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Little Men | LITERATURE: This 1871 sequel is subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys
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Vladimir Nabokov | LITERATURE: While teaching Russian literature at Cornell, he wrote his famous novel Lolita
Answer: | "9PaGBAapQ86cSQXdktHyKQ==" |
helium | SCIENCE: This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air
Answer: | "+UEkRdlcR4qu8E53+XCdNA==" |
John Jay | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1794 this chief justice negotiated a treaty calling for British evacuation of the Northwest
Answer: | "5jzFqMQXSsGrBCJyA2DhMg==" |
The Fountainhead | LITERATURE: Ayn Rand book that ends with Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark
Answer: | "v/E5VV6yRhe8w2jTpYuS5A==" |
Denmark | WORLD HISTORY: As a result of the Napoleonic Wars, this country lost Norway to Sweden in 1814
Answer: | "t4sNrhlwQtWxQjo6fBHPvQ==" |
Stephen Vincent Benet | LITERATURE: In 1941 his story The Devil And Daniel Webster was adapted as a film starring Edward Arnold
Answer: | "IZ1LhZglQLqjfKMGox7+iQ==" |
Victory Gardens | AMERICAN HISTORY: Nickname given the WWII backyard vegetable patches
Answer: | "495YeE0nSP+XB+elCoeRVA==" |
the Second World War | LITERATURE: The prep school classic A Separate Peace takes place during this war
Answer: | "bSBIxOsTShCRQMCr+vHygQ==" |
Oxidation | SCIENCE: Rust is a slow example of this process: combustion is defined as a rapid one
Answer: | "U0ZSWrABQT6V4WDcqUDwiQ==" |
endoskeleton | SCIENCE: As opposed to what arthropods have, vertebrates have this internal framework
Answer: | "2q37g6nyTceqJsaImvWSlQ==" |
Patrick Henry | AMERICAN HISTORY: This orator became governor of Virginia in 1776
Answer: | "JlGcylTESUiXyDZYZfbZCQ==" |
Buck | LITERATURE: Her 1942 novel Dragon Seed was yet another tale of Chinese peasant farmers
Answer: | "WblWHKUeRbGRro0yv6P3rg==" |
the guillotine | WORLD HISTORY: In 1793 the Committee of Public Safety would try people & execute them by this method all in the same day
Answer: | "9d9r7rmRSNyKeQGQ26JVsQ==" |
the Louisiana Purchase | AMERICAN HISTORY: It was the main cause of the 1803 jump in the national debt to $86.4 million
Answer: | "bgTGgALVTBqGS6AyHcLr0g==" |
T.S. Eliot | LITERATURE: This Nobel Prize winner dedicated The Waste Land to fellow poet Ezra Pound
Answer: | "TEdHhj0nQL6qcky19M0e9Q==" |
Alexander the Great | WORLD HISTORY: This Macedonian conqueror campaigned along the Indus River in 327-326 B.C.
Answer: | "XAHb3bRyRJOOajy8+XRhFA==" |
China | WORLD HISTORY: In 1967 this country exploded its 1st H-bomb at its Lob Nor test site in Sinkiang province
Answer: | "8v/8AAKtQJ+ZQzoQHOTThA==" |
Governor of Massachusetts | AMERICAN HISTORY: John Hancock held this political position from 1780-85 & from 1787-93
Answer: | "siOGWpShSGOa1OwlhGUzZA==" |
The Man with the Golden Arm | LITERATURE: Nelson Algren won a 1950 Natl Book Award for this novel about card dealer & morphine addict Frankie Machine
Answer: | "E72nRg30QxatZSr2iUDFtQ==" |
China | WORLD HISTORY: Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nations system of writing
Answer: | "MKmD+2A0QmCPFSgp9joAHQ==" |
Lee Harvey Oswald | AMERICAN HISTORY: In September 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that he acted alone in JFKs assassination
Answer: | "f1hS3XU6SGSprJnN8sPwgw==" |
Edward Lear | LITERATURE: He penned the classic line There was an old man with a beard, who said It is just as I feared
Answer: | "4/QhyUSwTra9ivQFYNeowA==" |
Charleston | AMERICAN HISTORY: When West Virginia became a state in 1863, Wheeling was its capital; this city became the permanent capital in 1885
Answer: | "w50HK2WaSjGpAcUjAP5YPw==" |
Isobar | SCIENCE: On a weather chart this line connects places that have the same barometric pressure
Answer: | "wmN8+hQbT6yjwshFTnBUnQ==" |
Fulton | AMERICAN HISTORY: This mans 1807 steamboat run up the Hudson led to an 1824 Supreme Court decision on interstate commerce
Answer: | "AgygPhGlSWe6JSd3cup9DQ==" |
Sphere | SCIENCE: Its the 3-dimensional figure that is a set of points all equidistant from the center point
Answer: | "jWgIyVUeSAq3FSLu5ORxuA==" |
scurvy | SCIENCE: Sore, stiff joints are one symptom of this condition suffered by sailors off the C, vitamin C
Answer: | "3o9CiagOSvumx6taMklxKQ==" |
Booth Tarkington | LITERATURE: He wrote Penrod, Penrod and Son & Penrod Jashber
Answer: | "L+JYapvzSZC0QPePAAGDNw==" |
steam engines | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1960 the last of these locomotives was retired from general use in the U.S. & Diesel ones took over
Answer: | "7qloVGmWSSGtDxaZvrqhRg==" |
The Caine Mutiny | LITERATURE: This 1952 Pulitzer-winning book grew out of Herman Wouks experiences on a WWII destroyer-minesweeper
Answer: | "DZ1MeO3/RgauFCKRoRVUpQ==" |
Nelson | WORLD HISTORY: Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, England expects that every man will do his duty
Answer: | "c7ONeFH9TdKPMsxM6dqa4A==" |
Iraq | WORLD HISTORY: On Sept. 3, 1996 the U.S. launched cruise missiles against this country for attacking Kurd territory
Answer: | "VtXXX1bFSsScI3Da4y9XmA==" |
South Carolina | AMERICAN HISTORY: On December 20, 1860, as a result of Lincolns election, this state seceded from the Union
Answer: | "ThKUArRsQ+qGS8YQQv16uw==" |
Humboldt | LITERATURE: Saul Bellows title character whose gift to Charlie Citrine was a sense of hope
Answer: | "eUbWgYpFQ5SSq0g1MPP53g==" |
shellac | SCIENCE: This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar
Answer: | "PpCjqIR6SFuYbagKYltUcQ==" |
212° Fahrenheit | SCIENCE: On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32° & the boiling point is this
Answer: | "ETDQiaUMSUCHCz+ONEWIzw==" |
Daphne DuMaurier | LITERATURE: Granddaughter of the author of Trilby, she wrote Rebecca
Answer: | "CzZNKg1AS+Kk++U08kipPg==" |
amniocentesis | SCIENCE: In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested
Answer: | "UvP5YqCIQ0u+7IvegGqi+g==" |
the U.S. Senate | AMERICAN HISTORY: This legislative body first met on March 4, 1789 in New York City, but only 8 of its 22 members were present
Answer: | "xk9IHwzuQGGIuuco67dgWw==" |
the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | AMERICAN HISTORY: Signed February 2, 1848, this treaty ended the Mexican War
Answer: | "6zzrMwwrTQaYSsMeANewTA==" |
an electrolyte | SCIENCE: Its a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body
Answer: | "wZEQjwQMQy+TBUn7VnLqdA==" |
Thomas Mann | LITERATURE: Buddenbrooks was the first important novel by this 20th century German author
Answer: | "zbZCvheHT3uOdabDtPopoQ==" |
the lithosphere | SCIENCE: Its the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere
Answer: | "Dd8oK70uSCuI+wS7HnyhNQ==" |
Pistils | SCIENCE: In botany there are 4 flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these
Answer: | "C2whG6xhRwm6HUaHPaaIzA==" |
Truman Capote | LITERATURE: He said it took him Five years to write In Cold Blood
Answer: | "XECqYHFWREudEHjsSAFIXQ==" |
streptococci | SCIENCE: When cocci live in pairs, theyre called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this
Answer: | "w+rLSSSgT+iXN5wmmbpsVQ==" |
Tungsten | SCIENCE: This gray metal is used in spark plugs & x-ray tubes as well as filaments
Answer: | "mbwobC0FRlCOWXl+bXtGFg==" |
Balzac | LITERATURE: Eugenie Grandet is considered one of the finest novels in his series La Comedie Humaine
Answer: | "0LVf9056RfKMP4Xs0gTYfg==" |
Israel | WORLD HISTORY: The Irgun was a secret underground organization fighting to establish this nation
Answer: | "psNrGsT0T5GeCMEWeRogzA==" |
The Portrait of a Lady | LITERATURE: New Zealander Jane Campion directed the 1996 film version of this Henry James novel
Answer: | "J0SgeHh7Q9K4qogXQYVvwA==" |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | LITERATURE: This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred
Answer: | "dtqbzulVQ+2iwrzY02dbbA==" |
octogon | SCIENCE: Next in the sequence: pentagon, hexagon, heptagon...
Answer: | "FctOw8v2SVmGE1oVyz7X2w==" |
Nucleus | SCIENCE: Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion
Answer: | "9ISBxX1ERjSoq8kKzBJTHA==" |
icebergs | SCIENCE: Tracking these, coast guard rates them as bergy bits, growlers, small, medium, & large
Answer: | "ybpDWqVxQ6eJdkBV0alMnA==" |
Zenda | LITERATURE: In an Anthony Hope novel, King Rudolf is The Prisoner Of this castle in Ruritania
Answer: | "dSmlHpHMT0+m/U8XBIn9UQ==" |
Tasmania | WORLD HISTORY: When Abel Tasman discovered this island in 1642, he called it Van Diemens Land
Answer: | "uAW5cs6pRsWJuJf3DAf55w==" |
Tarzan | LITERATURE: Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years
Answer: | "UqJMGX2DRjyCD7L6IPxnJw==" |
the Federalists | AMERICAN HISTORY: This political party founded around 1789 stood for a strong central government
Answer: | "YGX6MG/RRUasP0APxXLpfw==" |
The Sorbonne | WORLD HISTORY: This Parisian school was founded as a college of theology in 1253
Answer: | "yOwwkZ5UTOudeMPFXc0ChQ==" |
Richard Nixon | AMERICAN HISTORY: On September 8, 1974, he was granted A full, free and absolute pardon
Answer: | "RsgsRTtMRIeN8BZDmH/eAw==" |
the Hundred Years War | WORLD HISTORY: In 1453 at Castillon, the French artillery won the last battle of this long war
Answer: | "l0aqGOvoT2eB0M0HB48Vrw==" |
Crete | WORLD HISTORY: 4,000 years ago, this island was starting its middle Minoan period
Answer: | "Bn9Dc+rFTySEA2Z/MRa8Ng==" |
Albert Einstein | SCIENCE: His 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies contained his special Theory of Relativity
Answer: | "oE3tuZaDT4Ofyw4nNehuxw==" |
Poland | WORLD HISTORY: In 1795 Austria, Prussia & Russia partitioned this country, eliminating its existence
Answer: | "8MEuiStJSiSLMtZPoHjNeA==" |
John C. Calhoun | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1844 John C. Fremont crossed the Sierra Nevada & this John C. became Secretary of State
Answer: | "c9N1GbK4Qea475u0Krje9g==" |
Eric the Red | WORLD HISTORY: In 982 he sailed from Iceland to Greenland with his household & livestock
Answer: | "1Aa1lLhsREmBUeQOTL4l5g==" |
Siddhartha | LITERATURE: This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse is based on the early life of Buddha
Answer: | "kOsgAbRzQ/S+Kbj5IcIRvQ==" |
dextrose | SCIENCE: Its the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise
Answer: | "EkH0/QKBQPGb9TzNt5k0Gg==" |
Robert Frost | LITERATURE: This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, A Boys Will, while living in England in 1913
Answer: | "h/sAt/hqRmujI6Qgjt8FxA==" |
six | SCIENCE: A typical snowflake has this many sides
Answer: | "PfJCWFfnRPyWhvs9VTCnwA==" |
The Caine Mutiny | LITERATURE: Herman Wouk won a 1952 Pulitzer Prize for this novel of World War II
Answer: | "n5ZarA4FT9S7Af/gUPbSGQ==" |
Benito Mussolini | WORLD HISTORY: King Victor Emmanuel III appionted him prime minister of Italy in 1922
Answer: | "K9PIf9jOSuyUkhrNQxBxuA==" |
War of 1812 | AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1814 & 1815 New England leaders took part in the Hartford Convention to discuss opposition to this war
Answer: | "N2AHzIv5QNyy71rsu8hFMw==" |
bacterium | SCIENCE: Singular form of the word bacteria
Answer: | "4cBn4kQiT2ShJLE0Ud/6HA==" |
It dies | SCIENCE: A parasitoid differs from a parasite in that this eventually happens to its host
Answer: | "uWyS3U0tTra+zrYvEfRkDw==" |
the Milky Way | SCIENCE: Into the 20th Century it was thought the universe was one big galaxy--this one
Answer: | "IEcqV0sUStmfOidLc+rlvQ==" |
latent energy | SCIENCE: When boiling water, energy absorbed that escapes as vapor is this type of heat, from Latin latere, to hide
Answer: | "kiUNQe7yRXCuqcWX02GMHg==" |
Spin on its Axis | SCIENCE: Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this
Answer: | "rZsHvhwVS+m1II7bzWyfgQ==" |
Cecil Rhodes | WORLD HISTORY: The African nation Zimbabwe was formerly named for this Englishman
Answer: | "pu9/LWXBQk2kJCVrbniiDw==" |
Slavery | AMERICAN HISTORY: Lawrence, Kansas was founded by people opposed to this practice
Answer: | "Ila1vzGKRe6rH/DipXzmrg==" |
mummy | SCIENCE: Intact DNA was recently extracted from one of these ancient royal relics
Answer: | "HDpQwEDpTNSfNrYV8PS4tA==" |
the Continental Congress | AMERICAN HISTORY: Henry Laurens, Thomas Mifflin & Richard Henry Lee were presidents of this body that only lasted for about 15 years
Answer: | "A3n2f1sCSNulbGTCBg1Yfg==" |
From Here to Eternity | LITERATURE: James Jones 1962 novel The Thin Red Line was a sequel to this 1951 work
Answer: | "tYdK2nMERLm6DxeAwV0jDg==" |
Saturn | SCIENCE: In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell concluded that its rings were made of small, unconnected particles
Answer: | "hFaD45kJRN+6y2Xm168WGg==" |
Orangutan | SCIENCE: Piltdown Man, a hoax played on scientists, had a human skull & the jaw of this reddish ape
Answer: | "KLIZRG1KTFafqno7mrBjOA==" |
Benedict Arnold | AMERICAN HISTORY: This traitor took a cut in rank from major general in the U.S. Army to brigadier general in the British Army
Answer: | "nnm8BTPJQoaSBJlLprunGg==" |
Boston | AMERICAN HISTORY: On Dec. 16, 1773 American patriots dumped 342 chests of tea into this citys harbor
Answer: | "6WYuCb6tQ0+w4A7KhUUtdQ==" |
Messenger | SCIENCE: There are 3 types of RNA: transfer, ribosomal & this
Answer: | "yH9ZkV8BRJePXKjx45MDYw==" |
a lever | SCIENCE: In a first-class type of this, the fulcrum is between the applied force and the load
Answer: | "wkJAZywnTPehTlhoSkAxAA==" |
Dr. Faustus | LITERATURE: Goethe called him Faust; Marlowe dubbed him this
Answer: | "ZJX/rvWKS+28JtoPHMi+JA==" |
Johannes Gutenberg | WORLD HISTORY: In 1455 Johann Fust won a judgment against this printer & took the type used to print his famous Bible
Answer: | "EtX/8rWVQ86bvDNiOz7Ilg==" |
Georgia | LITERATURE: Though not in travel brochures, Erskine Caldwells Tobacco Road is located in this state
Answer: | "kU9LdYRGTZyXTP17BVnkHg==" |
William Saroyan | LITERATURE: Balzac wrote La Comedie Humaine in the 1840s & this American wrote The Human Comedy in the 1940s
Answer: | "1gnMvF3iQM6PiOjM62InBA==" |
David Copperfield | LITERATURE: In a Dickens novel, this title characters mother Clara unfortunately marries Mr. Murdstone
Answer: | "+5saCK95QJiUnIL2amYyDg==" |
China | LITERATURE: Many say that Tu Fu was this countrys greatest poet
Answer: | "utRlf5C5RNibrc1dFU0iyg==" |
Foucaults Pendulum | SCIENCE: Named after its 19th century inventor, this pendulum demonstrates the Earths rotation
Answer: | "vAf5WgaAS0GiKwVlUuqcMw==" |
Herman Melville | LITERATURE: Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel Mardi
Answer: | "SU18eng6QYaD47CbwovOQQ==" |
atoms | SCIENCE: A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these
Answer: | "mKpg7WsTSMODwrzBWkaVLA==" |
Steam | SCIENCE: In 1698 Thomas Savery designed the first practical engine to run on this power
Answer: | "Vl0NFEC1Rful1hKuQdSTvA==" |
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