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JFH Sholar Bowl-11
Stuff I Should Know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of "Their Eyes Were Watching Good" | Zora Neil Hurston |
| 1992 LA Race riots named for this man brutalized by police | Rodney King |
| Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty | Frederic Bartholdi |
| Date of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty | October 28, 1886 |
| Names for C2H2 | Acetylene/Ethyne |
| Composer of Bolero | Ravel |
| Ship of Sir Francis Drake (2 names) | Pelican/Golden Hind |
| Wife of Moses | Zipporah |
| Author of "I wandered lonely as a cloud" | Wordsworth |
| Poem speaking about daffodils | "I wandered lonely as a cloud" |
| Whiskey Ring Scandal took place during the administration of this president | Grant |
| Mars' largest moon | Phobos (fear) |
| Mars' smallest moon | Deimos (fleeing defeat) |
| Achievement of Enrico Fermi | Chain reaction fission |
| Famous Italian violinist; composer of "Caprice No. 24 in A minor" | Paganini |
| Home of the only remaining wonder of the ancient world | Egypt |
| Only intact wonder of the ancient world | Great Pyramid |
| Painter of Blue Boy | Gainsborough |
| Reason for Dreyfus Affair | Anti-Semitism |
| Country of Dreyfus Affair | France |
| Island Captain Dreyfus was banished to | Devil's Island (French Guiana) |
| Speaker of "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves" | Cassius |
| Interface characterized by its use of visible windows | GUI (Graphic User Interface) |
| Novel in which Holly Go-Lightly is a character | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Composer of the symphony "Faust" | Liszt |
| Composer of numerous Hungarian Rhapsodies | Liszt |
| Oldest sewer in the world | Rome |
| Writer of the line "Mists and mallow fruitfulness" | Keats |
| Poem opening "Season of mists and mallow fruitfulness" | Ode to Autumn |
| Author of "Ode to Autumn" | Keats |
| City of the State Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg |
| School of Athens | Raphael |
| Painting of corpse in bathtub | The Death of Marat |
| Painter of "The Death of Marat" | David |
| Father of the symphony | Hayden |
| Explorer who died in the Battle of Mactan | Magellan |
| Price line built into stock options | Strike price |
| Area of a trapezoid | 1/2(b1+b2)h |
| Capital of Zimbabwe | Harhare |
| Sculptor of "The Kiss" | Rhodin |
| Sculptor of "The Thinker" | Rhodin |
| Author of "The Age of Innocence" | Wharton |
| Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Stowe |
| Subject of the Einstein-Bohr debates | Uncertainty Principle |
| Predecessor of Condoleeza Rice(as Secretary of State) | Colin Powell |
| Author of "Clockwork Orange" | Burgess |
| Novel whose main characters are Nadsat-speaking Droogs | Clockwork Orange |
| Author of "Gunga Din" | Kipling |
| Hemingway novel about American expatriates in Spain | The Sun Also Rises |
| Saint-Saens 1886 suite for two pianos and other instruments | The Carnival of the Animals |
| Father of the symphony | Hayden |
| Place of Magellan's death | Mak-Tan |
| Name of a three-panel painting | Tryptich |
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