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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bacon | Knight , attorney general and Lord Chancellor under James I |
| Bacon | 1621 pled guilty to accepting bribes and was banished from office so spent life writing. |
| Bacon | Instauration Magna |
| Bacon | The Advancement of Learning |
| Bacon | Novum Organum |
| Bacon | Three Studies for Figures at the base of a crucifixion. |
| Bacon | Led rebellion against Sir William Berkley |
| Sir William Berkley | governor of Virginia |
| Bacon | Died from malaria. |
| Bacon’s rebellion | mad that governor was not protecting from Indians. |
| Bacon | Forsee Microscope, gunpoweder, aircraft. |
| Baden-Powell | founded the Boy Scouts |
| Baffin | Discovered Baffin Bay |
| Baffin | failed to find the Northwest passage. |
| Bagot | minister to the US, he negotiated the Rush - ___ |
| Rush-Bagot | limited US arms on the Canadian border. |
| Baker | Campaign chairman for George Bush’s unsuccessful run in 1980 |
| Baker | Chief of Staff under Regan in 1981 |
| Baker | Treasury secretary in 1985 for Regan |
| Baker | Resign in 1988 to manage Bush’s successful presidential campaign. |
| Baker | Served as secretary of state 89-92 for Bush |
| Baker | Chief of Staff 1992-1993 for Bush |
| Balanchine | Meember of Ballet russe |
| Balanchine | move to US to help found School of American Ballet. |
| Balanchine | Artistic director and principle choreographer of the New York City Ballet. |
| Balboa | fled Hispaniola in 1510 he hid in ship that took him to panama |
| Balboa | After reaching New World he seized command of expedition that came to panama. |
| Balboa | crossed the isthmus and discovered the pacific Ocean. |
| Balboa | 1513 claimed the ocean and its shores for Spain. |
| Baldwin | Wrote of African American race relation |
| Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Baldwin | Just Above my Head |
| Baldwin | Just Above my Head |
| Baldwin | Notes of a Native Son |
| Balfour | Prime minister from 1902 to 1905. Conservative. |
| Balfour | Foreign secretary under Lloyd George. Issue namesake decleration. |
| Balzac | The Human Comedy |
| Balzac | Pere Goriot |
| Balzac | Cousin Bette |
| The Human Comedy | collection of novels written over a 20 year period. |
| Bannister- First man to run the mile under 5 minutes. | |
| Banting | 1923 Nobel Prize in physiology with MacLeod for isolating insulin |
| Barber | Adagio for Strings |
| Barber | Knoxville: Summer of 1915 |
| Barber | Vanessa (Opera) |
| Barber | Antony and Cleopatra (Opera) |
| Bardeen | First person to win nobel prize twice in same field |
| Bardeen | Shared 1956 physics nobel prize with Brattain and Shockley for developing the transistor |
| Bardeen | 1927 physics nobel with Cooper and Schrieffer for work in superconductivity. |
| Barnard | first successful human heart transplant in 1967 in Cape Town |
| Barnum | Open his American Museum in New York City. |
| Barnum | Tom Thumb and Siamese Twins exhibits. |
| Barnum | Organized successful US tour of Swedish singer Lind |
| Barnum | 1871 opened circus, The Greatest Show on Earth |
| Barnum | Merged with competitor Bailey in 1881. |
| Barrie | Peter Pan |
| Barrie | The Little minister. |
| Barrie | The little white bird. |
| Bartholdi | Statue of Liberty |
| Bartok | The Miraculous Mandarin |
| Bartok | Duke Bluebeard’s Castle |
| Barton | Angel of the Battlefield |
| Barton | set up supply service and was nurse in civil war |
| Barton | American Red Cross |
| Baryshnikov | russia defected to Us and dacnced with American Ballet Theatre and new York City Ballet |
| Baum | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
| Beatrix | Queen of Netherlands |
| Beatrix | Ascended to the throne in 1980 after her mother Juliana abdicated. |
| Beaumarchais | The Barber of Seville |
| Beaumarchais | The Marriage of Figaro |
| Beumont | Best known for his collaboration with Fletcher |
| Beaumont | the woman hater. |
| Beauregard | Attak of forst Sumter |
| Beauvoir | existentialist and close friend and companion to Sartre |
| Beauvoir | The mandarins |
| Beauvoir | The Second Sex |
| Beauvoir | The Coming of Age |