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Stack #28428
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What musical instrument is associated with Doc Sevrinsen? | Trumpet |
| What musical instrument is associated with David Helfgott? | Piano |
| What cities did the Pony Express start and end in? | St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California |
| In what decade did the 1st Winter Olympics occur? | 20s |
| What state is "America's Dairyland"? | Wisconsin |
| What American Writer wrote the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? | T.S Eliot |
| In what decade was QEII coronoated? | 50s |
| What cities did the Chisholm Trail start and end in? | San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas |
| What TV Show was the Simpsons spun off? | The Tracey Ullman Show |
| Where is the Museum of Contempary Art? | LA |
| Where is the Guggenheim Musuem? | New York City |
| What disease is caused by the lack of Vitamin D? | Rickets |
| What's the world's largest island? | Greenland |
| What's the Holy Mountain of the Greek Orthodox Religion? | Mount Athos |
| Who wrote Song of Solomon and Beloved? | Toni Morrison |
| Which British poet won the 1st Nobel Prize in literature? [If and Gunga Din] | Rudyard Kipling |
| What's the cool name for Color-Blindness? | Daltonism |
| What's the modern city of Fort Duquesne? | Pittsburg, PA |
| What cities did Braddock's Road start and stop in? | Cumberland, Maryland to Fort Duquesne |
| What's the common name for Pertussis? | Whooping Cough |
| # Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel | 20s |
| Olympic Boxing Timing? | 3 rounds of 3 minutes each |
| What instrument does Harry James Play? | Trumpet |
| In what decade was Microsoft founded? | 70s |
| What Mountain did Noah's Ark rest on after the Flood? | Mount Ararat |
| What's the Major Roman Basilica, seat of the Pope? | St. John Lateran |
| What's the largest Christian Church? | St Peters Basilica |
| Who painted the Birth of Venus and was from Florence? | Botticelli - Birth of Venus |
| Who composed Peter and the Wolf? | Prokofiev |
| Who wrote Petrushka? | Stravinsky |
| Who wrote Symphony 2 - Pathetique? | Tchaikovsky |
| Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? | Prokofiev |
| Name Tchaikovsky's three ballets. | Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty |
| When did the Hindenburg burn? | 30s |
| Who wrote "A Hundred Years of Solitude" and where was he from? | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia |
| What is the highest African mountain and where is it? | Kilimanjaro in Tanzania |
| What are the two landlocked countries in South America? | BP Bolivia and Paraguay |
| Where are the greatest tides? | Bay of Fundy, Canada |
| What's the largest archipelago? | Indonesia |
| What is the largest peninsula? | Arabia |
| Where is the Casa Rosada? | Argentina |
| What's the Italian version of the White House? | Quirinale Palace |
| Where is the US Foreign Policy Center? | Foggy Bottom |
| What countries formed the United Arab republic? | Syria and Egypt |
| What is the Congo currently known as? | Zaire |
| What does Korea call itself? | Chosen |
| What is Siam now known as? | Thailand |
| Toronto used to be known as _____ | Fort York |
| What's the largest african country? | Sudan |
| What's the official name of Hungary? | Magyar |
| What are the three names of St. Petersburg? | Petrograd, (St) Petersburg, Leningrad (PPL) |
| In what city do the White and Blue Nile meet? | Khartoum, Sudan |
| What river runs through Berlin? | Spree |
| What river runs through Florence? | Arno |
| What country is Nippon? | Japan |
| Who wrote The Faerie Queene and in what century? | Edmund Spenser, British, 1500s |
| Who wrote Pilgrim's Progress and when? | John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, British, 1600s |
| Who wrote the poem Aurora leigh? | Elizabeth Barret Browning, Brit, poet, 1800s |
| What was George Eliot's real name? | Mary Ann Evans, British, 1800s |
| Who was Shelley's poem Adonais about? | Adonais was about Keats |
| What is the longest running play in England? | The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie |
| Who wrote Peter Pan? | Barrie, England, 1800s |
| Who wrote A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? | Edward Gibbon, 1800s, England |
| Was John Donne a poet or novelist, US or Brit? | British Poet, 1500s |
| Who created Winnie the Pooh? | A.A. Milne |
| Where is the largest sculpture in the world, and who's on it? | Stone Mountain, Georgia [Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson] |
| What's the largest church in england? | St. Paul's Cathedral (by Christopher Wren) |
| What's the smallest great lake? | Lake Ontario |
| What Great Lake is farthest west? | Lake Superior |
| How many chromosomes does a human sex cell have? | 23 |
| Who killed the Gorgon Medusa? | Perseus |
| Who killed Achilles? | Paris |
| Who killed Hector? | Achilles |
| What were Sophocles' four plays? [there are actully more] | 1) Antigone 2) Oedipus Rex/Oedipus Tyrannos 3) Ajax 4) Electra |
| Who wrote Oresteia in 400s BC and what are the three parts? | Aeschylus = Agamemnon + The Libation Bearers + The Euminides |
| Who wote Medea? | Euripides |
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