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100

Jørn Utzon designed what building with white, sail-like, interlocking arches, located in Australia?

The Sydney Opera House

100

This state is home to Glacier National Park and the northernmost part of Yellowstone National Park. The source of the Missouri is in this state, whose university is located in Missoula. Name this state with capital Helena.

Montana

100

This general beat Tsar Alexander the First at the Battle of Austerlitz after this man’s navy was decimated by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, and he was eventually defeated by the Duke of Wellington. Name this French Emperor who lost the Battle of Waterloo and was exiled to St. Helena.

Napoleon Bonaparte [or Napoleon I]

100

This author wrote a novel set on Manor Farm that contains a power struggle after the death of Old Major. Identify this author who wrote about Snowball and Napoleon in Animal Farm and depicted Winston Smith's resistance to Big Brother in 1984.

George Orwell

100

The Florence type has a round bottom, and the version with vacuum-enclosing walls is named for Dewar. Name these common pieces of laboratory glassware, exemplified by the Erlenmeyer type.

Flasks

200

This is the interval between the tonic and dominant, and the inversion of this interval is the perfect fourth. Name this interval between the notes C and G.

Perfect Fifth

200

Identify this body of water found in Canada that is bordered by the provinces of Quebec, Nunavut, Ontario and Manitoba.

Hudson Bay

200

When Lucretia Mott was not allowed to give a speech at the International Anti- Slavery Convention, this woman joined with her in planning their own convention. She also worked closely with Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony to fight for women’s suffrage. Name this author of The Woman’s Bible and Declaration of Sentiments who helped lead the Seneca Falls Convention.

(Elizabeth Cady) Stanton

200

This book ends with the protagonists encountering Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot in the three mouths of Satan. Name this section of Dante’s Divine Comedy set in Hell.

Inferno

200

This element's nitride is notable for its hardness equivalent to sapphire and is used to coat drill bits, and its dioxide is used as an intensely white pigment. Name this transition metal frequently used in aerospace technology because of its light yet durable nature, with atomic number 22.

Titanium

300

This Italian Baroque musician composed The Four Seasons.

(Antonio Lucio) Vivaldi

300

It shares Lake Constance with Germany and Austria, and it has four official languages, including Romansh. Name this country which is divided into cantons and which is home to Geneva.

Switzerland

300

After a contentious confirmation, this man served as judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for almost twelve years before the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Name this man, who, in 2018, President Trump nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Brett Kavanaugh

300

The title character of this work is accompanied on such adventures as intervening in a battle between sheep and fighting giants that are actually windmills by a man who rides the donkey Dapple, Sancho Panza, and he himself rides Rocinante and loves Dulcinea. Name this novel about a man of La Mancha by Cervantes.

Don Quixote (de La Mancha)

300

Magnetometer measurements indicate its internal magnetic field changes over time, suggesting that it has a conducting layer, which may be a salty liquid ocean beneath its icy surface. These measurements were carried out by the Galileo spacecraft. What is this smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter?

Europa

400

He is shown crowing his kneeling wife in a coronation portrait by the artist of The Sabine Women. Identify this man shown on his horse crossing the Alps by David.

Napoleon Bonaparte

400

Its eastern side stops near Crown Point, as the mountains give way to Lake George and Lake Champlain. Lake Placid is located in what mountain range of upstate New York?

Adirondack Mountains

400

This period saw the first records of European travel to China, including the journey of Marco Polo. Identify this Chinese dynasty that lasted from 1271 to 1368 noted from such Mongol rulers as Kublai Khan.

Yuan Dynasty

400

The work in which he appears is framed largely as a conversation between him and a crashed pilot in the Sahara. Name this boy who lives on a baobab-infested asteroid, the title character of a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

The Little Prince [or Le Petit Prince]

400

This disease results in the presence of a single transverse palmar crease and can cause gray or brown discolorations around the iris, known as Brushfield spots. This disease is caused by the most survivable autosomal nondisjunction. What genetic disorder is caused by three copies of chromosome 21?

Down Syndrome (or Trisomy 21)

500

Identify this this composer better known for tone poems like The Golden Spinning Wheel, two sets of Slavonic Dances, and his Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”

(Antonin) Dvorak

500

These islands lie north of the Drake Passage, and they are separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan. Name these islands shared by Chile and Argentina.

Tierra del Fuego [or Land of Fire]

500

He'd earlier gained infamy for sanctioning the Fort Pillow massacre. Name this man who also served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a cavalry commander for the Confederacy.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

500

Eugène de Rastignac is a recurring character in his novels, which include Cousin Pons and Cousin Bette as well as a novel about a doting parent, Pere Goriot. Name this prolific French author who wrote over one hundred works, which make up The Human Comedy.

(Honoré de) Balzac

500

Caused by the Neisseria bacterium, it can be mistaken for appendicitis in women, but in men is characterized by difficulty and burning in urination and the flow of pus from the urethra. What is this venereal disease often coexisting with syphilis?

Gonorrhea

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