Super Quiz
Science
Art
Music
Language & Literature
100
Why were deputies on the far left of the Assembly called "the Mountain"?
because they sat on the rasied side of the Tuileries Hall
100
If a metal is ductile, it can be
pulled into a wire
100
A monochrome painting done in shades of gray is called a(n)
grisaille
100
How does a trombone make sound?
air
100
Who was most likely the inspiration for Lucie Manette?
Ellen Tarnan
200
What was the paper money issued by the Assembly in 1789 called?
assignats
200
What important genetic processes are possible because of the hydrogen bonds in DNA?
duplication, replication, transcription, and translation
200
Versailles was originally constructed as a(n)
hunting lodge
200
Name the musical term for changing keys
modulation
200
Monseigneur the Marquis is so exalted that he requires four servants merely to do what?
to carry his hot chocolate
300
What does jeunesse doree mean in English?
'laying bee'
300
The first most basic types of reactions are
synthesis, decomposition, double replacement, single replacement, combustion
300
The broken eggs in Greuze's painting symbolized
lost virginity
300
What is the style of Gluck's opera "Iphigenia in Aulis"?
tragedie lyrique
300
What did Foulon do to incur the wrath of the poor?
He said that those who were famished should eat grass
400
Although his name was Charles-Louis de Secondat, the author of Persian Letters is better known as the Baron of
Montesquieu
400
The equation for pH is
-log[H3O-]
400
The Vincennes porcelain factory was named after___.
the town where the factory was located
400
What is the overarching similarity between "Le chant du depart" and "La Marseillaise"?
both belong to the patriotic songs genre
400
What is the term for the eight-line stanza form Byron used for Don Juan?
Ottava rima
500
What does the "heady phrasing" of the Ventose Decrees explain?
the appropriation of counterrevolutionaries's property
500
In the rules of solubility, which sulfides are soluble?
Ca(Calcium), Ba(Barium), Sr(Strontium), Mg(Magnesium), Na(Sodium), K(Potassium), and ammonium
500
Delacroix was born into a _____ family.
wealthy and educated
500
Name the opera which served as a model for Beethoven's Fidelio
Lodoiska
500
What crime did Britain convict Thomas Paine of?
Sedition (inciting people to rebel)
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