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Misc.
Misc. pt. 2.
100

This structure is "overriding" in tetralogy of Fallot. Stenosis of the opening to this structure is a common valvular heart disease. This structure starts at the left ventricle, and descends into the abdomen, where it splits. This is the largest artery in the body.

What is the aorta?

100

In 1479 this empire launched a disastrous invasion of its western neighbors, the Tarascans. According to legend, its capital was founded where an eagle consumed a snake on a cactus. This is the Mesoamerican empire whose capital of Tenochtitlan was conquered by Hernan Cortes.

What is the Aztec Empire or Aztecs

100

A crowd in this poem unleashes "a lusty yell" after both the "lulu" Flynn and the "despised" Jimmy Blake have success. This poem ends by noting that "somewhere children shout," but "there is no joy in Mudville." This is the name of an Ernest Thayer poem about a baseball slugger who strikes out.

What is Casey at the Bat

100

In June 2019 Joyce Beatty re-introduced a House bill to put a "woman on" this object. The previous month, Steven Mnuchin announced the delay of a re-design meant to add an image of Harriet Tubman to this object. Andrew Jackson appears on this denomination of paper currency.

What is the twenty-dollar bill?

100

The eastern shores of this lake border the town of Kisumu. This lake's Ngamba Island is home to a colony of orphaned chimpanzees. The White Nile drains this lake that is shared by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. This is the African lake named for a British queen

What is Lake Victoria

200

Subtypes of this class of objects include the sparse uncinus or "mares' tails." A man-made type of these high-altitude objects formed by airplane exhaust is called a contrail. Global warming may be partly caused by these wispy clouds contrasted with stratus and cumulus.

What are Cirrus clouds?
200

This tribe produced a newspaper called Phoenix, whose first issue was published in the town of New Echota. A missionary to this tribe was the plaintiff in Worcester v. Georgia. Its headquarters are now in Oklahoma. This tribe used a writing system invented by Sequoyah. 

What is Cherokee?

200

This character delivers a speech that begins "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!" While climbing a willow tree this character falls and drowns. A prince tells her "get thee to a nunnery." Polonius is the father of this woman who goes mad in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Who is Ophelia?

200

This state's highest point, Britton Hill, is the lowest "high point" of any state. A city in this state has the largest area of any US city. The Dry Tortugas are islands in this Southern state that includes the city of Jacksonville, and an archipelago called the "Keys".

What is Florida?

200

A 2019 paper on the Apidima 1 skull suggests humans reached this continent 200,000 years ago, rather than 60,000 as once thought. Thus, paintings in this continent's EL Castillo and Chauvet caves may have modern human origins. This is the continent did Neanderthals originate

What is Europe

300

Adding the letters "S-T-E" to the beginning of this unit gives an analogous 3D unit. This unit is often used in calculus for the inputs to trigonometric functions to avoid conversion factors of 180 over pi. This is the name of the SI unit for angles, of which there are 2 pi in a circle.

What are radians?

300

One novel from this country describes a temple on Vulture Peak, where a monk obtains scriptures. Three men swear the Peach Garden Oath in a novel depicting 2nd-century wars in this country whose "Classical Novels" include Journey to the West and Romance of the Three Kingdoms. 

What is China?

300

Characters in this film propose to retrieve a key by using an attack called the "Plush Rush." "Yes we Canada!" is the slogan of a daredevil in this film named Duke Caboom. Bonnie creates a terrified craft named Forky in this 2019 film starring Tom Hanks as the doll Woody

What is Toy Story 4?

300

In 2019 this group refused to join a Ioya jirga assembly chaired by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. This group's name means "students" in Pashto. In 2019 it began negotiating with the US in Qatar in hopes of ending a war that started in 2001. This is the name of the terrorist group in Afghanistan.

What is the Taliban?

300

This structure's shape was inspired by the nearby Eads Bridge. This structure has cross-sections in the shape of equilateral triangles, though its overall shape is that of a catenary curve. Eero Saarinen used stainless steel in the design of this tall landmark in Missouri

What is the Gateway Arch?

400

Radiation in this range of the spectrum can excite vibrational modes of molecules. This radiation with wavelengths between 700 nm and 1 mm is used by thermographic cameras. This is the name of the part of the spectrum with wavelengths longer than visible light, unlike UV radiation

What is infrared radiation

400

During this event, Sir Duff-Gordon gave gifts that were later misconstrued as bribes. Isidor Straus, a co-owner of Macy's, was killed in this event. Molly Brown earned the nickname "Unsinkable" during the course of this 1912 maritime disaster caused by an iceberg.

What is the sinking of the Titanic? 
400

The protagonist of this play calls her brother-in-law's children "no-neck-monsters." A man in this play is driven to drink by the suicide of his football teammate Skipper. In this Tennessee Williams play, Brick's wife Maggie compares herself to the title feline

What is Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?

400
This composer joked that the Devil might be able to play his Wanderer Fantasy, a piece that this man based on one of his more than 600 lieder. A B minor orchestral piece by this composer contains only two completed movements. This is the Austrian composed the Unfinished Symphony.

Who is Franz Schubert?

500

A rule derived by this man explains why a pure substance has no degrees of freedom at the triple point. A quantity named after this scientist is equal to enthalpy minus the product of temperature times entropy. This is the American that is the namesake of a type of "free energy"

Who is Josiah Willard Gibbs

500

This political party was joined by Helen Keller, who supported the departure of IWW members from this party in 1912. In 1920 this party's presidential candidate ran from prison after opposing the draft. This is the name of the left-wing party led by the trade unionist Eugene V. Debs

What is the Socialist Party

500

In 1972 the king of Bhutan coined a phrase referring to the "gross national" amount of this quality. People who feel that this quality is "the truth" are told to "clap along" in a song by Pharrell Williams. The Declaration of Independence defends "the pursuit of" this emotion

What is happiness?

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