Literature
Name this author of bizarre children’s books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Who was Ronald Dahl?
A painting by Sandro Botticelli depicts this event in Venus’s life. In the painting, Venus is blown to shore on an enormous seashell while a nymph rushes to clothe her
What is The Birth of Venus?
In this man’s highest post, he wrote a Report on Manufactures and four Reports on Public Credit. This man worked with John Jay and James Madison on the Federalist Papers, and he died after an early morning incident near Weehawken, New Jersey
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
In 2019, Jair Bolsonaro became President of this country, where he immediately gave agricultural businesses greater access to land in the Amazon by removing protections for indigenous people
What is Brazil?
One column in the table of physical constants lists this property, which is defined as a substance’s ratio of mass to volume. Ice has a value of 0.92 grams per cubic centimeter for this property, allowing it to float in liquid water
What is density?
Coltrane’s A Love Supreme ends with a track named for this type of Biblical song. The twenty-third of these poems in the King James Bible begins “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.”
What is a Psalm?
In “My Last Duchess,” the sociopathic duke shows a guest a piece of art created by Fra Pandalf, a man with this profession, who created a depiction of the dead duchess
What is a painter?
This landmass is hypothesized to be the fourth of its kind, following Columbia, Rodinia, and Pannotia. Alfred Wegener named this landmass, which surrounded the Tethys Sea. Mesosaurus fossils on the coasts of Brazil and Namibia provide evidence for this landmass, which included regions that became Laurasia and Gondwana at the end of Mesozoic Era. Name this supercontinent that broke apart tens of millions of years ago and whose name means “all Earth”
What was Pangaea?
This country’s Constitution prohibits Presidential re-election, and has thus alternated between Sebastian Pinera and Michelle Bachelet as leaders since 2006. The President of this country is based in La Moneda Palace in Santiago
What is Chile?
Franklin’s kite experiment helped establish that lightning is an example of this type of electricity caused by one object gaining a greater negative charge compared to another
What is static electricity?
In a play by this author, Miss Prism accidentally leaves a baby in a handbag at a train station, and finally reveals her mistake to Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief. This author of Lady Windermere’s Fan wrote the poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol after he was imprisoned for homosexuality
Who was Oscar Wilde?
Munch’s painting Love and Pain, another work from the Frieze of Life, has been informally given this title. In the painting, a red-haired woman bends over a pale-faced man, and seems to be feeding from him like this title creature
What is a vampire?
Name this 2015 international environmental agreement. In 2017, Donald Trump announced the United States would no longer participate in this agreement
What is the Paris Agreement?
Manhattan is an island surrounded by three rivers: the Hudson on the west, the East on the east, and this narrow strait separating Manhattan from the Bronx
What is Harlem River?
A scientist from this country discovered the neutron and headed this country’s phase of the Manhattan Project, code-named Tube Alloys. Both the Crookes radiometer and Newcomen steam engine were invented in this country, where the law of the spring was stated by Robert Hooke, a curator of its Royal Society
What is United Kingdom?
Name this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel in which the title man is killed in his pool by George Wilson, a car mechanic out for revenge for the death of his wife
What is The Great Gatsby?
This artist created the print Fiesta Pig and organized the Exploding Plastic Inevitable events for creators who worked with this man in his studio, “The Factory.” This artist created a series of paintings showing mass-produced items in “Tomato” and “Beef Noodle” flavors
Who was Andy Warhol?
In this play, a speech that remembers when this play’s title man was offered “a kingly crown” turns a mob against Cinna the poet. A ghost in this play warns one of his killers that he will be defeated at Philippi, and is defended by Mark Antony. The title character of this play says “et tu, Brute?” while being stabbed by Brutus and other senators
What was The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
The final member of a species from this location, Lonesome George, died in 2012. This region’s variety of food sources produce beaks that specialize in insect-catching and seed-crushing in its native birds. Name this equatorial location where Charles Darwin observed finches, leading to the theory of natural selection
What are Galápagos Islands?
Improved precision in measuring the position implies worse precision in measuring this quantity, according to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Unlike kinetic energy, this quantity is conserved in both elastic and inelastic collisions
What is linear momentum?
Name this nonsense poem, in which a hero is warned to “beware the Jubjub bird, and shun / the frumious Bandersnatch,” but takes “his vorpal sword in hand” to defeat the title beast
What is Jabberwocky?
Toward the end of his life, Leonardo left Italy and traveled to France, taking with him his painting of The Virgin and Child with this woman. In the painting, Mary sits on this woman’s lap and reaches toward her infant son, who is wrestling with a lamb
Who was Saint Anne?
Name this country where helicopters extracted over 2,000 people in Operation Frequent Wind in 1975, marking the end of American involvement in a Southeast Asian war
What is Vietnam?
Trotsky was initially exiled to Almaty, which served as the capital of this country within the Soviet Union and as an independent nation. In 1997, this country moved its capital to Astana
What is Kazakhstan?
By 2030, half of Vietnam’s farmland may be ruined by an intrusion of this substance. Domes of this substance are often drilled to access trapped oil. Halite is the mineral form of this substance, which is found in large amounts in both the Bonneville Flats and Dead Sea
What is salt?