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100
Which book by F. Scott Fitzgerald was based on the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional towns of West Egg and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. Many literary critics consider The Great Gatsby to be one of the greatest novels ever written.
The story of the book primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession to reunite with his ex-lover, the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary[a] tale regarding the American Dream.
100
Jazz music is a combination of what type of other music?
Ragtime, marching band music and blues
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime.Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions.
100
What do you call when you can exchange 1 US Dollar for 1.2 EURO?
Exchange Rate
In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value of one country's currency in relation to another currency, e.g. 1 US Dollar = 6.8 Chinese Yuan
100
Wie heisst der kranke Junge in Jungs WG?
Ruben
100
How many days does it take a solar flare to reach Earth?
2-3 days
200
Who wrote the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
Oscar Wild
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts, imprisonment, and early death at age 46.
200
Who sang the song "Stairway to Heaven"
Led Zeppelin
200
What word is used to describe when China sells computers, diapers, and clothes to US?
International Trade, Export for China; Import for US
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories. The seller is the exporter. The buyer is the importer.
200
What is the name of the Villain in Charlie's Angle?
Knox
200
What is the darker, total shadow cast during a full solar eclipse?
Umbra
The umbra (Latin for "shadow") is the innermost and darkest part of a shadow, where the light source is completely blocked by the occluding body. An observer within the umbra experiences a total eclipse. The umbra of a round body occluding a round light source forms a right circular cone. As viewed from the cone's apex, the two bodies appear the same size. The distance from the Moon to the apex of its umbra is roughly equal to that between the Moon and Earth: 384,402 km (238,856 mi). Since Earth's diameter is 3.70 times the Moon's, its umbra extends correspondingly farther: roughly 1,400,000 km (870,000 mi)
300
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. What are the favorate themes of symbolism?
death, disease, and sin
Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described indirectly. Thus, they wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, endowing particular images or objects with symbolic meaning. Jean Moréas published the Symbolist Manifesto ("Le Symbolisme") in Le Figaro on 18 September 1886 (see 1886 in poetry). The Symbolist Manifesto names Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Verlaine as the three leading poets of the movement. Moréas announced that symbolism was hostile to "plain meanings, declamations, false sentimentality and matter-of-fact description", and that its goal instead was to "clothe the Ideal in a perceptible form" whose "goal was not in itself, but whose sole purpose was to express the Ideal."
300
An art form between 1700 and 1800AD was originated in France
Rococo
Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l'oeil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement.
The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Style Louis XIV. It was known as the style rocaille, or rocaille style. It soon spread to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern Germany, Central Europe and Russia. It also came to influence the other arts, particularly sculpture, furniture, silverware and glassware, painting, music, and theatre. Although originally a secular style primarily used for interiors of private residences the Rococo had a spiritual aspect to it which led to its widespread use in church interiors, particularly in Central Europe, Portugal, and South America.
300
Which continent holds 90% of the fresh water?
Antarctic
300
Wer hat den Betrag des Einkaufs richtig geraten?
Luke Es war 203Euro. Luke hat 200 EURO geraten.
300
Name four purposes of human satellite in space?
navigation, reconnaissance, weather tracking, map making, scientific research, communication.
400
The age of Charles Dickens, The Brontë sisters and Oscar Wilde.
The Victorian age
Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). It was preceded by Romanticism and followed by the Edwardian era (1901–1910).
While in the preceding Romantic period, poetry had tended to dominate, the novel became the defining literary art form of the Victorian period.Charles Dickens (1812–1870) dominated the first part of Victoria's reign and most rightly can be called "The King of Victorian Literature". His first novel, The Pickwick Papers, was published in 1836, and his last Our Mutual Friend between 1864–65. William Thackeray's (1811–1863) most famous work Vanity Fair appeared in 1848, and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849), also published significant works in the 1840s. A major later novel was George Eliot's (1819–1880) Middlemarch (1872), while the major novelist of the later part of Queen Victoria's reign was Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), whose first novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, appeared in 1872 and his last, Jude the Obscure, in 1895.
400
When is the Gothic time period?
12th century-15th century
Gothic art emerged in Île-de-France, France, in the early 12th century at the Abbey Church of St Denis built by Abbot Suger. The style rapidly spread beyond its origins in architecture to sculpture, both monumental and personal in size, textile art, and painting, which took a variety of forms, including fresco, stained glass, the illuminated manuscript, and panel painting.[2] Monastic orders, especially the Cistercians and the Carthusians, were important builders who disseminated the style and developed distinctive variants of it across Europe. Regional variations of architecture remained important, even when, by the late 14th century, a coherent universal style known as International Gothic had evolved, which continued until the late 15th century, and beyond in many areas.
Although there was far more secular Gothic art than is often thought today, as generally the survival rate of religious art has been better than for secular equivalents, a large proportion of the art produced in the period was religious, whether commissioned by the church or by the laity. Gothic art was often typological in nature, reflecting a belief that the events of the Old Testament pre-figured those of the New, and that this was indeed their main significance
400
What is called a Tax on import goods or services?
Tariff
A tariff is a tax on imports or exports between sovereign states. It is a form of regulation of foreign trade and a policy that taxes foreign products to encourage or safeguard domestic industry. Traditionally, states have used them as a source of income. Now, they are among the most widely used instruments of protectionism, along with import and export quotas.
400
Name three cars you saw in Charlie's Angle movie.
1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS SS Indy 500 Pace Car
1957 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster W198 II
1967 Shelby GT500
1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS SS Indy 500 Pace Car
1970 Ford Bronco
1971 Cadillac Fleetwood 60 Special Brougham
1973 Volkswagen Station Wagon Typ 2/ T2
1984 Volkswagen Vanagon Typ 2/ T3
1991 Geo Metro
1996 Ford Taurus GL
2000 Ferrari 360 Modena
2000 Ford Expedition XLT Gen 1 UN93
Bentley Azure
Land-Rover 90
Stutz Blackhawk
400
What is the most massive planet in our solar system?
Jupiter, it's HUGE. 1.898 E 27 kg (317.8 Earth mass)
500
This is the word used when many words in a series start with the same letter or sound e.g.
in a poetry?
Alliteration (head rhyme or initial rhyme )
In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. For example, "humble house," or "potential power play." A familiar example is "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers". "Alliteration" is from the Latin word littera, meaning "letter of the alphabet"; it was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century. Alliteration is used poetically in various languages around the world, including Arabic, Irish, German, Mongolian, Hungarian, American Sign Language, Somali, Finnish, Icelandic.
500
This is one of the most recognizable paintings in all art by Edvard Munch. It has been widely interpreted as representing the universal anxiety of modern man.
The Scream
Edvard Munch (/mʊŋk/ MUUNK,[1] Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑʈ ˈmʊŋk] (
listen); 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream, has become one of the most iconic images of world art.
His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state ('soul painting'). From this emerged his distinctive style.
The Scream exists in four versions: two pastels (1893 and 1895) and two paintings (1893 and 1910). There are also several lithographs of The Scream (1895 and later).
The 1895 pastel sold at auction on 2 May 2012 for US$119,922,500, including commission. It is the most colorful of the versions[49] and is distinctive for the downward-looking stance of one of its background figures. It is also the only version not held by a Norwegian museum.
500
What is the name for the period in South Africa when segregation dominated from 1948 to the early 1990?
Apartheid (South African English: /əˈpɑːrteɪd/; Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit], segregation; lit. "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 until the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap (or white supremacy), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population.According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Asians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day.
500
What is the name of the three Angles?
Natalie, Dylan and Alex
500
The spacecraft that traveled the farthest
Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2. Having operated for 42 years, 11 months and 15 days as of August 20, 2020, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data is provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 149.39 AU (22.3 billion km; 13.9 billion mi) from Earth as of July 26, 2020, it is the most distant man-made object from Earth.