American Literature
Hemingway once claimed all modern American literature stems from this Mark Twain classic.
Huckleberry Finn
Name the first African nation to play in the final strages of football's World Cup.
Zaire
In which musical did the heroine "wash that man right out of her hair"?
South Pacific
The heart chamber that receives blood is called this.
Atrium
In Greek mythology Medusa's hair was made of these.
Snakes
The medal given for the most distiguished contribution to American children's literature is called this.
Newbery Medal
Which country won the first World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay over Argentina
Alan Aychbourn
Robert Gallo was one of the pioneers in the identification of this virus.
HIV
In Greek mythology this creature was half-man and half-bull.
Minotaur
The author of 1987's Black Dahlia, he calls himself the demon dog of American Literature.
James Ellroy
The most penalized team in World Cup history is this team.
Spain
What is the native language of English playwright Tom Stoppard, author of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Travesties, and The Real Thing?
Czech
The name given to a catalyst which occurs in nature to regulate the speed of chemical reactions in the metabolism of living organisms is this.
Enzyme
In Greek mythology she is the goddess of the rainbow.
Iris
A Life Less Ordinary by M Scott Peck
The 1970 World Cup finals were held in this country.
Mexico
This opera was written to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal and first performed December 24, 1871.
Har Gobind Korana won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Medicine for this type of research.
Genetics
In Greek mythology, he was cursed to stand in a pool under low hanging branches, and whenever he reached up for fruit the branches raised out of his grasp; whenever he bent low for a drink the water receded.
Tantalus
Of the trio of female U.S. novelists who have sold over 30 million books, who was the second to be published?
Harper Lee
The only country to have played in every World Cup is this country.
Brazil
This is the only playwright to have won four Pulitzer Prizes.
Eugene O'Neill
This is the most abundant substance in the plant kingdom, which no mammal produces the enzyme to digest.
Cellulose
In Greek mythology, who was the bandit who cut the legs of his victims or stretched them to fit to a bed?
Procrustes