Literature
This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: "Inferno", "Purgatorio" & "Paradiso"
What is The Divine Comedy?
Having no added binder, this drawing material made of burnt vines or twigs is easily manipulated with the artist's finger
What is charcoal?
In March 1848 the non-native population of this future state was 8,000; by the end of the following year, it was 100,000
What is California?
The active ingredient in TUMS, which can be used to treat a deficiency of it
What is calcium?
H
What is Hydrogen?
The Martian invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are destroyed by earthly bacteria
What is War of the Worlds?
It can mean the closely woven durable cloth on which oil paintings are made or refer to the painting itself
What is a canvas?
The only state whose name ends in 3 vowels
What is Hawaii?
It's generic name is acetamenophen
What is Tylenol?
Si
What is Silicon?
Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth
What is the Book of the Dead?
This style of painting is characterized by broad transparent areas of paint called washes
What is watercolor?
After Alaska, it's the largest state in area without a Major League Baseball team
What is Montana?
It's the active ingredient in the "pens" used to treat anaphylaxis
What is epinephrine?
Kr
What is Krypton?
Tolstoy novel set against the Napoleonic invasion of Russia
What is War and Peace?
The artist Chryssa is noted for her light art done in tubes of this gas
What is neon?
State whose license plate reads "Land of 10,000 Lakes"
What is Minnesota?
Claratin works by reducing the natural amount of this in the human body
What is histamine?
Cf
What is Californium?
Julius Caesar described his victories in the 50s B.C. in what's now France in his "Commentaries on" these "Wars"
What are The Gallic Wars?
Encaustic painting, practiced by the ancient Greeks, uses this melted insect substance as a binder
What is wax?
Classified as a Mid-Atlantic state, this state doesn't touch an ocean, but it does border Lake Erie
What is Pennsylvania?
Advertised as a morning sickness medication, this medication caused major birth defects. Whoops!
What is thalidomide?
W
What is Tungsten?