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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Known for the Iron Law of Wages | Ricardo |
| Founded the Jesuits | Ignacio of Loyola |
| Income Tax amendment | 16th |
| Priam's Son | Hector |
| Often called Wobblies | IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) |
| Knossos was on this island | Crete |
| Accredited with creating democracy (in Athens) | Solon |
| Series of laws passed after the Boston Tea Party | Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts |
| Wrote "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" | Gibbon |
| President that signed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, that ended the Mexican-American War | Polk |
| Law of Segregation (his first law) | Mendel |
| Discovered blood types | Landsteiner |
| Ruled England from 1509-1547 | Henry VIII |
| The amount of thermal energy needed to change a substance from a solid to liquid | Heat of fusion (occurs at the melting point) |
| First British Prime Minister | Walpole |
| Louis XIV's Chief Minister | Cardinal Mazarin |
| A ritual instrument for Hebrews; is a ram's horn | Shofar |
| Ends a filibuster | Cloture |
| Olympic committee is in this country | Switzerland |
| Cousin of Frederick the Great; Was King of England | George III |
| Describes the relationship between angles of incidence and refraction | Snell's Law (of Optics or of Refraction) |
| Last King of Lydia who was defeated by Cyrus | Cresus |
| Named for a village where the artists gathered in France; during the Realism movement | Barbizon School |
| WWI raids that the legality of citizenship of radical leftists | Palmer Raids |
| lies almost completely within the lithosphere, separates the crust from the mantle | Moho (Mohorovičić discontinuity) |
| Friday is named for this god; Mother of Balder, Bragi, Hodur, Hermod, Thor, Tyr, and Hodur; spun the thread of life | Frigga |
| Like water color, but heavier | Guasch |
| Superconductivity effect that is defined as the expulsion of magnetic fields from a superconductor | Meissner Effect |
| French King, ruled from 1715-1774; Took throne at the age of 5 | Louis XV |
| A person who seeks to expose or reveal corruption of a business or government | Muckrakers |
| Was a model for the League of Nations and UN; Headed by Austrian statesman Metternich; Redrew map of Europe | Congress of Vienna |
| 4 time governor of Alabama; ran for president 4 times; Pro-segregation | George Wallace |
| Author of Walden Two | Skinner |
| Guard room at Fort William that held British POWs and 123 of 146 prisoners died | Black Hole of Calcutta |
| the "father of numbers" and first person to call him self a philosopher (lover of wisdom) | Pythagoras |
| Greek historian; noteed as the "father of history"; wrote "The Histories" | Herodotus |
| A transition from a solid to gas phase with no intermediate liquid phase | Sublimation |
| Prussian mathematician; Wrote a letter to Euler stating that every number > 2 is the sum of 2 primes | Christian Goldbach |
| "first citizen of Athens"; ruled Athens during the Golden Age; started the Acropolis project | Pericles |
| called the "smoking bay" | Reykjavik |
| Headed the De Beers diamond monopoly in Africa | Cecil Rhodes (hence the name Rhodesia) |
| known as the "father of history" | Herodotus |
| Point (temperature and pressure) at which 3 phases of a substance are at equilibrium | Triple Point |
| Known as vitamin B1 | Thiamin |
| Egyptian God of the Sun and God of War; denoted by a falcon | Horus |
| Court painter to Napoleon | David |
| Process that is used to make ammonia | Haber Process |
| Planned plot to kill King Charles II of England and his brother James, Duke of York | Rye House Plot |
| Ugandan dictator from 1971-1979 | Idi Amin |
| increases blood sugar level; opposite of insulin | Glucagon |
| Naturally occurring hormone produced by the adrenal cortex and is release in times of stress | Cortisol |
| produced in the pineal gland; regulates the circadian cycle and is only produced in darkness | Melatonin |
| Stimulates the maturation of egg cells in the ovary and stimulates production of sperm | Follicle-Stimulating Hormone (FSH) |
| Found as nodules in chalk or limestone; used to spark | Flint |
| means "somewhere else" in Latin | Alibi |
| cloud that reside at 23,000 ft; made of ice crystals and appear wispy | Cirrus clouds |
| Clouds that can form supercells | Cumulonimbus |
| Clouds that are layered and indicative of rain | nimbostratus |
| Artificial cirrus clouds left by aircraft exhausts | Contrails |
| a solid formed during a chemical reaction | Precipitate |
| First laws to codify Athens; Extremely harsh | Draconian Laws |
| signed the Compromise of 1850 | Filmore |
| Signed Missouri compromise | Monroe |
| Signed Kansas-Nebraska Act | Pierce |
| Signed Homestead Act | Lincoln |
| A liquid within a gas (hairspray) | Aerosol |
| A gas in a liquid (whipped cream) | Foam |
| A liquid in a solid (butter) | Gel |
| A liquid in another liquid | Emulsion |
| won 1945 Pulitzer Prize for photographs on Iwo Jima | Joe Rosenthal |
| Discovered by Sir William Crookes in 1879; called it "radiant matter" | Plasma |
| Chinese-born American architect; designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bank of China Tower, the John Hancock Tower, and the pyramids of the Louvre | I.M. Pei |
| marked the start of Nero's reign | the Great Fire of Rome |
| Biblical man who lived 969 years | Methuselah |
| hung on November 11, 1831, led a group of slaves and killed 55 people | Nat Turner |
| Wrote the novel Contact; hosted a TV series called Cosmos: A Personal Voyage; | Carl Sagan |
| Ran for a third term as President under the "Bull Moose" ticket | Teddy Roosevelt |
| Its models were Nan (the artist's sister) and Byron McKeeby (local dentist) | American Gothic (by Wood) |
| Political party whose 2004 Presidential candidate was Michael Badnarik and have a 15-point platform | Libertarian Party |
| This country was headed by Mugabe and declared independence from Great Britain in 1965 | Zimbabwe |
| Thor's hammer | Mjolnir |
| The heaviest naturally occurring element | Uranium (atomic number 92) |
| Prison that was build in 1383 in the Hundred Years' War | Bastille |
| 18887 experiment that disproved luminiferious ether | Michelson-Morley Experiment |
| Psychological experiment that revealed people would submit to authority, pushing and electric shock button if told to | Milgram Experiment |
| President after Garfield was shot on July 2, 1881 | Arthur |
| Athenian philosopher who made a virtue out of poverty; wandered the streets with a lamp looking for an honest man | Diogenes |
| Set up a 13-member Committee of the States | Articles of Confederation |
| Last Whig President | Filmore |
| Capital of Wales | Cardiff |
| The only crusade that didn't attack any Muslim cities, instead hit Constantinople | Fourth Crusade |
| Tallest monument in the world; Designed by Eero Sarinin | Gateway Arch |
| These are the 2 houses of British Parliament | House of Commons and the House of Lords |
| Parliament of Israel | Knesset |
| Parliament of Japan | Diet |
| Type of neutron star that is very dense and very magnetic that rotates and emits a electromagnetic beam at a certain interval | Pulsars |
| Amendment that gives 18 yr olds the right to vote | 26th Amendment |
| Compounds with single unpaired electrons; dissociated by light in the air | Free Radicals |
| British PM from 1902-1905; Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919; namesake declaration about making Palestine a Jewish state | Balfour |
| Arose from the European Coal and Steel Community | the EU |
| Indian God; Father of Ganesh; destroyer of Trimurti | Shiva |
| The only spin-0 particle in the Standard Model; could explain difference between weak nuclear and electromagnetic forces; would explain why some matter has mass | Higgs boson |
| Nuclear proteins that serve as beads for DNA to wrap around | Histones |
| Carol Bartz heads this company | Yahoo |
| Only holocaust survivor to serve in Congress | Tom Lantos |
| 1814 battle that is also called the Battle of Plattsburgh | Battle of Lake Champlain |
| His famous speeches include "Message to the Grassroots" and "Ballot or the Bullet" | Malcom X |
| Finest classical Greek sculpture; famous for Zeus at Olympia | Phidias |
| Defined as the tendency of an atom to attract electrons in a bond; measured on the Millikan or Pauling scales | Electronegativity |
| Largest hydroelectric plant in the US | Grand Coulee Dam |
| Reservoir of Grand Coulee Dam | FDR Lake |
| Largest US reservoir; belongs to the Hoover Dam; Valley of Fire park is along its shores | Lake Mead |
| 1690 battle between the catholic King James and the Protestant King William; named for a river the battle was fought on | Battle of the Boyne |
| Low mass stars (no more than 40% of the Sun's mass); slowly fuse hydrogen and can live for 100 billion years; only about 10% of the sun's luminosity | Red Dwarves |
| The hottest layer of the sun; the plasmic "atmosphere"; 1 to 3 million K hot | Corona |
| the point and line at which all points on a parabola are equidistant | Focus and Directrix |
| King of the Geats; fights Grendel | Beowulf |
| Has 2 sisters--Stheno and Euryale and was raped by Poseidon | Medusa |
| Replaced Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve | Ben Bernanke |
| Fear of heights | Acrophobia |
| Fear of the number 13 | Triskaidekaphobia |
| Fear of birds | Orinthophobia |
| 1st US president to have never held an elected office; did in 1850 and was replaced by VP John Tyler | Zachary Taylor |
| Greek for "without pain"; mild forms include aspirin and ibuprofen | Analgesic |
| H2O2 | Hydrogen Peroxide |
| Royal Navy ship mutiny; William Blight was commander (he eventually made it to Australia and was a Governor of New South Wales and sparked the 1808 Rum Rebellion--only successful armed rebellion in Australian history) | HMAV Bounty |
| First American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature | Sinclair Lewis |
| Theoretical particle that travels faster than the speed of light | Tachyons |
| Defined as various forms of one element | Allotropes |
| Has white and red allotropes | Phosphorus |
| Wrote "The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides |
| Also known as the citric acid cycle | Krebs Cycle |
| Man who shot MLK Jr. | James Earl Ray |
| A toxic substance made by a fungus | Mycotoxins |
| Roman Emperor that built a wall across England to keep barbarian Scots out; ruled from AD 117-138 and was known as one of the "Five Good Emperors" | Hadrian |
| Lost 1996 Presidential election to Bill Clinton | Bob Dole |
| Cells that HIV attacks | CD4+ Helper T cells |
| H2SO4 | Sulfuric Acid |
| Refused to sign the Constitution due to a lack of a Bill of Rights; Drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights which led to the Bill of Rights | George Mason |
| Johnston Stoney predicted their existence in 1874, but Thomson didn't discover them until 1897 | Electrons |
| This "army" was led by Walter Waters and was stopped by Douglas MacArthur | Bonus Army |
| Was Jimmy Carter's VP | Walter Mondale |
| The 2 departments created by Carter | Department of Energy and Department of Education |
| Was discovered by Ponce de Leon; keeps Norway's ports ice-free | Gulf Stream or North Atlantic Drift |
| Shinto personified deities; Hirohito claimed he was one and had to denounce such claims after the nuclear bombings | Kami |
| Proposed the Connecticut Compromise | Roger Sherman |
| President of Pakistan from 2001-2008 | Musharraf |
| Freud described this as a mixture of a father figure and cultural morals | Superego |
| Proposed the existence of the neutrino and proved fermions have 1/2 integer spin | Pauli |
| Also known as the Law of Segregation | Mendel's first law |
| Ohio river that caught fire in 1969; once known as the most polluted river in the US and is described as "oozes rather than flows" | Cuyahoga River |
| Ruled England from 1837-1901 and was the last Hanover British monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Known as base 60; used by the Babylonians | Sexigesimal |
| Has the smallest US coastline and contains the Merrimack River | New Hampshire |
| Any one-celled organism which moves via pseudo pods | Amoeba |
| 1854 plan to buy or conquer Cuba from Spain; written by John Mason and James Buchanan | Ostend Manifesto |
| Claimants to, but not recognized as the head of the Roman Catholic Church | Antipopes |
| Cathedral that was redesigned after the Great Fire of London | St. Paul's Cathedral |
| The world's largest cave; lies in Kentucky | Mammoth Cave |
| Last Communist leader of Romania; executed in 1989 | Nicolae Ceausescu |
| Was the last king of independent Scotland; King of England from 1603-1625; Took throne of Scotland when he was just 13 months old | James IV of Scotland of James I of England |
| Author of Far From the Madding Crowd | Hardy |
| Device used to measure wind speed | Anemometer |
| artist who painted The School of Athens | Raphael |
| novel by Herman Wouk which features Captain Queeg | The Caine Mutiny |
| most common name for the North Star | Sirius |
| Name of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic | Hispaniola |
| Founder of the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| Supreme Court case that said a woman had a constitutional right to an abortion because it violated a woman's right to privacy | Roe v. Wade |
| French queen known as "Madame Deficit" | Marie Antoinette |
| first ever US Poet Laureate | Warren |
| the right to vote | suffrage |
| Second largest desert in the world | Arabian Desert |
| place where the temple of Zeus was constructed | Olympia, Greece |
| last King of England | William III |
| Roman God of Fire | Vulcan |
| element with symbol "Pa" | Protactinium |
| Author of Pilgrim's Progress | Bunyan |
| American playwright who wrote Barefoot in the Park, Lost in Yonkers, and The Odd Couple | Neil Simon |
| composer of the opera The Pearl Fishers | Bizet |
| Crowned Napoleon Emperor in 1804 | Pope Pius VII |
| Poet who wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn | Yeats |
| Main hormone produced in the adrenal glands | Cortisol |
| First Prime Minister of India | Nehru |
| First female Prime Minister of India | Indira Ghandi |
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