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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What short story, written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, published in 1892, depicts a young wife who has to be confined to a bed in a room decorated with an intricate albeit ugly yellow wallpaper that the narrator fixates on to the point of in coherency? | The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Jim and Will are the two adolescent main characters in the novel published in 1962. This story focuses on a de-aging carousel, ran by Mr. Dark, who is taken down with a bullet engraved with a smile in which novel by Ray Bradbury? | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
| What is the heart of a computer, which performs all of the binary operations responsible for a computer’s general functions and issues commands to the rest of the hardware. | CPU (Central Processing Unit) |
| A typical one of these's chipset manages the communication between a computer's components, which occurs via the motherboard's integrated circuits. What is a large printed circuit board connecting all of the main components of a computer called? | the motherboard |
| One of these generally stores information based on whether capacitors are charged or uncharged and is volatile memory (it deletes when shut off) What is a form of memory used to store data a computer expects to need within a short amount of time? | RAM (Random access memory) |
| For this component, data is magnetically written onto a number of fast-spinning metal plates or disks. What are these non-volatile devices for storing data? | Hard drives (HDDs) |
| What are non-volatile devices that store data on flash memory, which utilizes transistors? | Solid state drives (SSDs) |
| This musician often collaborated with arranger Billy Strayhorn, and his work as a composer extended beyond his own concert works. What jazz` pianist and bandleader wrote the score for the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder? | Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington |
| This jazz musician was a part of the first jazz band to perform at Carnegie Hall, and commissioned Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto. Who was the clarinetist nicknamed “King of Swing”? | Benny Goodman |
| This jazz musician's major album included Giant Steps, which introduced the chords known as Coltrane changes and became known for playing "sheets of sound". Who was the saxophonist who was an influential figure in hard bop and model jazz? | John Coltrane |
| This jazz trumpeter influenced the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, hard bop, electronic jazz, and jazz fusion. Who was the musician who recorded Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, and Birth of the Cool? | Miles Davis |
| The story is epistolary and popularized almost all recognizable modern vampire tropes, such as sleeping in a coffin of dirt, a lack of reflection, and needing an invitation to cross a threshold. Which novel which was published in 1897? | Dracula by Bram Stroker |
| This computer component supplies power to all other components of a computer by converting the alternating current from an outlet into direct current. | Power supply unit (PSU) |
| This component is a connection standard used for computer hardware. It operates on a number of lanes for transmitting data, from one to 16; most modern GPU slots utilize a 16-lane connection. | Peripheral Component Interface Express (PCIe) |
| This performs a computer’s POST (power on self test) ensuring all hardware components are functioning, and manages the boot order. What is the first piece of software that runs upon powering on a computer? | BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) or UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) |
| Writer of The Waste Land, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,""The Hollow Men”, “Ash Wednesday”, and Four Quartets. This modernist author’s work Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was adapted into the musical Cats. | T.S. Eliot |
| This author committed suicide by drowning in the River Ouse at the age of 59, wrote the essay, “A Room of One’s Own” and the novels “Mrs. Dalloway” and “Orlando”. Who was the author who honed the use of stream-of-consciousness as a literary technique? | Virginia Woolf |
| Known for eschewing standard grammar in his poetry, this author was often inspired by his past as an ambulance driver in World War I. He is known for “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, “i sing of Olad glad and big”, and his novel The Enormous Room. | E. E. Cummings |
| Renowned cornet and trumpet player, this musician was named “Satchmo” and “Pops”, and is among the best-known performers of the Dixieland style of jazz. He played in the “Hot Five” and recorded songs like “What a Wonderful World” and “Hello, Dolly!” | Louis Armstrong |
| This baroque painter was known for biblical and mythical scenes, as well as many self-portraits. Her most notable works include her depictions of Judith Slaying Holofernes, which is extremely graphic for its time. | Artemisia Gentileschi |
| This Italian painter developed a style of painting involving chiaroscuro or tenebrism. He painted The Calling of Saint Matthew and Amor Vincit Omnia. Who was the baroque painter who was forced to flee Rome after being sentenced to death for murder? | Caravaggio |
| This Flemish painter was appointed the court painter to Charles I of England, who painted many portraits of English nobility and court figures. Who painted Charles I at the Hunt, The Lomnelli Family, and Self Portrait with a Sunflower? | Anthony van Dyck |
| This painter only has 34 recognized works that have survived to this day. Rumored to have used a camera obscura to assist in painting, this man painted Girl with a Pearl Earring, inspired by a novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier and The Music Lesson | Johannes Vermeer |
| This molecular machine catalyzes the formation of a molecule of ATP from adenosine triphosphate and inorganic phosphate. It is “powered” by a gradient of protons across the inner mitochondrial membrane or thylakoid membrane. | ATP synthase |
| This complex enzyme adds a repeat sequence called a telomere to the end of chromosomes and contains a subunit called TERT, a reverse transcriptase enzyme that carries its own RNA molecule, | Telomerase |
| This Anglo-Saxon King expelled the rival Danes from the Mercian town of London in 886, and eventually conquered most of the Danelaw territory. Who also kept England from the worst of the Dark Ages by encouraging his bishops to foster literacy? | Alfred the Great, Saxon House |
| Nicknamed “the Conqueror”, this man was the first Norman king of England, who authorized a survey of his kingdom in the 1086 Domesday Book and replaced Anglo-Saxon nobles and clergy with Normans and other continentals. | William I (the Conqueror) |
| While king, this man developed the common law and due process and was from the House of Plantagenet. His wife and sons conspired against him with French king Phillip II. This king often fought with Thomas a Becket over submission to the Pope. | Henry II. |
| Who was the third son of Henry II, who only spent 5 months of his reign in England. He went on the Third Crusade to Jerusalem, but on his way back was captured by Leopold V, Duke of Austria. He fought Philip II in Normandy; he died in Aquitaine | Richard I |
| Excommunicated by the Pope for four years for refusing to accept Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury, this king was weak as a fighter. A year later, England’s barons forced him to sign the Magna Carta at Runnymede. | John Lackland |
| This king brought England into both the Renaissance and the Reformation. Originally a supporter of the Catholic Church, he named himself head of the Church of England in 1533 so that he could annul a marriage. He was infamous for his six wives | Henry VIII |
| Known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married, the throne was passed to her cousin James VI instead of an heir. Her reign saw great expansion of the English navy and the emergence of William Shakespeare, and declared England a Protestant state. | Elizabeth I |
| This king conflicted with Parliament often throughout his reign. He was forced to sign the Petition of Right, but tried to rule England without Parliament from 1629 to 1640. Charles and the Long Parliament bickered over a variety of issues. | Charles I |
| King who succeeded the throne from his mother Mary, a believer in absolutism who dissolved Parliament from 1611 to 1621. He saw English expansion into North America, through royal charter in Virginia and Puritan protest in Massachusetts. | James I |
| King nicknamed "Merry Monarch", crowned King of Scotland in 1651. This king used the Declaration of Breda to restore himself to the English throne. Had 14 illegitimate children but no legitimate heirs. | Charles II |
| King during the American Revolution. While Britain’s economic empire expanded during his reign, this king suffered from porphyria, causing the “madness” that ultimately led to the Regency period. | George III |
| This queen was the second-longest-reigning monarch in British history (after Elizabeth II). After Albert (her husband)’s death in 1861, she largely went into seclusion, though she influenced the passage of the Reform Act of 1867. | Victoria |
| She superseded Victoria as the longest-reigning British monarch, ruling for 70 years and seeing the turn of the century and millenia before dying in 2022 and giving the throne to her son Charles III. | Elizabeth II |
| Play by Thornton Wilder. Takes place in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. Divided into three acts where a stage manager talks to the audience and serves as a narrator throughout the drama, which is performed on a bare stage. | Our Town |
| An autobiographical account on the dysfunction of Eugene O’Neill’s family. O’Neill wrote it with specific instructions that it not get published until 25 years after his death, yet it was published only three years after. | Long Day’s Journey Into Night |
| Unlike what the title says, Virginia Woolf has little to do with this play, besides short dialogue spoken about her in Act One. The plot revolves around two unhappy couples and what occurs when they’re all resentful and drunk. Written by Edmund Albee. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Play by Tennessee Williams about harsh reality vs romantic illusion. Blanche and Stanley clash horribly; he reveals to Mitch Blanche’s past, shattering her delicate fantasies, leading to her mental breakdown. Marlon Brando stars in the film adaptation. | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| play by Lorraine Hansberry about a court fight against racist housing laws. First play by an African-American woman to be performed on Broadway. The title comes from the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem". | A Raisin in the Sun |
| play by Arthur Miller in which the Salem witch trials play a part but aren’t the main plot. The play is an allegorical protest against the McCarthy anti-Communist “witch-hunts” of the early 1950s. | The Crucible |
| play by Arthur Miller that questions American values of success, in which a failed salesman tries to ensure his sons are happy, but after getting caught in an affair, decides his suicide will benefit them most. | Death of a Salesman |
| This play is really a trilogy by Eugene O’Neill in which he used The Oresteia as the basis for the plot. This play features much death, ultimately leaving Lavinia by herself with her father, mother, brother, and lover dead. | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| A drama narrated by Tom Wingfield, in which his crippled sister Laura escapes reality via her glass animals. This play by Tennessee Williams (and based on his family) sees lots of internal conflict as each character longs for different circumstances. | The Glass Menagerie |
| This play by Eugene O’Neill focuses on the drunken dreams of the patrons found in Harry Hope’s saloon. A sober Theodore "Hickey" Hickman returns to the saloon and implores the patrons to give up their “pipe dreams” and instead live productive lives. | The Iceman Cometh |
| Play by Tennesse Williams about brothers fighting for the inheritance of their dying father, suffering from cancer. Maggie and Brick have marital issues, yet Maggie falsely tells Big Daddy she’s pregnant in attempts to win the inheritance. | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof |
| Set on a plantation in 1900, the playwright Lillian Hellman attempts to show how modern capitalism and industrialism corrupts through the story of Regina and her two brothers and their scheme to earn riches at the expense of their family in this play. | The Little Foxes |
| Military officer during the Revolutionary War, famous for being a betrayer. He made overtures to the British, planning to betray his command of West Point. He almost resigned many times but Washington convinced him otherwise. | Benedict Arnold |
| Known as “Gentleman Johnny,” this British army officer served in the Revolutionary War before being paroled on the condition he return to England. He was later appointed commander-in-chief of Ireland. | John Burgoyne |
| American army officer who organized the army around Boston into an effective force before being promoted to major general in 1776. He lost the battle of Camden to Cornwallis, and was replaced by Nathanael Greene. Held the position of Washinton'sdeputy. | Horatio Gates |
| Irish-born officer who became governor of Quebec in 1768. Sent back to Europe in June 1778, Carleton sat out all but the end of the war, returning in 1782 as commander-in-chief after Cornwallis’ surrender. | Sir Guy Carleton |
| He was a prominent Rhode Island politician prior to the American revolution. Following his work in the siege of Boston, he marched his army to Long Island, where they aided in the battles around New York. | Nathanael Greene |
| This officer succeeded Gage as commander, and coordinated a strategic retreat from Boston to Halifax. After his attempts to secure a peace in 1777 failed, he led the attack on Philadelphia, defeating Washington at Brandywine. | Sir William Howe |
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