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Quintuples
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The five parts of T. S. Eliot’s 1922 masterpiece The Waste Land | “The Burial of the Dead,” “A Game of Chess,” “The Fire Sermon,” “Death By Water,” and “What the Thunder Said” |
| The five stages of the biological process mitosis | Interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase |
| The five original winners of Nobel Prizes in 1901 | Wilhelm Röntgen, Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Emil Adolf von Behring, Sully Prudhomme, and Henri Dunant/Frédéric Passy |
| The five nationalist Russian composers known as "The Mighty Handful" or "The Five" | Modest Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov |
| The codenames for the five beaches attacked on D-Day (Operation Overlord) | Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and Omaha |
| The five classical "orders of architecture" (styles of columns) | Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite |
| The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936 | Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson |
| The first five spectral line series for hydrogen | Lyman, Balmer, Paschen, Brackett, and Pfund series |
| The five regular polyhedra (Platonic Solids) | Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron |
| The five fundamental tenets of Islamic religious life (Pillars of Islam) | Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, and Hajj |
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