Description | Name |
Cured Yellow Fever, a hospital in Washington D.C. is named after him | Stephen Reed |
First to use liquid-propelled rocket engines | Robert Goddard |
Wrote the book, Billy Budd | Herman Melville |
Wrote the opera, Billy Budd | Benjamin Britain |
Scientific Effect that was discovered by shining blue light through water | Charenkov Effect |
Wrote Laws of Planetary Motion | Keppler |
This law states that the temperature varies inversely to pressure | Boyle's Law |
The most decorated soldier of WWII, this General from Tennessee captured German soldiers in Aragon Forrest | Sgt. York |
Climbed Mt. Everest with Edmund Hillary | Norgay |
A short-lived nation within Nigeria | Biafra |
Country formerly known as Upper Volta | Burkhina Faso |
Generic name for a German prison camp (during WWII) | Stallog |
Her pen name was George Elliot | Mary Anne Evans |
Governor of Texas, Governor of Tennessee, President of Texas | Sam Houston |
Second President of Texas | Lamar |
First President of Hawaii | Dole |
Wrote The Tales of Hoffman (music) | Offenbach |
Opera by Verdi, Celebrated the opening of the Suez Canal, Set in Egypt | Aida |
Lost Incan secret city | Vilca Pampa |
Wrote The Fairy Queen | Spencer |
Famous Milan opera house | Lascala |
The last Bourbon King of France | Charles X |
King who replaced Bourbon dynasty with Bourbon-Orleans House | Louis-Phillipe |
The (French) Revolution of 1848 put him into power in the Second Republic of France, but he later declared himself Emperor | Napolean III (Louis Napolean) |
The longest river in Australia | The Murray River |
Henry Luce founded it in the 1920s | TIME Magazine |
Playwright, Ambassador, Married to the founder of TIME Magazine | Claire Booth Luce |
Founded The Saturday Evening Post | Benjamin Franklin |
Oliver Wendell Holmes edited this magazine | Atlantic Monthly |
The North American Revue was popular after this war | War of 1812 |
This act established silver currency in the U.S. | Bland-Allison Act |
Wrote Vanity Fair | William Makepease Thackeray |
Wrote the song Kiss Me Kate | Cole Porter |
Wrote Carnival of the Animals (music) | Saint Saens |
Tribe that sacked Rome in 477 | The Vandals |
Wrote Remembrance of Things Passed | Proust |
This character in To Kill a Mockingbird is based on Truman Kapote | Dill |
French painter, forerunner of Cubism | Cezanne |
Painted French peasants | Milet |
Painted ballerinas | De Gas |
Religion founded in 97 B.C. | Taoism |
A poem at a funeral | Requiem |
Wrote Sturmond Drang or "Storm and Stress" | Goethe |
Christopher Sly is most associated with this play | Taming of the Shrew |
Talked of wholeness in psychology | Guschtalt |
Believed in developmental stages of psychology | Piage |
Born in Archery, GA | Jimmy Carter |
Lived in Shottery Cottage | Ann Hathaway |
Lived in Chalton Cottage | Jane Austen |
Jane Austen died in this English city | Winchester |
Wrote The Moon and Sixpence, based on the life of Gaugin | W. Somerset Maugham |
Wrote The Book of Nonsense | Leer |
There are 88 of these that are officially recognized | Constellations |
Known as the "Dog Philosophers" | Cinnics |
Isotope of Hydrogen, has two neutrons | Tridium |
Associated with the Age of Bronze | Rodin |
Calvin Coolidge's Vice President | Dawes |
This religion was founded by Mother Anne Lee | Shakers |
This planet was discovered in 1846 | Neptune |
New Connecticut is the former name of this state | Vermont |
Autobiographical novel by Sylvia Plath, Protagonist is Esther Greenwood | The Bell Jar |
Associated with the Cathedral Series (art) | Monet |
German composer, Biblical-based music | Mendelson |
Phylum containing the most species | Insecta |
Wrote Songs of Innocence | William Blake |
Presidential Policy was New Federalism | Richard Nixon |
Presidential Policy was the Good Neighbor (Policy) | FDR |
Presidential Policy was Great Society | LBJ |
Presidential Policy was the New Frontier | JFK |
Presidential Policy was Dollar Diplomacy | William Howard Taft |
Presidential Policy was the New Covenant | Bill Clinton |
Presidential Policy was the Square Deal | Theodore Roosevelt |
Presidential Policy was the New Deal | FDR |
Presidential Policy was the Fair Deal | Harry S Truman |
His policy was New Nationalism | Theodore Roosevelt |
His policy was New Freedom | Wilson |
The second largest French-speaking city in the world | Montreal |
Wrote The Pigman | Paul Zindel |
The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe are both works by him | Edward Albee |
Pollegra is a vitamin difficiency cured by this | niasin |
Major Duncan Edwards appears in this work | The Last of the Mohicans |
It was fought on March 6, 1836 | The Alamo |
He was Texas's commander at the Alamo | Travis |
Abraham Lincoln's lost love and charcter in Spoon River Anthology | Anne Rutledge |
This group protested U.S. involvement in WWII | America First |
This was an artshow in 1913 | The Armory Show |
Spring and Fall is a poem by this man | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The School of Local Color is associated with this writer | Sarah Orn Jewit |
He painted Night Hawks and Gas | Edward Hopper |
It is the term for a dead Christ in the lap of Mary | Pieta |
He had a very famous pieta painting before doing more notable works | Michelangelo |
Stanum is Latin for this element | Tin |
Plumbum is Latin for this element | Lead |
Kalium is Latin for this element | Potassium |
Arum is Latin for this element | Gold |
Woolfrom is Polish for this element | Tungsten |
Charles Darwin was oceanographer on this vessel | HMS Beagle |
R.M.S (like the Titanic) stands for this | Royal Mail Steamer |
Hippolita was Queen of this group | the Amazons |
He developed the Iron Law of Wages | Ricardo |
He developed objectivism | Rand |
Dashiell Hammett had a love affair with this woman | Lillian Hellmann |
He is buried next to Beethoven | Schubert |
La Boheme is by this man | Puccini |
Pinkerton is a charcter from what work | Madame Butterfly |
Pinkerton is a nickname for what profession | Private Investigator |
Tender Is the Night is a novel by this man | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Arms and the Man is a play by him | George Bernard Shaw |
El Greco was born on this island | Crete |
The Gugenheim is located in this city | Bilbao |
This Halogen is poisonous at room temperature | Chlorine |
This was the first gas isolated from Nitrogen | Argon |
Sir Thomas Moore wrote this novel about a perfect island | Utopia |
He wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France | Burke |
The Open Boat is a short story by this man | Stephen Crane |
She wrote Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates | Mary Mapes Dodge |
He developed the Law of Partial Pressures | Dalton |
He founded Utilitarianism | Bentham |
Victory and Typhoon are by this author | Joseph Conrad |
He wrote Winesburg, Ohio | Sherwood Anderson |
He wrote stories about the Glass Family | J.D. Salinger |
Wrote Twice Old Tales and Dr. Heidegger's Experiment | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Wrote a collection of short stories called The Three Million | O'Henry |
Located in Canada, it's the fifth largest island in the world | Baffin Island |
It's the only U.S. city named after a British Prime Minister | Pittsburg |
Winston Churchill made this famous speech in Fulton Missouri at Westminster College | The Iron Curtain Speech |
This state was admitted as part of the Compromise of 1850 | California |
He was the first Republican candidate for President | Fremont |
He wrote an American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
He flew in the Freedom 7 rocket | Alan Shephard |
He flew in the Friendship 7 rocket | John Glenn |
The first spacewalks took place during this set of missions | Gemini |
He wrote Rutabaga Stories and many more better known works | Carl Sandburg |
Wrote Travels with Charley and many better known works | John Steinbeck |
Born in Pittsburg, she was one of the most popular mystery writers in America | Reinhart |
The Loop of Henley is located in this organ | kidneys |
This woman was Ronald Reagan's UN Ambassador | Gene Kirkpatrick |
This President was born in Illinois and attended Eureka College | Ronald Reagan |
The upcoming G8 Summit will be held at the Cloister Hotel on this ritzy Georgia island | Sea Island |
This says that the Supreme Court has the right to choose its cases | Writ of Satiorary |
This says that prisoners have the right to know what they have been arrested for | Writ of Habeas Corpus |