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English composer of a Fantasia on Greensleeves and The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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This god gave Midas his powers
Dionysus
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Player with record for most MLB games played with 3,562
Pete Rose
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It's specifically defined as "claiming for oneself the attributes... of God"
Blasphemy
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Residence for the Mayor of NYC
Gracie Mansion
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Russian composer of Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures of an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
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Kyiv is on this river
Dneiper
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Wilfred Owen poem describing a gas attack during WWI
Dulce et Decorum est
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2025 Western by Ari Aster featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal
Eddington
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French composer who replaced Bernstein as director of the NY Philharmonic
Pierre Boulez
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Henry James novel featuring Isabel Archer
Portrait of a Lady
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Poet of "Death be not proud"
John Donne
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"When it gets dark I tow your heart away", says this Beatles song
Lovely Rita
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Leader of the Irish war for independence who was assassinated near Cork in 1922
Michael Collins
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Espadrilles
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King of Mycenae and husband of Clytemnestra, who leads the Greeks during the Trojan War
Agamemnon
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English composer of The Fairy-Queen and Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
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Puerto Rican right-fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates who died in a 1972 plane crash
Roberto Clemente
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This word for fast, witty exchanges is from the French for "depart again"
Repartee
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Pope during WWII
Pius XII
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Author of "The Indian Burying Ground," known as the poet of the American Revolution
Philip Freneau
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Paramour of Catherine the Great and namesake of a mutinous battleship
Grigory Potemkin
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Artist of the "Sky Mirror" sculpture
Anish Kapoor
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English Poet of "To an Athlete Dying Young"
A.E. Housman
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Last grand master of the Knights Templar burned as a heretic in 1314
Jacques de Molay
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Psychologist who most notably ran the Stanford prison experiment
Phillip Zimbardo
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MLB team thought cursed until it won the 2004 and 2007 World Series; also, last team to integrate
Boston Red Sox
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A "maybe-not-here-tomorrow" business
Fly-by-Night
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Federal agency founded in the 1930's to ensure fair practices in the stock market
SEC
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Term from German applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste
Kitsch
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Composer of Symphonie Fantastique
Hector Berlioz
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American composer of “My Old Kentucky Home”
Stephen Foster
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Iconic skyscraper at 34th & 5th Avenue
Empire State Building
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There's a ghost story within a story in "The Open Window" by H.H. Munro, better known by this single pen name
Saki
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"The Optimist's Daughter" author
Eudora Welty
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Wife of Hades
Persephone
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First woman to hold a Cabinet position (Labor)
Frances Perkins
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Safer antibiotics largely replaced this family of drugs introduced in the 1930s
Sulfas
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Successor of Charles II that was overthrown by William and Mary during the Glorious Revolution
James II
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Steelers linebacker who became the highest paid non-Quarterback in NFL history in 2025
TJ Watt
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Market value of all final goods and services produced within a country
GDP
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Man who was then beaten on the Senate floor with a cane by Preston Brooks
Charles Sumner
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Shedding its needles in autumn got the bald this, a deciduous conifer, its name
Cypress
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Composer of Lucia de Lammermoor
Gaetano Donizetti
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Brand of borax named for the team that moved the product out of Death Valley in the 1880s
20-Mule Team Borax
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First Prime Minister of the UK
Robert Walpole
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Pete Rose played 19 seasons with this team and later was their manager
Cincinnati Reds
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Director of Sleeper (1973)
Woody Allen
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Rock pioneer who sang "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958
Chuck Berry
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Transsexual prophet of literary works set in Thebes, who also tries and fails to advise Oedipus
Tiresias
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Setting of "Like Water for Chocolate"
Mexico
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1968 counter-revolution in Czechloslovakia
Prague Spring
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Air Force Base in San Bernardino County where Chuck Yeager first broke the Sound Barrier
Edwards AFB
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Richard Sheridan play in which Mrs. Malaprop appears
The Rivals
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Lionel Messi home country
Argentina
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Political philosophy that came to prominence under George W. Bush Administration figures such as Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney
Neoconservatism
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Painting depicting the title brothers swearing to defend Rome, by Jacques-Louis David
Oath of the Horatii
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Mr. Pickle, Mr. Egg & Mr. Hot Dog chase Chef Peter Pepper as he tries to make sandwiches in this arcade game
Burger Time
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British King that abdicated in 1936
Edward VIII
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Band of "I'll Be There For You"
The Rembrandts
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Islamic caliphate which succeeded the Umayyad, attacked by the Mongols, leading to the destruction of Baghdad.
Abassid Caliphate
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Dodgers pitcher who was MVP in both '63 and '65
Sandy Koufax
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Director of "Eraserhead" and "The Elephant Man"
David Lynch
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453.59 grams =
1 LB
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Author of "Look Back in Anger"
John Osborne
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Italian sculptor of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Gianlorenzo Bernini
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This 17th century philosopher was a court favorite of William & Mary
John Locke
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British artist of the etching "Myself and My Heroes"
David Hockney
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Austrian psychologist who created the idea of the inferiority complex
Alfred Adler
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Author of "In Praise of Folly"
Desiderius Erasmus
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French sociologist, the author of Suicide
Emile Durkheim
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The sixth symphony by Beethoven is nicknamed the...
Pastoral Symphony
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"Boy" in French
Garcon
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Alan Shepard became the first man in space while aboard this NASA project
Mercury
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The first ever synthetic plastic
Bakelite
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Composer of "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"
Benjamin Britten
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Soldiers originating in Hungary known for their distinctive, often flamboyant, uniforms and were widely adopted by European armies as light cavalry units
Hussars
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Trojan whose affair with Venus produced the son Aeneas
Anchises
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Actor who portrayed "Jackson Lamb" on the AppleTV plus series "Slow Horses"
Gary Oldman
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Location of Fort Donnelson, captured by Grant during the Civil War
Tennessee
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What "Sinn Fein" translates to
We Ourselves
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2010 Martin Scorsese film in which Leonardo DiCaprio plays a delusional patient at the title institution
Shutter Island
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Artist portrayed by Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo in films entitled Moulin Rouge
Henri Toulouse-Latrec
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British economist known for comparative advantage and for arguing against corn laws
David Ricardo
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Playwright of the Broadway's Pulitzer-prize winning "Picnic"
William Inge
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Amendment which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures
Fourth Amendment
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Composer of the "Unfinished Symphony"
Franz Schubert
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Supreme Court justices, federal judges, the president & vice president should all be introduced with this title
the Honorable
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Pillory
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First wife of Mohammed
Khadija
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3-time NBA Finals MVP, a power forward for the San Antonio Spurs
Tim Duncan
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Grandfather of Ashoka the Great who took control of India soon after the death of Alexander the Great
Chandragupta Maurya
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Zog, a monarch of this nation, was deposed in the June Revolution of 1924
Albania
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Composer of the "Jupiter" symphony
Mozart
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Movement that emerged in the late Renaissance, typified by Madonna of the Long Neck and other works feature strained, elongated forms
Mannerism
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Older sister and wife of the Titan Cronus
Rhea
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Monk who wrote "Ecclesiastical History" in the late 600s AD
The Venerable Bede
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Jewish philosopher, rabbi and doctor that left Cordoba in 1159
Maimonides
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The atrium at the CIA Headquarters has a model of the plane in which this man was shot down by the Soviets in 1960
Francis Gary Powers
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Egyptian pharaoh, husband of Nefertari
Ramses the Great
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President of Brazil from 2003 to 2011 succeeded by Dilma Rouseff
Lula da Silva
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Letter that denotes the relative major of A minor and has neither sharps nor flats
C
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An old term for a bedroom attendant
Chamberlain
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British sculptor of "Recumbent Figure" and other hole-y projects
Henry Moore
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Idiom referring to keeping up with a neighbor's socioeconomic or materialistic status
Keeping up with the Joneses
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"King of Swing" bandleader
Benny Goodman
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Vegas casino, the largest hotel in the world, named for a film studio
MGM Grand
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The Vikings enhanced the seaworthiness of their ships by adding this stabilizer to the underside
Keel
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Latvian-American artist who pioneered color-field painting for his "Seagram Murals" and "Red on Maroon"
Mark Rothko
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Major 732 victory for the Franks under Charles Martel over the Arabs
Battle of Tours
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Greek god of the forge
Hephaestus
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Author of "The Painted Bird"
Jerzy Kosinski
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If a lawyer talks to a judge about a case without opposing counsel consent, it's this Latin phrase for "on one side only"
ex parte
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English economist who wrote "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" and "A Treatise on Probability"
John Maynard Keynes
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Paris art museum that used to be a train station
Musee d'Orsay
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Psychologist known for the "collective unconsciouss"
Carl Jung
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Composer of Also Sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
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"All that glisters is not gold" comes from this play
The Merchant of Venice
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The last black-and-white film to win the Best Picture Oscar (2011)
The Artist
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First female African-American licensed architect
Norma Sklarek
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Portrait photographer at Rolling Stone" known for her portrait of Lennon and Ono
Annie Liebowitz
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Director of Zero Dark Thirty and The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
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Composer of the Leningrad symphonies
Dmitri Shostakovich
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Dutch graphic artist known for tesselations and his Mobius Strip II
M.C. Escher
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South African author of Master Harold... and the Boys
Athol Fugard
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Hungarian communist leader of the 1956 revolution
Imre Nagy [NAHJ]
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Czech composer of The Bartered Bride
Bedrich Smetana
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Painter of Watson and the Shark and portraits of Paul Revere
John Singleton Copley
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Hawaiian "Garden Island"
Kauai
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Region of Spain that contains Granada; the Spanish spoken in the Americas descends from this region
Andalusia
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Author of "Dover Beach"
Matthew Arnold
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Meniere's Disease affects this organ
Ear
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The Last Judgment by Michelangelo
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River on the border of North Korea and China
Yalu River
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Two main bones of the hard palate of the mouth
Maxilla and Palatine
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Irish playwright of Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge
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Ancient Greek philosopher form Samos who promoted pleasure
Epicurus
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American photographer who took Migrant Mother
Dorothea Lange
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Author of "Parmenides" and "Symposium"
Plato
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Year in which Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France
1804
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Position held by Edwin Stanton and Henry Knox
Secretary of War
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Austrian composer, known as the “Waltz King” for such pieces as The Blue Danube
Johann Strauss
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Painter of The Raft of the Medusa
Theodore Gericault
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Lady Gaga single featuring Beyonce, which repeatedly states to "stop calling.
"Telephone"
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1746 battle that crushed the Jacobite revolt
Battle of Culloden
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Term referring to the time period during which the Iberian Peninsula slowly fell out of the control of Muslim rulers
Reconquista
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"I could have been a contender" comes from this film
On the Waterfront
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Lake Tonle Sap is in this country
Cambodia
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River on the border of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sava River
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Indigenous peoples of the Mariana Islands
Chamorros
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Subtitled "A Novel Without a Hero"
Vanity Fair
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Alma mater of Milton Friedman
University of Chicago
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Hunahpu and Xbalanque are the "Hero Twins" of this peoples' mythology
Mayans
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Rhyming 19-line poetic form with five tercets and a quatrain, one of which is Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Villanelle
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Architect of La Sagrada Familia
Antoni Gaudi
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Poet of "Lady Lazarus"
Sylvia Plath
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Militant Afghans that fought the Soviets from 1979 to 1989
Mujahideen
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Rapper of the mixtapes Coloring Book and Acid Rap who famously wears a hat with the number 3
Chance the Rapper
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Aaron Copland work inspired by a speech by Vice President Henry Wallace
Fanfare for the Common Man
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"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold" comes from this Yeats poem
The Second Coming
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Jim Nightshade and William Halloway are characters from this Bradbury novel about a travelling carnival
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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The nation's first black female pilot
Bessie Coleman
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"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment" is a quote from this film
The Godfather
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Russia
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Meaning little cookie, the official state cookie of New Mexico
Biscochito
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Maura Healey, a Democratic governor from this state, is the first openly lesbian governor in history
Massachusetts
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Travis Scott
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Jamaica Estates is in this NYC borough
Queens
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Author of "Player Piano"
Kurt Vonnegut
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Nickname for the 37-foot wall at Fenway Park
Green Monster
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"Go ahead, make my day" is spoken by Dirty Harry in this film
Sudden Impact
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Mount Annapurna & Mount Dhaulagiri are in this range
Himalayas
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This canyon sinks about 8,000 feet below the rim to the Snake River below on the Oregon-Idaho border
Hells Canyon
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This infamous author of "Justine" & "Juliette" was a prisoner in the Bastille
Marquis de Sade
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Not quite star material & actually appearing red, these astronomical objects can't reach stable luminosities
Brown dwarfs
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This song by Olivia Rodrigo says, "But you made me look so naive the way you sold me for parts, as you sunk your teeth into me"
"Vampire"
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"1979" & "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" are songs by this band
Smashing Pumpkins
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It takes this many senators to end a filibuster
60
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Form of drama in which men called onnagata play the female parts
Kabuki
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An unofficial casual do-over of a shot in a friendly game of golf
Mulligan
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T.I.
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Star of country-rap that appeared with Beyonce on "Cowboy Carter"
Shaboozey
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Johnny Cage - a character from this video game and film franchise
Mortal Kombat
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French privateer and hero of the War of 1812
Jean Lafitte
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George S. Kaufman play featuring the character Sheridan Whiteside
Man Who Came to Dinner
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Austrian composer of "Symphony No.8 (of a Thousand)"
Gustav Mahler
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Composer of "Pagliacci"
Leoncavallo
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"Father of the Atomic Submarine"
Hyman Rickover
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Man who lost to Cleveland in 1884
James Blaine
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Publication of Frederick Douglas for freed slaves during the 1850s
The North Star
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Rousseau work where he claimed "man is born free but everywhere he is in chains"
The Social Contract
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Poet of "Ode to the Confederate Dead"
Allen Tate
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Closing Time is the sequel to this novel
Catch-22
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The 9th amendment mentions these rights
Unenumerated rights
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Glass cathedral designed by Phillip Johnson in California, the largest glass building in the world
Christ Cathedral
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Greek author of "Politics"
Aristotle
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Cartoonist for the New Yorker that is married to its editor, Francoise Mouly
Art Spiegelman
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Acting coach known as the father of method acting
Lee Strasberg
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Current Pope name and number
Pope Leo XIV
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Author of "The Pillars of the Earth"
Ken Follett
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MLB team of Honus Wagner and Willie Stargell
Pittsburgh Pirates
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Slayer of Hector in the Iliad
Achilles
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345 home-run shortstop of the Baltimore Orioles
Cal Ripken, Jr.
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Roman stoic philosopher and author of De Vita Beata and De Brevitate Vitae
Seneca
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Spear wielded by Cu Chulainn of the Ulster Cycle
Gae Bolg
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German painter of Wander above the Sea of Fog
Caspar Friedrich
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Art movement of Watteau and Fragonard; started in Paris following Baroque
Rococo
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German playwright of William Tell (not Rossini who wrote the opera)
Friedrich Schiller
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Creator of Abbott Elementary
Quinta Brunson
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German loanword, the joy that comes form learning the misfortunes of others
Schadenfreude
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Top German strategist during WWI
Erich Ludendorff
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"All the world's a stage" is from this play
As You Like It
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Alas, this poor jester's skull became a prop
Yorick
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From Hamlet: Hoist with his own...
Petard
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Birkin bag
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AllTrails
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IPA stands for...
India Pale Ale
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Number ounces in a gallon
128
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Greek delicacy of honey, pastry and nuts
Baclava
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Song Tom Cruise lip synced in Risky Business
Old Time Rock and Roll
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Charms attached to Crocs
Jibbitz
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Singer of Pink Pony Club
Chappell Roan
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First belt received by a karate student
White belt
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Brand of hotdog used at official hotdog eating contests
Nathan's
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A bellini calls for peaches and...
Prosecco