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| Description | Name |
|---|---|
| Cured Yellow Fever, a hospital in Washington D.C. is named after him | Stephen Reed |
| First to use liquid-propelled rocket engines | Robert Goddard |
| Wrote the book, Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
| Wrote the opera, Billy Budd | Benjamin Britain |
| Scientific Effect that was discovered by shining blue light through water | Charenkov Effect |
| Wrote Laws of Planetary Motion | Keppler |
| This law states that the temperature varies inversely to pressure | Boyle's Law |
| The most decorated soldier of WWII, this General from Tennessee captured German soldiers in Aragon Forrest | Sgt. York |
| Climbed Mt. Everest with Edmund Hillary | Norgay |
| A short-lived nation within Nigeria | Biafra |
| Country formerly known as Upper Volta | Burkhina Faso |
| Generic name for a German prison camp (during WWII) | Stallog |
| Her pen name was George Elliot | Mary Anne Evans |
| Governor of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, President of Texas | Sam Houston |
| Second President of Texas | Lamar |
| First President of Hawaii | Dole |
| Wrote The Tales of Hoffman (music) | Offenbach |
| Opera by Verdi, Celebrated the opening of the Suez Canal, Set in Egypt | Aida |
| Lost Incan secret city | Vilca Pampa |
| Wrote The Fairy Queen | Spencer |
| Famous Milan opera house | Lascala |
| The last Bourbon King of France | Charles X |
| King who replaced Bourbon dynasty with Bourbon-Orleans House | Louis-Phillipe |
| The (French) Revolution of 1848 put him into power in the Second Republic of France, but he later declared himself Emperor | Napolean III (Louis Napolean) |
| The longest river in Australia | The Murray River |
| Henry Luce founded it in the 1920s | TIME Magazine |
| Playwright, Ambassador, Married to the founder of TIME Magazine | Claire Booth Luce |
| Founded The Saturday Evening Post | Benjamin Franklin |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes edited this magazine | Atlantic Monthly |
| The North American Revue was popular after this war | War of 1812 |
| This act established silver currency in the U.S. | Bland-Allison Act |
| Wrote Vanity Fair | William Makepease Thackeray |
| Wrote the song Kiss Me Kate | Cole Porter |
| Wrote Carnival of the Animals (music) | Saint Saens |
| Tribe that sacked Rome in 477 | The Vandals |
| Wrote Remembrance of Things Passed | Proust |
| This character in To Kill a Mockingbird is based on Truman Kapote | Dill |
| French painter, forerunner of Cubism | Cezanne |
| Painted French peasants | Milet |
| Painted ballerinas | De Gas |
| Religion founded in 97 B.C. | Taoism |
| A poem at a funeral | Requiem |
| Wrote Sturmond Drang or "Storm and Stress" | Goethe |
| Christopher Sly is most associated with this play | Taming of the Shrew |
| Talked of wholeness in psychology | Guschtalt |
| Believed in developmental stages of psychology | Piage |
| Born in Archery, GA | Jimmy Carter |
| Lived in Shottery Cottage | Ann Hathaway |
| Lived in Chalton Cottage | Jane Austen |
| Jane Austen died in this English city | Winchester |
| Wrote The Moon and Sixpence, based on the life of Gaugin | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Wrote The Book of Nonsense | Leer |
| There are 88 of these that are officially recognized | Constellations |
| Known as the "Dog Philosophers" | Cinnics |
| Isotope of Hydrogen, has two neutrons | Tridium |
| Associated with the Age of Bronze | Rodin |
| Calvin Coolidge's Vice President | Dawes |
| This religion was founded by Mother Anne Lee | Shakers |
| This planet was discovered in 1846 | Neptune |
| New Connecticut is the former name of this state | Vermont |
| Autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath, Protagonist is Esther Greenwood | The Bell Jar |
| Associated with the Cathedral Series (art) | Monet |
| German composer, Biblical-based music | Mendelson |
| Phylum containing the most species | Insecta |
| Wrote Songs of Innocence | William Blake |
| Presidential Policy was New Federalism | Richard Nixon |
| Presidential Policy was the Good Neighbor (Policy) | FDR |
| Presidential Policy was Great Society | LBJ |
| Presidential Policy was the New Frontier | JFK |
| Presidential Policy was Dollar Diplomacy | William Howard Taft |
| Presidential Policy was the New Covenant | Bill Clinton |
| Presidential Policy was the Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Presidential Policy was the New Deal | FDR |
| Presidential Policy was the Fair Deal | Harry S Truman |
| His policy was New Nationalism | Theodore Roosevelt |
| His policy was New Freedom | Wilson |
| The second largest French-speaking city in the world | Montreal |
| Wrote The Pigman | Paul Zindel |
| The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe are both works by him | Edward Albee |
| Pollegra is a vitamin difficiency cured by this | niasin |
| Major Duncan Edwards appears in this work | The Last of the Mohicans |
| It was fought on March 6, 1836 | The Alamo |
| He was Texas's commander at the Alamo | Travis |
| Abraham Lincoln's lost love and charcter in Spoon River Anthology | Anne Rutledge |
| This group protested U.S. involvement in WWII | America First |
| This was an artshow in 1913 | The Armory Show |
| Spring and Fall is a poem by this man | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| The School of Local Color is associated with this writer | Sarah Orn Jewit |
| He painted Night Hawks and Gas | Edward Hopper |
| It is the term for a dead Christ in the lap of Mary | Pieta |
| He had a very famous pieta painting before doing more notable works | Michelangelo |
| Stanum is Latin for this element | Tin |
| Plumbum is Latin for this element | Lead |
| Kalium is Latin for this element | Potassium |
| Arum is Latin for this element | Gold |
| Woolfrom is Polish for this element | Tungsten |
| Charles Darwin was oceanographer on this vessel | HMS Beagle |
| R.M.S (like the Titanic) stands for this | Royal Mail Steamer |
| Hippolita was Queen of this group | the Amazons |
| He developed the Iron Law of Wages | Ricardo |
| He developed objectivism | Rand |
| Dashiell Hammett had a love affair with this woman | Lillian Hellmann |
| He is buried next to Beethoven | Schubert |
| La Boheme is by this man | Puccini |
| Pinkerton is a charcter from what work | Madame Butterfly |
| Pinkerton is a nickname for what profession | Private Investigator |
| Tender Is the Night is a novel by this man | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Arms and the Man is a play by him | George Bernard Shaw |
| El Greco was born on this island | Crete |
| The Gugenheim is located in this city | Bilbao |
| This Halogen is poisonous at room temperature | Chlorine |
| This was the first gas isolated from Nitrogen | Argon |
| Sir Thomas Moore wrote this novel about a perfect island | Utopia |
| He wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France | Burke |
| The Open Boat is a short story by this man | Stephen Crane |
| She wrote Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates | Mary Mapes Dodge |
| He developed the Law of Partial Pressures | Dalton |
| He founded Utilitarianism | Bentham |
| Victory and Typhoon are by this author | Joseph Conrad |
| He wrote Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
| He wrote stories about the Glass Family | J.D. Salinger |
| Wrote Twice Old Tales and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Wrote a collection of short stories called The Three Million | O'Henry |
| Located in Canada, it's the fifth largest island in the world | Baffin Island |
| It's the only U.S. city named after a British Prime Minister | Pittsburg |
| Winston Churchill made this famous speech in Fulton Missouri at Westminster College | The Iron Curtain Speech |
| This state was admitted as part of the Compromise of 1850 | California |
| He was the first Republican candidate for President | Fremont |
| He wrote an American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
| He flew in the Freedom 7 rocket | Alan Shephard |
| He flew in the Friendship 7 rocket | John Glenn |
| The first spacewalks took place during this set of missions | Gemini |
| He wrote Rutabaga Stories and many more better known works | Carl Sandburg |
| Wrote Travels with Charley and many better known works | John Steinbeck |
| Born in Pittsburg, she was one of the most popular mystery writers in America | Reinhart |
| The Loop of Henley is located in this organ | kidneys |
| This woman was Ronald Reagan's UN Ambassador | Gene Kirkpatrick |
| This President was born in Illinois and attended Eureka College | Ronald Reagan |
| The upcoming G8 Summit will be held at the Cloister Hotel on this ritzy Georgia island | Sea Island |
| This says that the Supreme Court has the right to choose its cases | Writ of Satiorary |
| This says that prisoners have the right to know what they have been arrested for | Writ of Habeas Corpus |
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