Historical Treaties
Novels by Main Characters
Scientific Experiments
Night at the (Art) Museum
Virtuosos
The Sound of Musicals
Bible Book By Quotation
Myth Systems
The Quizbowl Flea Market
Whatever the Heck!
200
The Treaty of Paris ended this war in 1783
What is the Revolutionary War? (accept: American Revolution)
200
Antonio and Shylock
What is The Merchant of Venice?
200
The Millikan oil drop experiment used drops of oil to measure the charge of this negative subatomic particle
What is the electron?
200
The Louvre houses this sculpture by Alexandros of Antioch, which is famously without arms
What is the Venus de Milo?
200
Yehudi Mehunin and Itzhak Perlman were virtuosos of this string instrument
What is the violin?
200
"I go to the hills" when I think of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical featuring the Von Trapp Family Singers
What is The Sound of Music?
200
"In the beginning, God created the heaven, and the earth..."
What is Genesis?
200
This myth system includes Osiris, god of the underworld, his wife Isis, and other gods including Set, Horus, Thoth, and Anubis
What is Egyptian?
200
You find this ancient object in the flea market, which apparently stores films in analog on its magnetic film
What are videocassettes? (accept: VHS)
200
The official religion of Indonesia
What is Islam?
400
World War I ended with this treaty, signed in 1919, which also created the League of Nations
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
Scout, Jem, Boo Radley
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
400
This monk and geneticist worked with pea plants, which led to him developing three laws of genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
400
The Hermitage owns several paintings by this Dutch artist, including his "Thatched Cottages"
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
400
Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Sergei Prokofiev were virtuosos of this multi-key instrument
What is the piano?
400
Leonard Bernstein did the music; Jerome Robbins did the choreography, and Shakespeare inspired them both - this led to six Tony Award nominations and one Oscar win
What is West Side Story?
400
"For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast..."
What is Exodus?
400
The Upanishads and the Vedas inform this religious myth system featuring the trimurti and other deities such as Saraswati and Parvati
What is Hinduism?
400
You find a Magic Johnson basketball card from 1990, and he played for this team throughout the 1980s
What is the Los Angeles Lakers? (Accept: Los Angeles)
400
The official currency of Sri Lanka
What is the rupee?
600
The Congress of Vienna, which occurred between 1814-1815, signaled the end of this series of wars between France and everyone else
What is the Napoleonic Wars?
600
Doc Daneeka, Major Major Major Major
What is Catch-22?
600
The Rutherford gold foil experiment determined this part of the atom is small and positively charged
What is the nucleus?
600
El Prado is home to this painting by Diego Velazquez, which features Philip IV's family and court officials
What is Las Meninas?
600
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, who was also a virtuoso, was composed by this Russian virtuoso, also responsible for Symphonic Dances
Who is Sergei Rachmaninoff?
600
Before Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda composed the music for this musical, which was later adapted into a 2021 movie starring Anthony Ramos as Usnavi and Corey Hawkins as Benny
What is In the Heights?
600
"The lord is my shepherd, I shall not want."
What is Psalms?
600
The Yoruba religion is practiced in this country of Africa, which includes Oyo, Ogun, and Ondo
What is Nigeria?
600
Moving over to the vinyl section, you look at "Blonde on Blonde" and "Highway 61 Revisited," both LPs by this folk rock musician of "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Who is Bob Dylan?
600
One of the official languages of Belgium
What is: French, Dutch, and German?
800
The Peace of Westphalia ended this 1618-1648 religious conflict, with other treaties being signed in Osnabruck and Munster
What is the Thirty Years' War?
800
Steerforth, Dora Spenlow
What is David Copperfield?
800
Thomas Young's double slit experiment produced dark and light fringes, which are produced by constructive and destructive forms of this phenomenon
What is interference?
800
At the MoMA, you can find "Gas Station," a painting by this artist of "Chop Suey" and "Nighthawks"
Who is Edward Hopper?
800
Andres Segovia was a virtuoso of the Spanish form of this instrument, with strings and frets
What is the guitar?
800
This 1953 movie musical, centered around the advent of "talkies," stars virtuoso dancer Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, and Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Selden
What is Singin' in the Rain?
800
"He was pierced because of our rebellions and crushed because of our crimes. He bore the punishment that made us whole; by his wounds we are healed."
What is Isaiah?
800
The two major sects of Islam are Sunni and this minority sect, who believes Muhammad appointed Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (khalifa) and the first imam
What is Shia?
800
You find this board game involving five dice, a cup, score pad, and a pencil; and it involves screaming out the game title when you get the right dice combo
What is Yahtzee?
800
This is the official flag of this African country
What is the Central African Republic?
1000
This 1494 treaty divided the New World between Spain and Portugal, drawing a line halfway between the Cape Verde Islands and the islands "discovered" by Columbus
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
1000
Euripides, Pluto, Aeschylus
What is The Frogs?
1000
The Hershey-Chase experiment used radioactive isotopes of two elements (which were attached to viruses) to determine whether DNA or protein was the cause of inheritance; name either element
What is phosphorus or sulfur?
1000
The National Gallery houses "Woman Holding a Balance" by this influential Dutch painter of "Girl With a Pearl Earring"
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
1000
This virtuoso trumpeter invented the genre of "cool jazz" and released albums such as Kind of Blue and Spanish Sketches
Who is Miles Davis?
1000
Before Rodgers, Hammerstein collaborated with Jerome Kern to produce this musical, famous for the show tune Ol' Man River
What is Show Boat?
1000
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast."
What is 1 Corinthians? (accept: Epistles of Paul or any knowledge equivalent)
1000
This mythological system of Canada involves shamanism, animism, and Sedna, the goddess of the sea (although they do not believe in eternal punishment)
What is Inuit?
1000
You then find a DVD of this 1993 Robin Williams comedy involving him dressing up as a British babysitter in order to keep in contact with his divorced wife and kids
What is Mrs. Doubtfire?
1000
The Maloti Mountains run through this country
What is Lesotho?
2000
WWII was ended by this treaty, which included payment of war reparations, and a rough outline of what post-war Europe would look like politically
What is the Paris Peace Conference? (accept: Paris Peace Treaties or Treaty of Paris)
2000
Stephen Kumalo, James Jarvis
What is Cry, The Beloved Country?
2000
The Miller-Urey experiment used methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), water, and hydrogen to simulate an early earth environment; with electricity, these inorganic compounds produced these building blocks of proteins
What are amino acids?
2000
The Rosetta Stone, as well as paintings by Edvard Munch, William Blake, Albrecht Durer, and Edgar Degas, are held in this museum located in London
What is The British Museum?
2000
Virtuosity does not just apply to music; some say this famous martial artist and actor of Game of Death and Enter the Dragon had a virtuoso personality
Who is Bruce Lee?
2000
This musical, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards, and book by Peter Stone, focuses on John Adams and his persuading his colleagues to sign the Declaration of Independence
What is 1776?
2000
"The great dragon was hurled down - that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him."
What is Revelation? (without the S; accept: Apocalypse of John)
2000
Terry Pratchett created this fictional mythological system which involves elephants being held up by the great turtle Great A'Tuin
What is Discworld?
2000
One of the vendors is selling their coins, including this 100 peseta piece that was used in this country before the adoption of the Euro
What is Spain?
2000
The official animal of Scotland
What is the unicorn?