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Potpourri
100
This first name is shared by the titular character of a Charlotte Bronte novel who falls in love with a man who has locked his wife in the attic, and a famous author known for writing about the same era in English history.
What is Jane?
100
This is the fourth president of the United States, who was famous pre-Revolution for being one of the main authors of The Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison?
100
The number of oceans in the world.
What is 5?
100
Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is painted in this medium, which requires combining a binding substance with pigment.
What is oil painting?
100
The name of the Linux penguin mascot.
Who is Tux?
200
This Charles Dickens novel begins with the famous line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times".
What is A Tale of Two Cities?
200
This prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement criticized MLK for his emphasis on using nonviolent methods.
Who is Malcom X?
200
This is the highest free standing mountain above sea level in the world.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro? (Everest is part of a mountain range, while Kilimanjaro stands alone)
200
This artist is well known for painting the ceiling where the papal conclave currently takes place.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This is the layer of Earth below the one that we stand on.
What is the mantle?
300
These are the fictional neighborhoods named after a food in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby that symbolize the divide between new money and old money.
What are West Egg and East Egg?
300
This court case overturned 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson, and overturned the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Brown v Board?
300
This river is the third longest river in the world.
What is the Yellow River/Yangtze?
300
Pablo Picasso was one of the pioneers of this artistic movement that depicts subjects from multiple perspectives.
What is cubism?
300
A crustacean has this many pairs of legs.
What is 5?
400
Hester Prynne is forced to wear this letter on her chest as punishment for her crime in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
What is the letter A? (Adultery)
400
This document, signed in 1620, is one of the earliest examples of a written constitution or social contract in American history.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This desert, located in Chile, is the driest desert in the world.
What is the Atacama Desert?
400
This Dutch painter is known for works such as "Night Watch" and "The Abduction of Europa".
Who is Rembrandt?
400
This ingredient is present in sherbert but not in sorbet.
What is dairy?
500
For 200 points, this is the crime that Raskolnikov commits in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. For an additional 300 points, this is the punishment he suffers.
What is murder?
What is anguish/guilt/mental deterioration/paranoia/penal servitude in Siberia?
500
The number of states that entered the union before California.
What is 30?
500
This country is one of the only landlocked countries in South America (two correct answers).
What is Bolivia or Paraguay?
500
This painting is the only Van Gogh that the Getty has in its collection.
What is "Irises"?
500
The poet husband of Mary Shelley, who died in a boating accident at age 29.
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?