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| Description | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henri Matisse led this movement | Fauvism |
| Wrote Tess of the D'ubervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| Mrs. Malaprop appears in what work | The Rivals |
| Wrote The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| 1985 act that set out plan to balance the budget | Graham-Rudman-Hollings Act |
| She was married to King Ahab | Jezebel |
| English portrait artist of the 18th century | Sir Joshua Reynolds |
| 1941 James Thurber short story about an affable dreamer | "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" |
| Mexican national hero who overthrew Santa Anna in 1855 | Benito Juarez |
| Taxonomical class whose eggs have leathery shells | Reptilia |
| First American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics, did so in 1907 | William Mickelson |
| Least populated Japanese Island | Hokaido |
| Mendeleev was born here | Siberia |
| 1427 painting featuring St. Peter | The Tribute Money |
| Painted The Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Penned the words, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may..." | Robert Herrick |
| Represents the U.S. Govt. before the Supreme Court | Solicitor General |
| Separates Tasmania from South Australian mainland | Bass Strait |
| Year of William Calley's Trial | 1971 |
| German philosopher, read writings of David Hume | Immanuel Kant |
| Astronaut grounded after first flight for medical reasons | Allen Shephard |
| Also known as Rubella | Measles |
| Family in Faulkner's The Hamlet | Snopes |
| Ruling body of the Weimar Republic | The Reichstag |
| Deficiency in this vitamin causes night blindness, milk is a good source of it | Milk |
| Creature killed by Theseus | Minotaur |
| Wrote Lost Horizon, Goodbye Mr. Chips, and wrote about Shangri-la | James Hilton |
| 1962 case about prayer in school | Ingale v. Vitale |
| Also know as the States' Rights Party | Dixiecrats |
| Florentino is a character in this book by Garcia-Marquez | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Theory that because some countries can produce things easily than others, it is therefor beneficial for nations to trade | Comparative Advantage |
| 20th century representative from Illinois, ran in 1980 Republican primary and then as independent in general election | John (Bayard) Anderson |
| French sculptor of late 19th and early 20th century | Auguste Rodin |
| Disease caused by protozoans (Plasmodium) | Malaria |
| Wrote about Monterrey, CA | John Steinbeck |
| Test used to detect syphillis | Wasserman Test |
| Causes yellowness in the eyes and is caused by gallstones | Jaundis |
| Metal that has shielding effect from UV rays | Lead |
| Wrote A Shrapshire Lad and "On an Athlete Dying Young" | A.E. Houseman |
| 1964 case dealing with rights of the accused | Escobedo v. Illinois |
| Island nation consisting of 96 independent islands | Seychelles |
| Wrote Tamerlane | Christopher Marlowe |
| 1973 Democratic VP candidate dropped by McGovern for allegations of mental illness | Thomas Eagleton |
| Wrote The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann |
| 1924 Mann novel about a tuberculosis sanatorium | The Magic Mountain |
| The Battle of Wounded Knee was in December of this year | 1890 |
| Most prominent Hellinistic sculpture, figure believed to be standing at front of boat | The Winged Victory of Samothrace (Nike) |
| Wrote The Lady or the Tiger | Frank R. Stockton |
| 8 stepped cycle controlled by enzymes | Krebs Cycle |
| The Apple of Discord is associated with this war | The Trojan War |
| Swiss surrealist sculptor and painter of the 20th Century | Alberto Giacometti |
| Can be illustrated by an assembly line, says that there is an optimum number of workers to make the most money possible | (Law of) Diminishing Returns |
| Seeking peace in his old age, he divided his kingdom between his three daughters | King Lear |
| Introduced by Alice Paul in the 1920s, it failed then and again in 1970s | Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) |
| Year the 27th Amendment was ratified | 1992 |
| Black spots in the universe commonly called "Hubble Bubbles" | Voids |
| 10 year-old character of Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer |
| Goddess born of seafoam | Aphrodite |
| 1895 Speech by Booking T. Washington | "The Atlanta Compromise" |
| Developed idea of "conspicuous consumption" and wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class | Thorstein Veblen |
| Play about Norse mythological character | Peer Gynt |
| Reporters of the Watergate scandal | Woodward and Bernstein |
| Named for Pope Sixtus IV | Sistine Chapel |
| Hemingway novel featuring Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes | The Sun Also Rises |
| Play set in the French Quarter of New Orleans | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Wrote What is the Third Estate | Sieyes |
| 4th largest lake in world | Aral Sea |
| 57 periodic table... | Lanthanide series |
| 89 periodic table... | Actinide series |
| Term comes from British landlord | Boycott |
| Sec. of State under Grant, Gov. and Senator from NY | Hamilton Fish |
| Born in New Zealand, scientist of 19th and 20th centuries | Ernest Rutherford |
| Founded "The International" | Karl Marx |
| Painted Le Moulin de la Galet | Renoir |
| Transfer of genetic material from one bacterium to another by direct cell contact | Conjugation |
| Son of Nicholas I, Czar who emancipated the Serfs | Alexander II |
| Main waterway of Myanmar | Irrawabbi River |
| Group that seized Wounded Knee, SD in 1973 | AIM (American Indian Movement) |
| Two major works of poet Sidney Lanier | "Song of the Chattahoochee" and "Marshes of Glenn" |
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