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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Russian author of Crime and Punishment | Dostoyevsky |
| Author of Dead Souls and The Overwatch | Gogol |
| Jewish-American author of Portnoy's Complaint, American Pastoral, and "Goodbye, Columbus" | Philip Milton Roth |
| Director of "The Shining" and "2001:A Space Odyssey" | Kubrick |
| Philosopher who wrote Being and Time | Heidegger |
| German-American female philosopher and political theorist, many books about totalitarianism | Arendt |
| Hierarchy of needs (psychologist) | Maslow |
| Name of process using chlorine to purify gold | The Miller Process |
| Wrote the poem Prussian Nights. A novel called August 1914 begins his novel cycle The Red Wheel Author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago | Solzhenitsyn |
| Russian composer of In the Steppes of Central Asia and the “Polovtsian Dances” found in Prince Igor | Borodin |
| Name this American author, famous for his twist endings and clever irony, who penned "The Gift of the Magi". | O Henry (Porter) |
| Author of Sometimes a Great Notion. Name this leader of the Merry Pranksters, who created Nurse Ratched and R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . | Kesey |
| In one novel by this author, Nel Wright's best friend seduces her husband Jude. Also the author of Song of Solomon and Beloved | Morrison |
| This novel begins when Arkady returns to his provincial home with his nihilist friend. Name this novel about two generations of the Kirsanoff and Bazaroff families, by Ivan Turgenev. | Fathers and Sons |
| explain the behavior of aerofoils and the lift effect. Name this law about ideal fluids that relates their flow rate and the pressure they exert, named for a Swiss mathematician. | Bernoulli effect |
| One character in this novel visits the French psychic Landau on Countess Ivanova's advice. Name this novel whose title character embarks on an affair with Count Vronsky and ultimately throws herself in front of a train, written by Leo Tolstoy. | Anna Karenina |
| One male character in this novel masquerades at his own home as a gypsy before revealing himself. This novel's protagonist befriends Helen Burns at Lowood School. Name this novel in which the titular heroine marries Mr. Rochester, by Charlotte Bronte. | Jane Eyre |
| This author of “Love of Life” imagined the use of germ warfare against China in “The Unparalleled Invasion." Name this author of several nature stories and novels, like The Call of the Wild. | London |
| Name this Englishman who wrote Moll Flanders, A Journal of the Plague Year, and a tale of a man deserted on an island, Robinson Crusoe. | Daniel Defoe |
| Electrochemical equation which determines the equilibrium reduction potential of a half-cell. | Nernst equation |
| This philosopher wrote a dialogue between himself and John Locke which expounded his principle that “to be is to be perceived.” Name this Irish bishop and philosopher who wrote Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous. | Berkeley |
| Name this German philosopher and writer of The Critique of Pure Reason. | Kant |
| Wrote novel The Grass is Singing. Another of her novels is composed mostly of Anna Wulf's writings in blue, red, black, and yellow journals. Name this Rhodesian-born author of The Golden Notebook. | Lessing |
| Author of “The Storm,” name this female author,who wrote about the suicide of Edna Pontellier in The Awakening. | Chopin |
| Name this pessimistic German philosopher who wrote The World as Will and Representation. | Schopenhauer |
| The title character of this work entertains the idea of deceiving Andrew Hale into lending him money to flee his home. Name this novel about the title Massachusetts farmer by Edith Wharton. | Ethan Frome |
| name this "father of modern chemistry" who first stated the law of conservation of mass. | Lavoisier |
| Father of modern chemistry who made the modern periodic table | Mendeleev |
| discovered thorium in 1815, and, working with Johan Gahn, discovered selenium in 1817 | Berzelius |
| He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into colour blindness | Dalton |
| In this novel, the main character resolves to never be subject to a public flogging, and that character beats the Red Whiskers, turning the Red Whiskers' hate for him into love. Name this novel about a title sailor, written by Herman Melville. | Billy Budd |
| Author of The Canterbury Tales | Chaucer |
| Author of Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Author of The Divine Comedy | Alighieri |
| Author of Heart of Darkness | Conrad |
| Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude | Marquez |
| Author of Madame Bovary | Flaubert |
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