Chemistry
This radioactive element is the rarest that occurs naturally in the earth's crust.
What is astatine?
The fourth movement of this piece is made up of variations on the composer's lied "Die Forelle."
What is Schubert's Trout Quintet?
Who is Donald J. Trump?
A team from this country won the first official Olympic baseball tournament.
What is Cuba?
This artist painted many self portraits in her distinctive style, which was influenced by the folk art of her native Mexico.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This element is the most volatile one in the periodic table.
What is helium?
When a violinist complained to this composer that his late string quartets were "not music," the composer replied, "Oh, they are not for you, but for a later age."
Who is Beethoven?
He was the youngest man ever to become President.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt? (JFK was the youngest man ever elected President.)
This runner was the first to break the '10-second barrier' at low altitude.
Who is Carl Lewis?
This artist, famous for his self portraits, also painted many pictures of his wife Saskia.
Who is Rembrandt?
This South American country's name comes from the Latin name for the chemical element with the atomic number 47.
What is Argentina?
Menahem Pressler was the one consistent member of this celebrated chamber ensemble, which made its debut in 1955 at the Berkshire Music Festival and played its final concert in 2008.
Who are the Beaux Arts Trio?
He was the third American President to die of a gunshot wound.
Who is William McKinley?
Muhammad Ali's first loss was to this fighter in 1971.
Who was Joe Frasier?
His "Portrait of the Artist Without His Beard" (1889) sold at auction in 1998 for $71.5 million, making it one of the most expensive self-portraits ever.
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
The production of this oxygen molecule accounts for the characteristic 'clean' smell after a lightning strike.
What is ozone?
These eminent artists won a Grammy Award in 1979 for their recording of Beethoven's Sonatas for Piano and Violin.
Who are Vladimir Ashkenazy and Isaac Stern?
He was the only President trained as an engineer.
Who was Herbert Hoover?
The first U.S. Open golf championship was held at this Rhode Island country club in 1895.
What is the Newport Country Club?
One of the largest collections of self portraits in the world is held in this museum, housed in buildings originally designed for the use of Cosimo de' Medici in the 16th century.
What is the Uffizi Gallery?
An abundance of this compound gives Mars its distinctive red coloring.
What is iron oxide?
What is the twelve-tone technique?
This President had few 'friends' when he left office, despite his religious affiliation.
Who was Richard Nixon?
In 1986, this California native became the first non-European to win the Tour de France.
This painter of "Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting" (1638-39) was the first woman accepted into the Florentine Academy of Design.
Who is Artemisia Gentileschi?