Academic Team Practice Set 122...
Underemployment
the condition when people work at jobs for which they are overqualified or that do not utilize their skills
what have the nuns done to the Nazi 's car
they took out wires
what is the atmosphere of venus like
thick clouds
what is a revolution?
time it takes a planet to orbit the sun
which spacecraft has passed by and obtained information on both Uranus and Neptune?
voyager 2
Declaration of Independence
1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain.
Flamenco
A Spanish art-form made of 3 parts: guitar, song, and dance. Originated in southern Spain. Features hand-clapping & foot-stomping.
Verdi
A choms from this composer's Nabucco [nah-BOO-koh] was sung at his funeral, though he is better known for operas about a Mantuan court jester and the love of Radames [rah-dah-MAYSS] for an (*) Ethiopian princess. For 10 points - name this composer of Rigoletto [ree-goh-LA YT -toh] and Aida ["eye" -EE-dah].
Bill of Rights
A formal statement of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States, incorporated in the Constitution as Amendments 1-10, and in all state constitutions.
Indulgence
A pardon given by the Roman Catholic Church in return for repentance for sins
Venus
A planet with a day that is longer than its year
Mars
Also called the Red Planet
1 au (150,000,000 km)
Earth
100% of earths gravity
Earth
Mendelssohn
Elijah is an oratorio by which German composer who wrote the Hebrides [HEH-brih-deezl Overture, and, at age 17, an overture for A Midsummer Night's Dream?
Elgar
Enigma Variations, Pomp and Circumstance, The Dream of Gerontius The Land of Hope and Glory
Prominences
Giant arches of gas that erupt on the Sun
Saturn
Has been visited by pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and 2, and Cassini
The economy sours and he waits to see if it will self-correct
Herbert Hoover
The Prince and the Pauper
Historical fiction novel set in 1547; tell the story of two boys, Tom Canty, a poor boy who lives with his abusive father in London; and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII of England. They look identical. The swap places to experience how the other half lives.
What is the Kuiper belt made of
Icy Bodies
Jupiter
If hollow, 1,400 earth's would fit inside
Pushed for the construction of large public buildings
John Quincy Adams
Annexed Texas
John Tyler
Earth
Known as the Blue Planet
Ronald Raegan
Movie star; Governor of California
What would happen if Jupiter were to grow 10x larger
Nuclear Fusion would occur at the core
Parts of a Comet
Nucleus, Tail, Coma
George H.W. Bush
Oil executive, Ambassador to the UN, Director of the CIA
Earth
One moon named Luna
How is the Cassini division created and maintained in Saturn's rings?
One of saturn's satellites exerts a resonant pull on particles in the division, clearing a gap.
Water Lilies - Morning
Painted in 1914; jf
Earth
Planet that contains life
Geosynchronous
Satellites that revolve around Earth at the same rate as Earth rotates
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is probably a
Storm
Huck Finn
The main character, the narrator, he is logical and a realist.
a new moon is show by moon #________.
The moon labeled #1
Venus
Thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide
Mars
Thin atmosphere of Corbin dioxide, nitrogen, and argon
Schubert
This man's symphonies include a Ninth known as the "Great," and an "Unfinished" Eighth. Name this Viennese composer.
mars has presence of what tow things
water and carbon based compounds
Does Mars have a magnetic field?
weak irregular no molten core
True or false// the inner planets are known as the gas giants
False (terrestrial planets)
Jovian Planets
Jupiter-like: gas giants: Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Low density and many moons.
Bob Iger
Just stepped down as CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2020. Replaced by head of parks and resorts, Bob Chapek
What is there in the atmosphere of Uranus
Methane
Ganymede
Moon with a generated magnetic field
George W. Bush
Owned part of the Texas Rangers MLB team, Governor of Texas
Apollo
Project to send people to the moon
Jupiter
Relatively short rotation with 12 year revolution
Titan
Saturns largest moon which is larger than mercury and has an atmosphere of nitrogen, argon, and methane
Entablature
The upper part of a Classical order comprising architrave, frieze, and cornice
Which planet has the hottest temperatures in our solar system?
Venus
Which planet is the 2nd closest to the sun?
Venus
Which planets rotate about their axes in a retrograde direction?
Venus and uranus
another piece of evidence of the nebular hypothesis (2/4)
all planets orbit within a few degrees of the Sun's equatorial plane
Gladys Knight
"Empress of Soul", African American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and author. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner. Known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group __________________________________ & the Pips. Finished 3rd on season 1 of the Masked Singer.
Tchaikovsky
"Little Russian" is the nickname of the Second Symphony of this composer, who also wrote an overture that calls for cannon fire.
Margaret March
"Marmee"; the mother of the March sisters
Arsenic and Old Lace
1939 play by Joseph Kesselring, about the Brewster family descended from the "Mayflower," but now composed of insane homicidal maniacs. Made into movie starring Cary Grant, about a man (Mortimer Brewster) dealing with his two spinster aunts who poison lonely old men with elderberry wine laced with arsenic.
How thick are the rings of saturn
30 feet thick
How far is the Kuiper belt from the sun
30-50 AU
Saturn has more than
40 moons, including Titan (larger than Mercury).
Neptune has _____ rings.
5; 3 of which are considered the main rings.
The surface temperature of titan, the largest moon of Saturn is
95 K (-178°C)
Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
A 2008 Federal government program that authorized the U.S. Treasury to loan up to $700 billion to critical financial institutions and other U.S. firms that were in extreme financial trouble and therefore at high risk of failure
helium and electromagnetic waves
what happens when, in the core of the sun, four hydrogen atoms collide?
prominence
what is a heated arch on the sun?
nucleur fission
what is the name for the process in which energy is made in the sun's core?
Saturn
whatis the least dense planet
Meteorites
when a meteoroid is large enough so that it doesn't burn up in Earth's atmosphere, causing it to strike earth
spring tide (definition)
when there is the greatest difference between high and low tide, happening when the Earth, Sun and moon are in a line
Simple Subject
who or what is "doing" the verb, without any modifiers. Examples: Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. In this sentence, "Thomas Edison" is "doing" the verb, "invented."
What is the Cassini division?
wide, dark gap in Saturn's rings
saturn may vary in whether we see its rings because of what
changes due to the tilt and relative position of us and saturn. the rings not lined up with the ecliptic
after gravitational force in that area occurs what happens in the formation of the solar system
cloud collapses toward point
how did the solar system start out as
cloud of gas and dust
Venus has a thick atmosphere, what kinda of gas is heavily present in its clouds?
cloud-Sulfuric acid carbon dixoide
Neptune is a
cold, blue planet with at least 13 moons, whose atmosphere contains visible clouds.
A _______ is a chunk of ice, dust, and rock that moves through the ________ in an extremely _________ orbit.
comet, sun, elliptical
small chunks of of dust and ice with very elongated (stretched out) orbits around the Sun are called
comets
The Sun's gravitational pull on the Earth is (greater than/equal to/less than) the Earth's gravitational pull on the Sun
equal to
how does the size of eris compare to Pluto?
eris is slightly larger
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
established judicial review (separation of powers: checks and balances; role of the judicial branch) President Jefferson tried to block the appointment of "midnight judges" appointed by Adams at the end of his term.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
established the federal government's powers over the states; when state and federal laws conflict-->federal laws have to be followed (federalism) The state of Maryland had attempted to stop the operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. The Court invoked the Necessary and Proper Clause of the Constitution.
Does Mars have water
evidence of liquid water in the past
The outer planets are formed mostly from
gas
What is the name of the region beyond Neptune in which Pluto exists?
kuiper belt
what are three ingredients to form a strong magnetic field
large energy flow as in convection and conducting liquid with fast rotation
Oort Cloud
large group of billions of comets surrounding solar system beyond Pluto
what are the rings of saturn made up of
large number of tiny particles that vary in size
what is the detection bias for transit method
large planets
Meteoroid
made of small pieces of the old comet's nucleus
what are the four terrestrial bodies (plus 1 extra)
mercury Venus earth mars moon
The General shape of each of the Galilean moons of jupiter
Almost perfectky spherical
Copland
Appalachian Spring Rodeo Billy the Kid Fanfare for the Common Man The Tender Land Lincoln Portrait
George Washington
British military, plantation owner
Neptune
Considered sister planet to Uranus
True and false//the earth is 100 AU away from sun
False (1 AU)
True and false//Venus has 2 moons
False (none)
True or false//Mercury has 2 moons
False (none)
Seminole Tribe
Florida and Georgia; only southeastern tribe who successfully resisted relocation
Carl Hiaasen
Florida author & columnist for the Miami Herald. Has been writing novels since the 1980s, fiction for both adults and adolescent readers. These books tend to feature preservation and conservation messages. Popular books include: Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, & Skink- No Surrender.
What is the name of the storm in Jupiter's Upper atmosphere called?
Great Red Spot
Bram Stoker
Irish writer who created the famous Gothic novel, Dracula in the late 1800s. Other notable works The Snake's Pass The Lair of the White Worm Camilla
What causes mars to appear reddish yellow?
Iron in the soil
Who is the man that discovered the planet Neptune
Johann Galle
Almost went to war with France
John Adams
John Adams
Lawyer
Abraham Lincoln
Lawyer, postmaster, Congressman from Illinois
Opposed slavery and didn't want to annex Texas
Martin Van Buren
Immaculate Conception
Mary was conceived and preserved immune from original sin
Assumption of Mary
Mary's being taken, at the end of her earthly life, body & soul, into heaven
Atmosphere is toxic, has carbon dioxide
Venis
Surface temps are the hottest out of the planets
Venus
The sun rises in the west and sets in the east on this planet.
Venus
This planet has the densest atmosphere of all the inner planets.
Venus
what are three ancient water courses on mars
sinuous twisting channels and outflow channels gullies produce short rate surface flow before water freezes or evaporates
Neptune
4.5 billion kilometers from the sun
How many satellites does saturn have
53 named Satelites
How many moons does Saturn have?
62
Saturn
75% hydrogen and 24% helium
How many days does it take Mercury to orbit the sun?
88 earth days
Cuzco, Peru
Capital of the Inca Empire
Helped pass the Pendleton Act
Chester Arthur
Pardoned Nixon
Gerald Ford
Watergate Scandal
Richard Nixon
The Cold War came to an end
Ronald Reagan
The solar system includes...
The sun, 8 planets, small objects like asteroids
Panama Canal
Theodore Roosevelt
Venus
Volcanic planet
His term was marked by the Teapot Dome scandal
Warren Harding
The sun is the __________ of the solar system
center
moon is considered
dead
shape of planets' orbital path
ellipse
What is believed to exist below Jupiters atmosphere?
liquid (probably)
Javert
police inspector
Donald Trump
real estate developer, reality show host
did venus have convection
yes
How many moons does Neptune have?
13
Neptune has ____ known satellites
13
Neptune
13 moons
The magnetic field strength at Jupiter's surface exceeds that at earth's equatorial surface by a factor of about
14
Pluto
1423 mile radius
there are over _____ moons in our solar system?
150
Uranus is the _________ from the sun and is _______ from the sun
7th planet from the sun and is 19.2 AU from the sun
Code Napolean
A set of laws made in 18th century that guaranteed certain freedoms for the males of France, French law is still based on this code. One of the main ways Napoleon was said to be the heir to the French Revolution.
Deflation
A situation in which prices are declining
Wayne Brady
African American singer, actor, and comedian. Known as a regular on the improvisational tv show Whose Line is it Anyway? Host of Let's Make a Deal and a self-titled day time talk show. Won season 2 of the Masked Singer as the Fox.
Toni Cade Bambara
African-American writer & activist; Her first book was "Gorilla, My Love", a collection of first-person narrative short stories, mostly about a young African-American girls named Squeaky who cares for her family. She refers to her work as "upbeat fiction" Famous Short Stories: "Blues Ain't No Mockin Bird" (about a black family on food stamps being filmed by white cameramen), "The Lesson" (Miss Moore takes Sylvia & a friend to FAO Schwartz Toy Store to teach a lesson about income inequality) "Raymond's Run" (Squeaky givers up running to take care of her older brother, Raymond, who has a disability)
Verdi
Arrigo Boïto [AH-ree-goh BOH-ee-toh] wrote the libretti for this composer's last two operas, one about a "fat Knight" and another that includes the "Willow Song" sung by Desdemona. Falstaff and Otello [oh-TAYL-loh] are operas by—for 10 points—what Italian composer whose other operas include Rigoletto [ree-goh-LAYT-toh] and Aida [eye-EE-dah]?
Which dwarf planet is in the asteroid belt?
Ceres
Neptune gives off more heat than it receives from the sun because
it has its own heat source
What is different with PLuto's orbit than any other orbit
It is elongated
Uranus
the 7th planet from Sun. rotates on its side, blue green color and gas giant.
Paschal Mystery
Jesus' work of redemption through His Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension
Professor Friedrich Bhaer
Jo eventually marries this poor German immigrant
Uranus
Jovian planet that goes through retrograde motion
Where is the Great Red Spot located?
Jupiter
Which planet in our solar system has the fastest rotation?
Jupiter
This planet's atmosphere contains belts of highly visible clouds.
Jupiter, Neptune
who invites maria to the dinner? why?
Max, to use her to convince the captain to let the children sing in the festival
Water Lilies
Painted in 1918; The first of many in the series titled 'Water Lilies'. All of the paintings featured show the flowers in a body of water.
What are the rings of Saturn made of?
Rock and Ice Particles or dusty water and ice pulled to Saturn by the planets gravity.
who discovers the family specific hiding place
Rolfe
After what is Jupiter named after
Roman, Jovian, and Greek Zeus, for kings of gods
Lalo
Symphonie espagnole, Overture to Le Roi d'Ys
How do Huck and Tom act with each other?
The are adventurous and they like to play pranks on people
Reign of Terror
The historic period (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed
Pearl
The illegitimate daughter of Hester. She is the living reminder of Hester's sin and a symbol of the product of the act of adultery and of an act of passion and love.
another piece of evidence of the nebular hypothesis (3/4)
The larger gas planets have a very similar composition to the Sun, which is expected if they formed from the same gas cloud.
What does the river symbolize?
The river symbolizes freedom and Huck's journey to discover his virtue and direction.
Great Schism
The separation of most of the Eastern churches from the Western Church in A.D. 1054 causing the establishment of Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox.
Hundred Years War
The series of wars between England and France, 1337-1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais. Was discovered that foot soldiers with long bows were superior to armored knights thus ending medieval form of warfare.
95 Theses
The sheet of paper that Martin Luther put on a church door stating what he believed to be the abuses of the Catholic Church, which included the sale of indulgences. This act is regarded as the start or catalyst to the reformation.
If we did not have a magnetic field, what would happen to the earth?
The solar winds would blast our planet, evaporating the water and making earth unlivable like Mars.
Tchaikovsky
Who composed Number 2, Little Russian?
Bernstein
Who composed Number 3, Kaddish [KAH-dish]?
Mendelssohn
Who composed Number 3, Scottish?
Mozart
Who composed Number 41, Jupiter?
Who does Huck move in with early in the novel?
Widow Douglas and her sister
What is the atmosphere of mars compares to earth?
Thinner
Machu Picchu, Peru
This "city in the clouds" was built 8,000 feet above sea level in the 15th century by Incan emperor Pachacutec. Abandoned by the Incas, the city remained unknown until it was rediscovered by an explorer in 1911.
Sousa
This American composer of marches wrote such works as "The Washington Post March" and "The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Holst
This British composer of The Planets also wrote a number of works inspired by Hinduism, such as Hymns from the Rig Veda [VAY-dah].
Do asteroids have moons?
Yea
1232
Year the first use of rocket
Does Mercury have a magnetic field?
Yes but it is weak some part of the core is liquid
168 volcanoes in this planet, 100 km in diameter
Venus
89% of earths gravity
Venus
Also has 0 satellites
Venus
Average surface temp. is 465 Celsius
Venus
Density is 5.20 g/cm cubed
Venus
Diameter is 12,104 km (1.2104 cm)
Venus
Earths twin
Venus
Highest surface temp.
Venus
Many craters, 280 km in diameter
Venus
Pressure in this planet 90x of earths
Venus
Revolution is 225 days
Venus
Revolution is faster than its rotation
Venus
Sulfuric acid in this planet
Venus
Tilt of axis is 177.4 degrees
Venus
What is the temperature of mars compared to earth?
Very cold
Mercury
Very difficult to see due to its location near the sun
Venuses atmosphere causes the greenhouse effect, which results in which kinda of temperatures?
Very hot
The expected seasonal changes on Uranus because of its orbital and spin-axis alignments, compared with those on the Earth, are
Very much exaggerated
Neptune
Very similar to Uranus in size, mass, and density
Richard Nixon
Vice President under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States
Does Neptune have rings?
Yes, a system if dark rings of particles coated in chemically modified methane ice
Does Huck escape from pap?
Yes, he runs away
martian air is composed of what gas
carbon dioxide
What is Jupiters atmosphere primarily made out of?
hydrogen and helium
Like the sun, gas giants are composed mainly of
hydrogen and helium and likely have dense rocky cores.
What element in Uranus's atmosphere give it a bluish color?
methane
Outer planets are
much larger and more massive than Earth, and they do not have solid surfaces.
What might europa have under its thin layer of ice?
ocean, Life?
Gas giants' outer layers are very cold because
of their great distance from the sun.
what is the likely origin of the moon
off center impact of mars sized object with earth
what kind of surfaces do terrestrial planets have
solid
What do all of the outer planets lack?
solid surface
Franz Schubert
1797-1828): He established the German art song (Lied) as an important genre in the 19th century. He wrote over 600 Lieder, as well as song cycles, symphonies, string quartets, sonatas, and Masses. Erlkönig [Lied] 1815
Homestead Act
1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
Enlightenment Period
18th century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of life. Also known as Age of Reason.
Theodore "Laurie" Laurence
A rich young man, the "boy next door" to the March family and with an overprotective paternal grandfather, Mr. Laurence. Preparing to enter Harvard, Laurie is being tutored by John Brooke. He falls in love with Jo but she rejects him. He later falls in love with Amy and they marry. Jo calls him "Teddy"
Callisto
A rocky surface moon
Transitive Verb
A verb when the sentence contains a direct object. Examples: Alex sent (_______verb) a postcard (the direct object) from Argentina. She left (__________ verb) the keys (direct object) on the table.
Intransitive Verb
A verb when the sentence does not contain a direct object. Examples: Huffing and puffing, we arrived at the classroom door with only seven seconds to spare.
Samba
A very lively, syncopated dance with two beats in a bar in which a set of percussion instruments provides the foundation. It originated in Brazil
Roger Chillingworth
A well-educated man who pretends to be a doctor. He is a symbol of evil and he is consumed by revenge.
Britten
A Midsummer's night Dream Albert Herring The Rape of Lucretia Peter Grimes Death in Venice The Turn of the Screw Paul Bunyan Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Often Collaborated with W.H. Auden
Genghis Khan
A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia. (He's Not Really Ancient But He's Famous So Deal With It.)
Inca
A Native American civilization in western South America in the 15th and 16th centuries located in the Andes Mountains. Francisco Pizarro of Spain conquered the empire. *Used rope & knots as a counting system *Used llamas to transport goods *used terrace farming *Built 1000's of miles of roads
Inquisition
A Roman Catholic tribunal for investigating and prosecuting charges of heresy - especially the one active in Spain during the 1400s. The Inquisition was an element of the counter reformation.
Hester Prynne
A young woman sent to the colonies by her husband, who plans to join her later but is presumed lost at sea. Everyone knows her sin and she tries to do good things to make up for it.
Conquistador
A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
Prokofiev
A clarinet and an oboe represent a cat and a duck, respectively, in this Russian composer's Peter and The Wolf.
Eve's Diary
A comic short story showcasing the battle of the sexes. Tells about the life of the first woman in a first person perspective.
Echinus
A convex, cushion like molding between the shaft and the abacus in the Doric or Tuscan order; in an Ionic capital, found beneath the volutes, generally in decorated form
Fauchelevent
A critic of Valjean's while Valjean is the mayor of Montreuil-sur-mer under the assumed name of Madeleine. Fauchelevent becomes indebted to Valjean when Valjean saves him from a carriage accident.
Sister Simplice
A famously truthful nun who cares for Fantine on her sickbed and lies to Javert to protect Valjean.
Chinampa
A floating garden on which the Aztec grew crops
Mesoamerica
A geographic region in the western hemisphere that was home of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations is modern day Mexico and Central America.
subsidy
A government payment that supports a business or market
Prepositional Phrase
A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun. Example The book with the tattered cover has been read many times. -- with the tattered cover is this.
Mambo
A latin dance done in 4/4 time. Developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America.
Fandango
A lively couples dance from Spain; usually in triple meter (3/4 time) Traditionally accompanied by guitars and castanets or hand-clapping. A Gypsy dance.
Ramesses II
A long-lived ruler of New Kingdom Egypt (r. 1290-1224 B.C.E.). He reached an accommodation with the Hittites of Anatolia after a military standoff. He built on a grand scale throughout Egypt.
Wilson
A loud private; Henry's friend in the regiment. Wilson and Henry grow close as they share the harsh experiences of war and gain a reputation as the regiment's best fighters. Wilson proves to be a more sympathetic version of Henry, though he does not seem to be troubled by Henry's tendency to endlessly scrutinize his own actions.
Mortal Sin
A major sin (murder, rape, adultery...)
Monopoly
A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.
Star
A mass of gas and plasma held together by its own gravity that produces its own light through thermonuclear reactions
The structure of Callisto, the outer Galilean satellite of Jupiter, is thought to be
A mixed ice rock interior surrounded by a liquid oceab and than a solid icy crust
Adena
A mound builder society that was centered in the Ohio River Valley. They were the first farmers and mound builders. Lived in huts covered with bark or woven grass.
Step rocket
A multiple step rocket, that helps go a father distance and saves more fuel
Madame Thenardier/Monsieur
A nasty and selfish woman, she is the wife of Monsieur Thénardier and the mother of Azelma and Éponine. She and her husband take in Cosette, charging her mother a great deal of money and forcing the little girl to perform a number of chores.
To Kill a Mockingbird
A new play by Aaron Sorkin -- based on Harper Lee's book of the same name.
Roughing It
A partly fictional account of Mark Twain's travel to the Nevada Territory and to California, his varied life there, colorful personalities he encountered, and his visit to the Hawaiian Islands (then called the Sandwich Islands). Interspersed throughout are factual and semi factual journalistic reports as well as tall tales.
Invisible Hand
A phrase coined by Adam Smith to describe the process that turns self-directed gain into social and economic benefits for all
What is the Kuiper Belt? Where is it located?
A place where comets exist. It is a region outside the orbit of Neptune.
Terrestrial Planet
A planet with a rocky surface like Earth, Venus,Mercury, and Mars.
Debussy
A poem by Stephane MalIarme [stay-fahn mahl-Iar-may] inspired this composer's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun".
Champmathieu
A poor, uneducated man who unfortunately resembles Valjean so much that he is identified, tried, and almost convicted as Valjean. Champmathieu proves to be too dim-witted to defend himself successfully, revealing the callousness of the French justice system.
Georges Bizet
(1838-75): He was the most renowned composer of French grand opera in the mid-Romantic era, but is most famous for his opera Carmen (1875) [opéra comique]--it is an opéra comique because it has spoken dialogue and sung French arias--the story of Carmen is actually quite dramatic and tragic.
Vlad "the Impaler"
"The Impaler" - was known for killing his enemies by impalement. He imposed cruel punishments during his reign and he served as inspiration for the vampire legends. He used many types of torture such as: disemboweling, rectal and facial impalement, skinning, boiling, decapitating, strangling, hanging, burning, burying people alive etc.
Kelly Clarkson
"The Original American Idol" - won season #1 a three-time GRAMMY winner with eight studio albums under her belt. She's currently serving as a coach on The Voice, where recently performed her new single, "Broken & Beautiful," off the soundtrack to her new animated comedy, UglyDolls.
Kelly Clarkson
"The Original American Idol" - won season #1a three-time GRAMMY winner with eight studio albums under her belt. She's currently serving as a coach on The Voice, where recently performed her new single, "Broken & Beautiful," off the soundtrack to her new animated comedy, UglyDolls.
Petrarch
(1304-1374)The father of humanism, he wrote that literature should not be subordinate to religion. He studied ancient texts like Cicero, and wrote his poetry in Italian vernacular, which unified the Italian language. He became a symbol of a new type of writer, he didn't use language merely as a practical tool but instead for expression.
Erasmus
(1466?-1536) Dutch Humanist and friend of Sir Thomas More. Perhaps the most intellectual man in Europe and widely respected. Believed the problems in the Catholic Church could be fixed; did not suport the idea of a Reformation. Wrote Praise of Folly.
Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527) Italian Renaissance writer, described government in the way it actually worked (ruthless). He wrote The Prince (the end justifies the mean).
Ivan the Terrible
(1533-1584) earned his nickname for his great acts of cruelty directed toward all those with whom he disagreed, even killing his own son. He became the first ruler to assume the title Czar of all Russia.
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827): This German-born composer was the most revolutionary musician of the Classic and early Romantic eras. He excelled especially at the symphony, sonata, and string quartet, and brought music to powerful new heights of expression and socio-political influence--despite spending most of his career in complete deafness. Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" [symphony] 1803-4
John Field
(1782-1837): An Irish-born early-Romantic composer, who also worked in Paris, Vienna, and Russia. He is known for his piano works, especially for inventing the nocturne.
Giocchino Rossini
(1792-1868): This Italian opera composer wrote several of his earliest works in an early Romantic style before 1820. Il Barbiere di Siviglia [opera buffa] 1816
Hector Berlioz
(1803-69): This daring French composer and brilliant orchestrator composed the first truly programmatic symphony. He is known for his operas, songs, and programmatic orchestral works. Symphonie fantastique [program symphony] 1830
Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-47): This German musical prodigy is known for his colorful symphonic music, piano miniatures, songs, and oratorios, and for his work as a conductor--in which he revived interest in the music of JS Bach. Elijah [oratorio] 1846
Fréderic Chopin
(1810-49): This Polish-born composer-pianist spent most of his brief career in Paris. He is especially known for his character pieces and piano concertos. Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2 (1830-32).
Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901): This operatic Romantic dramatist can be considered the most important Italian composer of the 19th century. Rigoletto [opera seria] (1851)
Richard Wagner
(1813-83): This German theatrical innovator perfected the use of the Leitmotif in his Musikdramas, and paved the way for the expanded use of tonality and chromaticism in the 20th century. Der Ring des Nibelungen [Musikdrama] 1848-74
Charles Gounod
(1818-93): A French composer known for his grand opera Faust (1859), and his song-setting of the Ave Maria (based on a work by JS Bach).
Jacques Offenbach
(1819-80): This French composer wrote nearly 100 operettas between 1850 and 1880 (such as Orphéee auf enters (Orpheus in Hades,1858). He is remembered mostly for his unfinished masterpiece--the 4-act "opéra fantastique", Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) 1851.
Anton Bruckner
(1824-1896): An This late-Romantic Austrian composer is known for his rich, polyphonic and lengthy symphonies, as well as Masses, and motets. Symphony No. 7 [symphony] 1881-83
Bedrich Smetana
(1824-84): He was the first important Czech (Bohemian) composer; known for his symphonic works and operas. The Moldau [symphonic poem] 1874
Johannes Brahms
(1833-97): He was the most important successor to Beethoven in the 19th century with regard to both symphonic and chamber music. Symphony No. 3 in F major [symphony] 1883
Aztecs
*(1200-1521) Around 1300 settled in the valley of Mexico. Defeated by the Spanish (Hernan Cortes). *Used chinampas to grow crops * Introduced Europeans to chocolate. * Conquered others to use in human sacrifice * Worshipped many gods (polytheistic) * developed 1000's of medicines
Albert Magnus
Also known as "the Great" and "Dr. Universalis", he was the first scholar to attempt to integrate Aristotle's philosophy into Christian theology. He used Aristotelian language to talk about God. Ex. God is the "prime mover" of all things. He was also the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
Neptune
Also made of hydrogen, helium , and methane
Menotti
Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Medium, The Telephone
Which planets are believed to have a thick layer of water mixed with ammonia and methane in their interiors?
Are nonexistent because uranus and neotune have ni magnetic fields
Why is Uranus' rotation so different
Because Uranus is tilted on its axis at 90 degrees and also follows a retrograde motion.
What time period does Huckleberry Finn take place in?
Before the civil war, roughly 1835-1845
How is the mass of Jupiter determined?
By observing Jupiter's interaction with its satellites and using Kepler's third law
Warren Buffet
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (a news conglomerate in Oklahoma) He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world and has a net worth of US$88.9 billion as of December 2019 (4th richest in the world)
Bob Chapek
CEO of Walt Disney Company in late Feb 2020. Was previously president of Disney Parks & Resorts.
Mars
About 1/2 the size of earth
What is the mass of Saturn compared with the mass of Jupiter?
About 1/3 the mass of jupiter
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
After getting rich with his friend, the title boy is raised by the widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. When his abusive father returns to town and kidnaps him, he fakes his own death and escapes to Jackson Island. Here, he meets and escaped slave named Jim. Together they set off on an adventure along the Mississippi.
Oliver!
After running away from the orphanage run by the heartless Mr. Bumble, the title character meets the Artful Dodger and is recruited to pick pockets for Fagin. There, Oliver finds a friend in Nancy, but neither she nor the boy are fit for a life of crime.
Brahms
After this composer received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau, he wrote his Academic Festival Overture. His first symphony has been called "Beethoven's Tenth" to recognize its inspiration. For 10 points-name this composer of A German Requiem and a namesake lullaby.
Atlantic Charter Speech
Agreements between Churchill and FDR on building a lasting peace and establishing free governments after WWII
Berlin
Alexander's Ragtime Band I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas Cheek to Cheek Annie Get Your Gun God Bless America
Calypso
All about telling a story
Which of the Galilean moons of Jupiter are within Jupiter's magnetosphere?
All for galilean moon
How many of the large, Galilean satellites are in synchronized rotation around Jupiter?
All four
Rings of dust and icy particles are found around which planets?
All four of the jovian planets
Original Sin
All humans are born with a stain of sin because of Adam and Eve's actions. Baptism wipes away this sin.
one piece of evidence of the nebular hypothesis (1/4)
All the planets orbit in the same direction (counter clockwise) as the Sun rotates, suggesting they all formed from the same gas cloud
Antoni Gaudi
Catalan architect. He became a friend of the Marquis of Comillas, for whom he designed "El Capricho". Also the architect of the still unfinished La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Very ornante buildings featuring stained glass, ceramics, sculpture, and lots of details.
Mass
Catholic church service...two parts: liturgy of the word (readings from the bible) and liturgy of the eucharist (a reenactment of the last supper)
Webber
Cats Evita Jesus Christ Superstar The Phantom of the Opera
The sun is the ____________ of the orbit but is slightly _______________
Center, offset
Rocky surfaces
Characteristic that the inner planets share
Grieg
Concerto in A minor, Two Elegiac Melodies, Norwegian Dances, Peer Gynt, Olav Trygvason, Holberg Suite Lyric Pieces, Funeral March of Rikard Nordraak Nero, Xerxes, Almira. Composed for George I of England.
Ives
Concord Sonata, Three Places in New England, Central Park in the Dark
William Wycliff
Condemned by Catholic church for translating Bible to English from Latin and Greek in late 1300s.
Strauss
Despite having very different musical styles, Brahms was a lifelong friend of this composer of the Blue Danube waltz.
Purcell
Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen Was an organist in Westminster Abbey.
Neptune
Discovered by Johannes Galle
Uranus
Discovered by William Hershel in 1781
Neptune
Discovered in 1846
We suspect liquid water under the surface of Europa for a number of reasons. Which of the following phrases is not one of the reasons?
Discovery of a second magnetic field around europa
The Roche limit around a planet is defined as the
Distance at which a planet creates tifes on its moon's surface high enough to pull its moon apart.
what song does Maria use to teach the children how to sing
Do Re Mi
Richard Strauss
Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, Don Quixote, Metamorphosis, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Operas: Salome, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier served as the leader of the State Music Bureau for the Nazi Party (eventually removed)
Tax Reforms
Donald Trump
Transubstantiation
During the liturgy of the eucharist the bread and wine turn to the body and blood of christ.
The highway system started
Dwight Eisenhower
Density is 5.52 g/cm cubed
Earth
Diameter is 12,756 km (1.2756 cm)
Earth
Geologically active
Earth
Has water and life
Earth
One satellite
Earth
Revolution is 365.3 days
Earth
Rotation is 23 hours 56 minutes
Earth
Temps. -89 to 58 Celsius
Earth
Tilt of axis is 23.45 degrees
Earth
Which planet is the 3rd planet from the sun?
Earth
Venus
Earth's sister planet. Similar in size, mass, and density
Market Economy
Economic decisions are made by individuals or the open market. Production and consumption of goods and services are based on voluntary exchange in markets
what is Austria's Patriotic Song
Edelweiss
what is the title of CaptainVonTrapp 's farewell song (Austria's Patriotic Song)
Edelweiss
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe; considered the first modern detective story; C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
True and False//the mass and size of Venus are much large than that of earth
False (similar)
True and false//Mars is also known as the blue planet
False (the red planet)
True or false//Venus has a thin atmosphere and has a lot of carbon dioxide in its clouds
False (thick atmosphere & sulfuric acid)
Ralph Williams
Fantasia on Theme by Thomas Tallis, Sinfonia Antarctica,The Lark Ascending, A London Symphony, A Pastoral Symphony, A Sea Symphony, The Pilgrims Progress—Related to Charles Darwin.
Cosette
Fantine's daughter. Raised by Thenardiers who abuse her. Taken into care by Valjean.
The 4 planets closer to the sun travel slower or faster than the gas giants farther away?
Faster
Shostakovich
Festival Overture, Ballets: The Age of Gold, The Bolt, Opera: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Nose (opera), 7th Symphony or Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) The Year 1905, Babi-Yar
Sibelius
Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela, Valse Triste—Wrote several works based on Norse Mythology.
Eero Saarinen
Finnish-American Architect; famous for his work on airports like TWA Flight Center & Dulles International Airport. Also designed the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Helped develop fiberglass furniture
John Glen
First American in orbit in space
Skylab
First American space station
Salyut (Soviet Union)
First Space Station?
Explorer 1
First artificial American satellite
Sputnik
First artificial satellite
The rings of Uranus were
First discoversd while observing the occultation if a stay by the uranian system
Articles of Confederation
First governing document of US - created a WEAK central government; issues with trade - different currencies in each state, tariffs on goods traded between states
Yuri Gagarin
First person to orbit around the Earth
Uranus
First plant discovered since ancient times. Discovered by William Herschel
Salyut
First space station in 1971
Otto the Great
Formed a close alliance with the Church. Built power by gaining support of clergy. Invaded Italy on pope's behalf. Rewarded by being crowned emperor 912-973. Created the Holy Roman Empire which was the strongest in Europe until the 12 century.
Emanuel Leutze
German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. Others: Columbus Before the Queen Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way Nathaniel Hawthorne (a portrait)
Caspar David Friedrich
German Romantic Painter known for his works that express the sublimity of nature Wanderer Above the Sea (pictured) The Abbey in Oakwood The Monk by the Sea
Felix Mendelssohn
German Romantic; responsible for the Bach revival that took place in the 1830s; child prodigy; composed an overture and incidental music for Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. "Wedding March" Elijah Oratorio Hebrides Overture Hark the Harold Angels Sing
Johannes Gutenburg
German printer; in 1446 he invented a printing press that used movable type. This eventually led to written information including scripture being available to the general population causing a greater need for literacy.
Martin Luther
German religious reformer who authored 95 Theses, posted in 1517 to church doors in Wittenburg, led to religious reform in Germany, denied papal power and absolutist rule. Claimed there were only 2 sacraments: baptism and communion.
The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan; Frederic, having turned twenty-one, is released from his apprenticeship to the title pirates. Reaching shore for the first time, Frederic falls in love with Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley. Frederic realizes that he was apprenticed until his twenty-first birthday, and, having been born on February 29, he must return to his apprenticeship. Mabel vows to wait for him. The Major-General and the police pursue the pirates, who surrender. The pirates are forgiven, and Mabel and Frederic reunite. As the work is actually a light opera, most of the songs are simply titled after their first lines; the most memorable ones include "Pour, oh pour, the pirate sherry" and "I am the very model of a modern Major-General."
Bach
Glenn Gould popularized a set of 30 variations by this German composer who also wrote a set of six instrumental works for a Prussian margrave. The Goldberg Variations are by what baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier [kluh-FEER] and the Brandenburg Concertos?
Bach
Glenn Gould popularized a set of 30 variations by this German composer who also wrote a set of six instrumental works for a Prussian margrave. The Goldberg Variations are by-for 10 points-what Baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier [kluh-VEER] and the Brandenburg Concertos?
The Father of Modern Rocketry
Goddard's title
fiscal policy
Government policy that attempts to manage the economy by controlling taxing and spending.
Bill Clinton
Governor of Arkansas
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Governor of New York
GDP
Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy
Focused on making government positions merit based
Grover Cleveland
Used veto to end special treatment for farmers etc.
Grover Cleveland
Jupiter
Has bright bands called zones and dark bands called belts
Venus
Has clouds made of sulfuric acid
Neptune
Has faint rings made from ice and dust
Chromosphere
Has huge solar flares and loops of hot gases, shooting up thousands of miles, temperature of 50,000 degrees F.
Jupiter
Has more material than all of the planets combined
Uranus
Has no evidence of an internal heat source
Mars
Has possible dried up river beds
Mars
Has possible water stored in frozen ice caps at the Poles and as groundwater
Saturn
Has revolution of about 30 years
Saturn
Has rings arranged in concentric circles with A, B, and C rings, with large break between A and B called cassinis division, 3 miles thick
Saturn
Has rings made of ice and rock
Mars
Has temperatures most similar to earth
Saturn
Has temperatures so low that methane exists as a solid, liquid, and gas (triple point)
Jupiter
Has the Great Red Spot
Mercury
Has the largest temperature range
Mars
Has two small moons that like captured asteroids
Saturn
Has very large ring system
Earth
Has water present on the surface
Neptune
Has winds that reach 1100 km/h
Charles II of Spain
He is now best remembered for his physical disabilities, believed to be the result of inbreeding, and the war for his throne that followed his death.
When Huck's father returns to town and sees Huck's money how does he respond?
He kidnaps him and takes his money for alcohol
How does Huck prefer to live?
He prefers living in the open and having adventures with his friend Tom Sawyer
Bernstein
He premiered his first symphony, Jeremiah, and ballet, Fancy Free, in the decade after taking lessons with Boulanger.
Mies van der Rohe
He was Director of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology for twenty years, and during that tenure he designed the nearby Farnsworth House. Less is More, God is in the Details, Skin and Bones Architecture.
Robert Schumann
He was important as a music critic, but is most remembered for his many songs and descriptive character pieces for piano. Carnaval, Op. 9 [piano cycle] 1834-35
Mozart
He wrote the operas Idomeneo [ee-doh-may-NAY-oh] and The Abduction from the Seraglio [suh-RAH-lee-oh]. Name this Austrian composer of The Magic Flute.
How is Huck's childhood?
He's young, he grew up uneducated and on his own with an alcoholic and unreliable father.
What is Jupiter's outer atmosphere composed of
Helium and hydrogen just like the sun
Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen; Peer Gynt is a mischievous young man who is constantly getting himself into scrapes that almost get him killed or tricked. The play follows him throughout his life as he attempts to live by the maxim "To thine own self be true," as opposed to the troll maxim, "to thine own self be all sufficient." It is not until the end that he learns he has been tricked into believing the troll maxim. The play ends with him returning to his native land and to Solveig, the woman who has loved him faithfully through the years, only to learn that the Buttonmoulder is coming for him. Solveig, however, vows to protect him.
The lieutenant
Henry's commander in battle, a youthful officer who swears profusely during the fighting. As Henry gains recognition for doing brave deeds, he and the lieutenant develop sympathy for each other, often feeling that they must work together to motivate the rest of the men.
Jim Conklin
Henry's friend; a tall soldier hurt during the regiment's first battle. Jim soon dies from his wounds, and represents, in the early part of the novel, an important moral contrast to Henry.
Saturn's atmosphere is mostly composed of
Hydrogen
The major constituent in the interior of Saturn is
Hydrogen
What are the most abundant gasses in the atmosphere of Uranus
Hydrogen and helium, with traces of methane
Callisto
Ice covered crater surface
What is the composition of Jupiter's clouds?
Ice cyrstals of methane, ammonia, and water
Pluto
Ice is water and methane, nitrogen is frozen
Saturn
If there were an ocean large enough, this planet would float. Density of 0.7 g/cm cubed
Cage
Imaginary Landscape, Music of Changes, Number Pieces, ASLSP (As Slow as Possible)—639 year long performance
Spanish Armada
In 1588 the Spanish fleet attempted to invade England, ending in defeat, due to the raging storm in the English Channel as well as the smaller and better English navy led by Francis Drake. This is viewed as the decline of Spains Golden Age, and the rise of England as a world naval power.
Wagner
In 1832 this man conducted his own Symphony in C major, the year before his first opera, The Fairies, premiered. He collaborated on Rienzi [ree-EN-zee] with Giacomo Meyerbeer, whom he later attacked in his writings. In his later operas he developed the concept of associating ideas or characters with particular musical phrases called leitmotivs [LYTE-moh-teefs]. For 10 points—name this German composer of Tristan and Isolde [ee-ZOHL-deh] and The Flying Dutchman.
The Virginia House of Burgesses
In Jamestown, first attempt at a representative self government were the people would govern themselves
What are the characteristics of the great Red spot
It is 3x the size of Earth and has been occurring for a minimum of 300 years.
Quickstep
It is an International style ballroom dance that follows a 2/4 or 4/4 time beat. The fast version of the Foxtrot.
Who does he encounter after escaping from Pap?
Jim (A slave of Widow Douglas's sister-who escaped as well)
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F Kennedy
Evidence of lava flow either recent or Ancient is not found on
Jupiter
On which planet is the Great Red Spot found?
Jupiter
The largest planet in our solar system is
Jupiter
What planet has the Great Red Spot?
Jupiter
Which is the biggest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
Which of the following objects rotates the most quickly around its own axis?
Jupiter
Which planet is the 5th planet from the sun?
Jupiter
what are the gas giants
Jupiter and Saturn
Subgroups
Jupiter and Saturn, Neptune and Uranus
Planet gives off more heat than it receives from the sun
Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn
Name the Jovian Planets
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Mars
The four gas giants, in order from closest to the Sun
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What are the four Jovian planets?
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The four outer planets are
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The Story of an Hour
Kate Chopin's short story about the thoughts of a woman after she is told that her husband has died in an accident. The story first appeared in Vogue in 1894 and is today one of Chopin's most popular works.
Three laws of planetary motion were found by...
Kepler
Rodgers
Lorenz Hart wrote the lyrics to "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine," but Hartis poor health led this composer to find a new partner, starting with Oklahoma!
Bernard Arnault
Louis Vutton, Hennessy, Moet LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton SE, LVMH, the world's largest luxury-goods company.
President during the Vietnam War
Lyndon B Johnson
Northern hemisphere - lava flows Southern Hemisphere - heavily cratered
Mars
Olympus mons is located in ______
Mars
Once had liquid water
Mars
Revolution is 1.88 years
Mars
Rocky red planet
Mars
Rotation is 24 hours 37 minutes
Mars
Temp. ranges from -140 to 20 Celsius
Mars
This planet has the thinnest atmosphere.
Mars
This planet is named after the Greek/Roman god of War
Mars
This planet is the only planet besides Earth with some form of water.
Mars
Tilt of axis is 25.3 degrees
Mars
Valles maineris largest canyon in solar system
Mars
Which planet is the 4th planet from the sun?
Mars
Which planet is the largest volcano located in the solar system?
Mars
Most asteroids lie in the asteroid belt between ______ and ______
Mars and Jupiter
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King, Jr.; speech was given during the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history to that point. Given in front of the Lincoln Memorial
Hindemith
Mathis der Maler, Symphonia Serena, Requiem for Those We Love
Paso Doble
Means double step. The Man is supposed to be a matador while the woman is his red cape.
Deimos
Means panic and is a moon of mars
Unemployment
Measures the number of people who are able to work, but do not have a job during a period of time.
Huegonots
Members of the Protestand Reformed church of France which were persecuted by French Catholics
Schubert
Mendelssohn also helped revive the work of this composer whose Eighth Symphony is simply called Unfinished.
0.39 au (58,500,000 km)
Mercury
38% of earths gravity
Mercury
Diameter is 4,879 km (.4879 cm)
Mercury
It has a large core around 3,600 km in diameter
Mercury
It's density is 5.44 g/cm cubed
Mercury
It's revolution is 88 days
Mercury
Largest temp difference
Mercury
Most heavily cratered
Mercury
Scientists think this planet either got struck by a distant object, or the sun vaporized it's surface
Mercury
Smallest planet in solar system
Mercury
Sunlight in this planet can last for 29 days, also has an iron core (74% of _______)
Mercury
Surface temp. ranges from -184 to 427 Celsius biggest temp difference in the solar system
Mercury
Terrestial planet closest to the sun
Mercury
This has no satellites, however with its moon-cratered surface it looks like it could have one.
Mercury
This planet has the biggest range in surface temperatures.
Mercury
This planets rotation is 58 days, 15 hrs
Mercury
Tilt of axis is 0 degrees
Mercury
Which planet(s) do not have any moons?
Mercury, Venus
Name the inner planets...
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
The four terrestrial planets are
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
Name the planets in order (closest to the sun to farthest)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, & Neptune.
List the order of the planets closest to farthest to sun!
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
planets in our solar system in order from the sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Handel
Messiah is a work by this German-born composer of Music for the Royal Fireworks.
Mercury
Metal Vapor Planet
What gives Uranus its blue-green coloration?
Methane and water that form clouds, which are easily visible from the earth
Neptune's high citrus clouds consist of
Methane ice crystals
Tootsie
Michael Dorsey is a skilled actor with a talent for not keeping a job. Desperate and out-of-work, Michael makes a last-ditch effort at making his dreams come true...by disguising himself as actress Dorothy Michaels. In a meteoric rise to Broadway stardom, Dorothy soon has audiences falling at her feet while Michael (disguised as Dorothy) is falling for his co-star, Julie. It isn't long before Michael realizes that maintaining his greatest acting success is going to be much harder than he expected.
Noises Off
Micheal Frayn; A play about a play. Farce/comedy about actors at dress rehearsal, opening night, and the final performance. You see things happening both on and off stage.
Andrew Jackson
Military general, Battle of New Orleans after War of 1812
Tried to compromise our way out of the Civil War
Millard Fillmore
John Adams
Minimalist composer; Classical & Operas On the Transmigration of Souls - Pulitzer Prize winning piece commemorating the victims of September 11th Short Ride in a Fast Machine Operas: Nixon in China -- President Nixon's visit to China in 1972. Doctor Atomic -- About building of the atomic bomb.
Jim
Miss Watson's slave. Huck is helping him get to freedom.
In one of Huck and Tom's adventures, what did they find in a cave?
Money
16.5% of earths gravity
Moon
1969-1972, 12 people have landed on the ________
Moon
Axial tilt is 1.5 degrees
Moon
Density is 3.34 g/cm cubed
Moon
Diameter is 3,476 km
Moon
Distance from EARTH is 0.0026 au or 384,400 km
Moon
Heavily cratered
Moon
Rotation/revolution is 27.3 days
Moon
Temp. ranges from -173 Celsius to 127 Celsius
Moon
Ganymede
Moon larger than Mercury
Europa
Moon mostly made of water and ice
Triton
Moon that orbits in the opposite direction as Neptune's orbit
Io
Moon with 11 volcanic plumes
Io
Moon with most volcanic activity
Europa
Moon with possible life
Europa
Moon with twice as much water as Earth
Kepler's Third Law states
More distant planets orbit the sun at slower average speeds, obeying a precise mathematical relationship.
What is Pluto's moon Charon characteristics
More than 1/2 the size of pluto
How many moons are now known to orbit Jupiter?
More than 60
Schoenberg
Moses and Aaron A Survivor from Warsaw, Transfigured Night Created the twelve tone system.
Mercury
Most cratered planet
Mars
Most similar rotation time with earth
The ring system around Uranus was originally discovered by what observation technique?
Occultation of light from a star as yranus passed in front of it
Jimmy Carter
Peanut farmer turned Governor from Georgia
How is Pluto different from the other outer planets
Pluto is a terrestrial planet amongst gas giants
What is the impact of elongated orbit
Pluto is inside Neptune's orbit for a period of time.
Frederic Chopin
Polish Romantic; child prodigy, "poet of the piano" -- wrote almost exclusively for the piano. Wrote several mazurkas, waltzes, polonaises, & etudes. Military Polonaise; Black Key etude
Mazurka
Polish folk dance in triple meter (3/4 time) Usually at a lively tempo. With "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat."
Henry of Navarre
Political leader of the Huguenots and a member of the Bourbon dynasty, succeeded to the throne as Henry IV. He realized that as a Protestant he would never be accepted by Catholic France, so he converted to Catholicism. When he became king in 1594, the fighting in France finally came to an end.
Chopin
Polonaise in A major(last piece played on Warsaw radio before Nazis took over) 11 polonaises Etudes: "Black Key," "Revolutionary," "Winter Wind" His girlfriend's name was George Sand (Aurore Dudevant) Famous for works for the piano including many mazurkas, etudes, polonaises, and preludes.
Tried to reform the corruption in the government
Rutherford B Hayes
Wagner
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and The Flying Dutchman are two operas by this German composer. Name this composer who also wrote a series of four operas based on German mythology.
What is a major symbol in Huck Finn?
The Mississippi River
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker Suite, Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, 1812 Overture, Eugene Onegin, Symphony No. 6 in B. Minor, Pathetique Symphony, The Queen of Spades, Little Russian Symphony Winter Daydreams, Little Russian—Was supported by a wealthy widow—Most of his works are ballets.
Bach
The Passion According to St. Matthew Brandenburg Concertos Toccata and Fugue in D minor The Well Tempered Clavier Art of the Fugue St. John Passion Musical Offering Goldberg Variations
Webber
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by this British composer, whose other works include Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Holst
The Planets, Songs from the Rig Veda, Svitri, At the Boar's Head
Wagner
The Ring cycle was written by this German composer of Tristan and Isolde [ee-ZOHL-duh].
Napolean Bonaparte
Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the French in 1804. Failed to defeat Great Britain and abdicated in 1814 and was exiled to the island of Elba. Returned to power briefly in 1815 but was defeated and died in exile on the island of St. Helena.
Wagner
The Ring of the Nibelungs (The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried, The Twilight of the Gods), Tannhauser, The Flying Dutchman, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Parsifal, Lohengrin Rienzi—Married the daughter of Franz Liszt— Wrote "Jewry in Music"
After what is Neptune named after
The Roman and Greek god of sea
Tchaikovsky
The Second Symphony by this composer of the Manfred Symphony is nicknamed "Little Russian." He composed an opera based on an Aleksandr Pushkin poem, Eugene Onegin [ohn-YAY-gin], and a ballet featuring the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy." For 10 points-name this Russian composer of The Nutcracker.
Mahler
The Song of the Earth, Resurrection Symphony, Tragic Symphony, Symphony of a Thousand—Scared of the "Curse of the Ninth"—Didn't number his 9th symphony.
Dukas
The Sorecer's Apprentice Opera: Ariane et Barbe-bleue
Offenbach
The Tales of Hoffmann, Orpheus in the Underworld, Robinson Crusoe
Weill
The Threepenny Opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mohogany Collaborated with the author Bertolt Brecht
Annunciation
The announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that God wanted her to be the Mother of the Jesus Christ.
Little Men
The book recounts six months in the life of the students at the unconventional Plumfield, a school run by German Professor Friedrich and Mrs. Josephine Bhaer (née March). .
How did Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 achieve lasting fame?
The comet crashed into Jupiter
Stylobate
The continuous platform of masonry on which a colonnade rests; the uppermost level of the stepped base (crepidoma) of a Greek temple
Where is Earth's magnetic field generated from?
The core
Germany
The country that used the V-2 missile in WWII
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The court reversed/cancelled Plessy v. Ferguson's "separate but equal" rule, segregation violates the 14th Amendment. Ruled that separate schools could not be equal. (equality; federalism, rights of ethnic/racial groups)
Arnold Schoenberg
The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music. Austrian composer and painter, leader of Second Viennese School, therefore leader in expressionist movement
Gibbons v. Ogden
This case involved New York trying to grant a monopoly on waterborne trade between New York and New Jersey. (Fulton's steamboats) Judge Marshal, of the Supreme Court, sternly reminded the state of New York that the Constitution gives Congress alone the control of interstate commerce. Marshal's decision, in 1824, was a major blow on states' rights.
Holst
The one-act opera At the Boar's Head was written by what British composer who depicted "the Mystic" and "the Bringer of War" in his The Planets?
Verdi
The opera Rigoletto [ree-goh-LAYT-toh] is by the same composer as La traviata [lah trah-vee-AH-tah]. Name that Italian.
Tchaikovsky
The operas Mazeppa and The Queen of Spades are by which Russian composer of the ballet Swan Lake and the tale of Clara and her toy, The Nutcracker?
Kepler's First Law states
The orbit of each planet around the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.
Thomson
This composer is best known for two operas, The Mother of Us All and Four Saints in Three Acts, the latter of which was a collaboration with Gertrude Stein.
Arthur Shelby
The owner of Uncle Tom in Kentucky, Shelby sells Tom to the cruel Mr. Haley to pay off his debts. An educated, kind, and basically good-hearted man, Shelby nonetheless tolerates and perpetuates slavery.
Issac Newton
The person that laid the scientific foundation for modern rocketry
aphelion (definition)
The place in a planet's orbit that is furthest from the Sun
Jackson's Island
The place where Huck, Tom and Joe hid when they became " Pirates" because they thought no one cared about them.
Most of the satellites of Uranus orbit the planet in
The plane of the planet's equatir and therefore in a plane almost at right angles to the ecliptic
Galileo called Saturn this
The planet with ears due to its appearance.
Rodgers
This composer of The King and I and South Pacific wrote the score for The Sound of Music.
Act of Settlement
Said no Catholic could be King of England thus insuring the Protestant line of succession. Succession switched from Stuarts to Hanovers because of this passing.
the setting for the sound of music
Salzburg, Germany
Sousa
Semper fidelis, The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Washington Post March Operetta: El Capitan—Was a bandmaster for the US Marine Corps Band.
The rotation period for the Jovian planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are
Somewhat shorter than that of earth, between 10 to 20 hours.
Parasite
South Korean film; first foreign language film ever to win Best Picture.
Bong Joon-ho
South Korean filmmaker known for directing movies like The Host, Snowpiercer, and Parasite. Tied Walt Disney's record of winning 4 Oscars in one night (director, best picture, screenplay, foreign language film).
The Star Spangled Banner
The poem "The Rockets Red Glare" song turned into
perihelion (definition)
The point in a planet's orbit where it is closest to the Sun
What is a climax?
The point in the story where the protagonist's conflict is resolved, leading to the resolution of the story.
Ravel
This composer of a ballet featuring a repetitive snare drum rhythm wrote his Mother Goose Suite for Mimi and Jean Godebski, the children of his friends.
Counter Reformation
The reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected) Most of southern Europe followed the counter reformation movement.
What is mars also known as?
The red planet
French Revolution
The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799.
Bach
This composer reworked the final movement of his Mass in B minor to mirror the closing of its own "Gloria" section; that "Gloria" was itself a reworking of one of his over 200 cantatas. For 10 points-name this Baroque composer of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Goldberg Variations.
Verdi
This Italian composer of Aida [ah-EE-dah] wrote the aria "La donna e mobile" [lah DOHN-nah ay MOH-bee-Iay] for the opera Rigoletto [REE-goh-LAYT-toh], whose title jester is also a hunchback.
Puccini
This Italian composer of Tosca also wrote The Girl of the Golden West and Madame Butterfly.
Vivaldi
This Italian imitated a thunderstorm in the final movement of the second concerto in his Four Seasons.
Respighi
This Italian represented the Triton Fountain in the morning in the second movement of his Fountains of Rome.
Tchaikovsky
This Russian composer of The Nutcracker also wrote Swan Lake.
Elgar
This composer used a German ballad as the basis of his cantata "The Black Knight". A "hidden theme" connects his Enigma Variations, while "Land of Hope and Glory" is part of a work often played at graduations. For 10 points-name this British composer of the Pomp and Circumstance marches.
Mary
Tom's cousin - She tries to teach Tom prayers at Church and tries to make Tom behave. She wants him to bathe and wear nice clothes. Tom hates all of these things.
Huck Finn
Tom's friend - He doesn't go to school and he's full of adventures.
Ben Rogers
Tom's friend that he tricks into whitewashing the fence
Joe Harper
Tom's friend who ran away with him to become a Pirate because his Mother has punished him for drinking cream
Augustine St. Clare
Tom's master in New Orleans and Eva's father, St. Clare is a flighty and romantic man, dedicated to pleasure. He does not believe in God, and he parties and drinks every night. Although he dotes on his daughter and treats his slaves with compassion, St. Clare shares the hypocrisy of Mr. Shelby in that he sees the evil of slavery but nonetheless tolerates and practices it.
Becky Thatcher
Tom's new " girlfriend" - a blond hair, blue-eyed "angel". Her Dad is a judge in town.
Neptune's largest moon is called
Triton
True and false// water covers 70% of the earths surface
True
True or false// takes the inner planets less time to orbit the earth than it takes the outer planets
True
True or false//Mercury has many craters on its surface
True
True or false//Mercury's lack of an atmosphere causes it to experience extreme day and night temperatures
True
True or false//Venus's atmosphere causes a greenhouse affect, which result in very hot temperatures
True
Puccini
Turandot was left unfinished by this composer of La Boheme [boh-EM] and Tosca.
John Brooke
Tutor to Laurie; falls in love with Meg and they marry.
Ganymede and Callisto
Two moons that are both larger than mercury
Known for being honest and his administration was known for being corrupt
Ulysses S Grant
Louis Sullivan
United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase 'form follows function'. The father of skyscrapers; major influence of the Chicago School of Architecture (as in style not education); Mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright. Buildings: Wainwright Building, Union Trust Building, Chicago Stock Exchange, Harold C. Bradley House.
Miranda is a satellite of
Uranus
The major planet who spin axis lies almost in its orbital plane is
Uranus
The moon Miranda orbits which planet?
Uranus
The rotation axis of which planet is titled at 98° from the vertical to its orbit?
Uranus
This planet is about 15 times more massive than Earth
Uranus
Which is the 7th planet from the sun?
Uranus
Which planet is tilted almost on its side?
Uranus
what are the ice giants
Uranus and Neptune
How is Uranus similar to all other gas planets
Uranus has a ring system
Ellington
What composer of "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is on the Washington, D.C. quarter and was a big band leader nicknamed "Duke"?
Copland
What composer of El Salon Mexico [ell sah-LOHN MAY-hee-koh] wrote the "Open Prairie" theme for his Billy the Kid ballet and included the tune "Simple Gifts" in Appalachian Spring?
Copland
What composer of Fanfare for the Common Man and Lincoln Portrait is best known for a ballet he wrote for Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring?
Sibelius
What composer of Pohjola 1 s [poh-YOH-lah 1 s] Daughter represented a legendary bird with an English horn in The Swan of Tuonela [too-oh-NEH-Iah] and wrote Valse triste [vahlz trist] and Finlandia?
Bach
What composer of a 1727 St. Matthew Passion has BWV numbers assigned to works like the Goldberg Variations and the Brandenburg Concertos?
Grieg
What composer of an 1868 Piano Concerto in A minor, his only one, included "Morning Mood" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in his Peer Gynt?
Saint-Saens
What composer of an 1896 Egyptian Piano Concerto, his fifth, also wrote an Organ Symphony, the Danse Macabre [dahns mah-kahb], and The Carnival of the Animals?
Sullivan
What composer of an Irish Symphony wrote the music for The Yeoman of the Guard and The Mikado [mee-KAHdoh], two collaborations with William S. Gilbert?
Ravel
What composer of songs for a film version of Don Quixote [kee-HOH-tee] is better known for his one-act opera The Spanish Hour and the gradually crescendoing [kruh-SHEN-doh-ing] Bolero [boh-LAY-roh]?
Beethoven
What composer of the "Hammerklavier" [HAH-mur-klah-FEER] and "Waldstein" [VAHLD-styne] piano sonatas wrote the Missa Solemnis [MEE-sah soh-LEM-neess] and the choral finale of his Ninth Symphony after going deaf?
Elgar
What composer of the oratorio The Dream of Gerontius depicted his friends in music in the Enigma Variations and also wrote Pomp and Circumstance?
Ravel
What composer of the ultra-hard piano piece Gaspard de la nuit [nwee] included a snare drum ostinato in his 1928 ballet based on a Spanish dance, Bolero [boh-LAIR-oh]?
Beethoven
What composer used a theme from his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus [pruh-MEE-thee-uhs] in his Third Symphony, a work once dedicated to Napoleon and nicknamed Eroica [uh-ROH-ih-kuh]?
Wagner
What composer's operas include Rienzi [ree-EN-zee], Parsifal [PAR-zih-fahl], and a work in which Brünnhilde [broon-HIL-duh] lights a funeral pyre that destroys Valhalla, Twilight of the Gods?
Gershwin
What composer, who used a taxicab horn in his An American in Paris, also wrote the opera Porgy and Bess and the jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue?
Haydn
What composer, whose Clock Symphony is one of a collection of 12 London Symphonies, wrote over 100 of them, including the Surprise Symphony?
Bernstein
What composer, whose three symphonies include The Age of Anxiety and Kaddish [KAH-dish], wrote the music for On the Tawn, Candide [kahn-DEED], and West Side Story?
counter-clockwise
What direction does Earth spin in?
earth is in the center of the solar system
What does geocentric mean?
sun is in the center of the solar system
What does heliocentric mean?
it rotates in the opposite direction of Earth
What does retrograde mean?
rock
What is the core of Jupiter?
Venus
What is the hottest planet?
largest moon in the Solar System
What is unique about Ganymede?
Mars
What planet has the largest dust storms?
metallic hydrogen
What surrounds the core of Jupiter?
Three economic questions
What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?
13
When 13 year old Evan Goldman moves from New York City to Indiana, he must escape rumors and blackmail if he hopes to make friends and find happiness at his new school. This play deals with the hardships of leaving familiar places for unfamiliar ones, fitting in with your peers, and transitioning from youth to adulthood.
Geosynchronous
When a satellite rotates around earth at the same rate that Earth rotates, what is it called?
tidal locking
When a satellite's (moon) period of rotation matches its period of revolution, causing only one side of the satellite (moon) to be visible
Sun's Core
When energy is first formed, with a temperature of 27 million degrees
When is the best time to observe Jupiter from the earth?
When jupiter is at opposition and hence the closest to the earth.
Le Havre Secondary School for the Arts
Where he studied art. Became known for charcoal caricatures.
Gershwin
Which 20th-century American composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue as well as An American in Paris?
Mendelssohn
Which German composer of the oratorio Elijah had a sister Fanny who was also a composer, and wrote a Scottish Symphony and the Hebrides [HEB-rih-deez] Overture?
Liszt
Which Hungarian piano virtuoso composed the Hungarian Rhapsodies and the "Mephisto Waltz"?
Puccini
Which composer of Gianni Schicci [JAH-nee SKEE-kee] wrote the aria "Nessun dorma" [NEH-soon DOR-mah] for Prince Calàf in Turandot [TOO-rin-DOT] and also wrote about the poor Rodolfo and Mimi in La Bohème [lah boh-em]?
Phillip Glass
minimalist composer, influenced by Indian music; friends with Ravi Shankar; film scores include The Truman Show and The Hours. Einstein on the Beach Waiting for the Barbarians 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Appomattox
mars is bigger than
moon and mercury
Tho' 4x the diameter of Earth, Uranus is
much smaller than Jupiter and Saturn; has at least 27 moons.
what does Maria bring back into the household
music
The Wiz
musical with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls and book by William F. Brown. It is a retelling of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture.
mercury has lost most of its rocky crust
due to impacts
Pluto was recently classified as a ______ planet
dwarf planet
Amenhotep IV
early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)
a measure of how stretched out an orbit is..
eccentricity
what kind of rotation do jovians have compared to terrestrial
faster
what does uncle max say he must do while he is visting Salzburg
find a singing group
at the party, Herr Zella implies that captain Von Trapp is displaying the Austrian___________ as a sign of his rebellion against the__________.
flag, Nazis
Object of Infinitive
follows infinitive and tells "what?" A good habit to have is to go for a walk in the evening. - go To travel all across Italy is Lucretia's New Year resolution. - travel
there was no volcanic activity on moon and atmosphere is too think on venus to do what
form meteorites that could travel to earth
list the 2 pranks the children play on Maria
frog in her pocket,pinecone in her chair
Which has more mass (heavier), gas giants or terrestrial planets?
gas giants
The four planets further from the Sun are called the
gas giants or Jovian planets
Outer planets are also known as
gas giants.
Neptune's Great Dark Spot was a
giant storm (about the size of earth) in its atmosphere that comes and goes, possibly related to Neptune's shrinking size.
Infallibility
gift of the holy spirit that guarantees that the church's official teachings on matters of faith & morals cannot be in error
Black Lenin
google it is a screen print in colors on Arches paper, created by the artist the year he died. This rare print highlights Warhol's fascination with the boundary between politics and celebrity, seen here in the glamorization of Lenin's face and the vibrancy of the red background
what is the planet most earth like in atmosphere
mars
what planet has runaway ice house effect
mars
Asteroids are clumps of ______ that range in size from very tiny to _____ km in diameter
matter, 940
Meteor
meteoroid that has enters the Earth's atmosphere and the friction emitting light. "shooting star"
what are the upper clouds of neptune made of
methane
the presence of water on mars was supported by what
sedimentary rock
what is Baroness Shrader's plan for the children as soon as she marries the captain
send them to boarding school
what reason does Max give Gretel for being last on the program
she is the most important
what is the last thing Maria does before she leaves for the Abbey
she leaves a letter
Why does Lisel sneak in Marias room
shes been out with Rolfe
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
short story by Mark Twain; first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, about the gambler Jim Smiley. Jim catches a frog, whom he names Dan'l Webster, and spends three months training it to jump. When a stranger visits, Jim shows off Dan'l and offers to bet $40 that it can out-jump any other frog in the county. The stranger says that he would take the bet if he had a frog, so Jim goes out to catch one, leaving him alone with Dan'l. While Jim is away, the stranger pours lead shot down Dan'l's throat. During the race, the stranger's frog jumps away while Dan'l does not budge, and the surprised and disgusted Jim pays the $40 bet. Jim realizes that he has been cheated and chases after the stranger, but never catches him.
mercury has lost what
silicate mantle
Venial Sin
sin that doesn't destroy the divine life in the soul of the sinner, though it diminishes & wounds it.
Quimbo and Sambo
slaves of Simon Legree who act as overseers of the plantation. On orders from Legree, they savagely whip Tom but afterward tearfully repent of their deeds to Tom, who forgives them as he lies dying.
what is saturns interior
small volume of metallic hydrogen
Pluto has a
solid surface, is much smaller and more dense that the outer planets, has three known moons, and has a very elliptical orbit.
what happens to the cloud of gas and dust in the formation of the solar system
some disturbance occurs that causes parts of the solar system to become more dense
if there is a doppler shift in stars what does this mean
something is orbiting it
how do we id rocks minerals and ices? process that looks at what?
spectroscopy look at reflected light in IR and see what wavelengths are reflected
The inner/terrestrial plants are formed mainly from
rock
What are terrestrial planets made of?
rock and metal
What is the basic structure of planet Jupiter?
rocky core, liquid hydrogen mantle, gaseous atmosphere
Asteroids
rocky metallic objects that orbit the sun but are too small to be considered planets
what is special about venus's rotation
rotates in opposite direction
after cloud collapses in formation of solar system what happens
rotation about the axis
mars became cold that water froze out of atmosphere called
runaway refrigerator effect
what are the moons of planets called?
satellites
which planet has obvious rings
saturn
what shape are the major planets?
sphereical
What is Saturns most interesting feature
The rings
How much more massive would Jupiter have to be to become a star?
75 times more massive
Jupiter
75% hydrogen, 24% helium
Earth
75% water 25% land
Has a diameter of __________ miles across
75,000 miles
Theodore Roosevelt
"Rough Rider" during the Spanish American War
how many moons does eris have?
1
How many satellites does Jupiter have
63 by February 2004
Jupiter
67 moons
How many Earths can fit into Jupiter?
1,321
Karl Marx
1818-1883. 19th century philosopher, political economist, sociologist, humanist, political theorist, and revolutionary. Often recognized as the father of communism. Analysis of history led to his belief that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism. Believed in a classless society.
Saturn is the _________ from the sun and is _______ from the sun
6th planet from the sun and is 9.5 AU from the sun
The _____ largest planet in the solar system
4th
How many moons orbit pluto?
5
Pluto
5 moons
The Russian Five
5 young men who met in St. Petersburg with the aim of creating truly Russian music. "The Mighty Handful" Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Cui, Borodin
How many moons does mars have?
2 moons
Uranus
2.8 billion kilometers away from the sun
Uranus
200 km per hour wind
How many known satellites does Uranus have
27
Neptune is the _________ from the sun and is _______ from the sun
8th planet from the sun 30 AU from the sun
Saturn
9 times the diameter of earth
Callisto
A heavily cratered moon
Venus is also known as
Earth's sister planet ; Earth's twin
Jack Dorsey
Founder of Twitter
Neptune
Great Dark Spot
who catches the family trying to escape
Herr Zella, The Nazis
Phobos
Means fear and is a moon of mars
Gluck
Orpheus and Eurydice—Music teacher of Marie Antoinette.
Garden Path at Giverny
Painted in 1902;
Neptune
Revolution of about 165 years
Jupiter
Shape of the planet is a severe oblate spheroid
Mercury
Smallest planet in the solar system
Electromagnetic radiation
The energy formed when four hydrogen atoms collide to form helium
Best Animated Film
Toy Story 4
Mars
Where is the largest mountain in the solar system located?
Gravity (definition)
a force that pulls objects toward each other and is possessed by anything with mass
Inflation
a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money.
human sacrifice
a person who is killed as part of a religious ritual, each of the Mesoamerican tribes did this.
Marshall Plan
a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism.
Peter and the Starcatcher
a prequel to Peter Pan based on the children's book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Twelve actors make theatrical magic by playing dozens of characters: sailors, pirates, British naval officers, Mollusk natives and orphans in addition to eighteen major roles. A coming-of-age adventure story about how a nameless orphan -- inspired by a remarkable and ambitious girl -- became the strange and celebrated hero that is the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up.
Meteoroid
a relatively small, rocky body that travels through space. Less than 100 m
What separates the terrestrial planets from the gas giants?
asteroid belt
in what direction does the comet tail point in relation to the sun?
away from the sun
metallic hydrogen can do what
conduct magnetic field
Smallpox
disease brought by the Spanish to the Americas
what is radial velocity detection utilize
doppler effect
what does Lisel wish to do for the first time at the party
drink champagne
Pluto has been reclassified as a
dwarf planet: round, orbits the sun, but has not cleared out the neighborhood around its orbit.
Olmec civilization
earliest known American civilization, located in southern Mexico and known for its pyramids and huge stone heads
Object of Gerund
follows gerund and tells "what?" I like eating pizza. -- eating what? = pizza
after the cloud of dust becomes more dense what happens
gravitational force increases
To be a planet, a celestial body must do this (2/3)
have enough gravity to form a sphere
Does the moon have a magnetic field?
it is weak
what is special about mercury's rotation period around sun
once around sun but halfway around axis has orbital resonance
Monsieur Madeleine
one of JVJ's names, after he has set up his factory and given respect and is wealthy
all the major planets ____________ around the sun in the same plane?
orbit
Recession
period of reduced economic activity
these planetesimals in forming systems collide to form
protoplanets
politically, what is happening in Austria
the Nazis are taking over
What is revolution?
the elliptical motion of a body as it orbits another body in space.
The Shepherdsons
the family whose feud with the Grangerfords causes Huck to question the sanity of fighting for generations about something no one can remember
what planet has runaway green house effect
venus
Mars
Named after God of War
Neptune
Named after Roman god of Sea
Uranus
Named after god of the sun
Mercury
Named for the messenger
Mercury
Named from Lord of Commerce
How many moons does mercury have?
None
Nez Perce
North American Indian people whose traditional territory centred on the lower Snake River and such tributaries as the Salmon and Clearwater rivers in what is now northeastern Oregon, southeastern Washington, and central Idaho. led by Chief Joseph revolted against American gold-seekers who threatened their territory
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Novel; Hank Morgan an engineer from Connecticut is accidentally transported back in time to the sixth century in the court of King Arthur of Britain. There he fools the people with the knowledge of modern technology. The novel primarily makes fun of romanticized ideas of chivalry, and of the idealization of the Middle Ages by other authors. Among the earliest texts in the time travel sub-genre of science fiction.
Uranus
Outer planet in retrograde
Temperatures greatly increase
within the planets.
How was Pluto discovered
By mistake in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh
Ulysses S. Grant
General for the Union Army during Civil War
Pushed Iraq out of Kuwait with military force
George H W Bush
President during 9/11
George W Bush
Modest Musorgsky
(1839-81): This Russian composer is known as one of "The Five" Russian Romantic composers who endeavored to make a national musical style for their country. He is known for his opera Boris Godunov (1868), his symphonic poems such as Night on Bald Mountain (1867), and especially for his piano cycle Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) that was vividly orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922.
Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
(1840-93): This late-Romantic composer was the first internationally-acclaimed Russian musician. He is known for his colorfully orchestrated ballets, concertos, opera, and symphonic works. The Nutcracker [ballet] 1892
Giocomo Puccini
(1858-1924): A leading figure in the Italian operatic verismo (true-to-life) movement of the late 19th- early 20th-centuries. La Bohème [verismo opera] (1896)
Gabriel Fauré
(1858-1924): This late-Romantic French composer, organist and teacher brought French art song ("mélodie) and chamber music to the highest levels of sophistication. His musical style had a strong influence on many 20th-century composers. La bonne chanson [song cycle of French mélodie] (1892-94)
Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911): The most important Austrian composer of the late Romantic era, and one of the greatest conductors and orchestrators in history. He is known for his highly-expressive and melancholy orchestrally-accompanied song cycles, and his massive symphonies, which are examples of post-Romanticism. Kindertotenlieder [song cycle] 1901-04
Claude Debussy
(1862-1918): The leader of the French "impressionist" movement in music. He was the first to move into a clearly modern manner of composition--clearly breaking with the Romantic sound dominated by the style of Wagner. Debussy is best known for his impressionistic piano works, symphonic poems, songs, and the opera Pelléas et Mélisande. Prélude à l'après d'un faune ("Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun") [symphonic poem] 1894
Richard Strauss
(1864-1949): This German post-Romantic composer/conductor stretched Wagnerian Romanticism to greater extremes, and he also ventured into the realm of early expressionism in works such as Salome (1903). He is known for his intense operas and his symphonic poems. Also Sprach Zarathustra [symphonic poem] 1896
Established Presidents cabinet
George Washington
Venus
Has a year before a day (long rotation compared to revolution)
Uranus
Has about 27 moons
Mars
Has an axis tilt similar to earth and therefore has seasons
Our Town
(Thornton Wilder, 1938). It is divided into three acts: "Daily Life" (Professor Willard and Editor Webb gossip on the everyday lives of town residents); "Love and Marriage" (Emily Webb and George Gibbs fall in love and marry); and "Death" (Emily dies while giving birth, and her spirit converses about the meaning of life with other dead people in the cemetery). A Stage Manager talks to the audience and serves as a narrator throughout the drama, which is performed on a bare stage.
Antonín Dvořák
(c1841-1904): The leading Czech (Bohemian) composer of the Romantic era; known for his symphonies, chamber works, operas, and songs. Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World") [symphony] 1893
How did the solar system form?
- a nebular a huge cloud of gas, ice and dust slowly formed in space - than this cloud slowly rotated in space, contracted, became more dense and formed a disk -as the cloud contracted the, it grew warmer triggering a nuclear fusion reaction that created the sun -leftover matter became the planets and asteroids
Neptune
-8th planet from the sun -farthest planet from the sun -dark blue -"ice giant" -coldest planet -fastest recorded winds in the solar system (1,300mph!)
What is the contrast between the river and the shore?
-The river is uncivilized, peaceful and easy -The shore is civilized and can be cruel, authoritarian, and hypocritical. Also reflects the "Damned Human Race."
Neltune
Has at least 14 moons
Saturn
Has at least 62 moons
Jupiter
Has at least 79 moons
How far in astronomical units is the earth from the sun?
1 AU
What two factors enable Earth to support life?
1. Formed at just the right distance from the sun. 2. We have water.
Edict of Nantes
1598 - Henry of Navarre's policy of religious tolerance to keep peace in France. Edict was revoked in 1685 by Louis XIV.
What is the criteria needed for an object to be considered a planet? Why is Pluto not a planet?
1. Needs to orbit Sun 2. Needs to have enough gravity to pull itself into a spherical shape 3. needs to dominate its neighborhood. Pluto does not dominate its neighborhood, meaning it does not consume objects that are nearby like the other planets do.
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
1. Scottish economist who wrote "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" 2. Opposed mercantilist policies 3. Advocated free trade and "the Invisible Hand of competition" 4. Capitolist
How long is Saturn's rotation period
10 hours
What does galileo observe about Jupiter
4 large satellites orbiting in the 1600s
Corona
4 million degrees, can only see in solar eclipse and is very thin
Tethys, Dione, Rhea, and Lapetus
4 other moderately sized moons of Saturn
approximate age of our solar system
4.5 billion years
Attila the Hun
405-453, was the Emperor of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea. He was considered one of the cruelest rulers in history.
how many satellites does Uranus have?
27
Uranus
27 moons
The moon takes 27.3 days to revolve around the Earth and ___________ days to complete one rotation.
27.3
Rachmaninoff
2nd Piano Concerto, Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Isle of the Dead, The Bells—Had Marfan Syndrome which allowed him to be a piano virtuoso.
Venus
2nd closest planet to the Sun, same size as Earth, Thick atmosphere, Hottest planet because of Greenhouse Effect
____ largest planet in the solar system
2nd largest
Saturn is the
2nd largest planet with average density less than water.
How many layers of cloud does Saturn have?
3
Jupiter has a mass _________ times greater than the mass of Earth
318 times
How far away is Pluto from the sun?
39.5 AU from the sun
Uranus is the _______ largest planet
3rd
Earth
3rd planet from sun; has an atmosphere that protects life & surface temp.'s that allow water to exist as a solid, liquid, & gas
Jupiter is the _________ (____ planet) from the sun and is _______ from the sun
5th planet from the sun and is 5.2 Au from the Sun
Jupiter has more than
60 moons, including Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
How many moons does Saturn have? which is the largest?
62 moon titan
Polka
A Bohemian (think Czech Republic) folk dance in duple time (2/2 or 4/4 time) with a hop on the fourth beat
Jonathan Pue
A Custom House employee from a number of years ago who died suddenly, leaving some undiscovered personal papers in the Custom House building. These papers include documents recounting the story of the scarlet letter, as well as the letter itself.
Merengue
A Dominican dance done in a 2/4 time . Partners hold each other in a closed position. Faster version of the salsa.
Walter Gropius
A German architect who is considered one of the founders of modern architecture. In 1923, designed what is now the modern door-handle. He was the first director of the Bauhaus and established the Architect's Collaborative (TAC) in 1945 (an American architectural firm).
Tango
A Latin American dance performed at a moderately slow, walk-like tempo in 4/4 meter. Originated in Argentina and Uruguay. Steps alternate from long/smooth & short/snappy; torsos remain rigid; passionate and sensual.
Mayans
A Mesoamerican civilization of Central America and southern Mexico. Achievements include mathematics, architecture, and a 365 day a year calendar. They flourished between the 4th and 12th centuries C.E..
Bizet
A serenade from this composer's Don Procopio [proh-KOH-pee-oh] was recycled for Henry Smith in his The Fair Maid of Perth. Another of his works features a love triangle between Nadir, Zurga, and Leila. This composer of The Pearl Fishers also wrote an opera in which the deaths of the title character and her lover, Don Jose, are predicted by a pair of gypsies. For 10 points-name this French composer of Carmen.
Crusades
A series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Western European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims
Fourteen Points
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
Dionne Warwick
A six-time Grammy Award-winning singer, actress, television host, and former United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization and United States Ambassador of Health. Appeared as the mouse on season 3 of the Masked singer.
Minuet
A slow, stately social dance in 3/4 time for groups of couples. Originating in 17th-century France. A movement in 3/4 time that is usually the third, but sometimes the second, of a four-movement symphony or string quartet. Title referring to the very small steps.
Democratic Socialism
A socialist form of government that guarantees civil liberties such as freedom of speech and religion. Citizens determine the extent of government activity through free elections and competitive political parties.
Geocentric
A solar system with Earth at the center
Heliocentric
A solar system with the Sun at the center
Mir
A space station where among sixteen countries visited until it went out of orbit in 2001
Architrave
A square beam that is the lowest of the three horizontal components of a Classical entablature
Quadrille
A square dance popular in the 18th and 19th century Europe & colonies Made up of five or six patterns for four couples in a rectangle.
Jitterbug
A strenuous dance performed to quick-tempo swing or jazz music and consisting of various two-step patterns embellished with twirls and sometimes acrobatic maneuvers. Performed primarily to swing or boogie-woogie.
Socialism
A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.
Pediment
A triangular space formed by the raking cornices (sloping sides) and horizontal cornice of a gabled temple; also used above a door or window. If the apex or base is split, the pediment is described as broken
Leonard Bernstein
A twentieth-century American composer and conductor. He served for many years as the director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Gave television lectures on classical music Young People's Concert Series Peter Pan West Side Story
Cole Porter
A twentieth-century American songwriter. His songs, such as "Anything Goes," "I Get a Kick out of You" and "I've Got You Under my Skin," are renowned for their witty, sophisticated lyrics.B Born in Indiana & classically trained.
The tattered soldier
A twice-shot soldier whom Henry encounters in the column of wounded men. With his endless speculation about Henry's supposed wound, the tattered soldier functions as a nagging, painful conscience to Henry.
Gerund
A verb form ending in -ing that is used as a noun
Infinitive
A verb form, usually preceded by "to," that is used as a noun, adjective, or adverb. Examples: You need to walk. "To" is an _____________________ form preceding the verb "walk." Give him the shoes to polish. the _____________________ is working as an adjective that modifies shoes. I don't want to see Here the _____________________ "to" is serving as an adverb and it modifies the verb "see," which follows it. To write is his passion. Here the _____________________ "to" is functioning as the subject of "is."
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
About a mischievous young boy living with his Aunt Polly on the banks of the Mississippi River. After missing school one day (and getting into a fight), Tom is punished with the task of whitewashing a fence. He convinces other boys that the chore is a great honor, so they pay him to do the work for him. The title character and his friend witness a murder. Injun Joe kills Dr. Robinson and tries to blame it on the drunken Muff Porter. Injun Joe is unaware that the boys have seen what he's done.
President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Brahms
Academic Festival Overtures Tragic Overture Hungarian Dances Variations on a Theme by Haydyn A German Requiem Violin Concerto in D Lullaby
Foster
According to the Grove Dictionary, this composer of "Oh! Susanna" was the first American to make a living solely as a composer of music.
Barber
Adagio for Strings Vanessa Antony and Cleopatra(for the opening of the Metropolitan opera at Lincoln center, 1966) School for Scandal(overture)
Steve Reich
American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s His work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns. His work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage Famous Pieces: Music for 18 Musicians Different Trains WTC 9/11 -- string quartet with audio recordings from Sept 11th, 2001.
Charles Ives
American composer who made more money in the insurance business and composed in his spare time. Distinctively American composer. Experimented with sound. Borrowed from music like Stephen Foster. Pulitzer Prize for his 3rd Symphony (aka "The Camp Meeting). Famous Pieces: The Unanswered Question, Three Places in New England
Bon Iver
American indie folk band from Eau Claire, WI; their name comes from the French for "good winter" *For Emma, Forever Ago* "Holocene"
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban quirks. "A Telephone Call" "Good Souls" "Song of Perfect Propriety" "One perfect rose"
Stephen Vincent Benet
American short story author & novelist. Wrote a novel length poem about the Civil War titled "John Brown's Body" -- won a Pulitzer in 1929. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" & "By the Waters of Babylon" Seven Brides for Seven Brothers A Western Star -- unfinished poem on the settling of the US -- won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
Adrienne Bailon
American singer, actress and talk show host. She is a former member of girl groups such as 3LW and The Cheetah Girls. Since 2013, she has been a co-host of the daytime talk show The Real. As an actress, she appeared in The Cheetah Girls films, Coach Carter, and All You've Got. She has guest starred in numerous television series including That's So Raven and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. In 2013, Bailon became the first Latina host of a daytime talk show in the US. She also competed in The Masked Singer in 2019 as the Flamingo, finishing in 3rd place.
Gwen Stefani
American singer, songwriter, actress, and record producer. She is a co-founder and the lead vocalist of the band No Doubt, whose singles include "Just a Girl", "Spiderwebs", and "Don't Speak", from their 1995 breakthrough studio album Tragic Kingdom, as well as "Hey Baby" and "It's My Life" from later albums. Went solo in 2004 with album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. including the songs "What You Waiting For?", "Rich Girl", "Hollaback Girl", and "Cool". Former coach on The Voice
John Legend
American singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and philanthropist. Born John Roger Stephens in Springfield, OH; he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2015 for writing the song "Glory" from the film Selma. Appeared in the film La La Land. "All of Me" "Start a Fire" Current judge on The Voice.
Chaka Kahn
American singer/songwriter; in the 1970s was the lead singer of the funk band Rufus. She was ranked at number 17 in VH1's original list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll. Appeared on the 3rd season of Masked Singer as Miss Monster.
Hammurabi
Amorite ruler of Babylon (r. 1792-1750 B.C.E.). He conquered many city-states in southern and northern Mesopotamia and is best known for a code of laws, inscribed on a black stone pillar, illustrating the principles to be used in legal cases.
Cotillion
An 18th-century, elaborate French ballroom dance with frequent changes of partner. Today refers to a ball at which young ladies are presented to society.
Rumba
An Afro-Cuban dance that became popular in the United States during the early 1930s. Slow-quick-quick.
J.M.W. Turner
An English romantic painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, known especially for his dramatic, lavishly colored landscapes/seascapes and studies of modern machinery. Dutch Boats in a Gale Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps (pictured) Burning of the Houses of Parliament
Predicate Adjective
An adjective that follows a linking verb and describes the subject Mr. Sullivan is awesome subject: Mr. Sullivan verb: is ______________= awesome (renames the subject)
Sir Christopher Wren
An architect who rebuilt many churches that were destroyed by the Great Fire of London. Planned a redesign of London. St. Paul's Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital
International Style
An architectural style that emerged in the 1930s which stressed function and, with the use of new materials, designed buildings to have outside walls of materials such as glass, instead of large heavy walls.
Quipu
An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information, to count, keep records, and track crops.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
An eccentric inventor, Caractacus Potts sets about restoring an old race car from a scrap heap with the help of his children, Jeremy and Jemima. They soon discover the car has magical properties, including the ability to float and take flight. Trouble occurs when the evil Baron Bomburst desires the magic car for himself. The family joins forces with Truly Scrumptious and batty Grandpa Potts to outwit the dastardly Baron and Baroness and their villainous henchman, the Child Catcher. Music by the Sherman Brother
Cherokee
Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). One of the groups removed via the Trail of Tears Largest federally recognized tribe today.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
An eclectic group of sixth-graders arrives at a spelling competition, each eager to win for very different reasons. Sweet and shy Olive brings only her best friend (the dictionary); bold and hyperallergic speller William Barfee uses his "magic foot" to propel him to greatness; former champion Chip is struggling with his burgeoning puberty; easily distracted Leaf is unconvinced that he's smart enough to be a challenger; overachiever Marcy is disappointed by her consistent success; and politically aware Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre only wants to impress her gay dads. In hilarious, touching, and catchy songs, each speller reveals his/her hopes, struggles, and passions as they make their way through the competition.
Communism
An economic system where factors of production are collectively owned and directed by the state.
Mixed Economy
An economy in which private enterprise exists in combination with a considerable amount of government regulation and promotion.
Traditional Economy
An economy in which production is based on customs and traditions and economic roles are typically passed down from one generation to the next.
John Wilson
An elderly minister who is a symbol of religious authority and the Puritan beliefs.
Affordable Care Act
An expansion of medicaid, most of employers must provide health insurance, have insurance or face surtax, prevents rejection based on pre-existing condition. Also referred to as "Obamacare", signed into law in 2010.
Kepler's Second Law of Planetary Motion states
An imaginary line drawn from the sun to any planet sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals
Planet
An object that orbits a star, is large enough to have become rounded by its own gravity, and has cleared the area of its orbit.
Arthur Dimmesdale
An unmarried pastor who keeps his sin a secret from everyone in town.
Pushed Native American out of the east coast into the reservations
Andrew Jackson
Pardoned southerners who would take an of allegiance to the north
Andrew Johnson
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov; Tells the story of Ranevskaya, Varya, and her 18-year old daughter Anya, who live, with various other people, in an old Russian manor house. Unfortunately, the family has fallen on hard times and although Ranevskaya is given several different suggestions on how to reverse the family fortunes, nothing is done. Eventually, the orchard attached to the manner is sold to a man ancestors were serfs on the property. The story ends with the orchard being chopped down.
The Bet
Anton Chekhov; a lawyer and a banker make a bet about what is worse: life in prison or the death penalty. The lawyer agrees to be locked up for 15 years -- if he succeeds her gets $$$$$$ from the banker. While locked up the banker starts to go broke. During his time in lockup, the lawyer enjoys himself and eventually learns that he doesn't need material goods.
Satellite
Any natural or artificial object that revolves around an object in space
Miranda, a satellite of Uranus,
Appears to have been reassembled from separate parts after being shattered by an impact
Tim Cook
Apple Took over after death of Steve Jobs
Fillipo Brunelleschi
Architect that was interested in bronze and painting. Created massive dome on Cathedral of Florence; Linear perspective
Chopin
Artur Rubinstein specialized in the music of this compatriot composer, who included a "Funeral March" in his Piano Sonata No.2. His other works include a "Fantasie Impromptu" and 27 etudes [AY-toodz]. For 10 points - name this pianist who wrote more than 50 mazurkas based on dances of his native Poland.
Jupiter
As moons get further from it the less tectonic activity they have
Jupiter
Atmosphere has hydrogen, helium, water vapor, ammonia
Earth
Atmosphere made up of nitrogen, oxygen, and argon
Earth
Atmosphere with 21% oxygen
Venus
Atmospheric pressure 90 earth's
Foxtrot
Ballroom dance in double time that includes slow walking steps, quick running steps and two steps. Took its name from vaudeville star who popularized the dance, Harry Fox. A signature dance of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers.
BTS
Bangtan Boys, is a seven-member South Korean boy band formed in Seoul in 2013. The septet co-writes and produces much of their output. Originally a hip hop group, their musical style has evolved to include a wide range of genres.
Pushed for and achieved ambitious healthcare reforms
Barack Obama
Big
Based on a hit 1988 Tom Hanks movie. 12-year-old Josh Boskin makes a wish to become big. When his wish comes true, he transforms into a 30 year old man, lands a dream job working for Maximillion toys and falls in love Susan. But in the end he must decide whether he's ready to live a grown up's life yet.
Anastasia
Based on the 1997 animated movie from 20th Century Fox. Set amidst the turmoil of the Russian revolution with the Bolshevik regime on the rise, Anya, an amnesiac orphan stranded in St. Petersburg, is on a quest to rediscover her past which she believes lies in Paris. Joined by a dashing conman, Dmitry, and an ex-aristocrat, Vlad Popov, who want to use Anya to bamboozle the only remaining Romanov, Dowager Empress Marie into believing that Anya is the lost TITLE CHARACTER, she escapes to Paris with a determined Soviet officer on their heels. Including classic songs like "Journey to the Past" and "Once Upon a December."
Legally Blonde
Based on the novel and the hit-movie of the same name; chronicles the journey of the famously perky Elle Woods, a fashion-savvy, UCLA sorority girl who finds her life turned upside down when she is dumped by her boyfriend Warner. In an effort to prove to Warner that she is more than just some blonde sorority girl, she follows him to Harvard Law, where she struggles to fit in and do well. Ultimately, she defies expectations and manages to stay true to her delightfully pink personality.
cocao beans
Bean used in making chocolate , discovered by the Mayans.
Fantine
Beautiful girl and mother of Cosette. Sacrifices herself to pay Thenardiers for taking care of Cosette. Eventually dies from grief.
Mary Jane Wilks
Beautiful, red-headed girl; she was about 19 years old
Jo's Boys
Beginning ten years after Little Men, this story revisits Plumfield, the New England school still presided over by Jo and her husband, Professor Bhaer. Jo remains at the center of the tale, surrounded by her boys—including rebellious Dan, sailor Emil, and promising musician Nat—as they experience shipwreck and storm, disappointment and even murder.
The dark reddish bands on Jupiter are known as
Belts
Signed the Sherman Antitrust Act
Benjamin Harrison
Joaquin Phoenix
Best Actor; Joker Played Johnny Cash in the movie Walk the Line; Played the Roman Emperor in Gladiator. His brother, River (a teen idol at the time) died of a drug overdose in 1993.
Brad Pitt
Best supporting actor: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. First Oscar for this movie star.
Alexander the Great
Between 334 and 323 B.C.E. he conquered the Persian Empire, reached the Indus Valley, founded many Greek-style cities, and spread Greek culture across the Middle East.
Where is the Cassini division found in our solar system?
Between two major ring systems around Saturn
Jupiter
Big Red Spot
Expanded controversial free trade agreements across the globe
Bill Clinton
Where did Earth get all the water it has today?
Blizzard of Asteroids and comets came flying into the inner solar system and hit earth bringing water in the form of ice with them. They brought just the right amount.
johann strauss
Blue Danube Waltz; The Bat (operetta)
What is the visual appearance of Uranus from space?
Blue-green and featureless
What is the Visual appearance of Neptune from space?
Blue-green sith white, high altitude clouds and dark storms
Bartok
Bluebeard's Castle(opera) Miraculous Mandarin(ballet) Wooden Prince(ballet) Concerto for Orchestra
Ravel
Bolero, Mother Goose Suite, Daphnis and Chloe, The Spanish Hour, The Child and the Spells, Myrrha, La Valse
Billie Eilish
Born and raised in Highland Park, Los Angeles, Eilish began singing at a young age. She gained media attention in 2016, when she uploaded the song "Ocean Eyes" on SoundCloud, subsequently released by Darkroom on Interscope Records. Album: Bad Guy
Ariana Grande
Born in Boca Raton, Florida, Grande began her career in the 2008 Broadway musical 13 and rose to prominence for her role as Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious, and in its spin-off, Sam & Cat. Had a notable relationship with comedian Pete Davidson from SNL. 2019 Album: Thank U, Next Other Albums: Yours Truly (2013) My Everything (2014) Dangerous Woman (2016) Sweetener (2018) Songs: 7 Rings, Bang Bang, Don't Call Me Angel, God is a Woman
Nicole Scherzinger
Born in Hawaii, Raised in LOUISVILLE, KY American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and television personality. Began her career on a Popstars, a reality show creating a girl group called "Eden's Crush." Later became the lead singer of The Pussycat Dolls. She won the 10th season of Dancing with the Stars and became a judge on The Sing-off and X-Factor. Solo albums -- "Killer Love" and "Big Fat Lie"
How was Neptune discovered?
By a careful application of newteon's laws to the somewhat itrefular motions of uranus
Mean Girls
Cady Heron is the new girl at North Shore High School in Chicago, desperate to fit in and find friends. Janis and Damian befriend the new girl, and when The Plastics set their sights on Cady, Janis convinces naive Cady to be their "friend" in order to bring down Queen Bee Regina George's reign. Along the way, Cady loses herself, her friends, and her crush, all for the chance to be popular and loved. When dethroned Regina gets revenge by releasing the Burn Book, Cady is brought down and must mend her broken relationships with Janis, Aaron, and even Regina.
What is the name of the largest basin on Mercury?
Caloris Basin
Supported big businesses
Calvin Coolidge
Pachelbel
Canon in D Major (a portion of this work is contained in Mozart's "Magic Flute")
Tenochtitlan
Capital of the Aztec Empire
Bizet
Carmen "Les Pecheurs de perles"(the pearl fishers) Children's Games Assembly Ball The Fair Maid of Perth
Saint-Saens
Carnival of Animals, Danse Macabre, Organ Symphony, Samson and Delilah— Had a feud with Debussey.
Charles Martel
Carolingian monarch of Franks; responsible for defeating Muslims in battle of Tours in 732; ended Muslim threat to western Europe.
Rogers and Hammerstein
Carousel, The King and I, Oklahoma!, Sound of Music, South Pacific, Showboat (with Jerome Kern)
Mars
Has been studied more than any other planet besides earth
Maya Lin
Chinese American sculptor and architect whose public works include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial. She was a senior at the Yale School of Architecture when the competition to design a Vietnam Veterans' Memorial began. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Nov 2016
I.M. Pei
Chinese-American architect with a modernist and cubist style. He combines traditional architectural elements with progressive designs based on simple geometric patterns. Buildings include the John F. Kennedy Library, National Gallery of Art, Louvre Pyramid, Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame, and Bank of China Tower.
Dr. Faustus
Christopher Marlowe's play about the titular character who trades his soul to the Devil, Mephistopheles for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures
Mercury
Closest planet to the sun, smallest planet in our solar system, 2nd hottest planet, no atmosphere, revolution takes 88 Earth days, Craters
What are the characteristics of Io
Closest satellite to Jupiter, only place in the Solar System that a Volcano was witnessed and is caused by the tidal effects of Jupiter's gravity on Io's crust
Io
Closest to Jupiter. Many volcanoes on its surface, covered in sulfur and sulfur compounds, extremely active
Neptune and Uranus
Clouds of methane block out all red light
Sergey Brin
Co-founder of Google (with L. Page)
Larry Page
Co-founder of Google (with S. Brin) Stepped down as CEO of Alphabet in late 2019
What is the runaway greenhouse effect?
Co2 as blanket that makes it difficult for the infrared radiation to go back to space, more heating, increase output of co2 that heats planet lead to more water
Uranus
Coldest gas giant
Lizzo
Combining rap, gospel soul, and classical flute as confidently as she addresses issues of race and body positivity, Debuted in 2013 On 2015's self-released Big Grrrl Small World, she added more R&B and gospel to her sound, a trend that continued on her brash major-label debut and breakthrough album, 2019's Cuz I Love You.
Barack Obama
Community organizer, civil rights lawyer, constitutional professor, Illinois state representative, Senator from IL
Frank Lloyd Wright
Considered America's greatest architect. Pioneered the concept that a building should blend into and harmonize with its surroundings rather than following classical designs. Prairie School or Prairie Style. Got his start at the Chicago firm of Adler & Sullivan. He worked closely with Louis Sullivan during his apprenticeship.
Mars
Contains ice/water
Neptune
Contains the Great Dark Spot
Luke Bryan
Country music singer/songwriter from Georgia; moved to Nashville at age 19 -- brother died in a car accident and older sister died unexpectedly from natural causes. He began his music career writing songs for Travis Tritt and Billy Currington. Went on to have 23 #1 hits on his first 9 albums. Albums: "I'll Stay Me", "Doin' My Thing", "Tailgates & Tanlines", "Crash My Party", "Kill the Lights", "What Makes You Country", "Born Here, Live Here, Die Here" Current judge on American Idol.
Blake Shelton
Country singer/songwriter from OK. Formerly married to fellow country singer Miranda Lambert. "Austin" *The Dreamer* Coach on NBC's The Voice
Venus
Covered in thick layer of clouds which prevents us from seeing the surface but reflects light making it bright in the night sky when viewed from earth
Similar to earth moon, what does mercury have on its surface?
Craters
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Crazy Communist, signed the communist manifesto "the theoretical giant of communist thought: whose prophecies are still hotly debated.
Copernicus
Creator of the heliocentric model
Big Fish
Edward Bloom has lived a full and fantastical life, populated by witches, giants, and mermaids, marked by true love that stops time in its tracks, and framed by heroics that push the limits of believability. His adult son, Will, is no longer amused by his father's fantastical tales, insisting on a rational rather than a fantastical account of one's life. When Edward's health declines, and Will learns that he and his wife, Josephine, will have a son of their own, Will decides to find out his father's "true" life story, once and for all. A heartfelt, powerful, and truly magical musical about fathers, sons, and the stories that we use to define our identities.
Akhenaten
Egyptian pharaoh (r. 1353-1335 B.C.E.). He built a new capital at Amarna, fostered a new style of naturalistic art, and created a religious revolution by imposing worship of the sun-disk.
Tutankhamun
Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from age 7 to 17; his tomb was discovered (nearly untouched) in 1922
Neptune
Eighth Planet from the Sun
Glass
Einstein on the Beach The Voyage Akhnaten Satyagrapha
What is the source of Jupiter's intense magnetic field?
Eletric currents in jupiter's lqiuid hudrogen layer
In what shape does the planets make when it orbits the sun?
Ellipse
What comes after the Oort Cloud
Empty space
Henry's mother
Encountered only in a brief flashback, Henry's mother opposed his enlisting in the army. Though her advice is only briefly summarized in Henry's flashback, it contains several difficult themes with which Henry must grapple, including the insignificance of his life in the grand scheme of the world.
Nuclear Fusion
Energy created from the core of the sun
Radiative Zone
Energy from the core moves out, with a temperature of 4.5 million degrees
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
English economist. He is most famous for The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), which judged most of classical economic analysis to be a special case (hence "General Theory") and argued that the best way to deal with prolonged recessions was deficit spending.
John Constable
English landscape painter. Used natural color stippled with white to demonstrate shifting atmosphere and changing seasons. The Haywain (pictured) Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows Dedham Vale Wivenhoe Park Weymouth Bay
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 Proserpine (pictured) Dante's Dream Lady Lilith
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. "Kubla Khan", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
William Blake
English poet, painter, and printmaker. Better known as a poet, but some critics call him one of England's best artists. - Songs of Innocence and Experience (illustrated poems) - The Ancient Days (pictured) -Pitty - The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins - The Ghost of a Flea
Thomas More
English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded. Wrote the book "Utopia"
Voting Rights Act
Ensured that all citizens could register to vote and all votes would count. Reaction to the Selma violence in 1865
Schumann
Etudes symphoniques, Fantasie in C major, Scene from Childhood, Symphony #1 in B-flat major "Spring Symphony" Papillions, Rehnish Symphony— Attempted suicide by throwing himself in the Rhine River. Apparently had syphilis and mercury poisoning. His wife is rumored to have had a long affair with Johannes Brahms.
Battle of Tours
European armies defeat Muslim armies and stop the spread of Islam in Europe, battle in 732 in which the Christian Franks led by Charles Martel defeated Muslim armies and stopped the Muslim advance into Europe
Why is life on the raft paradoxical?
Even though they are confined to a small space on the raft, Huck and Jim feel greater on it.
A Chorus Line
Examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the "chorus line" of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dancer's individuality. From Cassie, the star who just needs the "music and the mirror and the chance to dance," to Val, a small-town girl with a brand-new big-town body, to Mike, who took his sister's place in dance class, saying "I can do that." Based on real Broadway dancers' stories, as told to fellow dancer and choreographer Michael Bennett
Mercury has no atmosphere what kind of affect does this have on its temperatures?
Extreme day and night temperatures
37% of earths gravity
Mars
Donny Osmond
Former 'teen idol', American actor, singer, & dancer. Rose to stardom by performing with his 4 older brothers (group called the _____________ Brothers) during the 1970s. Later had a famous variety show on ABC with his sister (titled "____________& Marie") Won season 9 of Dancing with the Stars and was the runner-up on the 1st season of The Masked Singer (performed as the peacock).
Jenny McCarthy
Former model as a co-host on the MTV game show Singled Out, as well as films such as BASEketball, Diamonds, Scream 3, and Santa Baby. She is a former co-host of the ABC talk show The View. She is currently a judge on the FOX musical competition show The Masked Singer. Recently an outspoken "anti-vaccination activist"
Capital
Found at the top of the shaft and is the decorative element of the column
Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon; Richest man in the world Went through a very public divorce in 2019.
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder of Facebook which was started with 2 other men at Harvard University
Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft 2nd wealthiest person in the world. Runs a foundation with his wife, Melinda. Recently donated $100 Million to combat Coronavirus
Eisenhower
Founder of NASA
King Henry VIII
Founder of the church in England and ruled England from 1509-1547. He broke with the Catholic church because he couldn't get a divorce for wife not bearing male child.
Terrestrial planets
Four small dense rocky planets that orbit closest to the sun
Roger Bacon
Franciscan monk, English philosopher, and scientist in the 1200s who advocated for a system of scientific experimentation in seeking truth rather than accepting without question traditional Church and ancient beliefs. This led to the development of the scientific method.
The Lady or the Tiger
Frank Stockton; a king arrests his daughter's lover for attempting to love someone above his station. The lover is forced into an arena where he must open one of two doors. Behind one door is a tiger. Behind the other door is a lady that he would be forced to marry. The king's daughter knows which door is which....and the woman behind the door is her enemy. The princess points him to the right. Then the story ends. Leaving the reader to wonder which outcome the princess chose for her lover.
Passed the Kansas Nebraska Act
Franklin Pierce
President during most of the Great Depression and World War 11
Franklin Roosevelt
Joan of Arc
French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English in the 100 Years War and to have Charles VII crowned king,
John Calvin
French religious reformer who founded system of theology later known as Calvinism.
Eugene Delacroix
French romantic painter, master of dramatic colorful scenes that stirred the emotions. Masterpiece: Liberty Leading the People (pictured) Other works: The Death of Sardanapalus The Massacre at Chios The Barque of Dante Lion Hunt illustrated various works of William Shakespeare, the Scottish author Walter Scott and the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Muff Potter
Friend of Injun Joe who is blamed for the murder of Doc Robinson (the knife was put in his hand)
When was the last time Pluto was inside Neptune's orbit?
From 1978-1998
Jordan Smith
From Whitley County, Kentucky. Graduated from Harlan County High School. Won Season 9 of the Voice with Adam Levine as his coach. Songs" "Stand in Light" Only Love" End in Love"
Liquid Fuel
Fuel used to propel a rocket by
Uranus
Fully orbits the sun every 84 years
H.E.R.
Gabriella Wilson; rose to fame by participating in Radio Disney's Next Big Thing in 2009 2019 Album: Hard Place
Jupiter
Galilean Moons
Who was the first to discover Staurn
Galileo
The four giant moons of Jupiter were discovered by
Galileo, in seventeenth century italy.
The largest moon in the solar system is
Ganymede
Which of the Moons of Jupiter is characterized by an exceptionally smooth, icy surface, few craters, and many streaks and cracks?
Ganymede
How would you classify Jupiter
Gas Planet, outer, Superior, and visible
How would you classify Neptune
Gas Planet, outer, Superior, invisible
How would you classify Uranus
Gas Planet, outer, Superior, invisible
How would you classify Saturn
Gas Planet, outer, Superior, visible
Mars
Had three rovers sent to explore it
Pluto
Half the size of the US
_______ comet orbits close to Earth every _______ years
Halley's, 76
Humperdinck
Hansel and Gretal (opera)
The Korean war starts
Harry S Truman
Uranus
Has 14 times greater mass than Earth
Mars
Has 2 moons
Jupiter
Has 4 large Galilean moons
Mars
Has a giant volcano named Olympus Mons which is 17miles high and a base that is the size of some states
Mars
Has a red color because of the soil components rusting
Neptune
Has a thin ring system
Uranus
Has a thin system of rings
Jupiter
Has a thin system of rings around it
What does Voyager send back to Earth
High resolution photographs in 1979
Mozart
His Symphony No. 38 has the nickname "Prague." Name this Viennese composer who died in 1791.
Khalid
His debut single, "Location", was released in July 2016 and peaked at number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. 2019 Album: Free Spirit Songs: Talk, Right Back, My Bad, Better, Saturday Nights
Mozart
His opera Don Giovanni ends with its title womanizer being dragged to Hell by a statue. Name this Austrian composer who wrote Don Giovanni.
Byzantine Empire
Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century onward, taken from 'Byzantion,' an early name for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital city. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453. (250)
Nick Cannon
Host An American actor, comedian, rapper, director, writer, producer, and television host. On television, he began as a teenager on All That before going on to host a self-titled show, Wild 'N Out, America's Got Talent, Lip Sync Battle Shorties, and The Masked Singer. He acted in the films "Drumline", "Love Don't Cost a Thing" and "Roll Bounce."
Carson Daly
Host of NBC's The Voice Radio and television personality
Venus
Hottest planet, because it has the greenhouse effect and thick atmosphere
Pap
Huck Finn's dad, he is a drunk and abusive; he was shot in the back and killed
How is Huck's life with the two sisters?
Huck thinks it is too civilized
Tom Sawyer
Huck's best friend. adventurous, imaginative and a dreamer; like adventure stories.
What is the major conflict in the story?
Huck's internal struggle with his "deformed conscience."
Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsodies, Liedestraum, Les Preludes, A Faust Symphony, Mezeppa
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer & conductor. The composer who developed the symphonic poem & wrote music based on traditional gypsy music. Faust Symphony Hungarian Rhapsodies Prometheus Totentanz Liebesträume
Atmosphere is thin, mostly filled with carbon dixode
Mars
Metope
In the frieze of a Doric order, the rectangular area between tryglyphs; often left plain but sometimes decorated with relief ornament
Venus
Inner planet in retrograde
William the Conquerer
Invaded England from Normandy in 1066 defeating Harold King of the Saxons; extended tight feudal system to England; established administrative system based on sheriffs; established centralized monarchy. This brought a blending of Latin (French) and German (Anglo-Saxon) based cultures
Johann Schmidlap
Inventor of the step rocket
Thomas Pynchon
Involved with postmodernism and neo-realism. In his world everything serious has its silly aspects, while bits of trivia and foolery are suddenly elevated. Known for dense, overly long and complex novels . Entropy The Crying of Lot 49 Gravity's Rainbow
Which satellite of Jupiter is volcanically active?
Io
Which planetary satellites are known to have plumes of gas escaping through their surfaces?
Io and triton
Name the 4 largest of Jupiters moons. Which is the largest?
Io, Europa, Castillo, Ganymede largest- Ganymede
Moons of Jupiter
Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto
What are the 4 largest satlites
Io, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa
Zaha Hadid
Iraqi-British architect; She is the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize (2004) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2016) Buildings: London Aquatics Centre Beijing Daxing International Airport MAXXII Museum in Rome Al Jourban Stadium in Qatar Died in 2016
Law of Gravitation was published by....
Isaac Newton
What happened to Galileo spacecraft
It deliberately crashed into the atmosphere to prevent contamination in space.
Northwest Ordinance
It established a system for setting up governments in the western territories so they could eventually join the Union on an equal footing with the original 13 states
How is titron different than the other moons
It has a retrograde motion.
Density is 3.93 g/cm cubed
Mars
What is the climax in the story?
It is when Huck decides to steal Jim out of slavery from the Phelps farm (his own moral code) despite the fact that he believes he will suffer in hell for it (society's teachings)
Galileo spacecraft orbits for how long and what happens after
It orbits for 8 years before it drops into Jupiter's atmosphere.
Tritium, the giant moon of Neptune, differs from all other major moons of the planets because
It orbits in a retrograde direction, opposite to the planet's rotation.
Saturn's moon titan is different from all other moons of the planets because
It possesses a thick atmosphere
Palladio
Italian architect who developed a style based on the classicism of ancient Rome, breaking with the ornate conventions of the Italian Renaissance. Wrote a book called "Four Books on Architecture" outlining the basics of architecture.
Amerigo Vespucci
Italian cartographer commissioned by Portugal and sailed along the coast of South America concluding that it could not be Asia; his discoveries were published and the new continent was named after him
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy. Each grows into the other's social role.
A planet's temperature is primarily influenced by
Its orbit's distance from the sun and the composition of its atmosphere
Failed to balance the desires of the North and South
James Buchanan
Iran held some Americans prisoner
James Carter
Was politically assassinated the same year he became president
James Garfield
President during Mexican American War
James K Polk
President during the war of 1812
James Madison
Developed the Monroe Doctrine
James Monroe
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
James Thurber. A man daydreams of fantastic adventures struggling over dull daily life.
Lindy Hop
Jazz dance of the 1920s and 30s -- also popular during the swing era of the 40s. Possibly an evolution of the Charleston. Features the breakaway, when dance partners separate to improvise movement before coming back together.
Current Federal reserve chair
Jerome Powell
William of Orange
King of England and Scotland and Ireland, he married the daughter of James II; was invited by opponents of James II to invade England; when James fled, William III and Mary II were declared joint monarchs (1650-1702) conditioned on signing the English Bill of Rights which limited the power of the monarchy.
Charlemagne
King of the Franks (r. 768-814); Roman emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate, though started an intellectual revival. Caused mass conversion to Christianity
Venus
Known as the Evening/Morning Star
Mars
Known as the Red Planet
Milton Babbit
Known for his serial and electronic music in the 20th century. Known as a leading proponent of total serialism (musical composition based on prior arrangements not only of all 12 pitches of the chromatic scale), Composition for Synthesizer Philomel Partitions for Piano Composition for Four Instruments
Pluto is a dwarf planet and a ________.
Kuiper belt object
Monteverdi
L' Orfeo was written by this Northern Italian composer of Vespers of the Blessed Virgin often considered the transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque eras of music.
Lake Texcoco
Lake where the capital city of the ancient Aztecs Tenochtitlan was built
Four Factors of Production
Land Labor Capitol Entrepreneurship
What are the outer (gas giants) planets are....
Large and lightweight
What is the great red spit
Large and long lived possibly permanent storm on jupiter
Mars
Large canyon named Valles Marineris which is 3x as wide and deep as the Grand Canyon and stretches for 3,000 miles
Mt. Olympus
Largest Mountain in the solar system
Ganymede
Largest moon in the solar system, covered in ice and craters
Ganymede
Largest moon that orbits Jupiter
Jupiter
Largest of all the planets
What are the characteristics of Ganymede
Largest of the 4 galilean Satellites and is the largest satellite in the entire solar system.
Mississippian Culture
Last of the mound-building cultures of North America; flourished between 800 and 1300 C.E.; featured large towns and ceremonial centers; lacked stone architecture of Central America. similar to the Adena and Hopewell cultures but they built 'temple mounds' and raised maize
William H. Taft
Lawyer, judge, secretary of war -- AFTER presidency became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (only president to do this).
Thomas Jefferson
Lawyer, writer, inventor, architect
Adam Levine
Lead singer of the group Maroon 5. Performed at the 2019 Super Bowl. Former coach on the Voice.
Samuel Barber
Leader of Romantic movement in the US.Got his start writing the overture for "The School for Scandal" Most famous piece is Adagio for Strings First played by the NBC Symphony Orchestra Won a Pulitzer Prize for his opera Vanessa (1958).
Saturn
Least dense planet
Do the inner planets take more or less time than the outer planets to orbit the sun?
Less
Saturn is the only planet with a density __________________.
Less dense than water
The Sniper
Liam O'Flaherty - story about a gunman during the Irish Civil War who shot his own brother
John F. Kennedy
Lieutenant in the Navy during WWII piloting a PT boat targeting Japanese ships.
Earth
Life exists here
The material in the interior of Jupiter that is thought to be responsible for powerful magnetic field is
Liquid metallic hydrogen
Saturn, like Jupiter, is composed primarily of
Liquids
Giverny, France
Location of his home and studio.
Diameter is 6,792 km (.6792 cm)
Mars
Giant dust storms
Mars
Julius Caesar
Made dictator for life in 45 BCE, after conquering Gaul, assassinated in 44 BCE by the Senate because they were afraid of his power
Uranus
Made of hydrogen, helium, and methane, which produces bile green color
Sunspots
Magnetic storms that form on the sun that appear on the photosphere
Shaft
Main support of a column found between the capital and the base
John Cage
Major American avant-garde composer Used first prepared piano by placing different objects on key strings -- close to first ever synthesizer. Indeterminacy in music - "the ability of a piece to be performed in many different ways"; Chance Music. 4'33'' -- four minutes & 33 seconds sitting silently at the piano. Idea to focus on the sounds of your environment. Heavy influence on modern dance.
Sioux
Major northern Plains Indian nation that fought and eventually lost a bitter war against the U.S. Army, 1876-1877
the main characters are
Maria,Captain Von Trapp,Liesi, Louisia, Friedrich,Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, Greti
A Mother in Mannville
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; a writer meets a boy at an orphanage who tells her his mother lives in the title town and sends him presents regularly. We find out at the end he has no mother.
1.52 au (228,000,000 km)
Mars
2 satelites
Mars
Hopewell
Mound builders who lived in Ohio 2,100 years ago. They were very artistic and built the most mounds in Ohio. They were the first to grow corn, travel long distances to barter and use a canoe. They lived in villages in houses called longhouses Mounds were bigger than those of the Adena cultures and their burials involved more ceremony.
Convective Zone
Moves heat from the center of the sun to the outer layers, with a temperature of 2 million degrees
Judo ihre has a magnetic field that is
Much more powerful than that of the earth
Injun Joe
Murdered Dr. Robinson
what song does Maria teach the children when they are feeling alone and afraid
My favorite things
Which of the following chemicals is the most abundant in the outer atmosphere of Jupiter?
NH3 (ammonia)
Ramesses
Name of the Pharaoh that refused to allow the Israelites to flee Egypt; also known as Ozymandias.
Sullivan
Name this English composer who collaborated with W. S. Gilbert on comic operettas such as HMS Pinafore.
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Name this story by Hemingway in which Harry imagines a plane taking him to the title mountain.
Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne; title Puritan character leaves his wife to run an errand in the forest. Here he encounters an evil cult made up of everyone in town and gets brought to a ceremony at an altar of fire along with his wife. He begs her not to accept and the who scene vanishes. He wakes up paranoid and not knowing if it was real or a dream. He no longer trusts everyone in town.
Iriquois
Native American group of the Northeast; formed a confederation of five tribes; allowed women more privileges than other Indian groups
Apache
Native American-Indian tribe; 1870's; group from Arizona and New Mexico led by Geronimo were difficult to control; chased into Mexico by Federal troops; they became successful farmers raising stock in Oklahoma
upon their return from their honeymoon, what does the Captain find hanging in front of house
Nazi flag
Would there be a spring tide or neap tide with the moon in this position?
Neap tide
Where in the universe would you look for Ganymede?
Near jupiter because it is one of jupiter's moons.
Cahokia
Near modern-day St. Louis; is the largest temple mound site; 85 mounds built over a 200 year period as high as 100 ft.
Most scientists agree that the solar system formed according to the ____________ _________
Nebular theory
Gas giant furthest away from sun.
Neptune
The great dark spot was found in which planet or moon?
Neptune
This planet is composed mainly of methane giving it its blue color
Neptune
Where is the Great Dark Spot located?
Neptune
Which is the eighth planet from the sun?
Neptune
Which planet has a system of smaller moons with highly elliptical orbits and one large moon that orbits in retrograde direction?
Neptune
Which planet is characterized by a blue green appearance and white, high altitude methane clouds surrounding dark storms?
Neptune
Which planet is the farthest from the sun?
Neptune
How was the discovery of Neptune different than the discoveries of the other planets
Neptune was predicted and calculated by mathmeticians
Triton
Neptune's largest moon
_________ probe launched in 2006. Should reach Pluto by ______
New Horizons, 2015
Mussorgsky
Night on a Bald Mountain, Pictures at an Exhibition, Songs and Dances of Death, Boris Godunov
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol; The story narrates the life and death of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin a poor government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Akaky is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department for his hard work. Instead, the younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His ratty old coat is often the butt of their jokes. Akaky decides it is necessary to have the coat repaired, so he takes it to his tailor who declares the coat irreparable, telling Akaky he must buy a new overcoat.
Earth's atmosphere is mostly made up of
Nitrogen
What is the main constituent of the atmosphere of titan, a satellite of Saturn?
Nitrogen and methane
The major constituent of the atmosphere of titan is
Nitrogen, N2
Adams
Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, Dr. Atomic (based on Robert Oppenheimer), Short Ride in Fast Machine, On the Transmigration of Souls, The Dharma at Big Sur, Shaker Loops, Phrygian Ga
Do all the planets orbit at the same speed?
No
Does Mercury have an atmosphere?
No - Weak magnetic field --> no protection from solar wind, blown away
Mercury
No Atmosphere and little gravity
Jupiter
No continents/land
Uranus
No high altitude clouds
Mercury
No moon planet
Venus
No moons, 2nd planet closest to the sun
Bush v. Gore (2000)
No recount of the 2000 presidential election was possible in a reasonable time period. Ended the recount in Florida and determined outcome of the election. (power of federal government, federalism)
Debussy
Nocturne La Mer "Iberia" "The Afternoon of the Faun" Ballade Images Clair de Lune
How many moons does Venus have?
None
Foster
Oh! Susanna My Old Kentucky Home Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair Beautiful Dreamer Camptown Races The Old Folks at Home
Lil Nas X
Old Town Road Youtube star turn rap/country star. The song caused controversy when it climbed the Country Charts in 2019
King
Older man about 70 years old and claims to be the son of King Louis XVI and heir to the throne of France
What is the name of the largest mountain/volcano in our solar system?
Olympus Mons
Bernstein
On the Town Candide West Side Story Fancy Free The Age of Anxiety Served as the music director of the New York Philharmoni
Beethoven
One composer is known for an overture to Egmont and the Moonlight Sonata. Name that German whose Fifth Symphony is known for its opening four-note motif.
Strauss
One composer with this last name wrote the Radetzky [ruh-DET-skee] March. Give this last name shared by composers Richard [REEK-hart], Johann the Elder, and Johann the Younger.
Schubert
One composer wrote two quintets, one for strings only, and one for piano and string quartet. Name that Viennese composer of hundreds of art songs, or Lieder ["leader"], and his Unfinished Symphony.
Joplin
One composer's "Great Crush Collision March" was inspired by a train wreck. Name that "King of Ragtime" who wrote "The Entertainer."
Haydn
One composer's final symphony is known as the London Symphony. Name that "Father of the Symphony" who also wrote the Surprise Symphony.
Neptune
One orbit around the sun takes 165 years
Earth
Only planet to have oceans of liquid water
Uranus
Only visited by Voyager 2 on the third out of four stops in the outer solar system
Mozart
Opera: The Marriage of Figero, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, Symphony #41 in C major "Jupiter," Symphony #35 in D major, "Haffner," A Little Night Music Abduction from the Seraglio
Donizetti
Operas: Lucia di lammermoor(The Bride of Lammermoor) Don Pasquale Lucrezia Borgia The Daughter of the Regiment The Elixir of love Anne Boleyn
Gounod
Operas: Faust, Sapho, Mireille; "Funeral March of Marionette", Romeo and Juliet Once challenged a critic to a duel.
Puccini
Operas: La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot The Girl of the Golden West
Verdi
Operas: Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida, Otello, Falstaff; Nabucco, MacBeth, A Masked Ball, Don Carlos
Triple Elvis
Others as well...a double Elvis, 8 Elvises, etc.
Women in the Garden
Painted in 1866; The painting was so large that he had to use a pulley to move it. It was disregarded by the council because of itś sloppy brushstrokes
The Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Painted in 1867; the painting is of the city Honfleur. Monetś friend, Renoir referred to the painting as THe Japanese Painting.
The Magpie
Painted in 1868-9; it was painted in commune of Étretat in Normandy.
La Grenouillère
Painted in 1869; THe spa that was painted was visited by Emperor Napoleon the III and his family.
Impression: Sunrise
Painted in 1872. Impressionist. Most were disgusted by the painting, calling it meaningless graffiti.
The Garden of Monet at Argenteuil
Painted in 1873; also known as The Artist's Garden. Argenteuil is located in Paris, France.
The Poppy Field near Argenteuil
Painted in 1873; it was painted when his wife, Camille's, health was failing. The woman and child are assumed to be his wife Camille and their son Jean.
Madame Monet and Child
Painted in 1875; The painting was painted during a time where new bohemian culture was being expanded, and during the time where he was inspired by Boudin and Jongkind.
Sunflowers
Painted in 1881; Exhibited at the seventh Impressionist exhibition. The sunflowers for this still life were taken from Monet's garden in Vetheuil.
Tulip Fields
Painted in 1886; When it was presented in Paris at Petit's exposition, it caught the eye of Van Gogh.
Poplars at Giverny; sunrise
Painted in 1888; The trees that were depicted were up for sale by the city of Limetz. He paid the people who were supposed to cut them down to delay, and painted them on a rowboat
Rouen Cathedral: Full Sunlight
Painted in 1892-3; One from Monet's series 'Rouen Cathedral'. He painted over 30 in his collection, but only presented 20.
The Water Lily Pond
Painted in 1899; Inspired by his newly bought Garden in Giverny. Highly inspired by japanese art.
Houses of Parliament
Painted in 1900 - 1904; Painted of the view of the Palace of Westminister from St. Thomas' Hospital where Monet was staying.
The Artist's Garden at Giverny
Painted in 1900; Intricately painted based on his garden in Giverny.
San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
Painted in 1908. Also known as 'Sunset at Venice'. He painted this when he began to develop cataracts
Water Lilies - Green Reflection
Painted in 1914- 1917; during the time while the painting was being painted, Monet´s son, Micheal, was serving in the war.
Water Lilies at Sunset
Painted in 1914; It was painted 3 years after the death of his wife, Alice, and began to change his painting style. He used dramatically larger canvases, and became more abstract.
Cliff Walk at Pourville
Painting in 1882; painted 3 years after his wife, Camille's death. The two women depicted are assumed to be Marthe and Blanche (Alice's children)
Who is Huck's father?
Pap
Saki
Pen name of British short-story writer Hector Hugo Munro (aka H. H. Munro). British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story, and often compared to O. Henry "The Interlopers" "The Open Window" "The Toys of Peace" "The Storyteller"
Interest Rate
Percentage of amount borrowed to be added to the amount loaned and paid back
Schumann
Persian and Islamic mythology inspired an oratorio by this composer titled Paradise and the Peri [PIER-ee]. He also composed Scenes from Childhood and four symphonies, including the Rhenish [REH-nish} and Spring. For 10 points-name this German composer who married Clara Wieck [veek].
Xerses
Persian emperor that wanted to finish the persian war. Attacked Sparta.
Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf's by this composer who also did the score for Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky.
Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf, Classical Symphony, War and Peace, The Age of Steel, Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella The Love of Three Oranges, Scythian Suite, The Prodigal Son, Alexander Nevsky
Mars' two moons are
Phobos and Deimos
Pluto
Planet made of ice with a rocky core
Mars
Planet that exhibits the greenhouse effect
Mercury
Planet that has an atmosphere that contains metal vapor (mainly sodium)
Mercury
Planet that has the greatest temperature change between day and night
Mars
Planet that has the highest mountain
Mars
Planet that has the largest dust storms
Uranus
Planet that rotates from top to bottom on its side
Venus
Planet with 90 times greater atmosphere than Earth
Jupiter
Planet with a rock core
Venus
Planet with acid rain/clouds
Neptune
Planet with haze layer
Mercury
Planet with no plate tectonics
Earth
Planet with one moon
Saturn
Planet with turbulent flow patterns
Saturn
Planet with zonal flows
Neptune and Saturn
Planets that have a layer containing ices of ammonia, methane and water surrounding its core.
Peter and the Starcatcher
Play based on the similarly named novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pierson. A Prequel to Peter and Wendy.
_____ is in the Kuiper belt
Pluto
The Charleston
Popular dance of the 1920s; popularized in the Broadway show "Runnin' Wild". Probably evolved from African-American challenge dances called "Juba" and was popular amongst the "flappers" of the 1920s. 4/4 time, done to jazz or ragtime music; kicking feet back and forth and swaying arms; kicking feet upward and slapping them with hands. Could be done solo, pairs, or in groups.
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
Jupiter
Possibly no solid surface, probably made of all gases and liquid with a possible small rocky core
Woodrow Wilson
President of Princeton University
Borodin
Prince Igor In the Steppes of Central Asia Was an accomplished Chemist.
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Prisoners must be advised of their rights before being questioned by police (criminal procedures, civil liberties)
Navajo
Pueblo builders of the Southwest Used as "code talkers" during WWII because their language was so different it made for great "secret code" 2nd largest federally recognized group
Hatshepsut
Queen of Egypt (1473-1458 B.C.E.). Dispatched a naval expedition down the Red Sea to Punt (possibly Somalia), the faraway source of myrrh. There is evidence of opposition to a woman as ruler, and after her death her name was frequently expunged.
Jupiter
Radiates 1.6 times the energy is receives from the sun
Saturn
Radiates 2.5 times the energy it receives from the sun
Neptune
Radiates 2.7 times the energy it receives from the sun, creating an active surface
Mary O'hara
Raised animals on a ranch in Wyoming, almost lost everything during the Great Depression. Many of her stories deal with life on the ranch and raising animals, like horses. Most famous novel is My Friend Flicka. Other Notable Works: Thunderhead, Green Grass of Wyoming, Flicka's Friend.
Lil Wayne
Rapper from New Orleans, first person out of The Masked Singer season 3, appearing as the robot.
A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury; a science fiction short story set in 2055, time travel allows the common man to experience the past in ways never before thought possible. Eckels, an avid hunter, pays $10,000 to travel back to the age of dinosaurs to hunt a Tyrannosaurus rex. Time Safari, Inc., the time-travel outfitting agency, wants to make sure its customers understand the risks involved. They do not guarantee safety, relating the deaths of six guides and twelve hunters in the previous year. But they do guarantee dinosaurs, and Eckels cannot refuse this trip of a lifetime.
The rings of Saturn are seen by
Reflected and scattered sunlight
Uranus
Revolution of about 84 years
Mars
Revolution takes about 2 years
Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue An American in Paris Opera: Porgy and Bess "I Got Rythym" Often worked with his lyricist brother Ira.
Verdi
Rigoletto is an opera by this composer of Falstaff and Nabucco [nah-BOO-koh].
Lamb to the Slaughter
Roald Dahl; woman kills her cruel husband with a frozen leg of lamb, then cooks it and serves a meal to the police as they investigate the crime.
The internal structure of the two largest Jovian planets is
Rocky core, a liquid ice lauer, a liquid metalkiv hydrogen and helium layer, and an krdinary hydrogen and helium gaseous layer.
Nero
Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)
Edvard Grieg
Romantic Norwegian composer who wrote songs, short piano pieces, and orchestral suites. Emulated modal melodies and harmonies as well as native dance rhythms. Influenced by Chopin and Schumann, wrote lyric pieces, studied at Leipzig Conservatory "Piano Concerto in A minor" "Peer Gynt Suite" which includes: "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and "Morning"
Gustav Mahler
Romantic; the most important Austrian composer of the late Romantic era, and one of the greatest conductors and orchestrators in history. He is known for his highly-expressive and melancholy orchestrally-accompanied song cycles, and his massive symphonies, which are examples of post-Romanticism. Kindertotenlieder Songs of a Wayfarer
Mercury
Rotation of 59 days and revolution of 88 days
Around which object does Titan orbit?
Saturn
Which planet has wide, bright rings that are easily visible from the earth?
Saturn
Which planet in the solar system has the lowest average density?
Saturn
Which planet is the 6th planet from the sun?
Saturn
Which is the largest planetary satellite in the solar system?
Saturn's satellie titan
In order of increasing density, the Jovian planets are
Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune
Like Jupiter, these planets are mostly composed of hydrogen and helium .
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Enceladus
Saturns Moon that appears to have oceans of liquid water
Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Russian Easter Overture, "The Flight of the Bubblebee", The Snow Maiden, The Legend of Tsar Sultan, The Golden Cockerel Naval Officer in the Russian Navy
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
School officials do not need a warrant to search students' things as long as the search was reasonable under the circumstances. Student was caught smoking in bathroom which led to discovery of other incriminating evidence. (4th amendment school ground limitations)
Lyndon B. Johnson
School teacher, Senator from Texas
John Williams
Scores for films such as Star Wars and E.T.
Adam Smith
Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations a precursor to modern Capitalism.
Trent Harmon
Season 15 winner from Mississippi Album: "You Got Em All" Songs: "Falling", "There's a Girl", "You Got Em All"
Maddie Poppe
Season 16 winner Singer-songwriter from Iowa; plays the guitar, piano, & ukulele. Self-published Songs from the Basement in 2015. First single and album was Whirlwind. Other songs include "Going, Going, Gone", "Made You Miss", & "Not Losing You"
Laine Hardy
Season 17 Winner from Louisiana. Auditioned for season 16 but didn't make the show. Went to play guitar for his friend who was auditioning and the judges asked him to audition as well. After winning his first single was "Flame" He self-published a 3 song album in 2018 called "In the Bayou"
Cassadee Pope
Season 3 Winner of the Voice the first female winner on December 18, 2012. Her debut solo country album, Frame by Frame, was released on October 8, 2013 to a top 10 Billboard 200
Carrie Underwood
Season 4 winner, generally considered the most successful Idol. Country music -- the only artist to score six consecutive No. 1 albums on the Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. She's a seven-time GRAMMY winner and a 14-time ACM Award winner.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Segregation is legal based on the idea that the facilities are "separate but equal." (separate but equal, equality)
Thomas Jefferson
Self-taught Virginian architect; inspired by Palladio's Four Books on Architecture. Worked in a Renaissance style with classical influences. Virginia State Capitol Monticello Poplar Forest
Come From Away
Set in the week following the September 11 attacks and tells the true story of what transpired when 38 planes were ordered to land unexpectedly in the small town of Gander in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, as part of Operation Yellow Ribbon. The characters in the musical are based on (and in most cases share the names of) real Gander residents as well as some of the 7,000 stranded travelers they housed and fed.
What kind of ring or rings does Jupiter have?
Several thin dark rings made upnof cery fine dust particles
Taylor Swift
She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal. New 2019 Album LOVER Other Albums: Reputation, 1989, Red Appeared in the movie Cats in 2019. Songs: "Me!", "You Need to Calm Down", "Lover", "Shake it Off" "You Belong With Me", "Bad Blood"
Brynn Cartelli
She is the winner of season 14 of the American music talent competition The Voice. At the age of fifteen, she became the youngest person in the show's history to win the competition.
Chevel Shepherd
She is the winner of season 15 of the American talent competition The Voice at the age of 16.[1] On May 26, 2019, Shepherd performed God Bless America before the 103rd running of the Indianapolis 500.
Maelyn Jarmon
She is the winner of season 16 of the American talent competition The Voice at the age of 26. [1] After winning the show, she was signed to Republic Records.
Widow Douglas
She watches over Huck and wants to "civilize" him; wants to adopt him in the end. She has a dead husband.
The Kuiper belt contains which comets?
Short period and Halley comets
A Dog's Tale
Short story told from the standpoint of a poor household pet, "My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian." The story begins with a description of the her life as a puppy and her separation from her mother, which she didn't understand. When a fire breaks out in the nursery, the dog risks her life to drag the baby to safety. Her puppy is later killed in a science experiment by the owner.
The Kuiper belt is the source of many _____________.
Short term comets
The Kuiper belt is __________ distant objects and the Oort Cloud is ____________ distant obejects
Short, long
Kern
Showboat Roberta Songs include: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "Old Man River", and "All the Things You Are"
How do the mass and size of Venus compare to that or earth?
Similar
What are the characteristics of Callisto
Similar to Earth's Moon in appearance such as Craters
What is a dwarf planet?
Similar to a planet but lacks the technical criteria for it to be considered a planet
Mercury
Similiar to our moon. Heavily craterred, very similar in skze, mass, amd demsity, very little atmosphere
Lionel Richie
Singer and saxophonist for funk/soul band The Commodores. Launched a solo career in the early 1980s with hits like "Three Times a Lady", "Hello", and "Dancing on the Ceiling." Co-wrote "We Are The World" with Michael Jackson in 1985. Won an Oscar for Original Son in White Nights for "Say You, Say Me." Current judge on American Idol. Received Kennedy Center Honors in 2017.
Robin Thicke
Singer and song-writer; his father was the star of a TV show called "Growing Pains." "Blurred Lines" "Paula" "Beautiful World" A judge on "The Masked Singer"
Mistress Hibbins
Sister of the governor who has insight into the sins of both Hester and Dimmesdale and is a symbol of super or preternatural knowledge and evil powers.
St. Bartholomew Day Massacre
Six week nation wide slaughter of Huguenots. Occurred when Huguenot nobles were in Paris attending the marriage of Catherine's daughter to a Huguenot prince, Henry of Navarre in 1572. Resulted in over 10,000 deaths.
Tony Hawk
Skateboarder; Helped create new market for alternative sports; video games, skateboards, clothing, etc. The first skateboarder to land a "900", a trick involving the completion of two-and-a-half mid-air revolutions on a skateboard Appeared on season three of the Masked Singer as the elephant.
Abacus
Slab that is found between the capital and the architectural element above it
Pavane
Slow, stately Renaissance processional court dance in duple meter (2/2 or 4/4 time).Performed to open a ball or party -- intended to showcase the fancy clothes of guests. Consisted of forward and backward steps; the dancers rose onto the balls of their feet and swayed from side to side as the rotated around the room. Often paired with the galliard.
What are the inner (terrestrial) planets made out of?
Small, rocky, with iron cores
What are the characteristics of Europa
Smallest of Galileans satellites and has a possibility of liquid water below its Frozen Surace
Magpie
Snow scene, with a talkative title bird (makes a lot of noise"
What does the Earth's Magnetic Field protect us from?
Solar Winds
Heliosphere
Solar wind and sun magnetic field Voyager 2 went beyond heliopause
Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon
Some of the largest moons of Uranus
Europa
Some tectonic activity, few craters, icy surface that possibly covers a liquid water ocean, and has cracks that expand and contract
STS
Space Shuttles
Santiago Calatrava
Spanish architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms. Chicago Spire, Turning Torso, Athens Olympic Complex, Museum of Tomorrow.
Casals
Spanish cellist known for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites
Bolero
Spanish dance in 3/4 tim; features sudden pauses and sharp turns; accompanied by castanets and guitar music. Illustrates passion and love. Shares a name with a song by Maurice Ravel.
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).
Would there be a spring tide or neap tide with the moon in this position?
Spring tide
Where does Huckleberry Finn live?
St. Petersburg, Missouri; Near the Mississippi River
Rotation Channels
Stable east to west wind patterns that wrap around the entire planet
Zonal Flow
Stable east to west winds deep in the atmosphere
Nick Jonas
Started in a band with his brothers before going solo with his band "the Administration" in 2010. Acted on TV and film including the tv show "Smash", "Midway" and the Jumanji" films. Will appear as a judge on the 2020 season of The Voice. "Who I Am" Last Year Was Complicated"
Lady Gaga
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, businesswoman, fashion designer, philanthropist, and actress. Has a OVERLY creative style. Songs: Shallow, Poker Face, Paparazzi Won an Oscar for A Star is Born
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Stephen Sondheim tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door. "Comedy Tonight"
Thutmose III
Stepson of Hatshepsut; considered a great pharaoh of the New Kingdom of Egypt
Mars
Strong winds create dust storms
War of the Roses
Struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the monarch Henry VII first of the Tudor dynasty
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Students have the right to free speech in public school -- as long as it doesn't cause a disruption of learning. (freedom of speech)
Prairie Style
Style made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright. Organic structures, that "grow on site" and are integrated with landscape. Horizontal lines, flat or hipped rooftops, oversized eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands.
Solar Flares
Sudden, bright outbursts of energy that happen as the Sun's magnetic fields twist
Stravinsky
Suites from the Fire-Bird, Petrouchka, The Rite of Spring, The Wedding, Song of the Nightingale, Symphony in Three Movements, Card Game, The Rake's Progress, The Soldier's Tale, Orpheus Pulcinella, Dumbarton Oaks, The Symphony of Psalms—Most of his works are ballets.
Jupiter
Sunlight and lighting affect atmosphere
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII
Mars
Surface appears red because of iron oxide
Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony) The Damnation of Faust "Hungarian March" Benvenuto Cellini(opera) The Trojans(opera) Harold in italy(opera) Romeo and Juliet(music) Roman Carnival Childhood of Christ
Hanson
Symphony #2 "Romantic," Symphonie #5 "Sinfonia Sacra," The Lament of Beowulf
Mendelssohn
Symphony #3 "Scotch," Symphony #5 "Reformation," A Midsummer Night's Dream, Songs Without Words, The Hebrides, The Wedding March, "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" Criticized by Wagner in "Jewry in Music"/
Beethoven
Symphony #5 in C minor Symphony #3 in E flat major (Eroica) "Moonlight Sonata" Emperor Concerto Egmont Fidelio(only opera) Ninth Symphony (Choral)—Contains the "Ode to Joy"—It is the national anthem of the European Union. Pathetique Sonata Fur Elise The Creatures of Prometheus
Schubert
Symphony #8 in B minor "Unfinished,", Rosamunde, "Ave Marie", The Tragic Symphony (#4), The Unfinished Symphony (#8), The Trout Quintet, Great Symphony in C Major Symphony #9 (The Great), Symphony #10 (The Last)—Wrote over 600 art songs or lieders.
Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World," Slavonic Dances, Opera: Russalka
Haydn
Symphony in F-sharp minor "Farewell," "London" symphonies, "Toy" Symphony, "Surprise" Symphony, The Clock Symphony, The Military Symphony Known as the Father of the Symphony. Mentor to Beethoven. Worked for the Esterhazy family
Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms is from this composer's Neoclassical period. He wrote a work about a living puppet for Sergei Diaghilev [dee-AH-gih-Ieff], while a girl dances herself to death in another ballet whose premier saw a riot. For 10 points-name this Russian composer of Petrushka [peh-TROOSH-kah] and The Rite of Spring.
What is Huck and Jim's plan when they first meet?
To set off together on a raft and travel down the Mississippi river into Arkansas
Andrew Johnson
Tailor, Senator from Tennessee - only president to RETURN to the senate AFTER being president.
Venus
Takes 8 months to rotate on axis
Something Rotten!
Takes place during 1950s England (two brothers write world's first musical because they are tired of Shakespeare), original idea, parody, pays homage to Broadway
Neptune
Temperature on the top of the clouds are -218 degrees celcius
Terrace Farming (Incas)
Terrace farms appears as steps cut into a mountainside. Enabled the Inca of Mesoamerica to grow enough food for their large populations.
Venus
Terrestrial planet that goes through retrograde motion
The inner planets are also known as ...
Terrestrial planets
Beethoven
The Archduke Trio is a chamber work by this composer whose only oratorio was Christ on the Mount of Olives. He wrote five piano concertos and 32 piano sonatas, including the (*) Moonlight Sonata. For 10 points-name this German who set the poem "Ode to Joy" in his choral Ninth Symphony.
Rossini
The Barber of Seville, William Tell, The Thieving Magpie The Italian Girl in Algiers, Cinderella, Tancredi The Fantastic Toy Shop (ballet)
why does Maria return to the Abbey
The Baroness tells Maria she knows that she is in love with the captain
Smetana
The Bartered Bride, From My Life, The Moldau—Had tinnitus.
Joplin
The Entertainer Maple Leaf Rag Treemonisha
Vivalidi
The Four Seasons (Part of the larger work "Contest Between Harmony and Invention"); Orlando Furioso—Worked as a priest at a girls orphanage.
Brahms
The Hungarian Dances are violin pieces by this German composer also known for a Double Concerto in A minor for violin and cello.
What is beyond the solar system
The Kuiper belt
Mendelssohn
The Leipzig [L YPE-zig] Conservatory was founded in 1843 by what German composer whose works include an Italian Symphony and music for A Midsummer Night's Dream?
What does the current in the river symbolize?
The direction of the raft as well as Huck's life
Black Death
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages 1347-1351 when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe. Was caused by fleas on ship rats departing Asia but at the time was considered to be caused by magic or as punishment from God. Led in increased wages and taxes for the decimated workforce causing many revolts.
Robert March
The father of the March sisters; formerly rich; a chaplain for the Union army.
Alan Shepard
The first American in space, but not orbit
The wooden bird
The first device used to successfully employ principles essential to rocket flight
Augustus Caesar
The first empreror of Rome, the adopted son of Julius Caesar, help Rome come into Pax Romana, or the Age of Roman Peace
Plinth
The foot, or the base of the column that rests directly on the stylobate
terrestrial planets (definition)
The four planets closest to the Sun composed of mainly rocks
What effect did fragments of comet shoemaker-levy 9 have on the atmosphere of Jupiter?
The fragments created darknoatches that lasted for months
What is Saturn named after
The god of Agriculture (ROmans) or the father of Zeus (Greeks)
After what os Uranus named after
The god of the sky (greek)
What is Pluto named after
The god of the underworld
Bellingham
The governor of Boston who witnessed Hester's punishment and is a symbol of civil authority and Puritan beliefs.
One distinctive feature that is visible on the surface of Jupiter through telescope from the earth is
The great red spot
Venus
The hottest inner planet
Why are the rings of Neptune dark?
The largicles are compased of methane ice that has been darkened by radiation damage
Chris Daughtry
The lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band ______________________ and as the fourth-place contestant on the 5th season of American Idol. "Leave This Town" "Its Not Over" He played for the "Home" roster during the NBA All-Star Celebrity Game Finished 2nd on season 2 of the Masked Singer (as the Rottweiler)
Jo March
The main character of Little Women; a writer; outspoken tomboy with a passion for writing. Loves her sisters and family, but also her independence. Her character is based in large part on Louisa May Alcott herself. She refuses Laurie's offer of marriage, despite the fact that everyone assumes they will end up together. In the end, Jo gives up her writing and marries Professor Bhaer.
What causes high tide on the side of the Earth opposite the moon?
The moon pulls the solid Earth toward itself, not the water, leaving the water on the other side to bulge.
Modest Mussorgsky
The most original, and probably the greatest of the Russian five. Pictures at an Exhibition -- Suite with 10 movements each named after a picture at a gallery (written after his artist friend died).
Henry Fleming
The novel's protagonist; a young soldier fighting for the Union army during the American Civil War. Initially, Henry stands untested in battle and questions his own courage. As the novel progresses, he encounters hard truths about the experience of war, confronting the universe's indifference to his existence and the insignificance of his own life. Often vain and holding extremely romantic notions about himself, Henry grapples with these lessons as he first runs from battle, then comes to thrive as a soldier in combat.
Meg March
The oldest March sister; she battles her girlish weakness for luxury and money, and ends up marrying a poor man she loves. In her younger years she loved acting. She becomes an agreeable housewife, pretending to like politics because her husband does, and forgoing luxury because her husband is poor.
Silas Phelps
Tom Sawyer's uncle. He purchases Jim and intends to sell him down to New Orleans.
Into the Heights
The story explores three days in the characters' lives in the New York City Latino neighbourhood of Washington Heights. Usnavi, a first generation Dominican-American corner bodega owner, and his friends and family are dealing with the pressures of rising rents and closing neighborhood businesses. One family struggles to figure out how to pay for an Ivy League tuition for their brilliant and hard working daughter, a young woman is trying to put a down payment on a new apartment, and Usnavi himself is trying to get back to the Dominican Republic to reconnect with his roots after the death of his parents. In Washington Heights, community is everything, and we see how each of these individuals struggles to survive and how these same individuals come together as a community to mourn their losses and rejoice in their triumphs.
Footloose
The story of Ren McCormack, a teenage boy from Chicago. He and his mother move to the small town of Bomont after his father abandons them. Upon arriving, Ren finds himself at odds with most of the town, including the Reverend Bomont. The Reverend has convinced the town to outlaw dancing, which Ren finds unbelievable. With the help of the Ariel (the Reverend's daughter) and Willard (a country hick who becomes his best friend), Ren convinces the Reverend to let the teenagers dance, and in the process helps the town to heal from a tragedy that affected them all.
Photosphere
The sun's visible surface, bubbling motion of the convection layer making granular patterns, has sunspots of 7,800 degrees F, and 10,000 degrees in other spots
Beth March
The third March sister; she is very shy and quiet. Like Meg, she always tries to please other people, and like Jo, she is concerned with keeping the family together. She struggles with minor faults, such as her resentment for the housework she must do. Very close with her sister Jo. Plays the piano. Dies from scarlet fever.
Puccini
The two most frequently performed operas in the U.S., Madame Butterfly and La Boheme [lah boh-em], were composed by the same man. Name that Italian composer.
Cornice
The uppermost, projecting portion of an entablature; also the crowing horizontal molding of a building or wall
Aunt Josephine
The wealthy aunt; looks down on the March family and their being poor; take Amy to Europe. Dies toward the end of the book and Jo turns her home into a school
Amy March
The youngest March sister; an artistic beauty who is good at manipulating other people. Unlike Jo, she acts as a perfect lady because it pleases her and those around her. She gets what she wants in the end: popularity, the trip to Europe, and Laurie. A painter.
When the Sun and the moon form a right angle with the Earth, cancelling each other's gravitational pull, what happens?
There will be a neap tide.
Alien and Sedition Acts
These consist of four laws passed by the Federalist Congress and signed by President Adams in 1798: 1. the Naturalization Act, which increased the waiting period for an immigrant to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years 2. the Alien Act, which empowered the president to arrest and deport dangerous aliens; 3. the Alien Enemy Act, which allowed for the arrest and deportation of citizens of countries at was with the US 4. the Sedition Act, which made it illegal to publish defamatory statements about the federal government or its officials. The first 3 were enacted in response to the XYZ Affair, and were aimed at French and Irish immigrants, who were considered subversives. The Sedition Act was an attempt to stifle Democratic-Republican opposition, although only 25 people were ever arrested, and only 10 convicted, under the law.
How are the light and dark regions of Jupiter created by
They are created by rising and sinking gases
What characteristics do outer planets share?
They are large, don't have any known solid surfaces, have multiple moons
What characteristics do inner planets share?
They are small, rocky, and dense.
How is saturn similar to Jupiter in atmospheric composition
They both have an atmosphere out of helium and hydrogen.
Sullivan
This English composer, who worked with the librettist W. S. Gilbert on The Pirates of Penzance, included a jester in his opera Yeoman of the Guard.
Debussy
This French composer wrote "Golliwog's Cakewalk" as well as Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun".
Beethoven
This German included a "Scene by the Brook" in the second movement of his Pastoral Symphony.
Franz Liszt
This Hungarian composer-pianist was perhaps the most spectacular pianist in history. He is known for his piano music and orchestral symphonic poems. Piano Concerto No. 2 (1839-40)
Aunt Polly
Tom's Aunt, wants Tom to behave
Brahms
This composer used an A-E-F motif in his Double Concerto for violin and cello. He also wrote a Tragic Overture and a set of orchestral dances based on folk melodies; after the death of his mother, he wrote a work whose libretto is drawn from the Luther Bible. Hans von Bulow called this man's First Symphony "Beethoven's Tenth." For 10 points-name this German composer of the Hungarian Dances and A German Requiem.
Bach
This composer used arias written by Picander in his longest work, the St. Matthew Passion. He also wrote six suites for solo cello, and preludes and fugues in every major and minor key in his Well-Tempered Clavier. For 10 points - name this Baroque composer of the Brandenburg Concertos.
Handel
This composer wrote The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a concerto for organ in F major, and the keyboard work The Harmonious Blacksmith. He also wrote an oratorio with the soprano aria "I know that my Redeemer liveth," and a set of three (*) suites for a performance on the Thames. For 10 points-name this German-born Baroque composer of Water Music who wrote the "Hallelujah" Chorus in Messiah.
Sousa
This composer wrote a work named for the Liberty Bell as well as the opera El Capitan. From 1880 to 1892 he conducted the u.S. Marine Band; his namesake (*) instrument is a modified tuba. For 10 points-name this American "March King" who wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Rossini
This composer wrote an opera that ends with the title character asking for mercy for Magnifico and his daughters, La Cenerentola [lah CHEH-nay-REN-toh-Iah]. In another work, the title character sings he is "like a thunderbolt" in the aria "Largo al factotum" [LAR-ghoh al fahk-TOH-toom], while in a third, the title character must shoot an apple off his son's head. For 10 points-name this Italian composer of The Barber of Seville and William Tell.
Bach
This composer wrote his Italian Concerto for harpsichord, an instrument he played at the premiere of his Brandenburg Concerto No.5. Name this German Baroque composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Mozart
This composer wrote symphonies known by the nicknames "Linz" and "Prague." Name this Austrian composer whose final symphony, in C major, ends with a five-theme fugue.
Wagner
This composer wrote the operas Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods as part of his Ring cycle.
Mendelssohn
This composer's Hebrides [HEB-ruh-deezl Overture is commonly called "Fingal's Cave."
Liszt
This composer's Mountain Symphony is the first of his 13 symphonic poems, a term he is credited with inventing. He transcribed Beethoven's symphonies for piano, and his own piano works include the "Mephisto Waltz." For 10 points—name this composer of the Hungarian Rhapsodies.
Rachmaninoff
This composer's Opus 29 was inspired by an Arnold Bocklin painting depicting a rowboat on the River Styx, The Isle of the Dead. Another of his works has 24 variations on a violin caprice [kuh-PREES]. For 10 points-name this 20th-century Russian composer of Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
Leoncavallo
This composer's most frequently performed work is his one-act Pagliacci [P AH-Iee-AH-chee], in which a clown reacts murderously to the unfaithfulness of his wife.
Beethoven
This composer's piano sonatas include Les Adieux [lay zah-DYOO] and Hammerklavier, written after his Heiligenstadt [HYE-lih-ghin-shtaht] Testament. His vocal works include the opera Fidelio [fee-DAY-lee-oh] and the finale of his Ninth Symphony. For 10 points—name this deaf German composer of the "Ode to Joy."
Copland
This composer's studies in Paris influenced him to write distinctly "American" music, such as Billy the Kid and Lincoln Portrait.
Gershwin
This composer's works include "Short Story," a duet for piano and violin, and the one-act opera Blue Monday. After a trip to Havana, he wrote Rumba, which is now known as his Cuban Overture. He also wrote an opera in which Clara sings "Summertime" on Catfish Row. For 10 points-name this American composer of Porgy and Bess, An American in Paris, and Rhapsody in Blue.
Chopin
This composer's works include four Brilliant Grand Waltzes and the posthumously published FantaisieImpromptu [fan-tay-zee am-prom-too]. This inventor of the ballade [bah-LAHD] form wrote 27 piano etudes [AY-toodz], including the Revolutionary Etude. For 10 points-name this Polish-born composer known for mazurkas and the "Minute Waltz."
Elgar
This composer's works include one in 14 movements, each dedicated to a friend, and the march used in "Land of Hope and Glory." IINimrod" appears in the (*) Enigma Variations by-for 10 points-which British composer of the Pomp and Circumstance Marches often heard at graduations?
Bernstein
This longtime conductor of the New York Philharmonic wrote three symphonies and the ballet Fancy Free, though he's better known for a musical about Tony and Maria.
Chopin
This man worked his feelings about the suppression of the November Uprising into his Revolutionary Etude [ay-tood] and never returned to his home country afterward. His works include 4 impromptus, 58 mazurkas, and 17 polonaises [poh-Iuh-NEZ-iz]. For 10 points-name this Romantic composer from Poland.
Prokofiev
This man wrote "The Battle on the Ice" for his film score for Alexander Nevsky [NEV-skee]. The first of his seven symphonies is nicknamed "The Classical," while in his best-known work a narrator tells a story in which a duck is eaten. For 10 points—name this Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf.
Holst
This man's cycling trip to Algeria influenced his Beni Mora. He wrote The Mystic Trumpeter, a setting of a Walt Whitman poem, while he worked at St. Paul's Girls' School. The Rig Veda and Sanskrit influenced several of his works, including the chamber opera (*) Savitri. He is best known, though, for a seven-movement suite inspired by astrology. For 10 points-name this British composer of The Planets.
Life on the Mississippi
This memoir begins with a brief history of the Mississippi River; it then recounts Mark Twain's education as a steamboat pilot on the river before the American Civil War; and finally, in the second half, Twain narrates his trip along the river, on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. Twain characterizes the river as if it is a person, with a definitive purpose and an animated role in life. It is considered by many critics as the most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work of Mark Twain.
Triton
This moon has an atmosphere of nitrogen and sometimes called the cantaloupe moon, geologically active with geysers and has cliffs and craters
Monteverdi
This originator of the operatic recitative [reh-SIT-uh-tiv] was a music director at Venice's St. Mark's Basilica. His last two works were the operas The Return of Ulysses and The Coronation of Poppea. For 10 points—name this Italian composer of the oldest opera still performed, Orfeo [or-FAY-oh].
Murder in the Cathedral
This verse drama by T.S. Eliot portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. The play, dealing with an individual's opposition to authority, was written at the time of rising Fascism in Central Europe, and can be taken as a protest to individuals in affected countries to oppose the Nazi regime's subversion of the ideals of the Christian Church
Arranged the Louisiana Purchase from France
Thomas Jefferson
Brahms
Though he lived most of his life in Vienna, this composer born in Hamburg is known for his Academic Festival Overture and A German Requiem [REK-wee-um].
What future awaits tritium, the largest satellite of Neptune?
Tidal breakup as it spirals closer to neptune
What is the heat source that cause the extensive volcanic activity observed on Jupiter's satellite Io?
Tidal stresses rrom jupiter and Io's companion moons
Uranus
Tilted 98 degrees on its axis
What is Saturn's largest moon
Titan
Which is the only satellite in the solar system known to possess a permanent, dense atmosphere?
Titan
What is the biggest satelite
Titron
Saturn
Uses the Roche limit
0.72 au (10,800,000 km)
Venus
243 days (retrograde rotation)
Venus
Slowest rotation
Venus
Sulfuric Acid clouds can be found on this planet.
Venus
Holst
What composer created a work with movements subtitled "the Mystic," "the Bringer of Jollity," and "the Bringer of War," the astrology-inspired The Planets?
Paganini
Violin virtuoso—Works: La Campanella, 24 Caprices—Probably had Marfan Syndrome.
Mars
Visited by Mariner 4, Mariner 9, Viking 1 and 2, and spirit and opportunity, and curiosity
Venus
Visited by USSR Venera and US Magellan
Neptune
Visited by Voyager 2, and the fourth stop of visiting the outer planets
Jupiter
Visited by pioneer 1 and 2, Voyager 1 and 2, Galileo, and Juno
Mercury
Visited twice. Mariner 10 and Messenger
Jupiter's satellite Io has numerous black spots on its surface. What are there spots?
Volanic vents
What physical feature does mars have that is the largest in the solar system?
Volcano (Olympus mons) extinct
What flew by Uranus in 1986
Voyager 2
What machine visited Neptune in 1989
Voyager 2
What machines got a better picture of Saturn
Voyager in the 1980s and the Cassini probe in 2004
Sousa
What composer created the "El Capitan" [kap-ih-TAN} and "Liberty Bell" Marches, conducted the U.S. Marine Corps Band, and wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever"?
Miss Watson
Wants Huck to be religious, owns Jim. Hypocritical Christian. She is NOT a widow.
In the Bottom of My Garden
Warhol's illustrated book of fairies and putti frolicking in a garden was one of his several forays into bookmaking with offset lithography in the 1950s, with coloring done by hand by Warhol and his friends.
Katy Perry
Was born in Santa Barbara, CA to a pair of Pentecostal pastors. Breakout album in 2008 -- "One of the Boys" followed by the successful "Teenage Dream" in 2010. Two other albums "Prism" and "Witness." Hit songs include "Roar", "Firework", and "Dark Horse" Current judge on American Idol.
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving; Man wakes up having slept through the American Revolution after bowling with some gnomes in the Catskills Mountains.
What exists on solid, liquid, and gas forms and covers 70% of the earths atmosphere?
Water
Handel
Water Music, Messiah (contains the "Hallelujah Chorus"), Samson, The Harmonious Blacksmith, Israel in Egypt, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Renaldo, Belshazzar, Semele, Joseph and His Brethen, Scipione
The particles in Saturn's rings are composed of
Water ice or rock coated with water ice
Beethoven
Wellington's Victory is the Battle Symphony by which composer of the Emperor Concerto whose Ninth Symphony ends with a setting of the "Ode to Joy"?
Gershwin
What American composer's works include a Piano Concerto in F, "Catfish Row," a Cuban Overture, "I Got Rhythm," An American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess?
Haydn
What Austrian composer of the oratorio The Seasons is best known for his 106 symphonies, including 17851s the Hen, the Farewell, and the Surprise?
Elgar
What British composer of The Dream of Gerontius Uuh-RON-tee-us] wrote a 1919 Cello Concerto in E minor, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, and the Enigma Variations?
Debussy
What French composer's piano works include the Children's Corner Suite and the Suite Bergamasque [BAIR-gahmahsk], whose third movement is "Clair de lune" [klayr duh loon]?
Schubert
What Viennese composer of the song cycle Winterreise [VEEN-tur-RYE-zuh] also wrote "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel," the Trout Quintet, and an Unfinished Symphony?
tail & nucleus & coma
What are the parts of a comet?
Mercury
Which planet has the most craters?
Eisenhower
Which president founded NASA?
Mahler
Who composed Number 8, Symphony of a Thousand?
Schubert
Who composed Number 8, Unfinished, started in 1822?
Beethoven
Who composed Number 9, Choral, including "Ode to Joy"?
Haydn
Who composed Number 94, Surprise?
Berlioz
Who composed Symphony Fantastique [fahn-tahs-teek]?
Copernicus
Who created heliocentric?
Greenhouse effect
Why is Venus the hottest planet?
The Use of Force
William Carlos Williams; The story is narrated in the first person by a physician, who is making a house call to tend to a sick girl. Fearing she may have diphtheria, the doctor decides to check her throat. However, the girl refuses to open her mouth, and the doctor uses force to restrain her and examine her throat with a spoon, which angers the girl. The doctor finds that, against her own self-interest, the girl has hidden the symptoms of diphtheria from her parents and the doctor
Mendelssohn
William Cummings' hymn tune, used for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," is adapted from an 1840 cantata by this composer. Name this German composer of the Scottish and Italian symphonies.
A Rose for Emily
William Faulkner; Miss Emily Grierson's funeral is attended by everyone in town. She was and old Southerner and spent her life isolated from the community. Emily's father prevented her from socializing when she was young. After his death, Emily became the frequent companion of a lower-class Northerner, Homer Barron. It was rumored that they were engaged. Homer vanished. For the rest of Emily's life—over thirty years—she remained in her house. Exploring Emily's house after her funeral, the townspeople find a man's skeleton in her bed. It is strongly implied to be Homer Barron's.
The Miracle Worker
William Gibson play based on Helen Keller's autobiography "The Story of My Life" In Tuscumbia, Alabama, an illness renders infant Helen Keller blind, deaf, and mute. Pitied and badly spoiled by her parents, Helen is taught no discipline and becomes and angry, tantrum-throwing child in control of the household. Desperate for help, the Kellers hire Annie Sullivan to serve as governess and teacher for their daughter. After several fierce battles with Helen, Annie convinces the Kellers that she needs two weeks alone with Helen in order to achieve any progress in the girl's education. In that time, Annie teaches Helen discipline through persistence and consistency and language through hand signals, a double breakthrough that changes Helen's life and has a direct effect on the lives of everyone in the family.
Committed to expanding United States trade abroad
William H Taft
Died of pneumonia after giving his inaugural address on a cold day
William Harrison
Who discovered Uranus and when?
William Herchel in 1781
Who discovered Uranus and when
William Herschel in 1781
President during the Spanish American War
William McKinley
The discoverer of the planet Uranus was
William herschel
T-Pain
Winner of Season 1 of The Masked Singer as The Monster. an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Founded Nappy Boy Entertainment and popularized creative use of Auto-tune.
Frank Gehry
Winner of the 1989 Pritzker Prize, he is best-known today for large-scale compositions like the Experience Music Project in Seattle, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He often uses uncommon materials such as plywood and limestone; his designs range from Kobe's Fishdance Restaurant, shaped like a giant fish, to the soft-sculpture look of the so-called "Fred and Ginger" buildings in Prague. Designed a hat for lady Gaga.
Brahms
With Bach and Beethoven, this man forms the "three B's" of classical music. Name this German composer of four symphonies and the Academic Festival Overture.
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Women have the right to have an abortion in the first 2 trimesters Ruled that abortion rights fall within the privacy implied in the 14th amendment.
Renee Zellweger
Won best actress for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the biopic "Judy"
Long Day's Journey into Night
Won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for drama Semi-autobiographical play by Eugene O'Neill. The play takes place on a single day in August 1912, from around 8:30 a.m. to midnight. The setting is the seaside Connecticut home of the Tyrones' Monte Cristo Cottage. The four main characters are the semi-autobiographical representations of O'Neill himself, his older brother, and their parents. Mother is addicted to morphine, they all have problems with alcohol and everything is terrible.
President during World War I
Woodrow Wilson
Narrator
Works as the surveyor of the Salem Custom-House some two hundred years after the novel's events take place. He discovers an old manuscript in the building's attic that tells the story of Hester Prynne and when he loses his job, he decides to write a fictional treatment of the narrative.
Copland
Works by this composer born in 1900 include a ballet for Martha Graham, Appalachian Spring, and the bombastic "Fanfare for the Common Man."
What features characterize the visible surface of Triton, Neptune's largest moon?
Wrinkled surface, frozen lKes, and plumes of nitrogen gas
Cormac McCarthy
Writes in a Southern Gothic and American Western genre...often features some supernatural events or elements. Known for sparse use of punctuation saying "no need to blot up the page with weird little marks." The Road (Won Pulitzer) No Country for Old Men Blood Meridian All the Pretty Horses
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Features characters like Otto, Miep Gies, & the Van Daan family. 1955 play adaptation of the title work.
Does Jupiter have rings orbiting the planet?
Yes, three very thin rings composed if fine dust particles
Will a moon orbiting a planet follow Kepler's three laws?
Yes. Any celestial body orbiting another will follow Kepler's three laws of planetary motion.
Duke
Young man about 30 years old and claims to be the Duke of Bridgewater
Stood up against southern leaders who threatened secession
Zachary Taylor
What are the light colored bands on Jupiter called
Zones
Handel
]ephtha [JEF-thuh] was the last oratorio by this composer whose orchestral works include Opus 6 - a set of 12 concerti grossi [kohn-CHAIR-tee GROH-see] - and three other suites that premiered on the royal barge and are known as Water Music. For 10 points -name this German whose "Hallelujah" chorus appears in his Messiah.
Comet
a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a "tail" of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy
a children's book project he did with his mother early in his career.
Simon Legree
a cruel slave owner; has Uncle Tom whipped to death. Greedy and evil. The main antagonist.
Earth's moon was most likely formed by
a giant impact when a protoplanet smashed into the Earth
Appositive Phrase
a group of words that stands next to a noun or pronoun and renames or adds information or details to it The puppy, a golden retriever, is my newest pet. puppy is the noun, golden retriever is this.
Lassaiz Faire
a hands-off approach to government
Neptune was discovered by
a mathematical prediction based on surprises in Uranus' orbit.
Uncle Tom
a noble, long-suffering Christian slave; stands up for his beliefs and is grudgingly admired even by his enemies.
Appositive
a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.
Predicate Nominative
a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject Curt's favorite toy is his big truck. subject: toy verb: is ________________ = truck (renames the subject)
Doctrine
a revealed teaching of Christ that is irreversible
Dwarf Planet
a round object that revolves around the sun, but it is much smaller than a planet; it cannot clear its orbital path like a planet can
Covenant
a sacred oath between human person, or between God & man, involving mutual commitments or guarantees
What is the physical appearance of Jupiter as seen from earth or a spacecraft
a series of dark belts and light zones parallel to its equator
Eliza
a slave and personal maid to Mrs. Shelby who escapes to the North with her five-year-old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley. Her husband, George, eventually finds them in Ohio and emigrates with them to Canada, France and finally Liberia.
Oligopoly
a state of limited competition, in which a market is shared by a small number of producers or sellers.
Oort Cloud
a swarm of trillions of comet nuclei in a huge shell surrounding the Solar System (40,000 A.U. to 100,000 A.U.)(Long period comets)
Tariff
a tax on imported goods usually reserved for regulating trade with foreign countries
A ring is
a thin disk of small particles of ice and rock.
Preposition
a word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence
nebular hypothesis (definition)
accepted hypothesis of how our solar system formed
what is it called when particles collide and stick during formation of system
accretion
how does uncle Max want to exploit (take advantage of) the children?
making them sing in the festival
All gas giants have
many moons and a set of rings.
the uppermost clouds of jupiter and saturn are composed of what
ammonia crystals
what are the uppermost clouds of jupiter and saturn composed of
ammonia crystals
Saturn
many rings made of dust and ice, low density, revolution 29 Earth years
in the transit method you can learn what about the star
amount of light star changes you can learn diameter of star and planet
what is a rotation?
amount of time it takes a planet to turn on its axis.
Jake Hoot
an American country singer. He is the winner of season 17 of the American talent competition The Voice
what are the darker regions of the moon called
maria
Ken Jeong
an American stand-up comedian, actor and former physician. He is best known for playing Ben Chang on the sitcom Community and the drug lord Leslie Chow in The Hangover film series. He was the lead in the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken, of which he is also the creator and for which he was a writer and executive producer. He currently appears as a panelist on both the American and British versions of the singing competition show The Masked Singer.
Jean Valjean
main character in Les Miserables, stole silver from the church, picked up a flag before being released from prison
what kind of temperatures do jovians have compared to terrestrial
lower
Evangeline St. Clare
aka Eva, loving child, only light of St. Clare's life, dies of TB, loves everyone, BFF with Tom, very Christian
La Japonaise
aka: Camille Monet In Japanese Costume Painted in 1857; during the time of this painting, there was a large influx of the popularity of Japanese culture in Europe. In this painting Camille posed in one of the costumes that Monet owned.
The Bishop
allows Valjean to stay in his inn and tries to make him a better man
Kuiper Belt (definition)
an area in the solar system beyond the planets where many small, icy bodies are located
The Grangerfords
an aristocratic Kentuckian family headed by the Colonel Saul Grangerford. They take Huck in after he is separated from Jim on the Mississippi. Huck becomes close friends with the youngest male of the family, Buck, who is Huck's age. By the time Huck meets them, the the family has been engaged in an age-old blood feud with another local family, the Shepherdsons.
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Command Economy
an economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are determined centrally by a government.
sin
any intentional thought, word, deed, or omission that violates God's law
an illusion caused by the motions of the planets relative to each other is
apparent retrograde movement (definition)
Saturn's rings
are the most spectacular (visible) in the solar system; each travels in its own orbit.
Embargo
ban on trade with another country
To be a planet, a celestial body must do this (3/3)
be able to clear its orbit of other objects
Why does Uranus appear blue
because of large amounts of methane in the atmosphere
Gerund Phrase
begins with noun form of verb ending in -ing, plus any modifiers or complements Running for president is a serious ambition. - running for president A serious danger to motorists is driving under the influence. - driving under the influence
Where would you most expect to find asteroid?
between Mars (red orbit) and Jupiter (orange orbit) in the asteroid belt
in similar ways to Uranus what color is Neptune?
blue
Khufu
built the Great Pyramid at Giza
Mirror, Mirror
by Sarah Treem takes the classic story of Snow White and puts it into the 21st century, dealing with issues of body image, sexual orientation, racism, and the struggle of the high school experience. Every high school prom is the same: fancy dresses, prom kings and queens, and, of course, drama. Ten teenagers love, lose, betray and revenge each other over one autumnal weekend in a kingdom far, far away. It is a precarious landscape where magic lurks behind make-up, mirrors and memories.
what is the predominant gas in venus' atmosphere
carbon dioxide
what three elements make up ice material
carbon nitrogen oxygen
The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a
constant hurricane-like storm larger than Earth.
Participial Phrase
contains a participle and acts as an adjective; examples: They arrested the man DRIVING THE CAR.
atmosphere of neptune has what that is driven by internal heat source
convection currents
what is the runaway ice house effect
cooler temp less greenhouse gases/water vapor in atmosphere and couldnt retain heat so gets colder
Maize
corn
direction planets in our solar system orbit the Sun
counter clockwise
you can use what to determine the age of the surface of planets
craters
what does maria use to make play clothes for the children
curtains
Kuiper Belt
disc-like swarm of icy objects that lie just beyond the orbit of Neptune and extends outward to 60 A.U.(Short Period Comets)
a planet with a more eccentric orbit will have (greater/lesser) difference in seasonal weather.
greater
the more crated showed what
greater in age
most of the jovians have atmospheres made up of what two gases
h and he
Djoser
had the first step pyramid built at his tomb in Saqqara
Compared to the Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn, the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune
have axes that are tilted a long way from the spin axis of the planets.
structure of saturn rings
have gaps due to gravitational influence of moons
why had Rolf turned against Lisel
he says he has more important things to do
what does Max do with the children when Maria and the captain are on their honeymoon
he signs them up for the music festival
what is the captains reason for breaking off his engagement with the Baroness
he wasnt being honest about his love
what is mostly in jupiter's atmosphere
helium and hydrogen
what are the lighter regions of the moon called
highlands
The sun produces energy by fusing _______ into _______ in its core
hydrogen, helium
jovians have what around rock/metal core
ice
the cores of the jovians are made up what
ice and rock
what are Saturns rings composed of?
ice and rock
yet another piece of evidence of the nebular hypothesis (4/4)
images of young stars show that many are circled by disks of dust and gas
moon doesnt have heavy metals because
impact of earth only went through mantle
Maurice Ravel
impressionist french composer, more detached style Debussy, also wrote neoclassical works Bolero
the lower mass of mars causes what to happen
lower escape velocity so more particles escape
where does the family go into hiding
in the abbey
Where in the solar system would you look for liquid hydrogen
in the deep interiors of jupiter and saturn
when does the Captain first see the children upon his return trip home
in trees
what 2 forces make planets orbit around the sun?
inertia and gravity
Infinitive Phrase
infinitive plus its modifiers and objects Examples A good habit to have is to go for a walk in the evening. - to go for a walk in the evening To travel all across Italy is Lucretia's New Year resolution. - To travel all across Italy
Scientists believe that the Earth's core is made of
iron
what three elements are considered to be rock like
iron silicon oxygen
asteroids (definition)
irregularly shaped rocks that orbit the sun
Patricia MacLachlan
is a bestselling female U.S. children's author. She is best known for winning the 1986 Newbery Medal for her book Sarah, Plain and Tall. Kindred Souls Waiting for the Magic White Fur Flying
Meteorite
is a solid piece of debris (less than 100 m), from such sources as asteroids or comets, that originates in outer space and survives its impact with the Earth's surface.
large energy flow as in convection conducting liquid and fast rotation help form what
magnetic field
mercury has a metallic core that shows it had what
magnetic field
Tom Sawyer
main character, around 12 years old, mischievous/ trouble-maker
Pluto is no longer considered a planet because
it is not massive enough to clear smaller bodies from its orbit
how does the size of Ceres compare to other objects in the asteroid belt?
it is the largest
what is the atmosphere of mars like
it leaks
why does the family end up singing in the festival
its an excuse when they got caught leaving
what is unique about Uranus's axis of rotation?
its on its side, 98 tilt
what is Maria's reply to the official about the childrens travel clothes
its their costumes
which jovian has the most prominent weather patterns seen
jupiter
what two jovians had a magnetic field
jupiter and saturn
jovians have what kind of escape velocity
larger
Jupiter is the
largest and most massive planet (about 2.5 times that of all the other planets combined!)
what is unique about Ganymede?
largest moon in the solar system
Jupiter
largest planet; Great Red Spot, Galileo discovered many of Jupiter's moons, Revolution is 12 Earth years
Cleopatra
last pharaoh of Egypt; had relationships with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony; Octavian's enemy
What characteristic features are seen in the visible surface of Jupiter?
light and dark bands parallel to the equator
Much of the hydrogen and helium is actually in
liquid form because of the enormous pressure inside the planets.
what is the interior of jupiter
liquid metallic hydrogen
In what form is the hydrogen in the interior of Jupiter?
liquid metallic hydrogen, electrically conducting
what kind of periods do jovian have in terms of terrestrial
longer
what is the bias in the radial velocity method
look at big planets and those close to the sun
the density of jovians are what compared to terrestrial
lower
Our universe began as a large cloud of dust and gas called a
nebula
PLuto and Charon may have once been satellites of _______
neptune
what two jovians cannot support a magnetic field
neptune and uranus
pluto has a bowl of what
nitrogen
Does Mercury have any moons?
no
do the major planets share orbits with other objects?
no
does the moon have an atmosphere
no
does uranus have an internal hear source
no
is there water or ice on venus
no
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856)
no African-Americans could have citizenship rights Court ruled that blacks are not citizens. Protected southern property rights (ie. slaves) in territories. Chief Justice Taney ruled Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Banned slavery in territories. Added to sectionalism between North and South, sometimes viewed as a cause the Civil War.
does mars have liquid material in its to core
no cant conduct electricity
why are storms of jupiter so long lived
no solid surface to produce friction
Does Venus have a magnetic field?
no, because of its slow rotation
To be a planet, a celestial body must do this (1/3)
orbit a star
The Kuiper belt is found (outside/overlapping) Neptune's orbit
outside Neptune's orbit
after there is pulling in around the rotating axis what happens in the formation of the system
particles collide and stick
what is the transit method
planet will pass between us and star and star light will dim
accretion produces what in terms of forming the system
planetesimals
Exoplanets (definition)
planets outside our solar system
venus lacks what that is seen on earth
plate tectonics geological activity
what is he first way to detect an extra solar planetary system
radial velocity detection
One interesting feature of Jupiter's rotation is the fact that
regions of Jupiter at different latitudes appear to rotate at different rates.
photosphere
sunspots occur on which layer of the sun?
Dear Evan Hanson
tells the story of a young man with social anxiety disorder who so yearns to make a connection with his peers that he fabricates a relationship with a deceased student to become closer to the boy's family. When a classmate commits suicide, shy TITLE CHARACTER finds himself at the center of the tragedy and turmoil. In a misguided attempt to comfort the boy's grieving family, TITLE CHARACTER pretends that he was actually good friends with their son. He invents a fabricated email account to "prove" their friendship, and when a fake suicide note makes its way online, finding himself the unintended face of a viral video about loneliness and friendship.
Indirect Object
tells to whom or for whom the action of the verb is done Paula passed her father the parcel. Subject - Paula Verb - passed Direct Object - parcel (what did she pass) For who did she pass the parcel? he father
For a planet to be habitable (able to sustain life) it must have
temperatures that all water to exist in a liquid form
Purgatory
temporary state, after death, whereby souls who are destined for heaven, but who are still not perfectly purified of sin & its effects, are purified from sin & its effects & are made ready for eternal life with God
Which is smaller, terrestrial planets or gas giants?
terrestrial planets
planets in our solar system are primarily classified by their physical characteristics as
terrestrial planets and gas giants
Mars
the "red planet", largest dust storms, revolution 687 Earth days
who does captain vontrapp bring back from Vienna, Switzerland
the Baroness Shraedef and uncle max
In an elliptical orbit, one of the two foci will be...
the Sun
Who wins the first place award in the festival
the Von Trapp family singers
what do scientists know about why the great dark spot on Neptune continually disappears and than reappears?
the atmosphere changes
why do the Von Trapps have to walk over the mountains
the boarders are closed
what does the telegram from berlin say
the captain is to report for duty within the Nazi navy
who does Maria and the captain think should be asked if the two of them should wed
the children
Canon law
the compilation of church laws that provide the norms for good order in the church
Galilean moons
the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
The gas giants strong gravity keeps
the gas giant's gases from escaping, so they have thick atmospheres.
What are the outer planets also known as?
the gas giants
Tides are caused by
the gravitational pull of the moon and sun and rotation of the Earth on its axis
Neptune
the great dark spot is associated with _________?
what is the name of Jupiter most spectacular, high pressure, swirling gas storm?
the great red spot
Evangelists
the human authors of the 4 gospels (matthew, mark, luke, & john)
Anasazi
the largest and most prominent Southwestern prehistoric group of people. Ancestors of the Pueblo tribes. Navajo word for "The Ancient Ones". Civilization began in what is known today as Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Known for pottery, baskets, and cliff dwellings.
evidence that the moon formed from pieces of the Earth after it was struck by a protoplanet
the lower density of the moon matches the density of the upper layers of Earth
Holy trinity
the mystery of the 3 divine persons in 1 God (father, son, & holy spirit)
Object of Preposition
the noun or pronoun at the end of a prepositional phrase Example The small brown bird flew into the oak tree. into the oak tree is the prepositional phrase tree is this!
Direct Object
the object that receives the direct action of the verb Example The audience cheered their favorite actors during the play. Audience is subject, cheered is the verb....who/what did they cheer? actors
When we look at the moon, why do we always see the same side?
the phenomenon of tidal locking
Impact craters on a planet are evidence that
the planet has been hit by asteroids/comets/meteorites
Where do Earth's high tides occur?
the sides closest to, and furthest from, the moon
Complete Subject
the simple subject and its modifiers The mangy old dog limped down the alley. In this sentence, the "dog" is "doing" the verb, "limped." Modifiers to "dog" include "the mangy old." "The mangy old dog" is this.
What is rotation?
the spinning motion of a body on its axis
Microeconomics
the study of the economic behavior and decision making of small units, such as individuals, families, and businesses
Macroeconomics
the study of the economy as a whole and is concerned with large-scale economic activity studies economy-wide phenomena such as inflation, price levels, rate of economic growth, national income, gross domestic product (GDP), and changes in unemployment
Uranus is twice as far from
the sun as Saturn, so is much colder.
Why do we see a tail when a comet is near the Sun?
the sun heats the comet, vaporizes ice, then solar wind pushes dust and gas away from the comet, forming a temporary tail.
The existence of the Great Red Spot of Jupiter has been known since
the time of Hooke and Cassini in the 1600s.
Simple Predicate
the verb of the sentence
Andes Mountains
the world's longest mountain chain, stretching along the west coast of South America
why didnt the children tell Maria that they knew how to dance
they thought she would make them dance
what does Baroness Shrader suggest that the captain do to introduce her to all of his friends in Salzburg
throw a party
Uranus's axis of rotation is
tilted at an angle of about 90 degrees from the vertical.
what decision does the captain make after reading the telegram
to leave Austria
why does Maria ask the Captain for material
to make play clothes for the children
what is the second way to detect an extra solar planet
transit method
venus has what kind of activity
volcanism
what geologic process on mars
volcanoes
how does the radial velocity detection work
watch spectral lines to see if planet shifts toward red or blue and change it to a velocity profile
magnetic storms
what is a sunspot?
Uranus
what is the coldest planet in the solar system?
Meteor
when a meteoroid burns up in earth's atmosphere. (shooting star)
Uranus
which of the gas giants are in retrograde?
Almost Maine
written by John Cariani, 9 short plays about love and loss in a remote title town.
Does Jupiter have a magnetic field?
yes
does neptune have a magnetic field
yes
does neptune have an internal heat source
yes
does saturn have a magnetic field
yes
does uranus have a magnetic field
yes
The eccentricity of a perfect circle is
zero
