U.S. Presidents
His presidential library's website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Ronald Reagan
c) Barack Obama
b) Ronald Reagan
Discovered in 1858, Donati, one of these, developed a curved dust tail and two thin gas tails
a) asteroid
b) comet
c) star
b) comet
In 1867 Edvard Grieg founded the Norwegian Academy of Music in this city, then known as Christiania
a) Oslo
b) Bergen
c) Stavanger
a) Oslo
Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock" takes place in a tenement house in this capital city
a) New York City
b) Dublin
c) London
b) Dublin
The name of this range may be a corruption of a 1700s French trading post spelled "A-U-X A-R-C"
a) the Alps
b) the Ozarks
c) the Caucasus
b) the Ozarks
This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow
a) George Washington
b) Theodore Roosevelt
c) Thomas Jefferson
c) Thomas Jefferson
This element is the most common substance in the universe
a) hydrogen
b) helium
c) oxygen
a) hydrogen
Robert Schumann died age 46 in an asylum near Bonn, the city where this musical titan was born in 1770
a) Franz Schubert
b) Ludwig van Beethoven
c) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b) Ludwig van Beethoven
"Kremlin Chimes" is the second play in Nikolai Pogodin's trilogy about this leader of the Russian Revolution
a) Lenin
b) Stalin
c) Chekhov
a) Lenin
This mountain range is the 2nd-longest in North America
a) the Appalachian
b) the Sierra Nevada
c) the Cascade
a) the Appalachian
One of Ford's biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship Mayaguez by this Asian country in 1975
a) Cambodia
b) Malaysia
c) Vietnam
a) Cambodia
As seen from the Earth, this galaxy passes through several constellations, including Perseus & Sagittarius
a) Andromeda
b) Milky Way
c) Black Eye
b) Milky Way
In 1863 he became music director of the court balls in Vienna
a) Johann Strauss
b) Joseph Haydn
c) Gustav Mahler
a) Johann Strauss
This "Electra"fying playwright gets the credit for adding a third actor to Greek tragedies
a) Dante
b) Euripides
c) Sophocles
c) Sophocles
The Tasman and Hooker Glaciers radiate from Mt. Cook, the highest mountain of the Southern Alps in this country
a) Switzerland
b) New Zealand
c) Canada
b) New Zealand
JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family's home in this Florida town
a) Palm Beach
b) Miami
c) Destin
a) Palm Beach
A star figure known as the Northern Cross appears in this constellation, the swan
a) Aquila
b) Cassiopeia
c) Cygnus
c) Cygnus
This composer of the ballet "Rodeo" scored an Oscar for his score from "The Heiress"
a) Aaron Copland
b) Leonard Bernstein
c) George Gershwin
a) Aaron Copland
In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
a) Edward Albee
b) August Wilson
c) Tony Kushner
b) August Wilson
The first survey of this Russian mountain range wasn't undertaken until the 18th century
a) the Ural
b) the Caucasus
c) the Crimean
a) the Ural
Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce
a) Herbert Hoover
b) Calvin Coolidge
c) Franklin D. Roosevelt
a) Herbert Hoover
There's a horsehead one of these fuzzy objects in Orion and a ring one in the constellation Lyra
a) black hole
b) nebula
c) meteoroid
b) nebula
In 1927 the Baldwin Piano Co. sponsored this Hungarian composer's first visit to the U.S.
a) Bela Bartok
b) Franz Liszt
c) Antonin Dvorak
a) Bela Bartok
This "diminutive" Edward Albee play was first produced on Broadway in 1964
a) Small Soldiers
b) Tiny Alice
c) The Play About the Baby
b) Tiny Alice
This mountain range is divided into 3 regions: the Atlantic, the Central and the Mediterranean
a) the Alps
b) the Pyrenees
c) the Carpathian
b) the Pyrenees