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Basics 50
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Things Fall Apart Author | Chinua Achebe |
| Jewish Holiday Day of Atonement | Yom Kippur |
| Author of Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes |
| Author of The Republic | Plato |
| Author of Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill |
| Author/Philosopher of The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| Author of The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Author of The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx |
| Philosopher of Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | William James |
| Economist:The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith |
| Physicist: Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Isaac Newton |
| Philosopher: Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant |
| Philosophy/Author: Walden | Henry David Thoreau |
| Economist: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | John Maynard Keynes |
| Philosopher: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | John Locke |
| Political Figure/Author: Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
| Anthropologist: Coming of Age in Samoa | Margaret Mead |
| Biologist: On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Sociologist: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber |
| Speech: Cross of Gold Speech | William Jennings Bryan |
| Autobiography of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou |
| Sociologist: Suicide | Emile Durkheim |
| Advocate/Environmentalist: Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| Essayist: A Modest Proposal | Johnathan Swift |
| Reference work creator: A Dictionary of the English Language | Samuel Johnson |
| Autobiography: Confessions | Saint Augustine of Hippo |
| Author: In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Philosophy: Beyond Good and Evil | Freidrich Nietzsche |
| Mathematician known for The Elements, a 2000 year old textbook on geometry and number theory. | Euclid |
| Mathematician/Scientist from Syracuse known for measuring volume using water displacement and shouting EUREKA | Archimedes |
| German mathematician who names the normal distribution (bell curve) and namesake of two of Maxwell's four equations | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| French mathematician known for his Little and Last theorem (this was proven by Andrew Wiles) His LAST theorem: no integers n greater than 2 which satisfies the equation a to the n plus b to the n equals c to the n | Pierre de Fermat |
| 8th century Swiss mathematician, who named the base of the natural logarithm e. | Leonhard Euler |
| First Norman king of England. Defeated Harold Godwinson in 1066 Battle of Hastings. Commissioned the Doomsday Book and Tower of London | William the Conqueror or William I |
| British monarch that made peace with Saladin during Third Crusade, which allowed Christians access to Jerusalem. Known for his bravery. | Richard I (the Lionhearted) |
| House of Tudor Virgin Queen who defeated the Spanish Armada and delivered the Tilbury Speech | Elizabeth I |
| Longstanding Queen of England (for most of 1800s), only Empress of India. Her husband was Prince Albert | Victoria |
| Creator of Aida (Opera) about an Ethiopian Princess | Giuseppe Verdi |
| Creator of Carmen (Opera) follows the seduction of Don Jose by a Gypsy Woman. Habanera is a common clue. | Georges Bizet |
| Creator of The Barber of Seville (Opera) Figaro helps Count Almaviva win the hand of Rosina | Rossini |
| Creator of The Marriage of Figaro (Opera) many of same characters as Rossini's The Barber of Seville and it is basically the sequel | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Creator of William Tell (Opera) about a Swiss hero who shoots an apple off his son’s head | Rossini |
| Creator of Don Giovanni (Opera) about a Spanish seducer/womanizer who is dragged down to hell | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Creator of La bohème (Opera) about poor quarter of Paris. Mimi dies of Tuberculosis | Puccini |
| Creator of Madama Butterfly (Opera) about a Japanese woman named Cio-Cio San. Spoiler alert: she kills herself at end (btw, readers will probably mispronounce her name but it should be pronounced "cho-cho" but they typically say "see-o see-o") | Puccini |
| Creator of Boris Godunov (Opera) about the ill-fated successor Tsar to Ivan the Terrible during the Time of Troubles . He ends up giving the throne to his son. | Modest Mussorgsky |
| The only Argentina author they ever seem to ask | Jorge Luis Borges |
| The only Chilean poet they ever seem to ask | Pablo Neruda |
| Country of Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe | Nigeria |
| Country of JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Athol Fugard, and Alan Paton | South Africa |
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