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George W. Bush
In 2007, which president awarded Lee the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
1962
A movie adaptation of the book was released in what year?
Gregory Peck
Who played Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie of the same title?
Gregory Peck
Which actor received An Oscar for his role of Atticus Finch in the 1962 movie of the book?
father's pocketwatch
What item did Lee give the actor Gregory Peck after portraying Atticus Finch?
grandson
Which one of Gregory Peck's relatives was named after Harper Lee?
her father's pocketwatch
What personal effect did Lee give to Peck?
grandson
Which one of Peck's relatives was named Harper in honor of Lee?
May 2005
When did Lee randomly show up at the Los Angeles Public Library?
a national treasure
What did Peck's widow call Lee?
Christopher Sergel
Who turned the novel into a play?
1990
When was the play for To Kill a Mockingbird first performed?
Monroeville
What town labeled itself "The Literary Capital of Alabama"?
townspeople
Who makes up the cast of the annual play based on the book performed in Monroeville?
racially segregated
During the courtroom scene, what happens to the audience?
the UK
What country did Sergel's play tour around in and perform in 2006?
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
The play was the opening act for the starting of the 2013 season at which location?
Duncan Preston
Who played Atticus Finch in the UK theater productions of the film in 2006 and 2011?
July 14, 2015
When was Go Set a Watchman introduced to the public?
1957
Go Set a Watchman was finished in what year?
20
How many years after To Kill a Mockingbird is the setting of Go Set A Watchman?
Tonja Carter
Who was Harper Lee's lawyer?
Go Set a Watchman
What is the earlier draft of the book titled?
1957
What year was Watchman completed?
20
How many years after Mockingbird was Watchman set?
rape and racial inequality
What two serious moral issues are dealt with in the novel?
Atticus Finch
Who is the protagonist of the novel?
narration
What is Lee's strongest style of writing?
flashback
What narrative technique does Lee use to combine the adult's perspective with the child's observations??
all Southerners
According to Lee, her book simply expressed a Christian code of honor and conduct inherit to whom?
the neighborhood
Besides the children's fascination with Boo, the first part of the book was concerned about their feelings for what?
Southern romantic regionalism
Lee's detailed explanations of the characters' behaviors caused one writer to catagorize the book as what?
fine folks
Scout defined people doing the best they could with what they had as who?
The South itself
What drives the plot of the book more than the characters?
Tom Robinson
Who is the main example of an innocent destroyed in the novel?
Boo Radley
What does Scout see symbollically as a mockingbird?
real nice
According to Atticus, most people are how when you truly view them?
classical tragedy
Reviewer R. A. Dave classified the novel how?
The Chicago Sunday Tribune
What newspaper wrote that the novel has strong contemporary national significance?
Granville Hicks
Which reviewer called the book melodramatic and contrived?
Flannery O'Connor
Which Southern writer deemed it a child's book?
William Faulkner
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie vompared Lee to whom?
Jane Austen
Rosemary Goring connected Lee to whom?
Allen Barra
Who criticized Lee in The Wall Street Journal?
Akin Ajayi
Who wrote that the book forces readers to question issues without resolving them?
Calpurnia
Which character has some critics deemed a variation of a contented slave?
black students
According to one consultant, which group found the book demoralizing?
poor rural "white trash"
Michael Lund criticized the novel for demonizing whom?
the harsh reality of inequality
According to Diane McWhorter, every child in the South had to face what?
an act of protest
McWhorter wrote that the existance of the book was what?
like Scripture
How do the citizens of Monroeville quote lines of the book?
Mockingbird groupies
What do the Monroeville townspeople call tourists to their town?
the Sun
Where does solar energy come from?
Solar energy
What kind of energy consists of the light and heat provided by the Sun?
solar heating, photovoltaics, solar thermal energy, solar architecture and artificial photosynthesis
What technologies are used to harness solar energy from the sun?
radiant light and heat from the Sun
What is solar energy?
174,000
How many terawatts of solar radiation does the Earth receive?
30%
What percentage of solar radiation is reflected back by the atmosphere?
3.5 to 7.0
The areas that people live in typically receive what range of kWh/m2 per day?
174,000
How many terrawatts of radiation does the earth receive?
Approximately 30%
How much of the solar radiation is reflected back into space?
150 to 300 watts per square meter or 3.5 to 7.0 kWh/m2 per day
What are the insolation levels of most populated areas?
clouds, oceans and land masses
Where is the solar radiation not reflected back to space absorbed?
71
The Earth's oceans cover what percentage of the globe?
14
What is the average temperature of the Earth's surface in Celsius?
photosynthesis
What is the process by which green plants convert solar energy to stored energy?
about 71%
How much of the earth is covered by oceans?
Warm air containing evaporated water from the oceans rises
What is the cause of atmospheric circulation?
When the air reaches a high altitude, where the temperature is low, water vapor condenses into clouds
How does the water vapor that rises in warm air turn into clouds?
The latent heat of water condensation amplifies convection
What creates wind, cyclones and anti-cyclones?
photosynthesis
What is the process in which plants convert solar energy into stored energy called?
3,850,000
Each year the Earth absorbs how much solar energy in exajoules?
one year
In 2002, the Sun provided more energy in one hour than humans used in what span of time?
3,000
How much energy in exajoules does photosynthesis capture each year?
one year
Twice the amount of energy obtainable by all the non-renewable sources on Earth can be provided by the Sun in what span of time?
approximately 3,850,000 exajoules (EJ) per year
What is the amount of solar energy absorbed by the earth?
approximately 3,000 EJ per year
How much solar energy is captured by photosynthesis?
coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined
The amount of solar energy per year is twice as much as the energy that will ever be produced from what resources?
the Sun
Where do the majority of renewable energies derive their energy from?
passive or active
How are solar technologies defined?
depending on the way they capture, convert and distribute sunlight
What is one way that characterizes solar technologies as passive or active?
geothermal and tidal
Which renewable energies do not acquire their energy from the sun?
direct or indirect
How do renewable energies acquire energy from the sun?
Active
Are supply side solar technologies generally active or passive?
Passive
Are demand side solar technologies generally active or passive?
solar thermal collectors
What is an active solar technique used to generate energy?
designing spaces that naturally circulate air
What is an active solar technique used to generate energy?
increase the supply of energy
What does an active solar technique do?
reduce the need for alternate resources
What does a passive solar technique do?
Frank Shuman
What was the name of the inventor who built a solar engine in 1897?
1908
In what year was the Sun Power Company formed?
1912
Shuman patented his solar engine system in what year?
a U.S. inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer
Who is Frank Shuman?
1897
In what year did solar engine build his solar engine?
steam engine
What was the solar engine used to power?
1908
In what year was the Sun Power Company established?
1912
In what year did Frank Shuman patent his solar engine?
Maadi, Egypt
Where did Shuman build the world's first solar thermal power station?
22,000
How many liters of water per minute did Shuman's engine pump in litres?
the 1970s
In what decade were Shuman's ideas about solar energy revived?