US Presidential Elections
Functions Concerning Triangle Math
Writing About Death
Operas
Ireland
100

The election in which rumors about her using email to communicate about government business and the "Pizzagate" scandal hurt the image of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

What is 2016?

100

This function can be defined as opposite over adjacent.

What is the Tangent Function?
100

In this poem Emily Dickinson witness children playing while taking a carriage ride with death.

What is Because I could Not Stop For Death?

100

In this Verdi opera the title character is an  is an Ethiopian princess who is held captive in Egypt.

What is Aida?

100

This is the capitol of Ireland.

What is Dublin?

200

The election in which the race between candidate "tweedldee and tweedldum" was so close in Florida that the supreme court had to choose who was president

What is the 2000?

200

This function is the inverse of sin.

What is Cosecant?

200

In this poem, named after the fear of death, William Cullen Bryant asks the reader to “approach thy grave... and [lie] down to pleasant dreams.”

What is Thanatopsis?

200

In this opera Cio-Cio-San gives Pinkerton and Kate her son and stabs herself with her father’s dagger. This opera is based on a play by David Belasco.

What is Madame Butterfly?

200

This is the Irish poet who wrote Easter 1916 and The Second Coming.

Who is William Butler Yeats?

300

Name this election in which Henry Clay accepted a "corrupt bargain" that made John Quincy Adams president.

What is 1824?

300

This function’s Maclaurin series begins “x minus x cubed over 3 factorial.”  

What is the Sin Function?

300

Eugene O'Neill wrote this play where Mary Tyrone struggles with morphine addiction.

What is Long Day's Journey Into Night?

300

Name this Verdi opera where Count Almaviva loves Rosina and Figaro (who brags about his wit in “Largo al factotum”) promises to help him win the girl. 

What is the Barber of Seville?

300

Finnegans Wake, a practically nonsensical work, was by this Irish author

Who is James Joyce?

400

Name this election where William Jennings Bryan was foiled by his opposing candidates "front porch campaign."

What is 1896?

400

For a complex number of modulus one, this function of the argument is the number’s real part.

What is the Cosine Function?

400

This is a Henrik Ibsen play about a women who shoots herself with a pistol.

What is Hedda Gabler?

400

This is an opera about a title 14th-century Swiss patriot who wishes to end Austria’s domination of his country.

What is William Tell?

400

This is the river that flows through the capitol of Ireland.

What is the River Liffey?

500

This is the election where a party that followed the "Omaha Platform" carried 4 states under James Weaver.

What is 1892?

500

The Tau Movement argues that this number should replace pi as the fundamental constant of the circle.

What is 2 pi?

500

This Housman poem begins by asking the title person to remember "The time you won your town the race" and is included in his Shropshire Lad collection.

What is To An Athlete Dying Young?

500

This opera is based on a book written Voltaire in which the title characters mentor, Pangloss, states "you must cultivate your own garden."

What is Candide?
500

This is the agreement that ceased hostilities between the IRA and UK.

What is the Good Friday Agreement?