19th Century Authors
This man wrote "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". He both was born and died while Halley's comet was viable in the sky.
Who is Mark Twain?
Thomas Marshall said that "Death had to take [this man] sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight." He was the only 3rd party candidate of the 20th century to win more votes than one of the major party candidates.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This substance is not only banned by the MIT IFC during CPW, but by the 18th amendment.
What is alcohol?
This deaf German's Opus 67 is the first 5th symphony you though of. It's famous opening motif is repeated throughout.
What is Beethoven's 6th symphony?
What is Brazil?
This Russian's "gun" is a dramatic principle stating that every element in a story should be necessary.
Who is Anton Chekhov?
This founder of the Harvard University School of Mines (which lasted one year) is the namesake of the tallest mountain in the continental United States.
Who is Josiah Whitney?
When a fried convinced Paul Erdos to give up this type of drug for a month, he stated that it had set the progress of mathematics back the same amount of time.
What are amphetamines?
The opening of this symphony is in C# minor, but the finale is in D major. The adagietto 4th movement is often said to be a love song to the composer's wife, Alma.
What is Mahler's 5th?
Francisco Pizaro toppled the Incan empire in this Andean nation.
Where is Peru?
This author of "Tales from an Old Manse" went to college with president Franklin Pierce and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He added a w to his surname to dissociate himself from an infamous New England judge, his great-great-grandfather.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This man’s “Mourning Journal” was a major example of Yellow Journalism. He was the inspiration for Citizen Kane.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
The Spring Purification circle persuaded the Daoguang Emperor to keep this illegal, and destroyed stocks of it in guangzhou, the only Chinese city open to foreign merchants at the time.
What is Opium?
Called "a Soviet artist's creative response to justified criticism," the 1937 premier of this work brought its composer back into good standing of the Soviet Government.
What is Shostakovitch's 5th symphony?
Where is Surname?
This New Yorker wrote the Piazza tales and Billy Budd.
Who is Herman Melville?
Appointed to the supreme court after the death of Roger Taney, this man was on the first printed $1 bill. He was Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury.
Who is Salmon P. Chase?
Walter Raleigh popularized this substance in England during the early 17th century. North Carolina leads the US in growing this crop.
What is Tobacco?
This 3 movement symphony was commissioned by the Finnish Government in honor of the composer's 50th birthday in 1915.
What is Sibelius' 5th symphony?
This largest landlocked country in south america lost access to the sea in the War of the Pacific against Chile in the 1880's.
What is Bolivia?
This American-English author wrote Portrait of a Lady and the Turn of the Screw. His brother was a founder of the philosophical school of pragmatism.
Who is Henry James?
This playwright of Our Town wrote the libretti for the PaulHindemith opera “The Long Christmas Dinner”. His book “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” was quoted by Tony Blair in his response to 9-11.
Who is Thornton Wilder?
This synthetic compound has two stereocenters at the carbon atoms C-5 and C-8. According to wikipedia it is strongly flurescent and will glow blue under UV light.
What is LSD?
This symphony. sometimes known as the "Tragic" or "Church of Faith", was never heard by its composer, who Hans von Bulow described as "half genius, half simpleton."
What is Bruckner's 5th symphony?
An estimated 70% of this country's adult male population died in the War of the Triple Alliance.
Where is Paraguay?