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 |