo Fighters
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Paul Simonon Group recorded "london Calling"
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the clash
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Dolore O'riordan is lead singer of this group with hit "linger"
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The Cranberries
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ithaca NY University
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Cornell
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Pasadena california geek school
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Cal tech
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the name of the Hunchback of notre dame
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Quasimoto
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Language in use in the region of al andalus in spain in the middle ages
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Arabic (moors were in control)
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Author of Decameron
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Boccaccio
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Major ports on this river include yaroslavl, nizhny novgorod, rybinsk
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The Volga
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longest muscle in the body
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sartorius
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river that a canadian gold rush is named for (not yukon)
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klondike
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fabled lost city of gold
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el dorado
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Ruler of judea attempted to kill the infant jesus
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Herrod
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This period began in 1660 with the return of charles II
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The Restoration
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First major city to have a female mayor
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Seattle (Bertha Landes)
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Female Supreme court justice from NY Born to puerto rican parents
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sonia sotomayor
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this desert of moses
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Sinai
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Singapore has historical ties to this country
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Malaysia
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since 1066 the longest consecutive period when the monarch had the same name was 116 years with this given name
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George
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French named style of furniture that was "new" around 1900 was characterized by the graceful whiplash curve
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(art) nouveau
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Nixies of German mythology and Naiads of greek live in this environment
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water
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wee supernatural being from latin for "spirit"
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sprite
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forbidden dance from 1990 film
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lambada
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early nuclear submarine
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nautilus
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swinging sixites london was scene for this woman born lesley hornby
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twiggy
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french for shelf
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etagere
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Runner at Oregon with 7 NCAA track titles tragically died at 24
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Steve Prefontaine
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Al Oerter won this event four times in the olympics (track & field)
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discus
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line that passes through the two foci of an ellipse ("major")
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Major axis
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GBS play about a woman who joins the salvation army ("major")
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Major Barbara
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Commissioned officer in army that wears two stars ("major")
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Major General
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She won first olympic marathon in 1984 & ran under 2;50 in the NY marathon in 2009
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Joan Benoit (american)
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"call of the wild" author
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Jack london
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"white fang" author
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Jack london
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Main Character in "call of the wild"
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Buck
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City where Mckinley is shot
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Buffalo
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French word for deep fissure in a glacier
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crevasse
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"all earth" super continent
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pangea
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songrwriter of "anything goes" which includes "i get a kick out of you"
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Cole porter
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American Author (and one time candidate for california governer) of the Jungle (about meat-packing industry)
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Upton Sinclair
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Time magazine called this muckraking author a man with "every gift except humor and silence.:"
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Upton Sinclair
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"rabbit, run" author
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John Updike
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in 1930 he became the first american author to win the nobel prize in literature
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Sinclair Lewis
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american author of "Babbit", "Elmer Gantry" & "It can't happen here"
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Sinclair Lewis
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"colorful" Richard Llewellyn novel set in a welsh mining community was made intoa a 1941 oscar-winning film
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How green was my valley
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First a cappella recording to top the billboard 100 - inspired by a meher baba saying
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Don't worry be happy
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Movie "A Mighty Heart" about this journalist in Pakistan & wife Mariane
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Daniel Pearl
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name of the Pope's Hat
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Mitre
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Social events in Judaism for boys & girls at 13
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Bar and Bat Mitzvah
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The Buddha is considered an avatar of this Hindu god
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Vishnu
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novel about a trial of one of four brothers for the murder of his father
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The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (19th century russian)
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Wrote "Notes from the Underground"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (19th century russian)
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Wrote Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (19th century russian)
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Wrote "The Idiot"
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (19th century russian)
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Daughter of King Oedipus buried her brother (was forbidden to do so) and then condemned to death for her crime
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Antigone
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The Divine Comedy was written as memorial to her, who Dante loved
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Beatrice
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1937 classic disney movie that had a special honorary oscar
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Snow White and the seven dwarfs
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First Movie to have an official soundtrack released album
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Snow White and the seven dwarfs
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Disney film considered the first full length animated film
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Snow White and the Seven dwarfs
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california valley that hosted the 1960 winter olympics
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Squaw Valley
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in 1870s new york society, newland archer falls in love with ellen olenska in this novel
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Age of Innocence
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Age of Innocence author (1920)
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Edith wharton
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Edith Wharton won the 1921 PUlitzer prize for this novel
|
Age of Innocence
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She won the first Pulitzer awarded to a woman
|
Edith Wharton
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Author of "the house of Mirth"
|
Edith Wharton
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One possible origin of "keeping up with the joneses" is that it is based on this american author's father's family
|
Edith Wharton
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American Author of "Ethan Frome" & "The marne" who also wrote books on design
|
Edith Wharton
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Hemingway Novel, with Robert Jordan - a young us professor- serves as a dynamiter in the spanish civil war
|
For whom the bell tolls
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The title of his 1959 novel "the mansion" refers to the de spain home in jefferson, mississipp
|
William Faulkner
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Chester Gillette's murder of his pregnant girlfriend inspired this 1925 theordore dreiser novel
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An American Tragedy
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American author of the Naturalist school who wrote Sister Carrie & An American Tragedy
|
THeodore Dreiser
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The 1951 Movie " A place in the sun" is based on this 1925 novel
|
An American Tragedy
|
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5 star general & defense secretary, in 1953 he became the first career military man to receive the nobel peace prize
|
George C Marshall
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5-star general who was Chief of staff of the army, secretary of state & defense secretary
|
George C Marshall
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This was the basis of the awarding of the 1953 Peace prize to a US WWII era general
|
The Marshall Plan
|
|
Large scale economic plan for US to help rebuild Europe after WWII
|
The Marshall Plan
|
|
he was called the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill
|
George C Marshall
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This south carolinian was known as the "great nullifier" for his view that states could reject natl. laws
|
John C Calhoun
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beaded lizard is this "country"
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Mexican
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This african country has castle of Goede Hoop
|
South Africa
|
|
synonym for spying was the name of a 1917 wartime act of congress
|
espionage
|
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Noah released these two birds to test for dry land dove & this
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raven
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vitamin b9 is also known as this
|
folic acid
|
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herb often paired with goldenseal to fight colds - be cautious if you have allergy to plants like ragweed
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echinacea
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EPA is one of these fatty acids from fish oils said to help lower blood pressure
|
omega 3
|
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1987 vice president
|
george hw bush
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1977 vp (carter's vp)
|
walter mondale
|
|
Nickname & location of VP's residence
|
Admiral's house at the us naval observatory (Number one observatory circle)
|
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Vp for Ford
|
Nelson Rockefeller
|
|
only president never to be elected President or Vice President by electoral college
|
Gerald Ford
|
|
Ford's Previous position before being VP
|
Republican Minority Leader of the house
|
|
Who resigned for Ford to become VP
|
Spiro Agnew
|
|
State Spiro Agnew was governor of
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Maryland
|
|
Two lovers. He brings her from Ireland to be his Uncle's bride. They drink a potion that makes them love each other. Uncle (king) gets mad and banishes him. She comes to him after he is dead. She dies next to him.
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Tristan & Iseult (i-soohlt)
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"you can't make a silk purse from ????"
|
A sow's ear
|
|
Country also the name of a greek province marked by conflict between minority albanians and majority slavs
|
Macedonia
|
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2 bodies of water Israel Borders
|
Mediterranean & Gulf of Aqaba (arm of red sea)
|
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Nobel prizes except for Peace are awarded in this city
|
Stockholm
|
|
First greek american to be governor & VP of the US
|
Spiro Agnew
|
|
South american Camel spelled with a tilde
|
Vicuna
|
|
Group with Frontman Steven Tyler
|
Aerosmith
|
|
group with frontman ozzy osborne
|
black sabbath
|
|
group with frontman adam levine
|
maroon five
|
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group with frontwoman Bjork
|
the Sugarcubes
|
|
group with frontwoman debbie harry
|
blondie
|
|
Where is the Nobel Peace Prize awarded?
|
Oslo Norway
|
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1685-1757 Italian Composer, friend of Handel (his dad taught Handel), became music master to a Portuguese princess who later became Queen of Spain taking him w/her. Compose the 555 sonatas aka essercizi for the harpsichord
|
Domenico Scarlatti (Baroque, influenced classical style)
|
|
country nickname : "breadbasket of europe" stretching from uzhgorod to luhansk
|
Ukraine
|
|
St petersburg is on this sea
|
baltic sea
|
|
Gulf of baltic sea that st petersburg is on
|
Gulf of Finland
|
|
what space shuttle launched the Hubble telescope in 1990
|
Discovery
|
|
The great northern war around 1700 was Russia (let by peter the great) and this scandinavian kingdom
|
Sweden
|
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country part of sweden 12-19th c and autonomous grand duchy of russia 1809-1917
|
Finland
|
|
Loner in the group of Breakfast club played by her
|
Ali Sheedy
|
|
Year of German unification
|
1990
|
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captain created by ted turner in 1990 who fights eco villians
|
captain planet
|
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State against miranda in original supreme court case
|
arizona
|
|
a blend of two or more words to become one - like smoke+fog=smog
|
portmonteau
|
|
laker lamar odom (now maverick) married which kardashian
|
khloe
|
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shakespeare roman general who cut off his hand
|
Titus Andronicus
|
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cafeteria on movie studio lot
|
commissary
|
|
journalism more serious than correction - and means we take the whole thing back
|
retraction
|
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Maestro Maazel with this american orchestra in 2008
|
New york philharmonic
|
|
WGA stands for this (guild)
|
Writers Guild of America
|
|
AFl-CIO stands for this & Congress of INdustrial Organizations
|
American Federation of Labor
|
|
AFT union
|
American Federation of Teachers
|
|
AKA the wobblies they are the IWW
|
Industrial workers of the world
|
|
BORAT star
|
Sacha baron cohen
|
|
John Krasinski married this "devil wears prada star"
|
emily blunt
|
|
Brandenburg Concertos baroque composer
|
bach
|
|
Better known for wearing pants 19th c feminist began paper for women called the lily
|
amelia bloomer
|
|
Gospel that says" consider the lilies of the field..."
|
Matthew
|
|
water lily sacred to hindus, egyptians, buddhists
|
lotus
|
|
painted "les nympheas" series of painting of lilies in a pond
|
monet
|
|
botanist famous for potatoes
|
burbank
|
|
2 cities were only two confederate state capitals not captured by union forces
|
austin & tallahassee
|
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almond shaped greek olives
|
calamata
|
|
BORAT star
|
Sacha baron cohen
|
|
John Krasinski married this "devil wears prada star"
|
emily blunt
|
|
Brandenburg Concertos baroque composer
|
bach
|
|
Better known for wearing pants 19th c feminist began paper for women called the lily
|
amelia bloomer
|
|
Gospel that says" consider the lilies of the field..."
|
Matthew
|
|
water lily sacred to hindus, egyptians, buddhists
|
lotus
|
|
painted "les nympheas" series of painting of lilies in a pond
|
monet
|
|
botanist famous for potatoes
|
burbank
|
|
2 cities were only two confederate state capitals not captured by union forces
|
austin & tallahassee
|
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almond shaped greek olives
|
calamata
|
|
synonym for kingdom comes from latin for regal
|
realm
|
|
1906 natural disaster in this city
|
san francisco
|
|
well-preserved bodies in this italian city found by 16th c artchitect
|
pompeii
|
|
Pompeii was buried by this volcano
|
mt vesuvius
|
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painting stolen aug 21 1911 from louvre
|
The Mona LIsa
|
|
ptolemy 1 & II developed library here that had 500,000 scrolls
|
Alexandria
|
|
my --- laundrette - movie
|
beautiful
|
|
O is homophone for the french word for this
|
water (eau)
|
|
aka gliding vowel - two adjacent vowel sounds occuring in the same syllable
|
dipthong
|
|
newscorp is controlled by this man
|
rupert murdoch
|
|
First major antiwar movie of the modern era. Won academy award for best picture
|
All quiet on the western front
|
|
Novel written by Erich Maria Remarque (german)
|
All quiet on the western front
|
|
Southern US city named for King Charles II
|
Charleston, SC
|
|
What was Marco Polo's home town?
|
Venice
|
|
Baseball Stadium with center field memorials
|
Yankee Stadium
|
|
Chicago gangster who says "public service is my motto"
|
Al Capone
|
|
He was on $500 bill
|
Mckinley
|
|
STate motto "liberty and INdependence"
|
Delaware
|
|
one of 3 main styles of Greek Architecture - columns are slender & fluted the capital has leaves
|
Corinthian
|
|
Brideshead Revisited author
|
Evelyn waugh
|
|
His best-known works include his early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934), his novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) and his trilogy of Second World War novels collectively known as Sword of Honour (1952–61).
|
Evelyn waugh
|
|
fictional palatial home of the Marchmain family (friend of Charles Ryder)_
|
Brideshead
|
|
Name of Maiden carved by Pygmalion and Goddess who brought her to life
|
Galitea & Aphrodite
|
|
A Clockwork Orange Author
|
Anthony Burgess
|
|
18th Cent eng poet who wrote
"the rape of the lock", "an essay on criticism" & "An essay on man" |
Alexander Pope
|
|
Norwegian playwright
|
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre
|
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Co-Founder of Cornell 1865
|
Ezra Cornell (19th century American businessman and education administrator. He was a founder of Western Union)
|
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20th Century Welsh Poet "Collected Poems", "A Child's Christmas in Wales", "Under Milk Wood" "Do not go gentle into that good night"
|
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953 Modernism & Romanticism
|
|
Composer of Requiem
|
Mozart (died while working on it finished by a student based on his outline)
|
|
Sang 1972's roundabout
|
Yes
|
|
20th c Amer Writer posthumous poems "ariel" & semi-autobiographical novel - "the Bell jar"
|
Sylvia Plath
|
|
To the lighthouse - author
|
Virginia Woolf
|
|
Piano piece "claire de lune" (moonlight- but not moonlight sonata) and orchestra piece "la mer" (the sea) are by the 19-20th c french composer
|
Debussy
|
|
sang- fool in the rain
|
led zeppelin
|
|
greek architecture has heavy & fluted columns w/ a plain top ("capital")
|
doric
|
|
three principal orders of greek and roman architecture
|
doric, ionic, corinthian
|
|
Stranger in a Strange Land author
|
Robert Heinlein
|
|
story of Micahel Valentine Smith - a human raised by amrtians on mars - then returns to earth in early adulthood
|
Stranger in a Strange land
|
|
Who are the big three of science fiction?
|
Heinlein, Asimov & Clarke
|
|
The Moon is a harsh mistress author
|
Robert Heinlein
|
|
City home to James Joyce, Jonathon Swift & William Butler Yeats
|
Dublin
|
|
Book: The Murder of Bob Crane
Film: |
Autofocus
|
|
3.5 million sq mile desert
|
Sahara
|
|
Country led by communist Tito
|
Yugoslavia (1892-1980, in office 1953-1980)
|
|
President of South Africa who released Mandela & Repealed some Apartheid laws
|
F.W. deklerk
|
|
The second largest & second lowest pitched woodwind
|
bassoon
|
|
1930 Emperor of Ethiopia
|
Halei Salasi
|
|
The french lieutenant's woman - 20th c british author
|
John Fowles
|
|
six characters in search of an ____
|
author - by luigi pirandello
|
|
"the harp weaver" poet
|
edna st vincent millay
|
|
19-20th american poet & feminist known for her activism & many love affairs and won pulitzer prize in poetry
|
Edna St Vincent millay
|
|
Steepletop (in NY) was home to this "harp weaver" poet
|
Edna St Vincent Millay
|
|
The conflict between irish catholics & protestants dates back to this king
|
Henry Viii
|
|
eng poet/illustrator/paintor who founded the Pre-raphaelite brotherhood with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais
|
dante gabriel rossetti
|
|
Losing presidential ticket 1960 & 1964
|
1960 Nixon & henry Cabot Lodge Jr
1964 William Miller & Goldwater |
|
Biafra was a secessionist state of this african country 1967-1970
|
Nigeria
|
|
"moles and men" & "their eyes were watching God" 20th c american author during Harlem Renaissance
|
Zora Neale Hurston
|
|
Order of the Triple Crown
|
Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes
|
|
Longest race of triple crown - 1 1/2 miles
|
Belmont Stakes
|
|
Shortest race of triple crown - 1 3/16 miles
|
Preakness Stakes
|
|
Length of Kentucky Derby
|
1 1/4 miles
|
|
current country that is location of city-state of Benin - that flourished from 14-17th centuries. famous for cast-gold sculptures
|
Nigeria
|
|
Author of "the little foxes"
|
lillian hellman
|
|
American author/playwright/screenplay writer who had off and on relationship with Dashiel Hammett
|
Lillian Hellman
|
|
Author of "the Children's hour", "an Unfinished woman: a memoir", & "toys in the attic"
|
Lillian Hellman
|
|
he was on $10,000 bill
|
Salmon P Chase
|
|
Zimbabwe was a colony of this until 1965
|
Britain
|
|
broadway play by yasmina reza - deals w/playground altercation between 2 boys and what happens when their parents meet to talk about it (starred gandolfini, marcia gay harden & jeff daniels)
|
God of Carnage
|
|
World economic forum held yearly in this swiss town
|
Davos, Switzerland
|
|
Korea's oldest city
|
Pyongyang
|
|
"spoon river anthology" poet
|
Edgar Lee Masters
|
|
he was on the $100,000 bill
|
woodrow wilson
|
|
woman who was time's man of the year in 1952
|
Queen Elizabeth II
|
|
Kazuo Ishiguro novel
|
Remains of the Day (Japanese-British novelist 1954-? also known for Never Let Me Go)
|
|
Edward VI was this religion
|
Protestant (reigned from 9 until 15), mother Jane Seymour, Father Henry VIII. He took over for Henry VIII, succeeded by jane grey (9 days), then his sister Mary I (catholic)
|
|
19th president 1877-1881 republican VP - William A Wheeler
|
Rutherford b hayes
|
|
Greek Goddess of the rainbow
|
iris
|
|
"Nice Guys finish last"- is attribute to this base ball manager
|
Leo Derocher
|
|
Port-Vila is the capital of this survivor locale
|
Vanuatu
|
|
Roman name of Odysseus
|
Ulysses
|
|
Philadelphia paper
|
Inquirer
|
|
she becomes immortal after performing harsh tasks and marries cupid
|
psyche
|
|
Barrymore the Butler & Stapleton are characters in Holmes novel
|
Hound of the Baskervilles
|
|
Hartford Paper
|
the Hartford courant
|
|
author of "the winds of war"
|
Herman Wouk
|
|
Holiest name of God in Hebrew
|
Jehovah
|
|
Bandar Seri Begawan is capital of
|
Brunei
|
|
Series of Novels - "remembrance of things past" author l 19th-e20th c French Author
|
Marcel proust
|
|
Current Highest Value $ bill
|
100
|
|
November 11th
|
Veterans Day
|
|
he is on $100 Bill
|
Benjamin Franklin
|
|
Nashville paper
|
The Tennesseean
|
|
Honolulu Paper
|
The Honolulu Advertiser
|
|
11th President Democrat - vp George M Dallas
1845-1849 |
James K Polk
|
|
The official name of the jurisdiction of the Pope
|
Holy See
|
|
----- is the soul of wit - from Hamlet
|
Brevity
|
|
3 branches of Judaism
|
Reform Judaism (most liberal)
Conservative Judaism Orthodox Judaism |
|
author of "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
16th c French writer humor is grotesque & bawdy |
Francois Rabelais
|
|
Author of Oedipus Rex
|
Sophocles
|
|
Bible Book tells the story of God's covenant w/Abraham and Abraham and Isaac
|
Genesis
|
|
Sequel to Herman Wouk's "The winds of war"
|
War and Remembrance
|
|
3 gifts wise men brought to Jesus
|
Gold, Frankincense & myrrh
|
|
author of "the autobiography of Malcolm X"
|
Alex Haley
|
|
Only US pres & VP never elected to either office
|
Ford
|
|
Robber Baron Jay Gould caused a black panic by speculating on this
|
Gold
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part of the Indian Ocean whose main arms are Gulf of Oman & Gulf of Den. Trade route from Indian subcontinent & states of persian gult & med sea
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Arabian Sea
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Along with Bach, greatest composer of Baroque period
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Handle
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Baroque Composer who's patron was the elector of Hanover who became George I (English)
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Handle
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Broadway musical starring Constantine Maroulis
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Rock of Ages
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Broadway Musical "Age of Aquarius", "good Morning starshine", "Let the sunshine in"
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Hair
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Composer of "the marriage of Figaro" 1786
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Mozart
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My Fair Lady is based on this play
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Pygmalion - GBS
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comprised of caroline islands, the marshall islands, the marianas islands - includes 2000+ islands held by the US under UN trusteeship
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Pacific Islands
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third Saturday in May
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Armed Forces Day
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First Monday in September
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Labor Day
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katherine Hepburn often costarred with him
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Spencer Tracy
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Sao Tome and Principe capital
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Sao Tome
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Beverly Cleary Character
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Ramona
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What's going on - singer
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marvin gaye
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cleveland paper
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
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"The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man", American writer, diplomat, & civil rights leader early 20th C
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James Weldon Johnson remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP
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popular american song from 20th Century about a railway engineer who saved his assistant & passengers but died applying train brakes in crash
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Casey Jones
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Raskolnikov is main character in this book
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Crime and Punishment
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book where main character kills 2 old women b/c he believes he is beyond the bounds of good & evil
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Crime and Punishment
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Author of Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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this title for Christian Clergyman comes from shepherd idea
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pastor
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source of "you cannot server God and mammon (money)"
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Jesus in the Gospels
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Minneapolis Paper
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Minneapolis Star-tribune
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he is on $2 bill
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Thomas Jefferson
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Subject of Lester David's "the Lonely lady of San Clemente"
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Pat Nixon
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John Wayne's Last movie
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The Shootist
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1500 state troopers, sheriff deputies & guards stormed this 11/13/1971
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Attica state prison
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This US city is named for a British prime minister
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Pittsburgh
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by James Thurber - about a henpecked husband with extravagant daydreams
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The secret life of walter mitty
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2 people who wrote "confessions" (at different times)
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Augustine - 4th C details his conversion to christianity
18th c philosopher Rousseau |
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1st 5 books of old testament
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genesis, exodus, leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy
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the four gospels of the new testament
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matthew, mark, luke, john
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2nd book of old testament
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Exodus
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Book of Bible that tells story of Israelites leaving Egypt
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Exodus
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country called bharat in Hindi
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India
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How many players on a cricket side
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11
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1st man made satelite in orbit
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Sputnik I
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Cousin of Mordecai
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Esther
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jewish woman chosen by king of Persia to be queen. She stops a plot to massacre the Jews in Persia
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Esther
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Queen of Israel who tried to kill Elijah
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Jezebel
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prophet of Old testament taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire
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Elijah
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the "good news" of salvation
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gospels
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psalm begins w/"the lord is my shepherd"
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psalm 23
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descendants of Abraham and Isaac esp. through Isaac's son Jacob (the israelites)
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Hebrews
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1936 Chaplin film satirizes horrors of mechanical age
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Modern times
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Prohet of the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols and incurred the wrath of Jezebel who tried to kill him
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Elijah
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zodiac symbol for Capricorn
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goat
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Zodiac for approx Dec 22 (winter solstice) to Jan 20
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Capricorn
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first american world chess champion
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Bobby Fischer
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where are the crown jewels in london?
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The Tower of London
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20th century american sculptor known for his mobiles
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Alexander Calder
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Author of Syntactic Structures
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Noam Chomsky
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Time's man of the year 1938
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Adolf Hitler
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What does a styptic pencil do?
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Stop Bleeding
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Author of "rich man, poor man" & "the young lions"
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irwin shaw
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Phenomenon on Mark Twain's birthday and day of death
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halley's comet
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two countries separated by juan de fuca strait
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Us & Canada
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number of feet in a mile
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5280
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she sprung fully grown from the forehead of her father zeus
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athena
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king Arthur's Queen
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Guinevere
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sword withdrawn by king arthur to ascend to throne
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Excalibur
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food of the gods - those who ate it became immortal
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ambrosia
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trinidad & tobago capital
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port of spain
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victoria is the capital of
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Seychelles
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amendment that ensured all citizens of all states enjyed rights at federal level & on the state level. removed the 3/5 counting of slaves in the census. & ensured loyalty of confederate side of legislature
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14th amendment
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norfolk, Virginia paper
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The Virginian-Pilot
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Saint Paul Paper
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St Paul Pioneer Press
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Las Vegas Paper
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Las vegas review journal
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20th c american dancer famous mainly in europe. her choreography helped with formation of modern dance
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Isadora Duncan
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composer of "amahl and the night visitors" - won 2 pulitzers
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John carlo menati
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celebrated 20th c spanish cellist went into exile after franco came to power (to france then puerto rico) famous performance @ white house in 1961
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Pablo Casals
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mythological creature w/100 eyes. (hera put his eyes in the tail of a peacock)
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argus
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companinos of Jason in the quest for the Golden Fleece
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Argonauts
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Black rock desert state
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Nevada
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Italian tenor of the l 19th-e 20th c considered one of the greatest tenors in Opera History
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Enrico Caruso
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Protects the freedom of religion, speech, and the press, as well as the right to assemble and petition the government 1789
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1st
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Protects the right to bear arms 1789
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2nd
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Prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers out of war time 1789
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3rd
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Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and sets out requirements for search warrants based on probable cause 1789
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4th
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Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy 1789
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5th
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Protects the right to a fair and speedy public trial by jury, including the rights to be notified of the accusations, to confront the accuser, to obtain witnesses and to retain counsel 1789
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6th
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Provides for the right to trial by jury in certain civil cases, according to common law 1789
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7th
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Prohibits excessive fines and excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment 1789
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8th
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Asserts the existence of unenumerated rights retained by the people 1789
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9th
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Limits the powers of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution 1789
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10th
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Immunity of states from suits from out-of-state citizens and foreigners not living within the state borders. Lays the foundation for sovereign immunity 1794
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11
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Revises presidential election procedures 1803
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12
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Abolishes slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime 1865
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13th
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Defines citizenship, contains the Privileges or Immunities Clause, the Due Process Clause, the Equal Protection Clause, and deals with post-Civil War issues 1866
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14th
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Prohibits the denial of suffrage based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude 1869
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15th
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Allows the federal government to collect income tax 1909
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16th
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Establishes the direct election of United States Senators by popular vote 1912
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17th
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Establishes Prohibition of alcohol (Repealed by Twenty-first Amendment) 1917
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18th
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Establishes women's suffrage 1919
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19th
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Fixes the dates of term commencements for Congress (January 3) and the President (January 20); known as the "lame duck amendment" 1932
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20th
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Repeals the Eighteenth Amendment -(which was prohibition) 1933
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21
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Limits the president to two terms, or a maximum of 10 years (i.e., if a Vice President serves not more than one half of a President's term, he or she can be elected to a further two terms 1947
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22
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Provides for representation of Washington, D.C. in the Electoral College 1960
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23
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Prohibits the revocation of voting rights due to the non-payment of poll taxes 1962
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24
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Codifies the Tyler Precedent; defines the process of presidential succession 1965
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25
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Establishes the official voting age to be 18 years old. 1971
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26
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Prevents laws affecting Congressional salary from taking effect until the beginning of the next session of Congress (1789-1992)
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27 (was originally proposed in 1789 to be in the bill of rights but wasnt fully ratified until 1992)
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much rumored military base 90 miles from vegas
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area 51
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Highest peak on South American
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Aconcagua
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alliterative name of highest points on all continents
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7 summits
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highest peak in europe
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ELbrus
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highest peak in oceania
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carstenz pyramid
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Vinson is the highest pt of this continent
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Antarctica
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Massive chinese structure is no1 in megawatt generation
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3 gorges dam
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john wayne title hat
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green beret
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eisner & kirby awards for these printed items
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comics
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maurice podoloff trophy in nba
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MVP
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after leaving hud in 2003 he was elected us senator from florida
|
mel martinez
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current louisiana senator - landrieu
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Mary Landrieu
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current governor of NY
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andrew cuomo
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father of current governor of NY who was also governer
|
Mario Cuomo
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in caravaggio painting jesus is summoning this man the tax collector
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Matthew
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who painted "the calling of st Matthew"
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Caravaggio
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who painted "the martyrdom of st matthew"
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Caravaggio
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Chilean poet/diplomat who won the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature
|
Pablo Neruda
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Chilean poet/diplomat called "the greatest poet of the 20th century in any language" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
|
Pablo Neruda
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Chilean dictator who gained power in 1973 coup-de-tat - he was president from 73-90 when transferred to a democratically elected president
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Augusto Pinochet
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the name of the stars in the heads of gemini
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castor & pollux
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name dropped by nissan under which it sold cars in us
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datsun
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1944 republican presidential candidate used the campaign slogan "time for a change"
|
Dewey
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Losing republican candidate ran with Bricker in 44 & Earl Warren in 48
|
Thomas E Dewey
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Year that Chicago daily tribune mistakingly printed "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN"
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1948
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1980 Solidarity Labor Union was formed when the GDANSK shipworkers went on stirke in this country
|
Poland
|
|
Coolidge was governor of this st
|
Massachussetts
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Union founded by cezar chavez
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UFW(A) - United Farm Workers of America
|
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1894 Railway strike
|
Pullman Strike
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Kim Carnes Song "eye"
|
Bette Davis Eyes
|
|
"behind these hazel eyes" was a hit for this idol
|
kelly clarkson
|
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"double vision" british-american rock group
|
foreigner
|
|
who killed desdemona
|
othello
|
|
how did hamlet kill
|
polonius
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thane of fife that killed macbeth
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Macduff
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Romeo killed this relative of Juliet with a sword
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Tybalt
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type of snake that moccasins are with fangs
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Viper fish
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aka "the rosewater dish"
|
Women's trophy at wimbledon
|
|
Franz Joseph was emperor of this dual monarchy (late 1800s)
|
Austria-hungary
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flat country west of trincomalee on the "teardrop island"
|
sri lanka
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Menelik II was emperor here until 1913
|
Ethiopia
|
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180 soldiers led by this spaniard attacked the incas in 1532
|
Pizarro
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conquistador who founded Lima
|
Francisco Pizarro
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these people of Peru were conquered by Pizarro
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Incas
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Cortes conquered this country
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Mexico
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people conquered by Hernan Cortes
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Aztecs
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Civilization that covered from
Honduras, Guatemala, Northern El Salvador up to central Mexico |
Mayans
|
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french romantic novelist
|
victor hugo
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first word of "bleak house" is this city
|
London
|
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Famous Annie Photographer
|
Annie Leibovitz
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|
it was oakland, ca her girlhood home, that she wrote "there is no there there"
|
Gertrude Stein
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Only Roman catholic signer of Dec of INdependence was from this state
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maryland
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In Rene magritte's "the son of man" man is wearing a bowler hat with his face mostly obscured by what?
|
apple (green)
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In Rene magritte's "the son of man" man is wearing a bowler hat with his face mostly obscured by what?
|
apple (green)
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20th c Belgian Surrealist with recurring bowler hat in paintings
|
Rene Magritte
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20th c Belgian Surrealist with recurring bowler hat in paintings
|
Rene Magritte
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Artistic style of Belgian painter Rene Magritte
|
Surrealism
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Artistic style of Belgian painter Rene Magritte
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Surrealism
|
|
Style of Salvador Dali painting
|
Surrealism
|
|
Style of Salvador Dali painting
|
Surrealism
|
|
Famous "melted clocks" painting
|
"The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali
|
|
Famous "melted clocks" painting
|
"The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali
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|
Style of Van Gogh's Starry night
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Expressionist
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"still life with apples" French Artist
|
Paul Cezanne
|
|
Billboard's number 1 of all time
|
Chubby Checker - The Twist
|
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1999 Billboard hit by Santana featuring (and co-written) by Rob Thomas (from matchbox twenty)
|
Smooth
|
|
teen idol recorded Mack The Knife in 1959
|
Bobby Darin
|
|
Renaissance Artist from Florence who was famous for bas relief - shadow relief sculpture
|
Donatello
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"How do I live" artist
|
Leann Rimes
|
|
Paul Cezanne was famous for what style?
|
cubism
|
|
1996 Los Del Rio hit that AL Gore performed his own version at the democratic national convention
|
Macarena - Al Gore stood completely still and then asked the audience if they would like to see it again
|
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Olivia Newton John aerobic staple that garnered Video of the Year Grammy in 1981
|
Physical
|
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Pat Boone's Daughter (lead of Boone Sisters) that recorded the hit "You Light Up My Life"
|
Debbie Boone
|
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Pat Boone Daughter that won Best New Artist Grammy in 1978 and tied with Barbara Streisand in Song of the Year
|
Debbie Boone - You Light up My Life
|
|
Rare Tie for Grammy song of the year - 1978 Best Song was this song by Debbie Boone, and this one by Barabara Streisand
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You Light up My LIfe & Love Theme From a Star is Born
|
|
Longest reigning #1 hit for Beatles
|
Hey Jude
|
|
Song written by Paul McCartney to Julian Lennon to comfort him on the divorce of this parents
|
Hey Jude
|
|
Beatles own record Label
|
Apple Records
|
|
Songstress with 2005 Comeback Album "the Emancipation of Mimi"
|
Mariah Carey
|
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Mariah Carey leaves this actor at the alter for old beau Wentworth Miller (from prison break) in her video for "we belong together"
|
Eric Roberts
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Singer of "Unbreak my heart" - video stars her & Tyson Beckford
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Toni Braxton
|
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"Yeah!" by this artist also features Lil Jon & Ludacris
|
Usher
|
|
His fourth album was "Confessions" in 2004 - had the single "Yeah!" on it
|
Usher
|
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This Atlanta born artist's first hit was "Think of You"
|
Usher (Raymond) - he was sixteen at the time.
|
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"You make me wanna" r&b artist
|
Usher
|
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Kim Carnes Song that won Grammy best song & record
|
Bette Davis Eyes (1981)
|
|
Lionel Richie & Diana Ross duet that spent 9 weeks at number 1 in 1981
|
Endless Love
|
|
Singer of 1976's Tonight's the Night (Gonna be Alright)
|
Rod Stewart
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Song by Rod Stewart where you can herar romantic murmuring in French near the fade-out from actress Britt Ekland, Stewart's girlfriend at the time.
|
Tonight's the Night
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Singer of Foolish Games. Married to rodeo star Ty Murray
|
Jewel
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Singer of You were Meant for ME (raised in rural alaska)
|
Jewel
|
|
1991 Bryan Adams song played during credits of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
|
(Everything I do) I do it for you
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Maid marian in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
|
Mary Elizabeth mastrantonio
|
|
Katherine Heigl Stars as this Janet evanovich heroine in One for the Money
|
Stephanie Plum
|
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Group that sang 1994 hit "I'll make love to you"
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Boyz II Men
|
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Movie whose theme by Percy Faith is in Billboards top 20 of all time
|
A Summer Place
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Classic movie starring Sandra Dee & Troy Donahue on resort island where there parents (her dad, his mom) have affair then get divorces & marry. .and Molly (Dee) & Johnny(donahue) get pregnant and married
|
A Summer Place
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|
This Group of "Le Freak" is said to have inspired groups like Queen & Blondie
|
Chic
|
|
Who Sang "How deep is your love?" from 1977
|
the Bee Gees
|
|
The ballad won the 1977 Grammy Award for best pop performance for a duo or group with vocal. and was the first hit from "Saturday Night Fever" to hit no 1
|
How deep is your love
|
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Survivor's Eye of the Tiger was featured in this movie
|
Rocky III
|
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younger brother of the Bee Gees with his own solo career
|
Andy Gibb
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English Singer of I just want to be your everything (1977)
|
Andy Gibb
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Singer with hits: "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" and "Shadow Dancing," the No. 1 single of 1978.
|
Andy Gibb
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Rapper of 2008 "Low" featuring T-Pain
|
Flo Rida
|
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Minneapolis trio who's only no 1 pop hit is "too close" in 1998
|
Next
|
|
Every breath you take group
|
the Police
|
|
the first and only no 1 billboard hit for the Police
|
Every Breath you take
|
|
Flash dance...What a feeling singer
|
Irene Cara
|
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Star & themesong singer of Fame
|
Irene Cara
|
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Movie about: A woman with two jobs - welder & exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.
|
Flashdance
|
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Star of Flashdance
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Jennifer Beals
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Colony founded by London company in 1697
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Virginia
|
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Colony founded by John Winthrop 1620
|
Massachusetts
|
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Colony founded by John Wheelwright 1623
|
New Hampshire
|
|
Colony founded by Sir George Calvert
|
Maryland (he was Lord Baltimore)
|
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Colony founded by THomas Hooker 1635
|
Connecticut
|
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Colony founded by Roger Williams 1636
|
Rhode Island
|
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Colony founded by Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company 1638
|
Delaware
|
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Colony founded by Virginians in 1653
|
North Carolina
|
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Colony founded by Eigth Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II 1663
|
South Carolina
|
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Colony founded by Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret 1664
|
New Jersey
|
|
Colony founded by Duke of York in 1664
|
New York
|
|
Colony founded by william penn 1682
|
Pennsylvania
|
|
Colony founded by James Oglethorpe 1732
|
Georgia
|
|
chezeray(cesare) borgis is said to be the Model for Machiavialli's...
|
The Prince
|
|
Formerly called Bechuanaland
|
Botswana (was under british rule when bechuanaland)
|
|
Landlocked mountainous country in IndoChina
|
Laos
|
|
who said.. no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the american people
|
HL Mencken
|
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Squirrel who stars in Beatrix Potter tale
|
Squirrel Nutkin
|
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who sang Maybellene
|
Chuck Berry
|
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Greek mythology - winged monster w/head of a woman & body of a lion. Killed travelers near thebes who couldn't answer riddle. oedipus answered correctly
|
Sphinx
|
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Author of "The fox and the grapes"
|
Aesop
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