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2004-2005 QBPN
04-05 Quiz Bowl Practice Notes
| Description | Name |
|---|---|
| Wrote The Miser and Le Tartouffe | Molliere |
| Rousseau and Milet were members of this artistic school | Barbizan School |
| Senate debates featuring Secretary of State who ended Aristoc War | Hane-Webster Debates |
| FDR speech in which he said "There is nothing to fear but fear itself." | First Inaugural Address (1933) |
| Leader of America First | Charles Lindbergh |
| Wrote Ariel | Sylvia Plath |
| Discovered electromagnetic waves | Hertz |
| Wrote All Quiet on the Western Front | Eric Maria Remarque |
| Japanese Emperor whose name means "enlightened government" | Meiji |
| Japanese Emperor also know as Emperor Showa | Hirohito |
| Chinese Peasants battled Manchu Rule in this bloodiest of all Manchu rebellions | Tai-ping Rebellion |
| 1857 Indian Rebellion against British rule | Sepoy Mutiny |
| Japanese Emperor who drafted the Majee Constitution after visiting Europe | Ito |
| Chronicled the reign of Napoleon,painted "The Horatii" | David |
| Wrote The Yearling | Marjorie Kinnan Rallings |
| Wrote The Magnificent Ambersons | Booth Tarkington |
| Lady Brett Ashley is a character from what work | The Sun Also Rises |
| Van Buren became President in what year | 1836 |
| What election featured the headline "Dewey defeats Truman" | 1948 |
| Roman Procurator of Judea at death of Christ | Pontius Pilate |
| Emperor of Rome in 4 B.C. | Tiberius |
| First Triumverate of Rome | Julius Caesar, Pompey, Crassus |
| Second Triumverate | Octavian, Antony, Lepidus |
| 3rd Roman Emperor | Calligula |
| 4th Roman Emperor | Claudius |
| 5th Roman Emperor | Nero |
| Peter and Paul died under his Roman Rule | Nero |
| Name of the Inn in The Canterbury Tales | Tabard Inn |
| Wrote Tales from the Wayside Inn | Longfellow |
| He and his son were marooned - ship name = "The Blue Moon" | Hudson |
| French explorer; founded Detroit | Cadillac |
| Professions of Marquette and Joliet | Marquette = Jesuit, Joliet = Fur trader |
| Cordell Hull and Frances Perkins were members of his cabinet | FDR |
| City in IL founded by the Mormons | Nauvoo |
| Founded Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| Name of Mary Baker Eddy's book on Christian Science | Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures |
| Location of Christian Science "Mother Church" | Boston |
| Formerly called Northern Rodesia | Zambia |
| Formerly called Southern Rodesia | Zimbabwe |
| Capital of Zimbabwe | Harrare |
| Formerly called Gold Coast | Ghana |
| Wrote "Grass" | Carl Sandburg |
| 1805 Napolean Battle talked about in the poem "Grass" | Austerlitz |
| Wrote Dictionary of the English Language | Samuel Johnson |
| Biographer of Samuel Johnson | Boswell |
| German founder of Calculus | Leibnitz |
| Wrote The Human Comedy | de Balzac |
| Wrote The Leather Stocking Tales | James Fennimore Cooper |
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