Question 1

This character orders actors to perform The Murder of Gonzago a play-within-a-play in order to prove his uncle's guilt. This character mistakenly stabs Polonius through a curtain believing him to be

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Prince Hamlet

Question 2

Foreigners living in this polity without citizenship rights were known as metics.

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Athens

Question 3

This planet's surface has circular indentations with flat bottoms known as pancake domes. The highest peak on this planet Maxwell Montes is located on its continent of Ishtar Terra. High levels of carbon dioxide in this planet's atmosphere have led to a

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Venus

Question 4

This country is home to the largest lake in the world formed from a volcano - Lake Toba. One island of this country is home to its namesake lizard the largest in the world the Komodo dragon. This country that contains the islands of

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Indonesia

Question 5

During this battle Ambrose Burnside captured a bridge spanning this battle's namesake creek. A lost copy of Special Order 191 helped George McClellan win this battle. The carnage during this conflict earned a sunken road the moniker

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Antietam

Question 6

This poet described a creature that liked A Floor too cool for Corn in one poem. This poet of A narrow fellow in the Grass exclaimed I shall but drink the more! in the poem

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Dickinson

Question 7

In one of this artist's satirical works three women stand in front of Emmanuel Leutze's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. This artist of Daughters of Revolution painted a background of spherical trees in a depiction of a young

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Wood

Question 8

This deity and his followers carried a pine-cone-tipped staff that dripped honey known as a thyrsus. The maenads this god's wild female devotees consumed raw meat and in one story tore Pentheus apart. In another story this deity turned a group of

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Dionysus

Question 9

This man denounced atheists in A Letter Concerning Toleration. He authored a work asserting that humans are born with no innate ideas a concept he referred to as

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John Locke

Question 10

Her spymaster was Sir Francis Walsingham

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Elizabeth I

Question 11

This organ is connected to the abdominal wall by the falciform ligament. Kupffer cells aid in the destruction of toxins that enter this organ which blood enters via the portal vein. This organ which is split into four

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Liver

Question 12

The German word for this type of work is Märchen. In one of these works a woman nearly marries a mole but decides not to because she is afraid of living underground. That work is Thumbelina. In another of these works two

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Fairy Tales

Question 13

This structure was built to counteract one country's loss of educated people known as Brain Drain. The bricklayer Peter Fechter was killed at this structure's death strip. The most well-known crossing point on this structure was

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Berlin Wall

Question 14

The Pound-Rebka experiment showed that light could be Doppler-shifted by this phenomenon. A constant named for this phenomenon was first measured by Henry Cavendish using a torsion balance. In Einstein's theory of

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Gravity

Question 15

In this book a man who wrestles an angel dreams of a ladder that extends to heaven. In this book the sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed. To survive a flood a father in this book constructs a

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Genesis

Question 16

In 1905 this river was accidentally diverted into the Coachella Valley

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Colorado

Question 17

In one novel written in this language a ballet expert falls in love with a woman he first sees in the reflection of a train window. That work is Snow Country. Many poems written in this language were collected in the travelog

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Japanese

Question 18

One war during this man's presidency began after his diplomats refused to accept bribery demands from Charles Talleyrand in the XYZ Affair. This president more than doubled the time required to become an American citizen in one of his

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John Adams

Question 19

A woman in this play is criticized by her boyfriend Joseph Asagai for straightening her hair which he believes is mutilation. In this play Willy runs off with another character's life insurance money to purchase a liquor store. This play centers on

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A Raisin in the Sun

Question 20

A solid structure with this name that is a part of a comet is likened to a dirty snowball. The discovery of another structure of this name discredited the plum pudding model. That structure with this name was discovered by

Accepted Answer

Nucleus

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