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Grand Canyon

217-mile long natural landmark found in northwest Arizona

George Gershwin

American composer who wrote "Rhapsody in Blue"

Arthur Miller

American dramatist whose works include "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible"

Rachel Carson

American marine biologist who authored "Silent Spring"

Franz Kafka

Czech author of "Amerika"

Franz Liszt

Hungarian composer famous for Hungarian Rhapsodies and his Faust Symphony

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Italian composer famous for his operas and his works, "Cinderella," "The Barber of Seville," and the William Tell Overture

Daniel

Jewish hero in Babylon who interpreted dreams

caveat emptor

Latin for the common phrase "buyer beware"

Odin

Norse god whose name was given to Wednesday

Edvard Munch

Norwegian painter best known for expressing emotional distress as seen in "The Sick Child," "The Vampire," and "The Scream"

Richard I

Plantagenet king from 1189-1199, who fought in the Third Crusade and was succeeded by his younger brother, John

Constantine

Roman Emperor to become the first Christian Emperor after issuing the Edict of Milan in 313 AD

Jupiter

Roman god of rain, thunder, and lightning

Edward Hopper

1930's New York artist whose art is often of lonely street scenes and include "Early Sunday Morning" and "Nighthawks"

Boyle's Law

a gas law which states that PV=k

Bram Stoker

author of "Dracula"

USS Maine

the US ship that was destroyed while anchored off of Havana, Cuba, and was an instigator of the Spanish-American War

42

the answer to life, the universe, and everything, according to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

William Golding

the author of "Lord of the Flies" who joined the Royal Navy when WWII broke out

Hagia Sophia

the basilica constructed in Constantinople, bearing a name which translates from Greek to "Holy Wisdom"

KGB

the initials of the Soviet Union's Secret Police, called in English the Committee of State Security

Tarzan

the jungle man created by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Aeolus

the keeper of the winds in Greek mythology

anaconda

the largest snake in the world, found in South America, that can grow to 36 feet in length and 1100 pounds

algebra

the literal meaning of this Arabic term for mathematics is "combining broken parts"

Jesse Owens

the man who embarrassed Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin when he won four gold medals

gyrus

the plural form of the word which describes the ridges on the brain's gray matter

A. A. Milne

author who based his stories off his son, Christopher Robin

enzymes

catalyst-proteins that start, speed up, slow down, or stop chemical reactions by attaching to substrates at an active site

Benedict Arnold

convicted of treason on September 23, 1780, this man escaped to become a brigadier general in the British army

squash

the generic name for two similar games, raquets and tennis, played on a four-walled court with a racket and a ball

Pyramus and Thisby

the lovers in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who spoke through a crack in the wall

cork

the material first found in the centers of baseballs at the championship in 1910 between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago Cubs

Allegheny Mountains

the mountain range from Pennsylvania to Viginia, parallel to the Appalachian Mountains, and rising to more that 4,900 feet

Scotland Yard

the name of the detective department of the London metropolitan police force

trichinosis

the name of the sickness rumored to have killed Mozart that comes from eating undercooked pork

Elysian Fields

the part of the underworld in Roman mythology in which the virtuous dead find reward and peace

acoustics

the science that deals with the production, control, transmission, effects, and reception of sound

Bismark

the ship which was the center of the longest naval battle in history and whose namesake was Germany's iron Chancellor

Methuselah

the son of Enoch and grandfather of Noah, this man is rumored to be the longest-lived in the Old Testament, dying at the age of 969

Tyr

the son of Odin (also known as Tiu) who gave his name to Tuesday

Adenosine Triphosphate

the source of chemical energy in cells, releasing energy when a bond is broken between two of its phosphate groups

silk

the strongest of natural fibers obtained from the cocoons of a certain worm and used in the textile industry

Jupiter

the supreme god in Roman mythology, brother of Neptune and husband of Juno

jihad

the term for an Islamic Holy War

thermodynamics

the term that literally means "heat movement" and describes the science of heat transfer in chemical reactions

Atlas

the titan punished to forever bear the sky (or in some depictions, the earth) on his shoulders

Rudyard Kipling

this man edited the "Civil and Military Gazette" from 1882 to 1889, and won the Nobel Prize in 1907, but may be most well known for authoring "The Jungle Book"

Richard III

to ensure his ascension to the throne, this man had his two nephews killed and was himself killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1484

Yesterday

a Beatles song (originally called "Scrambled Eggs") in which a cello was first used as part of a pop number

Gustav Holst

a British Composer best known for compositions based on Hindu literature, including "The Planets"

The Producers

a Broadway smash adapted by Mel Brooks that includes the song, "Springtime for Hitler"

Guy De Maupassant

a French author known for short stories with ironc twist endings, such as "The Necklace" and "A Piece of String"

Mickey Mantle

a New York Yankee Hall of Fame member who set league records in runs scored, home runs, and batting despite continual injuries to his knees and leg muscles

Jean Paul Sartre

a POW in WWII, a French intellectual who openly opposed Nazi occupation of France, and a Nobel Laureate who refused to accept the prize for his works "Nausea," "No Exit," and "Being and Nothingness"

Wilmot Proviso

a Pennsylvanian Congressman who proposed a bill in 1846 to ban slavery in any territory gained from Mexico at the end of the war

Ayn Rand

a Russian immigrant who wrote against socialpolitical systems in "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead"

On the Road

a book that recently sold for $2.43 million because it was written on a two-week amphetamine-fueled rush by its author, Jack Kerouac

Sydney Opera House

a building with geometric roof shells that opened "Down under" with the performance of Prokofiev's "War and Peace"

Methodist

a denomination of the Church of England whose name derives from John Wesley's desire to study religion "by rule and method"

Beowulf

a descendent of Skyld who used his sword (named Hrunting) to kill Grendel and its mother

cacophony

a harsh or discordant sound

Sisyphus

a man punished by Zeus to roll a boulder up a hill in Hades for eternity

Battle of Actium

a naval battle in 31 BC, after which Augustus Caesar became leader of the Roman Empire

Galapagos Islands

a part of Ecuador known for being visited by Charles Darwin and for its unique species

Beaufort

a scale for which the force of wind is indicated by the numbers from 0 to 12

act of God

a three-word phrase that describes occurrences beyond human control, such as floods, lightning, or other disasters

Fantasia

a type of composition in which the composer lets imagination prevail over the rules of a set musical form

Hadrian's Wall

a wall along the Anglo-Scottish border, named after its builder, designed to keeps the Picts and other Scottish tribes from invading

Salamis

according to Homer, the home of Greek hero Ajax, where the Greek Navy under Themistocles defeated the Persian Navy under Xerxes I

Battle of Trafalgar

an 1805 sea battle off the southern coast of Spain, in which Admiral Horation Nelson was killed

Georgia O'Keefe

an American artist who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and whose works were revered by Alfred Stieglitz

Leonard Bernstein

an American composer who directed the New York Philharmonic from 1957-1969 and composed the music for "West Side Story"

The Cask of Amontillado

an Edgar Allen Poe short story in which Fortunato is walled in alive

Thomas Gainsborough

an English painter who painted "The Blue Boy"

blood

an alkaline substance closest in composition to seawater that comes in types A, B, AB, and O

Sandro Botticelli

an artist, whose real name is Alissandro Philipepi, known for "Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus"

Stephen Hawking

an author/scientist stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease whose research indicates that black holes can lose mass over time

lithium

an element used in inflating lifeboats and the making of the H-bomb, but is currently used to treat bipolar disorder and depression

Jonas Salk

an epidemiologist who developed the first vaccine against polio

decoupage

an ornamental technique using paper cutouts to create scenes on furniture, walls, or other articles

Charles Dickens

author of "American Notes"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

author of "Evangeline," who also wrote a poem containing these lines, "Into each life some rain must fall/ Some days must be dark and dreary."

Karl Marx

author of "The Communist Manifesto"

Erich Maria Remarque

author who based his best-selling novel, "All Quiet on the Western Front," off of real-life experiences attained while in the German army

Oxygen

discovered in 177, its discoverer gave this element a name which translates to "acid-forming," and it has an atomic number of 8 with a symbol, O

spleen

oval-shaped lymphatic organ that filters damaged red blood cells and recycles the iron from hemoglobin, while acting as a blood resevoir and producing white blood cells

James Monroe

president whose term lasted from 1817 to 1825, and was the first president to have been a senator and have his first inaugural to be the first held outdoors

Sir Lancelot du Lac

the "pure and holy" knight who, according to Arthurian legend, was the father of Sir Galahad and the consort of Guinevere

Morpheus

the Greek god of dreams

Mowgli

the Indian boy raised by wolves and is the central figure of "The Jungle Book"

Our Town

the Pullitzer winning play by Thornton Wilder set in Grover's Corners

Becquerel

the SI unit of radioactivity, named for the 1903 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry

Mariana Trench

the deepest known point in the Pacific Ocean

Bosworth Field

the final battle of the War of the Roses, fought on August 22, 1485

Harvard

the first college established in the US

technetium

the first element to be synthetically created, with a symbol of Tc

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

the first president to visit an overseas war zone, to appear on television, to be related to eleven former presidents, and the only president to be elected to four terms in office

Sigmund Freud

the founder of psychoanalysis, for whom a cigar is just a cigar