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High School Basics Q
High School Basics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1843 Pulitzer Winning Author (Dragon's Teeth) | Upton Sinclair |
| 1 The Lamb 2 Chimney Sweeper | William Blake |
| 1 Greek Orator 2 Western World's 1st Actor | Thespis |
| A Farewell to Arms | Ernest Hemmingway |
| Poe River is the major River of _______ | Italy |
| Plot: Twins Separated in youth search for each other Characters: Egeon, Anitpholous of Ephesus, Antipholous of Syracuse | Comedy of Errors |
| Plot: Two couples and their tales of marriage Characters: Don Pedro, Benedick, Don John, Beatrice | Much Ado About Nothing |
| founder of Pointillism | Seurat |
| Crime of the Century was pulled off by ______ | Bruno Hoptmen |
| What President created the Peace Corps? | John F Kennedy |
| Love's Labor's Lost | Shakespeare |
| Two main lithographers | Courier and Ives |
| Oh Captain, My Captain | Walt Whitman |
| Tube of the outer ear | Eustachian Tube |
| (1603-1625) Targeted by Guy Fawkes Dissolved Parliament for a while After Elizabeth I | James I |
| Characters: Silly and Netty | The Color Purple |
| Translates to Reckoning with pebbles | Calculus |
| Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Peace | Lioness Pauling |
| 3 Sisters | Anton Chekov |
| Gave US land from Spain | Adams-Onis Treaty |
| Last Shi-a Caliph | Ali |
| "The School for Scandal" Character: Lady Sneerwell | Richard Sheridan |
| Humboldt's Gift | Saul Bellow |
| Music: Porgy and Bess | George Gershwin |
| Tess of the D'Ubervilles | Thomas Hardy |
| Creator of Logarithms | Napier |
| Music: Go Tell it on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| Painting: The Lookout | Winslow Homer |
| The Art of Writing | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammet |
| Music: Symphony no1 - Titan | Gustav Mahler |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Prometheus Unbound | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Plot: Money-lender demans a pound of flesh Characters: Anotonio, Bassanio, Shylock, Portio | Merchant of Venice |
| "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" | Gertrude Stein |
| Look Homeward Angel | Thomas Wolfe |
| 1 "Slaughterhouse Five" 2 "Cat's Cradle" | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Liberty Leading the People | Eugene De La Crow |
| 1 acted in most of Shakespeare's originals 2 owned the globe theatre | Burbage |
| Cairo Trilogy | Mafuze |
| Jaws | Peter Benchley |
| Christina's World | Wyeth |
| Opera: Norma | Balini |
| Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery |
| A Night to Remember | Walter Lord |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton |
| Music: Pomp and Circumstance | Sir Edward William Elgar |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe |
| A Doll's House Plot: Norma would rather die than stay with her husband | Henrik Ibsen |
| Blue Bird | Meterling |
| Hansel and Gretel | Humperdink |
| Music: Carmen | George Bizet |
| Daisy Miller | Henry James |
| The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Howard Pyle |
| Ulysses | James Joyce |
| Iran religious reformer | Io-toe-la Ko-man-ee |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James |
| The Phantom of the Opera (Book) | Gaston Leroux |
| The Phantom of the Opera (Play) | Andrew Lloyd Weber |
| Salammbo | Gustave Flaubert |
| Nature | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
| Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte |
| Music: Opera: The Magic Flute | WA Mozart |
| The Foundation Series | Isaac Asimov |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair |
| Painting: Christ Healing the Sick | Rembrandt |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Borroughs |
| White Fang | Jack London |
| Music: The Marriage of Figaro | WA Mozart |
| The Great Divide | Moody |
| 1 The Plague 2 The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| Painting: Tribute Money | Masaccio |
| Art: Mobiles in general | Calder |
| James Joyce (3 Novels) | 1 Ulysses 2 Finnegan’s Wake 3 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| 1 The Judgment 2 The Castle | Franz Kafka |
| Novel by Katherine Mansfield | Bliss |
| Treaty between Great Britain and China (Returned Hong Kong) | Treaty of Nanking |
| 1 Roman Philosopher – Tutored Nero 2 Play: Thyestes 3 Revenge Tragedies | Seneca |
| The Contrast | Royale Tyler |
| Invictus | William Ernest Henley |
| (871-899) Anglo-Saxon Leader | Alfred the Great |
| Peter and the Wolf | Sergei Prokofiev |
| “I am in earnest – I will not equivocate” Talking on slavery in “The Liberator” | William Lloyd Garrison |
| City McKinley was shot in | Buffalo, NY |
| Young Good Man Brown | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| (Russian) Abstract Creator | Candinsky |
| 1 Danish religious philosopher 2 Either/ Or Philosophical Fragments | Soren Kierkegaard |
| Painting: Portrait of Oscar Wilde | Toulouse-Latrec |
| Poet of the Piano | Frederic Chopin |
| 1 The Fair Maiden of the Mill 2 Swan Song 3 Winter Journey | Franz Schubert |
| 1 A History of New York 2 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 3 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| Scenes of Clerical Life | George Eliot |
| Billy Bud | Herman Melville |
| (1199-1216) Forced to sign Magna Karta Weak Fighter | John Lockland |
| Great Mayan city in Guatemala is ___________ | Tical |
| 1 Led the Celtic Renaissance 2 The Wanderings of Oisin 3 The Wild Swans at Code | William Butler Yeats |
| The Tale of Genji | Shikatu |
| Music: 1812 Overture | Tchaikovsky |
| A Thief in the Night | EW Hornung |
| Painting: Venus of Urbino | Titian |
| Sculpture: Liberty Enlightening the World | Bartholdi |
| Sculpture: Bird in Space | Brancusi |
| 1 The Jungle Book 2 Kim | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Music: I got Rhythm | Georges Gershwin |
| Broadway Musical (Features “One” and “What I did for love”) | A Chorus Line |
| TS Eliot dedicated “Wasteland” to __________ (wrote “Cantos”) | Ezra Pound |
| 1 Eve of St Agnes 2 Ode on a Grecian Urn 3 Ode to a Nightingale | John Keats |
| “Big enough stick I could raise the world” | Archimedes |
| The Scream | Edvard Munch |
| Novel where moral is “Be True! Be True! Show freely to the world” | The Scarlet Letter |
| First Modern Operas writer (L’Orpheio) | Claudio Monteverdi |
| Code name for invasion of Normandy | Operation Overlord |
| The Ethics | Spinoza |
| First Black Senator | Hiram Revels |
| Music: The Planet’s Suite | Gustav Holst |
| The Big Sleep | Chandler |
| The Executioner’s Song | Norman Mailer |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert |
| A Woman of No Importance | Oscar Wilde |
| Music: Eroica (Third Symphony) | Ludwig Von Beethoven |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C Clarke |
| Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Grey |
| Music: The 8th “Unfinished” Symphony | Franz Schubert |
| Gave federal government the bank control | McCullough v Maryland |
| Painting: School of Athens | Raphael |
| Painting: Last Supper | Da Vinci |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens |
| Music: Symphony no 9: From the New World | Dvorak |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving |
| Painting: Moulin-Rouge | Toulouse-Latrec |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton |
| The Hollow Men | TS Eliot |
| Music: Aida | Giuseppe Verdi |
| On the Decay of the Art of Lying | Mark Twain |
| 1 Spotted Horses 2 Old Man 3 The Bear 4 Absalom, Absalom! | William Faulkner |
| The Deer slayer | James Fennimore Cooper |
| Apology | Plato |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Muse of History | Cleo |
| (1685 – 1688) Lost at the Battle of the Boyne Overthrown in the Glorious Revolution | James II |
| Music: Brandenburg Concerti | Bach |
| Man who Died Twice | EA Robinson |
| The Canon of Medicine | Avicenna |
| (1625-1649) 1 Last Absolute Monarch 2 Forced to sign Petition of Right 3 Executed and overtaken by Cromwell | Charles I |
| Populist Candidate for President in 1892 | James B Weaver |
| (English worked w/Coleridge) 1 Poet Lauriat 2 Tintern Abbey 3 The Prelude 4 The World is too much With Us | William Wodsworth |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot |
| Real name of George Eliot was _______ | Mary Anne Ellen |
| Play based on Pygmalion | My Fair Lady |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| The Fixer | Bernard Mallimud |
| Against gerrymandering | Baker v Carr |
| The Blue Moon | Laurence Housman |
| 1 French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, inventor 2 Made calculator 3 Should believe in God | Blaise Pascal |
| In Memorium | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| (Novel and Author) Characters: Caroline Meeber, Hurstwood, and Drouet | Sister Carrie By: Theodore Dreiser |
| “Snows of Kilamanjaro” (Based on personal experience) | Ernest Hemingway |
| Lamb to the Slaughter | Roald Dahl |
| 1 Around the world in Eighty Days 2 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne |
| Protagonist of Around the World in Eighty Days | Phileas Fogg |
| Murder in the Cathedral | TS Eliot |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman |
| Barnaby Rudge | Charles Dickens |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Music: The William tell Overture | Rossini |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 1 Paradise Lost 2 Paradise Regained | John Milton |
| Music: Petrushka | Stravinsky |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Music: Maple Leaf Rag | Scott Joplin |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo |
| Music: La Boheme | Puccini |
| Music: Hungarian Dances | Johannes Brahms |
| Cato | Joseph Addison |
| Fathers and Sons | Ivan Turgenev |
| Sculpture: The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa | Bernini |
| Argentinean Author | Hor-he Louis Borhas |
| Kane Mutiny | Herman Wok |
| First English poet put in Westminster Abbey | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Current English Queen | Elizabeth II |
| Winner of Battle of New Orleans | Farragut |
| Two Years Before the Mast | Richard Henry Dana Jr |
| The Chrysanthemums | John Steinbeck |
| Music: Midsummer Night’s Dream | Mendelssohn |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker |
| Essays and Lectures | Oscar Wilde |
| Night | Elie Wiesel |
| The Adventures of Augie March | Saul Bellow |
| Dead Men Tell No Tales | EW Hornung |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller |
| Orlando | Virginia Woolf |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath |
| Stuart Little | EB White |
| Pandora | Henry James |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe |
| Herzog | Saul Bellow |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fennimore Cooper |
| Painting: 1 Guernica 2 Three Musicians | Pablo Picasso |
| Two founders of Cubism | Picasso and Braque |
| Music: A German Requiem | Johannes Brahms |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey |
| A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Painting: Wheatfield with Crows | Vincent Van Gogh |
| Painting: All’s Well | Winslow Homer |
| Play: A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra | Benjamin Britten |
| 1 First major English novelist 2 Three Epistolary novels | Samuel Richardson |
| 1 Czech playwright 2 Created the word “robot” | Kapek |
| Accidental Tourist | Anne Tyler |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte |
| Prominent character of “Wuthering Heights” | Heathcliff |
| The New Criticism | Ranzon |
| Ruled against Lincoln for violating Habeas Corpus | Ex Parte Merryman |
| Man did not receive attorney and sued (won) | Gideon v Wainwright |
| Stepphenwolf | Hesey |
| The Ring | Robert Browning |
| Plot: Richard will do anything to become king Characters: King Edward IV, Richard, Queen Elizabeth | Richard III |
| Painting: Starry Night | Vincent Van Gogh |
| Eight Cousins | Louisa May Alcott |
| Music: Well-tempered Clavier | Bach |
| Discourse on the Method | Rene Descartes |
| 1 The Mysterious Air at Styles 2 Death on the Nile | Agatha Christie |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo |
| The Green Mile | Steven King |
| Music: Pastoral Symphony (6th) | LV Beethoven |
| Painting: Las Meninas | Diego Velazquez |
| Walden | Thoreau |
| (Alexandrian Author) “The Elements” | Euclid |
| Founder of King Tut’s tomb | Howard Carter |
| Plot: Ship-wrecked twins think each other is dead Characters: Orsino, Viola, Sebastian | Twelfth Night |
| 1 Howard’s End 2 Room with a View 3 Passage to India | EM Forster |
| Series of 4 poems by TS Elliot | Four Quartets |
| Semi-Autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens | David Copperfield |
| Sonnets from the Portuguese | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Science Law: Constant “t” and “p”, measures the velocities of gases | Graham’s Law |
| Plot: Do anything, even kill, to remain king Characters: Duncan, Malcolm, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Banquo, Macbeth | Macbeth |
| Music: Appalachian spring | Aaron Copeland |
| Arrowsmith | Sinclair Lewis |
| Plot: Revenge for father’s death Characters: Hamlet, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia | Hamlet |
| Painting: The Shooting Company of Franz Banning Cocq | Rembrandt |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Jules Verne |
| Plot: American Civil War veterans and Baltimore Gun Club Author: Jules Verne | From the Earth to the Moon |
| “Death be not Proud” | John Donne |
| Don Dellilo’s most famous novel | White Noise |
| Discoverer of Oxygen | Joseph Priestley |
| Author of the play, “Hernini” | Victor Hugo |
| (1660-1685) 1 Took over from Cromwell 2 Treaty of Dover made with Louis XIV | Charles II |
| Sculpture: David | Michelangelo |
| Painting: The Birth of Venus | Sandro Botticelli |
| Dice: 1:0/36 2:1/36 3:2/36 or 1/18 4: 3/36 or 1/12 5: 4/36 or 1/9 6: 5/36 | 7: 6/36 or 1/6 8: 5/36 9: 4/36 or 1/9 10: 3/36 or 1/12 11: 2/36 or 1/18 12: 1/36 |
| Painting: Mona Lisa | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| Painting: Chapel of the Rosary in Venice | Henri Matisse |
| Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess |
| Kart Doenitz (German naval officer) | Nuremburg Trials |
| (1509-1547) 1 Patronized Thomas Moore 2 Executed Thomas Cromwell 3 Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour | Henry VIII |
| (1558-1603) 1 Fought Mary, Queen of Scots 2 Never married 3 Daughter of Anne Boleyn | Elizabeth I |
| The Changeling | Middleton |
| Love Story | Eric Segal |
| The Second Coming | William Butler Yeats |
| 1 Italian Violinist 2 “In league with the Devil” 3 “24 Capriccio” | Paganini |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kennethe Graham |
| (1483-1485) 1 Final York king 2 Died to Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field 3 Lost War of Roses | Richard III |
| Bohemian folk dance of Central Europe | polka (3/4 time) |
| Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | Kate Douglas Wiggin |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| Billy Bud | Herman Melville |
| Nostromo | Joseph Conrad |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain |
| The Gambler | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Music: Wedding March | Mendelssohn |
| Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz | Lyman Frank Baum |
| Music: The Barber of Seville | Rossini |
| Music: 1 An American in Paris 2 Rhapsody in Blue | Georges Gershwin |
| Pinocchio | Carlo Collodi |
| Charlotte’s Web | EB White |
| “Man is by nature a political animal” | Aristotle |
| Painting: Nude Descending a Staircase | Marcel Duchamp |
| The Lottery | Shirley Jackson |
| Devil’s Dictionary | Ambrose Bierce |
| Westside Story | Leonard Bernstein |
| Father in “Death of a Salesman” | Willie Lowman |
| 1 Death of a Salesman 2 The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| On the Origin of the Species | Charles Darwin |
| Citizen Kane is based off __________ | William Randolph Hearst |
| Painting: Christina’s World | Andrew Wyeth |
| “To a Skylark” was part of what work by Percy Bysshe Shelley? | Prometheus Unbound |
| Music: Enigma Variations | Sir Edward William Elgar |
| The Four horsemen of the Apocalypse | Ibanez |
| Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Study in Scarlet | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| Painting: Bathers | Renoir |
| Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde |
| O Pioneers! | Willa Cather |
| Painting: Venus Adorned by the Graces | Botticelli |
| Don Quixote | Cervantes |
| Music: Fantasie-Impromptu | Frederic Chopin |
| Cole Porter’s musical, “Kiss Me Kate”, is based on ________ | The Taming of the Shrew |
| Plot: Woman wins love of her husband Characters: Countess, Bertram, Helen | All’s Well that Ends Well |
| 1 Olympia 2 Lunch on the Grass | Manet |
| La Morte De Arthur | Mallory |
| Music: God Bless America | Irving Berlin |
| Plot: Jealousy results in vengeful plot against titular character Characters: Casio, Iago, Desdemona, Othello | Othello |
| Good artistic friend of Vincent Van Gogh | Paul Gauguin |
| Native Son | Richard Wright |
| 1 Death in Venice 2 The Magic Mountain | Thomas Mann |
| Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette | Tale of Two Cities |
| “It was the best of times, It was the worst of times” | Tale of Two Cities |
| (American Composer) The Tender Land | Aaron Copeland |
| Literary Group 1 Virginia Woolf 2 Adrian Stephen 3 Thebe Stephen 4 John Stuart Mill | Bloomsbury Group |
| Music: 1 Das Lied Von Der Erde 2 The Resurrection (2nd) 3 Symphony of a Thousand (8th) | Gustav Mahler |
| Next Year for Haley’s Comet | 2062 |
| Painting: Luncheon on the Grass | Manet |
| (Irish Novelist) 1 Original and influential writer of the Twentieth Century 2 “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” | James Joyce |
| Most lines of any Shakespeare character | Hamlet |
| Minute Waltz | Frederic Chopin |
| Painting: The Third of May 1808 | Francisco De Goya |
| Painting: The Arnolfini Wedding | Jan Van Eyck |
| A Simple Soul | Gustave Flaubert |
| The Will to Believe | William James |
| Painting: The Persistence of Memory | Salvador Dali |
| Painting: Arrangement in Grey and Black | James Whistler |
| “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker” | Ogden Nash |
| Music: The Rite of Spring | Igor Stravinsky |
| Authors of the Federalist Papers (3) | Madison, Jay, Hamilton |
| 1 Tales of a Wayside Inn 2 Courtship of Miles Standish 3 Song of Hiawatha 4 Wreck of the Hesperus | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| The Soldier | Rupert Brooks |
| Toreador Song 1 What Opera? 2 Composer? | 1 Carmen 2 George Bizet |
| Painted a lot of Oceans | Winslow Homer |
| The Decameron | Boccaccio |
| Music: Ballet: Romeo and Juliet | Prokofiev |
| 1 Mapped the Oregon Trail 2 First Republican Candidate | John Fremont |
| Birth of Tragedy | Nietchze |
| The Swiss Family Robinson | Wyss |
| Queen of Spades | Alexander Pushkin |
| Einstein on the Beach | Phillip Glass |
| Mandarins | Simon De Bovoir |
| Writer of “Chicago” | Carl Sandburg |
| Music: Ballet: Sleeping Beauty | Tchaikovsky |
| 1 Eighteenth Century Artist 2 Portrait: “The Family of the Duke of Marlborough” | Joshua Reynolds |
| (1154-1189) 1 Killed Thomas Beckett 2 Married Eleanor of Aquitaine | Henry II |
| Pilgrim’s Progress | John Bunyan |
| A Psalm of Life | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| In Flanders Fields | Thomas McGray |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgen Burnett |
| Painting: The Starry Night | Vincent Van Gogh |
| A Treatise on Government | Aristotle |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Painting: The Violinist | Marc Chagall |
| Painting: American Gothic | Grant Wood |
| Painting: The Death of Marat | Jacques-Louis David |
| Author of Dr Zhivago | Boris L Pasternak |
| Crazy Roman Leader (Made a horse his general) | Caligula |
| Painting: 1 Children 2 “The Child’s Bath” 3 “Afternoon Tea Party” | Mary Cassatt |
| Painting: Lily Pond | Claude Monet |
| Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| Family name in “Glass Menagerie” | Wingfield |
| The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon |
| Main character: Sam Spade | Maltese Falcon |
| Movie made by Arthur Miller for his wife Marilyn Monroe to act in | Misfits |
| (Mock-Heroic Ballad) By: Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky |
| Compromise to avoid the Civil War | Crittenden Compromise |
| Chamber Nautilus | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Founder of the hull house improvement | Jane Adams |
| Wars in SE Asia during the Cold War Referred to as _________ | Proxy Wars |
| Founder of Chicago | John Baptiste Pointe du Sable |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | Ken Kesey |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka |
| (Greek Tragedy) By: Eugene O’Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra |
| 1 Won three Pulitzers 2 1994-Three Tall Women | Edward Albee |
| 1 “Lost in Yonkers” (1991 Pulitzer Prize) 2 “The Odd Couple” | Neil Simon |
| Painting: Garden of Earthly Delights | Bosch |
| Sculpture: Pieta | Michelangelo |
| Famous writer (Major Utilitarian) | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Treaty ending WWI with Turkey | Treaty of Sevres |
| The Deer Park | Norman Mailer |
| Built the Vietnam War Memorial | Maya-lin |
| Matt v Ohio was about | searching without a warrant |
| Country that gained freedom July 5, 1811 | Venezuela |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Heinlein |
| Kublai Khan | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Tartuffe | Moullier |
| Location of Cleopatra’s Needles | 1 NYC 2 London 3 Paris |
| 1 Swiss painter 2 “Legend of the Nile” | Paul Klee |
| Lonesome Dove | McMurty |
| City of Corinth Founded by ________ | Sisyphus |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte |
| Ars Poetica | Archibald MacLeish |
| The Oresteia | Aeschylus |
| 9,5 trillion kilometers | a light year |
| Sculpture: The Thinker | Rodin |
| At the Earth’s Core | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 1 The Sea 2 Clare de Lune | Claude Debussy |
| Two main founders of Existentialism | 1 Kierkegaard 2 Nietzsche |
| Sculpture: Perseus with the Head of Medusa | Cellini |
| “Little giant” Senator of Illinois | Stephen Douglas |
| 1 Lord Jim 2 Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad |
| Music: Ballet: Swan Lake | Tchaikovsky |
| Supreme Court: Created the idea of “separate but equal” | Plessey v Ferguson |
| Othello’s wife | Desdemona |
| Mrs Dalloway | Virginia Woolf |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser |
| Charge of the Light Brigade | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| 1 Mexican Poet 2 1990 Nobel Literature 3 Last name means peace | Octavio Paz |
| 1 A Modest Proposal 2 Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift |
| Light in August | Faulkner |
| Supreme Court: Went pro-child labor as man sued against Keating-Own Act | Hammer v Dagenhart |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James |
| Plot: drunk abuses wife Author: Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt |
| Great King of Persia (During Greco-Persian wars) | Darius I |
| Plot: British king gives land to two daughters (there are three) | King Lear |
| 1 My Darling 2 My Hamburger 3 The Pigman | Paul Zindel |
| Sculptures: 1 The Gates of Hell 2 The Kiss | Auguste rodin |
| Book banned in Russia | Dr Zhivago |
| Autobiography of Alice B Toklas | Gertrude Stein |
| 1893- Maggie: A girl of the Streets | Stephen Crane |
| Main Street | Sinclair Lewis |
| Four Medieval Mathematical Arts | 1 Music 2 Geometry 3 Arithmetic 4 Astronomy |
| Hawaiian God | Pele |
| (1977 Pulitzer Prize) Roots | Alex Haley |
| Mycology is the study of | fungi |
| Play based on “La Boheme” | Rent |
| Ivanhoe | Sir Walter Scott |
| (1837-1901) 1 Longest reform 2 Reform Act of 1867 | Victoria I |
| 1 Rigoletto 2 La Traviata | Verdi |
| Society and Solitude | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| (1760-1820) King during Revolutionary War | George III |
| Painting: Guernica | Pablo Picasso |
| Painting: Liberty Leading the People | Eugene Delacroix |
| First female governor (for Wyoming) | Nellie Taylor Ross |
| Plot: One wedding ends up three Characters: Theseus, Hippolyta, Hermia, Lysander, Oberon | Midsummer Night’s Dream |
| L’Orfeo | Monteverdi |
| Billy Pilgrim and Montana Wildhack | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Slaughterhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Man for all Seasons | Robert Vult |
| Painting: Nighthawks | Edward Hopper |
| The Rival | Richard Sheridan |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| Secret Life of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| (May 11, 1846) War Declaration on Mexico [made by] | James K Polk |
| Dead Souls | Nicolai Gogol |
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer |
| A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1 My Antonia 2 Death Comes for the Archbishop | Willa Cather |
| 1 To a Mouse 2 To a Louse | Robert Burns |
| Winning of the Best | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Music: Opera: Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner |
| Plot: tells of sisters and their matrimonies Characters: Katherine, Biance, Petruccio, Gremio | Taming of the Shrew |
| A Man Without a Country | Edward Hale |
| Poem and poet for Statue of Liberty | New Colossus By: Emma Lazarus |
| Waverly | Sir Walter Scott |
| Creator of Walter Mitty | James Thurber |
| Plot: Magician endures hardships, but rule island Characters: Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, Antonio | The Tempest |
| Name of German tribe that took Rome | Vandals |
| 1 Subject of “Look Homeward” 2 Wrote “Of Time and the River” | Thomas Wolfe |
| Plot: Rosalind and her family live in Arden Forest Characters: Duke Senior, Rosalind, Oliver, Orlando | As you Like It |
| First major poem by William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis |
| Operas: 1 Eugene Onegin 2 The Queen of Spades | Tchaikovsky |
| Dr Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Shakespeare influenced by | Christopher Marlowe |
| (1189-1199) Fought Phillip II and died | Richard I |
| Tonight at 8:30 | Noel Coward |
| Martian Chronicles | Ray Bradbury |
| Germany: A Winter’s Tale | Heine |
| Court case filed by Linda Brown | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
| Legalized first trimester abortion | Roe v Wade |
| Actress: 1 Butterfield 8 2 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 3 Cat on a hot tin Roof 4 National Velvet | Elizabeth Taylor |
| Tender is the Night | F Scott Fitzgerald |
| Supreme Court Case: Went against state giving land to Georgian | Fletcher v Peck |
| Author and subject of “Murder in the Cathedral” | 1 TS Eliot 2 Thomas Beckett |
| (German Romantic Pianist) 1 Scenes from Childhood 2 Carnival | Robert Schumann |
| Old Possum’s book of Practical Cats | Cats By: TS Elliot |
| Billy the Kid | Aaron Copeland |
| 1800’s basic architectural style | Arts and Crafts |
| 1 Waiting for Lefty 2 Til the Day I Die 3 Golden Boy 4 The Country Girl | Clifford Odets |
| Knows: 1 Matisse 2 Picasso 3 Fitzgerald 4 Hemingway Authored: 1 Tender Buttons 2 Three Lives | Gertrude Stein |
| Poem by John Keats: “My heart aches, and a drowsy Numbness pains my sense” | Ode to a Nightingale |
| 1 Scopes Monkey Trial 2 Lawyer who defended Leopold and Loeb | Clarence Darrow |
| Supreme Court Case: Established the principle of judicial review | Marbury v Madison |
| "I celebrate myself and sing myself And what I assume you shall assume" | Song of Myself By: Walt Whitman |
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