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SKELETON OF WINE TASTER DISCOVERED BEHIND BRICK WALL IN MANSION CELLAR
"The Cask of Amontillado" by Poe
From the French, translate one of the Seven Sayings of Christ upon the Cross: Aujourd'hui-meme, tu seras avec moi dans le Paradis
"Today, you will be with me in Paradise."
What percentage of the House of Representatives is elected every two years?
100%
To the value of the first prime number greater than 30 add the value of the first prime number less than 125.
144
GOV'T. OFFICIAL'S WIFE, BEARING COUNT'S CHILD, FLINGS SELF UNDER TRAIN
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
The name of this Southern city appears both in a 1953 Manifesto and in Dr. King's "Letter from a Jail." Name the Alabama city.
Birmingham
Mystery writer Raymond Candlemaker
Chandler
Chief Justice Salmon P. Hot Pursuit
Chase
In 1677, William Penn was the first person to write a charter separating what?
Church and state
Cooke called it, "A group of the unfit, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unnecessary." It is also, "A group that keeps minutes and wastes hours." What word are we looking for?
Committee
What do ecologists call the efforts by individuals of common or different species in a community to use the same limited resources?
Competition
What 1857 Supreme Court decision said that no black, free or slave, could claim citizenship?
Dred Scott decision
Into what shape can a pool table be made so that whenever you hit a ball from a focal point, it caroms off the side and drops into the hole, located at the other focal point?
Ellipse
What adjective describes the distillation method used to separate several volatile substances from a mixture?
Fractional
Diarist Anne Candid
Frank
Who escaped from the shackles of slavery in 1838 to become one of America's leading orators?
Frederick Douglass
Poet Robert Ice Crystals
Frost
Identify the command used in BASIC to tell the computer to jump to the specified statement number.
GOTO
England had eight kings named Henry. Which four were the subject of plays by Shakespeare?
Henry IV, V, VI, VIII
Complete these lines taken from Martin Luther King's tombstone. Free at last/ Free at last/ Thank God Almighty . . .
I'm free at last.
How many circles can be tangent to each of two intersecting lines?
Infinite
MADWOMAN LONG IMPRISONED IN ATTIC SETS HOUSE ON FIRE, THEN LEAPS TO DEATH
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Five of Shakespeare's plays are set in whole or in part in the city of Rome. Name any one of the five Roman plays.
Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Cymbeline
Talk-show host Larry Monarch
King
Gloucester's son Edgar, disguised as a madman, met this king on the stormy heath. Name this character.
King Lear
What two states were created entirely out of other states?
Maine (from Massachusetts) and West Virginia (split off from Virginia to join the Union side during the Civil War)
In Sept. 1862 Robert E. Lee crossed the Potomac and invaded what state?
Maryland
Comedian Jackie Bricklayer
Mason
A structure of large stones, including many ancient constructions such as Stonehenge.
Megalith
A pathological state in which a person vastly overstates his own importance.
Megalomania
It refers to a huge urban region formed by chains of metropolitan areas.
Megalopolis
Playwright Arthur Flour Grinder
Miller
Before this battle, David Farragut was a Rear Admiral: after, a Vice Admiral.
Mobile Bay
Identify the Zulu-dominated province of South Africa, the smallest of the country's four provinces, whose name comes from the Latin "to be born."
Natal
KING KILLS HIS FATHER, THEN MARRIES WOMAN OLD ENOUGH TO BE HIS MOTHER AND SHE IS!
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Close one eye and look at your outstretched hand. Now change eyes, and your hand shifts. What is this phenom enon called
Parallax
When Einstein made his famous comment, "God does not play dice with the universe," he was expressing doubts about what theory of matter?
Quantum mechanics
Since light cannot escape, how are Black Holes detected?
Radio or X-ray astronomy
"He gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake. / The only other sound's the sweep / Of easy wind and downy flake." Who wrote these lines?
Robert Frost
Economic philosopher Adam Metalworker
Smith
When Romeo and Juliet meet at a ball, the first 14 lines they speak are in what poetic form?
Sonnet (iambic pentameter)
In 1785, Congress initiated mail service using what horse-drawn vehicles?
Stagecoaches
The folk song "Les Gens de Pays ," meaning what, is an anthem for the independence movement of the province of Quebec?
The People of the Country
Hemingway chose a verse from Ecclesiastes as the title of which of his novels?
The Sun Also Rises
In 1917, what did President Wilson say "must be made safe for democracy"?
The world
In crop rotation, why are legumes such as soybeans and alfalfa planted in the third and last stage?
They are nitrogen-fixing plants.
Who was the only sitting Vice President to defeat a sitting President in an election?
Thomas Jefferson
Which city along the Mississippi River was known as the "Gibraltar of the Confederacy"?
Vicksburg
Name the longest war ever fought by the U.S.
Vietnam War
Naval commander Jonathan Wagon-builder
Wainwright
Painter Benjamin 270 Degrees on the Compass
West
