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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Developed a histological stain which allowed for selective visualization of neuronal cell bodies. He was friends with Alois Alzheimer | Franz Nissl |
| Wrote of S.V. Shereshevkii (Mnemnotist) and Zasetsky (Man with a Shattered World). | A. R. Luria |
| Matrix of connective tissue consisting of strong collagenous fibers connecting periosteum to bone. | Sharpey's fibers |
| Thin layer of dense, irregular connective tissue that convers outer surface of a bone in all places except joint. | Periosteum |
| Derrived from the Greek word for glass, cartilage that covers joints | Hyaline Cartilage |
| A Curtain of Green, Delta Wedding, Ponder heart, Losing Battles, The Optimist's Daughter, "Why I Live at the P.O." | Eudora Welty |
| Daughter of Icarius, spent 3 years weaving then unweaving a shroud for Laertes, one of the legs of her bed is a living olive tree | Penelope |
| Odysseus and Penelope's son | Telemachus |
| President of France | Jacques Chirac |
| Prime Minister of France | Dominique de Villepin |
| Line up chromosomes during metaphase and anaphase | Spindle |
| Precession of orbit, eccentricity, and axial tilt of the Earth | Milankovich Cycle |
| Tristram Shandy (1768) | Lawrence Sterne |
| Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, Teacher Man | Frank McCourt |
| Discus Thrower (Discobolus) | Myron |
| Only person since George Washington to be named General of the Armies | John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing |
| Maid of Orleans, Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky |
| Oscar winning movie about Scott Joplin | The Sting |
| Treemonisha | Scott Joplin |
| Hydrogen isotope with one proton and two neutrons | Tritium |
| Killed by Bellerophon | Chimera |
| First Prime Minister of India | Nehru |
| Outgrowth of string theory where particles are doubled so every boson is paired with a fermion and vice versa | SUSY or Supersymmetry |
| Created the first laser printer | Gary Starkweather |
| Accused by treason by Caderousse, Ferdinand Mondego and Danglars | Edmund Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) |
| Legislative capital of South Africa | Cape Town |
| Judiciary capital of South Africa | Bloemfontein |
| Administrative capital of South Africa | Pretoria |
| Current commissioner of the FDA | Andrew Von Eschenbach |
| Dante's obsession | Beatrice |
| Authors of the Federalist Papers | John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison |
| "Father of Civil Service", Served as President after Garfield's assassination | Chester Arthur |
| Assassinated Garfield | Charles J. Guiteau |
| Penance, paupal supremacy, and indulgences | 95 Theses |
| King Lear's daughters | Goneril, Regan, Cordelia |
| The Art of the Deal, Surviving at the Top, How to Get Rich, Think Like a Billionaire | Donald Trump |
| Opposite of intalgio, used by Goya and Ingres | Lithography |
| Foreign policy against European intervention in Americas | Monroe Doctorine |
| Franz Kafka's three unfinished novels | The Trial, The Castle, Amerika |
| "Love's austere and lonely offices" | Robert Hayden |
| Father of continental drift | Alfred Wegener |
| Egyptian jackal-headed god of embalming and cemeteries | Anubis |
| Son of Osiris and Isis who guided dead souls to the underworld | Horace |
| Twins born of Shu and Tefnut, when separated, one became the god of the sky and the other the god of the Earth | Geb and Nut |
| Hindu triad | Brahman, Shiva, Vishnu |
| Hero of the Ramayana | Rama, the seventh avatar of Vishnu |
| Killed Medusa | Perseus |
| Killed the Minotaur | Theseus |
| Built King Minos's labyrinth | Daedalus |
| Daedalus's son | Icarus |
| Author of The Second Sex and companion to Sarte | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Committee of which Robespierre was the head until he was beheaded | Committee of Public Safety |
| Father of existentialism | Kierkegaard |
| NTSB | National Transportation Safety Board |
| FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| NEH | National Endowment for the Humanities |
| "To err is human, to forgive divine" | Alexander Pope |
| "An Essay on Criticism" | Alexander Pope |
| Won an Oscar and a Tony for his role in Cabaret | Joel Gray |
| Oscar and Tony for The King and I | Yul Brynner |
| Oscar and Tony for Cyrano de Bergerac | Jose Ferrar |
| 14th Century Italian poet with a sonnet form named after him, also known as the father of humanism | Francesco Petrarch |
| Produced, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane | Orson Welles |
| Egyptian astronomer who believed the Earth was the center of the universe | Ptolemy |
| "Baa Baa Black Sheep" -- Childhood unhappiness about living in southsea after moving from India | Rudyard Kipling |
| The Feather in Bloom, I and the Village | Marc Chagall |
| Grand wizard of KKK after Civil War | Forrest |
| Name means "little boot", Rome's 3rd emperor | Caligula |
| Roman emperor during 14 BC, Rome's 5th emperor | Nero |
| Took a bullet to the neck in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, his given name is Eric Blair | George Orwell |
| Lost 1984 election to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter's VP 1977-1981 | Walter Mondale |
| Organization founded by Arthur Griffith that wants Irish INdependence from England | Sinn Fein |
| Ended Russo-Japanese War (1905) | Treaty of Portsmouth |
| Bacchanal, Venus of Urbino | Titian |
| Cheif architect of St. Peter's Basilica | Raphael |
| "Gates of Paradise", the doors to the baptistry of the Duomo in Florence | Ghiberti |
| Eve of St. Agnes | Keats |
| First blood pressure number | Systolic |
| Second blood pressure number | Diastolic |
| Killed Robert F. Kennedy | Sirhan Sirhan |
| Two assassination attempts in 3 weeks in 1971 by Lynette Fromme and Sara Jane Moore | Ford |
| Remains of a supernova explosion recorded by Chinese astonomers in 1054 AD | Crab Nebula |
| Namesake of a French star catalogue where every entry begins with M | Charles Messier |
| Full name is Portuguese for "City of the name of God...there is none more loyal," now belongs to China | Macao |
| Includes Minorica and Majorica and lies off the coast of Bacelona, Spain | Balearic Islands |
| 1850 treaty between England and US that agreed to suspend colonization of Central America until the completion of the Panama Canal | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty |
| US Purchase of 50,000 sq. miles from Mexico in 1853 | Godsden Purchase |
| Abraham Lincoln's first VP | John C. Breckenridge |
| Wrote the plays The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro | Pierre Beaumarchais |
| Sculpted the Statue of Liberty | Frederic Bartholdi |
| First director of the Peace Corps, also appointed by Johnson to Pres. of the OEO | Shriver |
| OEO | Office of Economic Opportunity |
| "Good Gray Poet" | Whitman |
| "People's Poet" | Sandburg |
| "Naturalist Poet" | Thoreau |
| Ran for President in 1972 with Shriver as his VP | George McGovern |
| Term for the 2 areas of radiation around the outer layer of Earth's atmosphere that make up the magnetosphere | Van Allen Belt |
| 2500 mile break between Saturn's rings | Cassini's Division |
| "Eternal City" | Rome |
| "Mistress of Adriatic" | Venice |
| "Father of American Common School" | Horace Mann |
| Secret Irish coal miner's organization in the 1870s in Western Pennsylvania | Molly Maguires |
| 1754 surrender by George Washington to French in French and Indian War | Fort Necessity |
| Died after giving birth to Henry VIII's only legitimate male heir | Jane Seymour |
| LEI | Leading Economic Indicators |
| Loisa May Alcott decides to write Gothic stories | A.M. Barnard |
| Married Chester A. Arthur | Ellen Lewis Herndon |
| Ruled Islamic empire from Bagdhad from 750-1258 AD | Abbasid Dynasty |
| 11th and 12th century French philosopher who loved Heloise | Abelard |
| Former name of Ethiopia | Abyssinia |
| Paul Revere's accomplices | Samuel Prescott and William Dawes |
| Hydrogen isotope with one proton and one neutron | Deuterium |
| Discovered by Henry Cavendish, also known as Protium | Hydrogen |
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