Question | Answer |
Aaron | 755 Homeruns and 2,297 RBIs. He beat Babe Ruth (714). |
Abelard | Founder of University of Paris |
Abelard | Sic et Non |
Abelard | Love affair with Heloise |
Abernathy | succeded MLK as leader of Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
Acheson | Secretary of State under Truman |
Acheson | Pulitizer Prize in 1970 |
Acheson | Present at the Creation |
Ansel Adams | Foudneer of f/64 group |
John Adams | XYZ Affiar under his term |
John Adams | went to Harvard and was instrumental figure in American Revolution |
JQ Adams | Secretary of State under Monroe |
JQ Adams | elected to House of Representatives after presidential term ended. |
Addams | Hull house |
Hull House | Community center for the poor in Chicago. |
Adenauer | First chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Aesop | The Fox and the grapes |
Aesop | the fox and the hare |
Aesop | greek slave fabulist. |
Agassiz | first propsed the ice ages |
Agee | Let Us Now Praise Famous Men |
Let Us now Praise Famous Men | Commentary on depression era tenant farmers. |
Agee | Pulitzer in 1957 for a Death in the Family |
Agnew | Governor of Maryland 67-69. |
Agnew | Maryland politics corruption so he leave his post. |
Agnew | No contest to charge of income tax evasion. |
Aguinaldo | Rebellion against the Spanish. Philipines leader. |
Aguinaldo | Help us during Spanish |
Akihito | First member of royal family to marry commonor |
Shoda Michiko | commonor that Akihito married. |
Alarcon | Three Cornered Hat. |
Albee | Who’s afraid of Virginia woolf |
Albee | A delicate balance |
Albee | Seascape |
Albee | Three Tall Women |
Albeniz | Iberia |
Saint albertus Magnus | Universl Doctor |
Saint albertus Magnus | Teacher of Thomas Aquinas |
Saint albertus Magnus | First to produce arsenic in a free form. |
Louisa May Alcott | Little women |
Little Women - autobiographical novel that portrays Victorian American family life | |
Alcott | Little men |
Alcott | Jo’s Boys |
Aldrich | Senator from Rhode Island |
Aldrich | authored namesake tariff with payne |
Payne Aldrich tariff | lowered some tariffs but increased others |
Payne Aldrich Tariff | chief issue during Taft’s presidential term |
Alfred the great | King of Wessex |
Alger | Rags to riches stories |
Alger | Ragged Dick |
Ali | Born as Cassius Clay |
Ali | refused to enter us armed forces due to religion. |
Allen | Led green mountain boys at the capture of fort Ticonderoga. |
Amin | Seize Ugandan government from obote in 1971 exiled in 79. |
Amis | Lucky Jim |
Ampere | furthered work of Hans orested on relationship between electricity and magnetism. |
Amundsen | First person to fly over the north pole. |
Amundsen | command first single ship to sail through northwest passage. |
Hans Christian Anderson | The Ugly duckling |
Hans Christian Anderson | The little march girl |
Hans Christian Anderson | the snow queen |
Carl Anderson | Discovered the positron |
Carl Anderson | share 1936 nobel prize in physics with Hess. |