Mathew's Big Study Set
ionic bonding
The lattice enthalpy of this interaction can be calculated in the Born-Haber cycle.
To Kill a Mockingbird
The lawyer Atticus Finch appears in this 1960 novel by Harper Lee.
Emperor Romanus IV
The leader of the Byzantines at Manzikert
Charles Martel
The leader of the Franks at the Battle of Tours.
Alp Arslan
The leader of the Seljurks at Manzikert.
Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi
The leader of the Umayyads at the Battle of Tours.
Stratosphere
The lower portion of this area is where airplanes generally fly, and it contains the ozone layer.
sine
The magnitude of the cross product equals the product of two vectors' magnitudes times this function of the angle between them.
Spanish-American War
The main issue of this war was Cuban independence.
Battle of Hampton Roads
The major significance of this battle is that it was the first meeting in combat of ironclad warships. The Confederate fleet consisted of the ironclad ram Virginia and several supporting vessels. When Virginia approached the Minnesota, Mointor intercepted her.
Harold Godwinson
The man who led the losing side of the Battle of Hastings
Moho
The mantle is separated from the crust above it by this boundary, which is named for a Croatian seismologist.
raffinate
The material left over after the desired material has been extracted is called this.
Isaac Newton
Shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus.
Hatsheput
She and Thutmose II had a daughter named Neferure. After having Neferure, she could not birth anymore children.
Guerrilla
Spanish and Portuguese resistance took the form of this type of warfare, the first time in history.
First Battle of Winchester
Stonewall Jackson's success in achieving force concentration early in this battle allowed him to secure a more decisive victory which had escaped him in previous battles of the campaign.
carbonyl
The most distinguishable IR peak is that of this group, which displays a very strong absorbance at 1700 inverse centimeters, while peaks below 1500 inverse centimeters produce a complex pattern unique to the compound being analyzed, called the fingerprint region.
Sine
The name of this mathematical term is thought to come from a Latin mistranslation of an Arabic word meaning "half of a chord."
Miller-Urey experiment
The namesake scientists modeled Earth's prebiotic atmosphere as a mixture of water, methane, ammonia, and hydrogen. The scientists allowed these four substances to react in an apparatus over a one-week period. The apparatus included a heater to convert the water to water vapor and an electrode to simulate lightning strikes.
Meselson-Stahl experiment
The net result of this experiment was that in the second generation, half of the DNA molecules contained nitrogen-15 in one strand and nitrogen-14 in the other, while the other half of the molecules contained only nitrogen-14.
Battle at the Nile
The British victory at this battle forced Napoleon to abandon his army and return to France.
Crystal
The Burgers vector describes "edge" and "screw" dislocations in these structures.
Manzikert
The Byzantine defeat here by the Seljuk Turks was a severe blow to the Byzantine empire's control of Anatolia.
Constantinople
The Byzantine defenders were led by Emperor Constantine XI and a Genoese captain named Giovanni Giustiniani, and the Ottomans were led by Sultan Mehmed II and Zaganos Pasha.
Manzikert
The Byzantine emperor was captured in this battle but was released by Alp Arslan after signing a peace treaty. Romanus IV was later deposed and blinded.
Manzikert
The Byzantines split their forces in half before the battle by sending general Joseph Tarchaneiotes to Khliat and were further weakened by the desertion of Andronicus Dukas.
The Joy Luck Club
The Chinese immigrant Lindo befriends An-Mei while working at a fortune cookie factory in this novel.
Fort Sumter
The Civil War started when the Confederates attacked this South Carolinian fort.
Jean Sibelius
The Finnish 100 mark note featured his image until 2002, when the euro was adopted.
Tours
The Franks victory at this battle was a major turning point in the history of Europe.
Quatre Bras and Ligny
The French brushed aside Allied advance guards at these two preliminary battles on June 16, 1815.
Ticonderoga
The Green Mountain Boys captured this Fort on Lake Champlain from the British and transported its cannons to Boston.
Henry V
The King of England during the battle at Agincourt.
Charles VI
The King of France during the battle at Agincourt.
Meteor shower
The Leonids are an example of this, in which numerous shooting stars enter Earth's atmosphere.
Lake Peipus
The Russian victory at this battle ended territorial claims of the Teutonic Knights on Russian soil.
Lake Peipus
The Russians were led by Alexander Nevsky and Andrey Yaroslavich while the Livonian Order (a branch of the Teutonic Order) was led by Hermann of Dorpat.
Alexander I
The Russians were led in person by this Tsar in the battle of Austerlitz. The Russians were joined by the scattered remains of the Austrian army under Holy Roman Emperor Francis II.
George W. Bush
The September 11 terrorist attacks occurred eight months into this man's first term as president. He responded with what became known as his namesake Doctrine, launching a "War on Terror".
Waterloo
The Seventh Coalition's victory in this battle doomed the losing general to exile for the second time.
Duke of Wellington
The Spanish and Portuguese resistance was supported by the landing of British troops under the command of this man.
Treaty of Paris of 1898
The Spanish-American War ended with an American victory with this treaty.
beta decay
The W-minus boson mediates this process, which transforms a down quark to an up quark and releases an antineutrino.
Kirchhoff's node law
The algebraic sum of currents in a network of conductors meeting at a point is zero.
speciation
The allopatric type of this process occurs due to the existence of a geographic barrier.
Tours
The best contemporary source for this battle is the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754.
epilepsy
The book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down centers on a girl with this disorder, whose sufferers may register spikes and sharp waves on an EEG, even when not having an attack.
Spanish-American War
The business community across the US had just recovered from a deep depression and feared that a war would reverse the gains. It lobbied vigorously against getting into this war.
Ticonderoga
The capture of this fort involved two larger-than-life personalities in Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, each of whom sought to gain as much credit and honor as possible for these events.
Ticonderoga
The capture of this fort occurred during the American Revolutionary War on May 10, 1775 when a small force of Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold surprised and overcame a small British garrison at the fort and lotted the personal belongings of the garrison.
Michael Faraday
The charge on a mole of electrons is a "constant" named after this Briton who discovered electromagnetic induction.
cholesterol
The concentration of this molecule in the bloodstream is lowered by statins.
Antigone
The curse that a man will "lose a son of his own loins" comes true when Haemon kills himself in this play.
Hatsheput
The daughter and only child of Thutmose I and his primary wife Ahmose.
World War II
The deadliest conflict in human history, to date.
Qingdao
The defenders in this battle, which occupied Prinz Heinrich Hill and Fort Bismarck, were sent to the Bando POW camp after being captured.
Constantinople
The defenders stretched a chain across the Golden Horn but the Ottomans rolled their ships over Galata Hill on greased logs to encircle the city.
AIDS
The drug Truvada is taken as part of a plan to prevent contracting this disease.
Apoptosis
The early stages of this process involve activation of scramblases to expose phosphatidylserine on the outside of cells.
buffer
The effectiveness of these solutions can be calculated with the Henderson-Hasselbach equation.
Rutherford gold foil experiment
The experimenters in this experiment fired alpha particles at a sheet of gold foil and other elements, including silver. The scattered particles were detected by a screen containing zinc sulfide, which fluoresced when the alpha particles hit it.
Utopia
The explorer Raphael Hythloday narrates much of this book, which depicts a peaceful island where private property has been abolished.
Josip Broz Tito
The expulsion of this leader's government from the Cominform precipitated his split with Joseph Stalin.
antimatter
The fact that there seems to be relatively little of this material in the universe is called baryon asymmetry. Name this material that has the same mass as ordinary matter, but the opposite charge and spin.
momentum
The fact that this quantity is conserved is the basis for the ideal rocket equation.
Mein Kampf
The failure of the Beer Hall Putsch led to the writing of this work on "The Jewish Peril" by Adolf Hitler.
Dover Beach
The final stanza of this poem declares "ah, love, let us be true/ to one another!"
Saratoga
The final surrender of this campaign was preceded by battles at Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights.
Apollo 1
The fire that ruined this mission was exacerbated by the pure-oxygen, positive-pressure environment inside the capsule, and the fact that the capsule door opened inward. Both of these design elements were scrapped in subsequent missions, and the second was replaced with an outward-opening hatch nominally to facilitate spacewalks.
Saxony
The forces of this German state switched sides during this battle, leaving Napoleon's army to join the allies.
iron
The gamma allotrope of this element is called austenite.
Ward No. 6
The hospital in this story is run by the medical assistant Sergei Sergeyitch and by the doctor Andrei Yefimitch Ragin, whose supervision gradually becomes lax. Andrei discusses philosophical issues with the postmaster Mikhail Averyanich, and later begins to engage in such conversations with Ivan.
Enzyme
The hypothesis that one gene produces one of these molecules was prosposed by George Beadle and Edward Tatum.
Apollo
The ignition of a pure oxygen atmosphere killed the members of this program's first mission in 1967, including Roger Chaffee and Gus Grissom.
Green Eggs and Ham
A book written by Dr. Seuss. A character named "Sam-I-am" pesters an unnamed character to try a plate of the title food. The unnamed character refuses, responding, "I do not like [them]. I do not like them, Sam-I-am." He continues to repeat this as Sam persistently follows him, asking him to try them in eight locations (house, box, car, tree, train, dark, rain, boat) and with three animals (mouse, fox, and goat). Finally, he gives into Sam's pestering and tries the title food, which he does like after all.
Treasure Island
A character in this novel gets a piece of parmesan cheese from Dr. Livesey's snuff box in exchange for his help. In this novel, a cook rebukes Dick Johnson for tearing a page from a Bible to make a "black spot," and is the "seafaring one-legged man" that Billy Bones tells Jim Hawkins to look out for. Written by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
A collection of 34 essays and short stories written by the American author Washington Irving. Includes "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Tales of the Alhambra
A collection of essays, verbal sketches and stories by Washington Irving.
The Martian Chronicles
A collection of works by Ray Bradbury in which he wrote about a future in which humans colonize a nearby planet and build automated houses. Includes the short stories "Rocket Summer" and "There Will Come Soft Rains."
Fra Lippo Lippi
A dramatic monologue by Robert Browning. Throughout this poem, Browning depicts a 15th-century real-life painter. The poem asks the question whether art should be true to life or an idealized image of life. The poem is written in blank verse, non-rhyming iambic pentameter.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
A dsytopian novel by George Orwell. Set in Airstrip One, which is formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania. Oceania is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. OCeania's residents are dictated by a political regime euphemistically named English Socialism. Newspeak is the government's invented language. The superstate is under the control of the privileged, elite Inner Party. The Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking known as "thoughtcrimes" and is enforced by the "Thought Police."
The Idiot
A novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The title is an ironic reference to the central character of the novel, Prince (Knyaz) Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, a young man whose goodness and open-hearted simplicity lead many of the more worldly characters he encounters to mistakenly assume that he lacks intelligence and insight. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beautiful man"
Mrs. Dalloway
A novel by Virginia Woolf. Details a day in the life of Clarissa, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. Clarissa goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth spent in the countryside in Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband. She married the reliable Richard instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh and she "had not the option" to be with Sally Seton.
Brave New World
A novel written by Aldous Huxley. The novel is set in the year 632 After Ford. It details Bernard Marx's life in the World State, a society that has eradicated natural birth and raises children grown to fit into society's five castes.
As You Like It
A pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599. It follows the heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety, and eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forrest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks many of Shakespeare's most famous speeches.
Tartuffe
A play by Moliere. The characters of [name sake of play], Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical theatre roles.
The Weary Blues
A poem by Langston Hughes. This poem takes place at an old Harlem bar on Lenox Avenue. There is a piano player, and as he plays the speaker observes his body movement and the tone of his voice.
My Last Duchess
A poem by Robert Browning. The poem is set during the late Italian Renaissance. The speaker (presumably the Duke of Ferrara) is giving the emissary of the family of his prospective new wife a tour of the artworks in his home. He draws a curtain to reveal a painting of a woman, explaining that it is a portrait of his late wife; he invites his guest to sit and look at the painting. As they look at the portrait of the late Duchess, the Duke describes her happy, cheerful and flirtatious nature, which had displeased him. He says, "She had a heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad..." He goes on to say that his complaint of her was that "'twas not her husband's presence only" that made her happy. Eventually, "I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together." This could be interpreted as either the Duke had given commands to the Duchess to stop smiling or commands for her to be killed. He now keeps her painting hidden behind a curtain that only he is allowed to draw back, meaning that now she only smiles for him.
"Song of Myself"
A poem by Walt Whitman that contains 52 sections, thought to resemble the number of weeks in a year. Criticized for its blatant depictions of human sexuality.
"I Sing the Body Electric"
A poem by Walt Whitman that contains the line "I celebrate myself and sing myself." Part of the Leaves of Grass Collection.
Easter, 1916
A poem by William Butler Yeats that describes his torn emotions regarding the events of the Rising staged in Ireland against British Rule on April 24, 1916.
Thanatopsis
A poem by William Cullen Bryant that describes an "innumerable caravan" moving towards the "sad abodes" and "silent halls" of death.
To A Waterfowl
A poem by William Cullen Bryant. He claimed that God guides a bird's "certain flight" through a "boundless sky" in the poem.
"A Supermarket in California"
A poem written by Allen Ginsberg in which the narrator imagines visiting the title location where he finds Frederico Garcia Lorca and Walt Whitman shopping.
The Lottery
A postmaster in this story is responsible for swearing in Mr. Summers, who has "time and energy to devote to civic activities." Near the end of this story, a villager gives Davy Hutchinson " a few pebbles" after the title ritual. Written by Shirley Jackson.
Macbeth
A tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. A brave Scottish general receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, the title character murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take the title character and his wife into the realms of madness and death.
Aeneid
In one part of this work, Nisus and Euryalus are killed during a night raid on the enemy camp. The protagonist of this work sees the ghost of his dead wife Creusa while fleeing Troy and carrying his father Anchises. Written by Virgil.
Gulliver's Travels
In this novel by Jonathan Swift, a sailor visits the nations of Lilliput, Blefuscu and Laputa. The title character goes on fantastical journeys to Lilliput where he is a giant and Brobdingnag, where he is tiny.
The Old Man and the Sea
In this novel, the title character's dwelling includes a picture of the Virgin of Cobre. The protagonist of this novel, who is called salao by Manolin's parents, struggles to catch a marlin. Written by Ernest Hemingway.
O Captain! My Captain!
In this poem, a "bugle trills" for a character who has "fallen cold and dead." It was written as an elegy for Abraham Lincoln by Walt Whitman.
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
Name this Emily Dickinson poem that contains the lines "We slowly drive-he knew no haste/And I had put away/My labor and my leisure too."
Romeo and Juliet
One of this play's title characters is said to have "beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear." A Shakespearean tragedy that ends as the Montague and Capulet families renounce their feud.
The Brothers Karamazov
The final novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, judgment, and reason, set against a modernizing Russia, with a plot which revolves around the subject of patricide.
Z
The number of standard deviations that a data point lies above or below the mean is represented by this letter followed by the word "score."
Rutherford gold foil experiment
The result of this experiment was unexpected, as backscattering could only occur if the alpha particles were colliding with a particle massive enough to reverse their momentum.
polarity
The rule "like dissolves like" is based on this property of the solvent and solute.
July's People
The novel is set during a fictional civil war in which black South Africans have violently overturned the system of apartheid. The story follows the Smales, a liberal White South African family who were forced to flee Johannesburg to the native village of their black servant. Maureen tries working with the women in the fields, digging up leaves and roots. Afterward, she goes to see the title character, who is working on the bakkie. When she says she should not work with the women, she asks if he fears she will tell his wife about Ellen. He angrily asserts that she can only tell Martha that he has always been a good servant. Maureen, frightened, realizes that the dignity she thought she had always conferred upon him was actually humiliating to him. He informs her that he and the Smales have been summoned to the chief's village. Though the TC has authority in his village, they still must ask the chief's permission to stay. Maureen struggles with her new subservience to July. After Gina goes to play with Nyiko and Bam goes with Victor and Royce to fish, a helicopter with unidentifiable markings flies over the village. Written by Nadimer Gordimer.
O Captain! My Captain!
The speaker of this poem hears "the people all exulting" because "the prize we sought is won." This poem's title character is asked to "rise up and hear the bells," but has "no pulse nor will" as he lies on a ship deck. Written by Walt Whitman.
The Spanish Tragedy
This drama pioneered and popularized the gory genre now known as the revenge tragedy. The play is set in the wake of a war between Portugal and Spain, during which the Spanish soldier Don Andrea was killed by the Portugese prince prince Balthazar. Written by Thomas Kyd.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This novel contains an introductory notice declaring that "persons attempting to find a motive...will be prosecuted."
The House on Mango Street
This work's protagonist claims she is a balloon tied to an anchor because she cares for Nenny. One vignette in this novel sees Sally leave a carnival with a boy; in another, a death in the family leads Papa to wake up Esperanza. Written by Sandra Cisneros.
Volpone
Written by Ben Jonson. Each character in this play is based on an animal archetype. The greedy Venetian noble (title character) cajoles gifts from men named Corbaccio ("raven"), Corvino ("crow"), and Voltore ("vulture") by faking a fatal illness, and separately promising his fortune to each man. At the urging of the title character's servant Mosca ("fly"), Corbaccio agrees to disinherit his own son Bonario by writing a new will that will name the title character as sole heir. The title character also engages in strategems to sleep with Corvino's wife Celia, although his attempt to rape her is foiled by Bonario.
Every Man in His Humour
Written by Ben Jonson. Set in Jonson's London. The plot chiefly concerns Knowell, an old gentleman who worries that his son Edward is becoming too involved with Wellbred, a fun-loving gallant Londoner. Knowell secretly follows his son to London; meanwhile, Wellbred's brother-in-law, the merchant Kitely, worries that Wellbred's behavior will give his business a bad reputation, all the while suspecting his own wife of infidelity. Various subplots involve Knowell's mischievous servant Brainworm, the braggart-captain Bobadill, and two friends of Wellbred who try to be fashionably and poetically melancholic.
Doctor Faustus
Written by Christopher Marlowe. Two scholars named Valdes and Cornelius teach Faustus how to summon a demon, which Faustus promptly does, conjuring Mephistophilis.
All For Love
Written by John Dryden. This play retells the story of the Roman leader Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In this version of the tale, the Roman general Ventidius actively tries to separate the two lovers, and encourages Antony to believe that Cleopatra has been secretly consorting with the Roman Dolabella. Another of the central characters in the play is Antony's wife Octavia, who travels to Alexandria to convince Antony to reconcile. At the end of the play, the eunuch Alexas falsely tells Antony that Cleopatra has committed suicide.
The Duchess of Malfi
Written by John Webster. This play is a product of the Jacobean period, in which the thrilling, macabre, and fantastic were prevalent on stage. The play follows the widowed Duchess, who loves Antonio Bologna, a good-hearted nobleman below her station.
She Stoops to Conquer
Written by Oliver Goldsmith. In this enduringly popular comedy, a wealthy gentleman's son named Charles Marlow is sent to visit the country home of Mr. Hardcastle, who has a beautiful daugther named Kate. On the way, Marlow and his companion George Hastings stop at an alehouse where Kate's half-brother, Tony Lumpkin, tricks them into thinking they are miles from their destination.
The Rivals
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This play offers a satirical take on manners and courtship. The play's heroine is Lydia Languish, a wealthy heiress who loves reading novels and who wants her own life to imitate the tropes of romantic fiction.
The Way of the World
Written by William Congreve. Has a complex plot that concerns Mirabell and Millimant, two lovers who wish to marry. However, Millimant will lose "half her fortune" unless her choice of husband is approved by her aunt Lady Wishfort, who wants her to marry Sir Wilfull Witwoud. Mirabell enlists the married servants Waitwell and Foible to trick Lady Wishfort into falling in love with Sir Rowland, who is actually Waitwell in disguise, so that the compromised Lady Wishfort will be forced to agree to Mirabell and Millamant's marriage.
Napoleon
The struggle between this restored emperor and the Seventh Coalition began when this man's Army of the North marched into the Low Countries, hoping for a showdown with the British, Dutch and Prussians before the Austrian and Russian armies gathering further east could come to their aid.
Vicksburg
The successful ending of this Civil War campaign significantly degraded the ability of the Confederacy to maintain its war effort.
Vicksburg
The successful ending of this campaign significantly degraded the ability of the Confederacy to maintain its war effort.
five
The symmetric group of this many elements is the smallest that is not a solvable group, a result that inspired the Abel-Ruffini theorem.
food chain
The ten percent rule explains why these pathways rarely have more than five trophic levels.
Unix
The text editor "ed," which was created for this operating system by its developer Ken Thompson, inspired its "grep" utility.
A Doll's House
The threat of being fired from a bank causes Krogstad to blackmail this play's protagonist, Nora Helmer.
The Nose
The title body part in this novel belongs to Major Kovalyov, who wakes up the same day to find a smooth patch of skin where this title body part used to be.
Bleak House
The title home (which is actually pleasant, rather than its namesake adjective) is owned by John Jarndyce, who cares for his young relatives Richard Carstone and Ada Clare.
World War I
The trigger for this war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Yugoslav nationalist.
mutation
These events can be classified as substitutions, insertions, deletions, and frame shifts.
glaciers
These features leave behind carved lakes called tarns and trails of debris called moraines.
Parallel
These kinds of lines have the same slope, but different y-intercepts. They are coplanar.
Turing machine
These mathematical constructs were invented to prove the undecidability of David Hilbert's "Entscheidungsproblem".
glaciers
These objects may have redefined the Martian dichotomy during the Hesperian period.
kidney
These organs drain via the ureters into the bladder
electron
These particles form so-called "cathode rays," and they are also called "beta particles."
Photons
These particles, whose energy equals Planck's constant times the frequency, are also denoted gamma.
Boston Massacre
This incident saw British Army soldiers shoot and kill people whil under attack by a mob.
termite
This insect has Formosan Giant Northern, and "mound builder" types, and it produces methane as it digests its food.
Apoptosis
This involves activation of around ten different kinds of cysteine proteases.
Lord Horatio Nelson
This is Britain's greatest admiral.
Peter Abelard
This is a French philosopher who was regarded as the founder of the University of Paris.
electric charge
This is a basic property of matter. Some matter, such as a proton has a positive this, while other types, such as electrons have a negative this. Neutrons have none of this.
electric current
This is a flow of electrons (or other charged objects) from a negatively charged object to a positively charged one.
Karman vortex street
This is a form of turbulence in flow going past a cylinder, which is responsible for driving the vibration or "singing" of power lines.
dimension
This is a fundamental measure used to describe an object or event.
equation
This is a mathematical notation used to show how measurable quantities relate to each other.
Specific impulse
This is a measure of a rocket's efficiency
mass
This is a measure of the quantity of matter in an object.
radiation
This is a term sometimes used to describe the dangerous emissions from radioactive substances, but more correctly used to describe the transfer of photons--tiny packets of energy--through space.
ITC
This is a variant which can be used to determine the binding affinites and stoichiometry of proteins and enzymatic reactions.
Mickey Spillane
This is an American author of crime novels. His signituare character is a detective, Mike Hammer.
Jimmy Doolittle
This is an American aviation pioneer and military leader who was the first pilot to fly across the US in under 24 hours.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
field
This is an area of space in which a force has an effect on matter. Examples of this include magnetic and gravitational.
electromagnetic wave
This is another way of describing radiation, such as light and heat.
Michelson-Morley experiment
This is often called the most famous failed experiment in science. It is a fundamental test of special relativity.
Sun Tzu
This is the Chinese author of The Art of War
I
This is the Roman Numeral for 1
X
This is the Roman Numeral for 10
C
This is the Roman Numeral for 100
M
This is the Roman Numeral for 1000
Angstrom
This is the SI unit of distance
Karman line
This is the accepted boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and outerspace.
Ken Kesey
This is the author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
macrocosm
This is the big picture--a model that reflects the functioning of a system on the largest of scales
five
This is the central number of the only 3-by-3 magic square.
Slope
This is the change in the y-values of 2 points on a line over the change in the x-values of 2 points on a line
kinetic energy
This is the energy contained in a moving body that relates to its motion
potential energy
This is the energy stored within an object that could be released and harnessed to do useful work.
Yuri Gagarin
This is the first human to be transported into space. His April 12, 1961 flight is still celebrated as Yuri's night.
Chuck Yeager
This is the first human to officially break the sound barrier. On October 14, 1947, he flew the experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 feet. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude records.
Valentina Tereshkova
This is the first woman to be transported into space.
Lux
This is the measure of illuminance
Weber
This is the measure of magnetic flux
Watt
This is the measure of power
Pascal
This is the measure of pressure
T.S. Eliot
This is the modernist author of "The Waste Land" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Appamattox
This is the name of the courthouse where General Lee surrenderred to General Grant, effectively ending the American Civil War.
equivalence point
This is the point at which equal amounts of acid and base have been mixed and there is a sharp inflection point in the pH curve.
Apoptosis
This is the process of programmed cell death.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This is the sequel to Tom Sawyer
Karman ogive
This is the shape of the cone of rockets curving into the main body, which minimizes drag during rocket burn.
speed of light
This is the speed at which radiation travels, and the speed limit of the Universe.
Quantum theory
This is the study of the structure and behavior of the atom and of subatomic particles from the view that all energy comes in tiny, indivisible bundles
matter
This is the stuff of the Universe, which fills space and can be measured in some way.
Frame
This is the term for a full image of pixels; the number of these "per second" or "FPS" that a graphics engine can draw is a common benchmark for games.
Woodward-Fieser rules
This is used to empirically estimate the lamda-max from the types of bonds and functional groups in a molecule.
Crystal
These structures, which are classified by Miller indices, can contain defects and vacancies among their lattice planes.
Redox titrations
These use an oxidation-reduction reaction instead of an acid-base reaction.
Karl Fischer titrations
These use electrolysis to determine the amount of water in a substance.
Seven Days Battles
These were a series of six major battles over a week span from June 25 to July 1, 1862 near Richmond, Virginia.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. These battles were fought on April 19, 1775.
Gettysburg
This American Civil War battle was fought July 1 - 3, 1863. This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
Ronald Reagan
This American President started his political career as a Democrat, but in 1962 he switched to the Republican Party.
Yorktown
This American Revolutionary War battle ended on October 19, 1781. This battle was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.
Yorktown
This American Revolutionary War battle was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis. This siege proved to be the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War.
Hedda Hopper
This American actress and columnist began acting in silent films. She is noted for her large hats. He had a long-running feud with Louella Parsons.
Louisa May Alcott
This American author achieved fame with Little Women, a largely autobiographical novel that portrays Victorian American family life. She wrote the sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.
James Agee
This American author's works include Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a commentary on Depression-era tenant farmers, and the Pulitzer Prize winning A Death in the Family.
Hank Aaron
This American baseball player broke Babe Ruth's career homerun record of 714 homeruns in 1974.
Hank Aaron
This American baseball player finished his career with 755 homeruns (a record before being controversally being broken by Barry Bonds) and 2,297 RBI.
Muhammad Ali
This American boxer was stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 when he refused to enter the US armed forces on religious grounds. He regained his title in 1974 by defeating George Foreman, lost it in 1978 to Leon Spinks, and won it for a third time later in 1978.
John Adams
This American president won the election of 1796.
John Adams
This American president's term included the beginning of the Quasi-War and the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Eminem
This American rappers has released albums "Inifinite", "Slim Shady EP, " "The Marshall Mathers LP" and "Encore", "Relapse", "Recovery", "Revival" and his most recent release "Kamikaze."
Kurt Vonnegut
This American writer was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge, interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse wheere he was imprisoned.
Lew Wallace
This Brigadier-General commanded the newly formed Third Division at the Battle of Fort Donelson.
Alfred Russel Wallace
This British naturalist--the namesake of a line separating two distinct groups of Indonesian fauna--developed the theory of evolution through natural selection at around the same time as Darwin.
Bunker Hill
This British prrrhic victory outside Boston resulted in the capture of the Charlestown Peninsula, but showed that colonial troops could stand up to British regulars.
Les Fleurs du mal
This Charles Baudelaire book compares its contents to blossoms.
Fort Sumter
This Civil War battle began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate artillery fired on the Union garrison. These were the first shots of the Civil War and continued all day, watched by many civilians in a celebratory spirit.
Chickamauga
This Civil War battle involved the second-highest number of casualties after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Fredericksburg
This Civil War battle is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than three times as heavy as those by the Confederates.
Chancellorsville
This Civil War battle pitted Union Army Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army less than half its size, General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Fort Donelson
This Civil War battle took place at the namesake fort on the Cumberland River in Tennessee from February 12-16, 1862.
Fort Sumter
This Civil War battle took place because South Carolina's secessionist government sought to take possession of the forts within the state, while the US government declared them Federal property.
Fort Donelson
This Civil War battle took place from February 12-16, 1862. This battle featured 27,000 Union troops under Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant vs 21,000 Confederate troops under Brigadier-General John B. Floyd.
Fort Sumter
This Civil War battle took place in the waters of Charleston harbour, between Morris Island and James Island to the south, and Sullivan's Island to the north.
Fort Sumter
This Civil War battle took place on April 12, 1861.
First Bull Run
This Civil War battle took place on July 21, 1861
Fort Sumter
This Civil War battle was an artillery duel with the Confederates deploying nearly 50 heavy-calibre guns and mortars. The Union troops had 60 gunes, but not all could be used and many had limited range and ammunition.
Fredericksburg
This Civil War battle was fought December 11 - 15, 1862 between Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside.
Chickamauga
This Civil War battle was fought September 18 - 20, 1863. This battle marked the end of a Union offensive in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.
Josip Broz Tito
This Communist leader was the ruler of Yugoslavia until his 1980 death.
Battle of Wilson's Creek
This Confederate victory buoyed Southern sympathizers in Missouri and served as a springboard for a bold thrust north that carried Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard as far as Lexington.
Chancellorsville
This Confederate victory was a product of Lee's audacity and Hooker's timid decision making, but was tempered by heavy casualties including Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
Saint Albertus Magnus
This Domenican philosopher was called the "Universal Doctor," and was the teacher of St. Thomas Aquinas.
James Cook
This English captain was killed in Hawaii in 1779.
John Keats
This English romantic poet has a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges.
Fort Donelson
This Fort along with Fort Henry commanded the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, and provided the Confederacy with a secure base from which to threaten Kentucky. The namesake battle took place as Union operations were launched to remove the Confederate presence.
Richard Wagner
This German composer sought ideal gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork, as demonstrated in his Ring Cycle.
Gamma
This Greek letter denotes the Lorentz factor.
Plato
This Greek philosopher is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition.
Plato
This Greek philosopher was a student of Socrates.
Plato
This Greek philosopher was the founder of the Academy in Athens.
Plato
This Greek philosopher was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy.
Plato
This Greek philosopher was the teacher of Aristotle.
Plato
This Greek philosopher wrote "Apology"
Plato
This Greek philosopher wrote "Phaedo"
Plato
This Greek philosopher wrote "Republic"
Plato
This Greek philosopher wrote "Symposium"
Madame Bovary
This Gustave Flaubert novel focuses on the wife of Charles and her affairs with Rodolphe and Leon.
Maria Theresa
This Hapsburg empress was the mother of Marie Antoinette.
A Doll's House
This Henrik Ibsen play is named for a child's toy.
Akahito
This Japanese Emperor is the son and successor of Hirohito.
Charles II
This King of England oversaw the restoration of 1660.
Abner Doubleday
This Major General was second-in-command to Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter. At the time, he was a captain. He rose to fame by personally aiming the cannon that fired the first Union shot from Sumter.
Rudy Giuliani
This New York politician prosecuted pivotal cases against the American mafia.
Emilio Aguinaldo
This Philippine leader led a Filipino rebellion against Spanish rule in 1896, and then cooperated with the US in the Spanish-American War. He later rebelled against US rule.
John Adams
This President of the US was born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, and was schooled at Harvard. He was an instrumental figure in the events surrounding the American Revolution.
George W. Bush
This President of the United States co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before he defeated Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election.
Alexander I
This Russian tsar, despite losing to Napoleon in central Europe between 1805 and 1807, refused to agree to the Continental System, which was the Napoleonic proposal for a Europe-wide embargo on British trade in manufactured goods.
James Clerk Maxwell
This Scottish scientist proposed a violation of the second law of thermodynamics caused by a "demon," and developed four equations on electromagnetism.
Hamlet
This Shakespear play is about the titular Prince of Denmark.
Yorktown
This Siege essentially ended the American Revolutionary War.
SM4
This Space Shuttle installed WFC3 and the Cosmic Origins Spectograph (COS), and conducted other repairs. No further repairs are planned, as much of HST's functionality will be replicated with the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.
SM1
This Space Shuttle spacewalk corrected the Hubble Telescope's flawed optics by installing COSTAR (a corrective optics system) while removing the High-Speed Photometer to make room. It also replaced the original Wide Field and Planetary Camera, or WFPC, with WFPC2, which a camera that had optical correction built in.
SM3A
This Space Shuttle spacewalk replaced failed gyroscope systems.
SM3B
This Space Shuttle spacewalk replaced the Faint Object Camera with the Advanced Camer for Surveys (ACS), and also repaired NICMOS, which was installed during SM2
SM2
This Space Shuttle spacewalk replaced the Goddard High-Resolution Spectograph (GHRS) and Faint Object Spectograph (FOS) with improved successors.
Isaac Albeniz
This Spanish composer and pianist is best known for his piano work.
Pedro Alarcon
This Spanish writer wrote The Three-Cornered Hat on which Manuel de Falla based a ballet.
Sonia Sotomayor
This Supreme Court justice graduated from Princeton University in 1976 and received her JD from Yale Law School in 1979.
Theodor Svedberg
This Swedish Nobelist developed the ultracentrifuge, which is exactly what it sounds like. A very short unit of time named for him is used to measure sedimentation rates and to classify ribosomes.
Jean Louis Agassiz
This Swiss-American zoologist and geologist is famous for first proposing the ice ages.
Andrew Wyeth
This artist painted a polio-stricken woman crawling towards them in his Christina's World.
Pickett's Charge
This assault saw approximately 12,500 men in nine infantry brigades advance over open fields for three-quarters of a mile under heavy Union artillery and rifle fire. Although some Confederates were able to breach the low stone wall that shielded many of the Union defenders, they could not maintain their hold and were repulsed with over 50% casualties, a decisive defeat that ended the three-day Gettysburg battle and Lee's campaign into Pennsylvania.
Leo Tolstoy
This author first achieved literary acclaim in his twenties with his semi-autobiographical trilogy, "Childhood, Boyhood, and Yout" and "Sevastopol Sketches", based upon his experiences in the Crimean War.
Ken Kesey
This author participated in government studies involving hallucinogenic drugs (including mescaline and LSD) in order to supplement his income.
Haruki Murakami
This author's work is frequently surrealistic and melancholic or fatalistic marked by a Kafkaesque rendition of the "recurrent themes of alienation and loneliness" he weaves into his narratives.
Mickey Mantle
This baseball player hit 536 career home runs, batted .300 or better ten times, and is the career leader (tied with Jim Thome) with a combineed thirteen, twelve in the regular season and one in the postseason.
Battle of Paducah
This battle began when the Confederate calvary force led by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest moved into Tennessee and Kentucky to capture Union supplies.
Bannockburn
This battle began with single combat between Robert the Bruce and Sir Henry de Bohun. The Earl of Moray commanded the Scottish vanguard near the Church of St. Ninian.
Kosovo
This battle between Serbians and Ottomans eventually led to the subjugation of Serbia.
Yorktown
This battle boosted faltering American morale and revived French enthusiasm for the war, as well as undermining popular support for the conflict in Great Britain.
Chancerllorsville
This battle is known as Lee's "perfect battle" because his risky decision to divide his army in the presence of a much larger enemy force resulted in a significant Confederate victory.
Battle of Hampton Roads
This battle is often referred to as either the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack (or Virginia) or the Battle of Ironclads and was the most noted and arguably most important naval battle of the American Civil War from the standpoint of the development of navies.
Battle of Wilson's Creek
This battle is sometimes called the "Bull Run of the West"
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle led the British to adopt a more cautious planning and manuever execution in future engagements, which was evident in the subsequent New York and New Jersey campaign, and arguably helped rather than hindered the American forces.
Antietam
This battle led to September 17, 1862 being the bloodiest day in United States history with a combined tally of 22, 717 dead, wounded or missing.
Agincourt
This battle occurred about one month after the English victory at the Seige of Harfleur.
Trenton
This battle occurred early in the morning after George Washington;s crossing of the Delaware on Christmas night.
Austerlitz
This battle occurred on December 2, 1805 in the Czech Republic.
First Battle of Bull Run
This battle occurred on July 21, 1861 in Fairfax and Prince William County, Virginia.
Salamanca
This battle occurred on July 22, 1812 in Spain.
Marengo
This battle occurred on June 14, 1800 in northern Italy.
Trafalgar
This battle occurred on October 21, 1805 off the coast of southwestern Spain.
Long Island
This battle resulted in the British capture of New York, as William Howe defeated George Washington.
Jena-Auerstedt
This battle took place October 14, 1806 in Germany.
The Nile
This battle took place on August 1-3, 1798 in Egypt.
Battle of Wilson's Creek
This battle took place on August 10, 1861 near Springfield, Missouri, between Federal forces and the Missouri State Guard.
The Pyramids
This battle took place on July 21, 1798 in Egypt.
Waterloo
This battle took place on June 18, 1815 in Belgium.
Leipzig
This battle took place on October 16-19, 1813 in Germany.
Antietam
This battle took place on September 17, 1862 between Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
Borodino
This battle took place on September 7, 1812 in Russia.
Hastings
This battle took place two weeks after William the Conqueror's landing at Pevensey.
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle was a tactical, though somewhat Pyrrhic victory for the British, as it proved to be a sobering experience for them, involving many more casualties than the Americans had incurred, including a large number of officers.
Cowpens
This battle was a turning point in the American recapture of South Carolina.
Second Battle of Bull Run
This battle was fought August 28 - 30, 1862 in Prince William County, Virginia. It was the culmination of the Northern Virginia Campaign waged by Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Major General John Pope's Army of Virginia.
Lookout Mountain
This battle was fought November 24, 1863 as part of the Chattanooga Campaign. Union forces under Joseph Hooker assaulted this location and defeated Confederate forces commanded by Major General Carter Stevenson. This attack drove in the Confederate left flank and allowed Hooker's men to assist in the Battle of Missionary Ridge the following day, which routed Bragg's army, lifting the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, and opening gateway into the Deep South.
Cowpens
This battle was fought between the Pacolet and Broad Rivers.
Battle of Bunker Hill
This battle was fought on June 17, 1775, during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War.
First Battle of Winchester
This battle was fought on May 25, 1862 and was a major victory in Confederate Army Major General Stonewall Jackson's Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War.
Tours
This battle was preceded by a pact between the Berber governor Munuza and Odo, Duke of Aquitaine, though Odo was present at this battle.
Quebec
This battle was the culmination of a failed invasion of Canada by American colonists.
Monmouth
This battle was the last major battle of the Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War, and its outcome was inconclusive.
Agincourt
This battle's most famous appearance in literature follows the St. Crispin's Day speech, which describes the victorious army as "we happy few, we band of brothers."
Trafalgar
This battle, fought in the Atlantic off the coast of Spain in the fall of 1805, was the last great naval battle of the Napoleonic era.
sting
This behavior is often aided by a modified ovipositor whose sharp tip pierces the epidermis.
Edward Osborne Wilson
This biologist wrote the 1979 book On Human Nature, studied ants, and pioneered sociobiology.
Elements
This book contains the 5 postulates of Geometry
Utopia
This book describes criminals who wear chains made of gold, which is a metal "of no esteem."
Nicholas Nickleby
This book's TC finds employment in Portsmouth with the theater manager Vincent Crummles, then returns to London and works for the Cherryble brothers.
Nicholas Nickleby
This book's TC's sister Kate works with the milliner Madame Mantalini, but must confront the attentions of the foppish Mr. Mantalini and Sir Mulberry Hawk.
Gutenberg
This boundary separates the d double prime layer of the mantle from its outer core. It is named for a German scientist who helped to develop the Richter scale.
Calorimetry
This calculates the heat or enthalpy change of a chemical or physical process by using specialized vessels to measure a change in temperature.
Saratoga
This campaign was the major turning point of the American Revolution because the American victory led France to join the war.
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation
This can be used to calculate the pH at any point during a titration.
Yo-Yo Ma
This cellist has performed as a soloist with orchestras around the world and has recorded more than 90 albums and received 18 Grammy Awards.
Capacitor
This circuit component has a strength measured in farads and stores charge on parallel plates
Constantinople
This city fell to the Ottomans on May 29, 1453 after a seven-week siege.
ammonia
This compound reacts with oxygen at the beginning of the Ostwald process.
ammonia
This compound, often found in fertilizer, is produced by reacting nitrogen and hydrogen.
Edwin Hubble
This constant differs from the age of the universe because of the nonlinear expansion of the universe, and it was derived from the red shift of retreating galaxies, used to determine the expansion rate of the universe.
Orion
This constellation's left foot and right shoulder are the supergiant stars Rigel and Betelgeuse, respectively.
Orion
This constellation's left shoulder is the star Bellatrix.
cube
This convex regular polytope has a Schlafi symbol of (4, 3), meaning that each three faces meet at each vertex and each face has four sides.
Coup of 18 Brumaire
This coup brought down France's existing government (the Directory) and made Napoleon himself "first consul," the effective leader of France.
SpaceX CRS-1
This craft successfully berthed with the ISS and successfully carried out its primary mission, re-supplying the space station and returning cargo to Earth.
Pharsalus
This decisive show down between Julius Caesar and Pompey in the summer of 48 BC had a swift and brutal outcome.
centrifuge
This device is named for a fictitious force. Name this device that separates mixtures by spinning rapidly.
Challenger
This disaster was attributed by the Rogers Commission (the investigative body set up after the incident) to poor performance of the solid rocket booster (SRB) O-rings. The O-rings lost integrity and became brittle at low temperatures, such as those present the morning of the launch. The failure of the O-rings caused "blow-by," where hot gasses escaped the booster joing, ultimately resulting in the destruction of this shuttle. This mission resulted in the complete loss of crew.
AIDS
This disease, whose CDC-defined associated clinical conditions include cryptococcosis and Kaposi's sarcoma can occur following infection with HIV.
French and Indian War
This dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of 22-year old George Washington ambused a French patrol.
iron
This element binds to siderophores, such as enterobactin, the strongest known chelating agent.
carbon
This element can form various fullerenes.
Gold
This element is sometimes called the "noblest" of the noble metals. Iron pyrite is said to be the "fool's" form of this precious metal.
aluminum
This element reacts with iron oxide in thermite.
Gold
This element, refined in the Wohlwill process, can be recovered from ores using cyanide extraction.
Spinal Cord
This ends at the filum terminale and begins below the medulla.
Iliad
This epic poem by Homer is set in the Trojan War. It features the 10 year siege of the city of the Troy by a coalition of Greek states. It tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.
Boston Massacre
This event is also known as the "Incident on King Street"
Boston Massacre
This event occurred on March 5, 1770
iron
This exists alongside oxygen in such minerals as hematite and magnetite.
Davisson-Germer experiment
This experiment confirmed the De Broglie Hypothesis by showing that electrons can exhibit wave-like behavior.
Stern-Gerlach experiment
This experiment demonstrated that the angular momentum of an atom is quantized.
Hershey-Chase experiment
This experiment demonstrated that the material responsible for inheritance of traits was DNA rather than protein.
Meselson-Stahl experiment
This experiment proved that DNA replication is semiconservative, which means that when a double-helix strand of DNA is duplicated, the result is two double-helix strands, each of which has one helix from the parent molecule and one newly-synthesized helix.
Thomas Young's Double-Slit Experiment
This experiment that predated the development of quantum mechanics by over a century, demonstrated that light can behave as either a wave or a particle.
Michelson-Morley experiment
This experiment used an interferometer that was mounted on a slab of marble floating in a pool of mercury so that it could turn without friction, to eliminate the possibility that the interferometer was misoriented.
Stern-Gerlach experiment
This experiment was actually performed several years before the concept of electron spin was even proposed.
Miller-Urey experiment
This experiment was an attempt to demonstrate a possible mechanism--proposed by John Haldane and Alexander Oparin--for how life could form from inorganic chemicals.
Hershey-Chase experiment
This experiment was carried out by creating radiolabeled T2 Bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria).
Michelson-Morley experiment
This experiment, that was performed at Case Western Reserve University, disproved the existence of the luminiferous aether, a hypothetical medium through which waves supposedly moved.
Rutherford gold foil experiment
This experiment,sometimes named after the namesake scientist's assistants Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, discovered the positively-charged nucleus of the atom; and as a result it disproved J.J. Thomson's Plum Pudding Model.
Yo-Yo Ma
This famous cellist has collaborated with artists including jazz singer Bobby McFerrin, guitarist Carlos Santana, and singer-songwriter and guitarist James Taylor.
Fort Sumter
This fort had been cut off from its supply line and surrendered on April 13, 1861.
sine
This function appears six times in the trigonometric form of Ceva's theorem.
Ronald Reagan
This future American President was elected twice as the President of the Screen Actors Guild, where he worked to root out Communist influence.
Theodore Roosevelt
This future American president served as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. He was a leader of the Republican Party during that time and became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the US.
Theodore Roosevelt
This future American president was born a sickly child with debilitating asthma, but he overcame the physical health problems by embracing a strenuous lifestyle.
Andrew Jackson
This future president led troops during the Creek War of 1813-14, winning the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
Andrew Jackson
This future president purchases a property later known as The Hermitage and became a wealthy, slaveowning planter.
Fern
This group of spore-forming vascular plants are called "fiddleheads" upon emerging from the ground due to the curled shape of their young fronds.
motherboard
This hardware component is divided into chipsets like northbridge and southbridge and is connected to the microprocessor and is the main circuit board.
radon
This heavy, radioactive noble gas is the second-most common cause of lung cancer in the US.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
This man's eponymous equation is connected with the idea of specific impulse, a measure of a rocket's efficiency.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
This man's eponymous equation, as published in 1903's Exploration of Outer Space by Means of Rocket Device, relates a rocket's speed with its mass, the speed of its exhaust, and the exhaust's mass (an application of Newton's laws of motion).
Edwin Hubble
This man's eponymous telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990.
Gregor Mendel
This man's experiments primarily consisted of Hybridizing plants with certain characteristics, and observing what fraction of the next generation had certain traits.
Gregor Mendel
This man's experiments with pea plants pioneered the studio of genetics.
Theodore Roosevelt
This man's face is depicted on Mount Rushmore alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
Leo Tolstoy
This man's fiction writings include dozens of short stories and several novellas such as "The Death of Ivan Ilyich", "Family Happiness" and "Hadji Murad." He also wrote plays and numerous philosophical essays.
Napoleon
This man's final gamble was to commit his Imperial Guard to a renewed assault on the Allied center at Waterloo. The guardsmen were cut down by the fire of British light infantry, leading to the general collapse of the French army.
Sergei Korolev
This man's final years were spent devising soft-landing methods for manned lunar missions.
Enrico Fermi
This man's first major contribution was to statistical mechanics; following Pauli's exclusion principle with a paper in which he applied that principle to an ideal gas, employing a statistical formulation now known as his name-Dirac statistics.
Guy de Maupassant
This man's first published story, "Ball of Fat" is often considered his masterpiece.
Albert Einstein
This man's insistence on a static universe led him to call the cosmological constant his "biggest blunder," and the observation of starlight bending during a solar eclipse validated this man's concept of spacetime.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
This man's interest in science manifested first through his science fiction writings, but he gained more notoriety for his eponymous rocket equation.
Michael Phelps
This man's international titles and record-breaking performances have earned him the World Swimmer of the Year Award eight times and American Swimmer of the Year Award eleven times, as well as the FINA Swimmer of the Year Award in 2012 and 2015.
Noah Webster
This man's last name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the US.
Mendeleev
This man's most famous work was modified by Moseley and, later, by Seaborg.
Cole Porter
This man's musicals include Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady, Anything Goes, Can-Can, and Silk Stockings.
Cole Porter
This man's numerous hit songs include "Night and Day", "Begin the Beguine", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" and "You're the Top."
Yo-Yo Ma
This man's primary performance instrument is a Montagnana cello crafted in 1733 and valued at 2.5 million US dollars.
Richard Nixon
This man's pursuit of the Hiss Case established his reputation as a leading anti-communist and elevated him to national prominence.
Gregor Mendel
This man's results were remarkably close to the values that would be predicted from modern genetics--so close, in fact, that he has been accused of manipulating his data.
H.L. Mencken
This man's satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial," also gained him attention.
Robert Goddard
This man's seminal monograph on the subject was 1919's A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes. The next year, he put forward a concept for a rocket launch to the moon that was widely ridiculed in the press as being unrealistic.
Cole Porter
This man's shows of the early 1940s did not contains the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and '30s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, Kiss Me, Kate. It won the first Tony Award for Best Musical.
Rene Descartes
This man's three "laws of nature" were a major influence on Isaac Newton's laws of motion.
Z
This letter is the first in the German word for "numbers," and therefore symbolizes the set of integers.
d
This letter is used to denote the spacing between adjacent planes in a crystal and the wavelengths emitted by sodium at 589 nanometers.
moon
This location is visited in a 1902 film by Georges Melies and is home to the Aitken Basin and the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed.
Albert Einstein
This man and Nathan Rosen solved this man's field equations to predict wormholes.
Gavrilo Princip
This man assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on July 28, 1914.
George Patton
This man attended the Virginia Military Institute and the US Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as his namesake sword, and partially due to his skill in the sport, he competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.
John Adams
This man became President Washington's vice president and in 1797 succeeded him as president.
Leon Trotsky
This man became a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War.
Hubert Humphrey
This man became the Senate majority whip in 1961, the year after losing the Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries to John Kennedy.
George W. Bush
This man became the fourth person to be elected president while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent.
Andrew Jackson
This man briefly served Tennessee as a member of the US House of Representatives, a member of the US Senate and served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1798 to 1804.
George Washington
This man came to be known as the "Father of His Country."
George Patton
This man carried the nicknames "Bandito", "Old Blood and Guts" and "The Old Man."
Robert Hooke
This man coined the term "cell."
Robert Hooke
This man coined the term cell.
Chuck Yeager
This man commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany and in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and in recognition of the outstanding performance ratings of those units he was promoted to brigadier general.
Alexey Leonov
This man conducted the first spacewalk on Voskhod 2.
Theodore von Karman
This man contributed to the construction of the wind tunnel at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, which eventually became the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Garrison Keillor
This man created Guy Noir, a detective voiced by himself who appeared in A Prarie Home Companion comic skits.
Garrison Keillor
This man created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books.
Rudy Giuliani
This man currently acts as an attorney to President Donald Trump. He served as United States Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1982.
George W. Bush
This man defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential election after a close and controversial win that involved a stopped recount in Florida.
Ronald Reagan
This man defeated the incumbent president Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. This man was 69 years, 349 days old at the time of his inauguration, making him at the time the oldest president-elect to take the oath of office (which is now a distinction help by Donald Trump).
Sergei Korolev
This man designed a rocket-powered glider, though he was imprisoned and forced into slave labor during the Great Purge.
Hellmuth Walter
This man designed the Starthilfe (takeoff assist) rocket propulsion units for the Messerschmidt Me 163 and the vertical-takeoff Bachem Ba 349 aircrafts, used by the German Luftwaffe in World War II.
Adam Smith
This man developed the concept of division of labour and expounded upon how rational self-interest and competition can lead to economic prosperity.
George Washington
This man drove the British out of Boston in 1776, but was defeated and lost in New York City.
Michael Phelps
This man earned Sports Illustrated magazines's "Sportsman of the Year" award due to his unprecedented Olympic success in the 2008 Games.
JEB Stuart
This man earned the reputation as one of the most dashing cavalry commanders of teh Civil War.
Sun Tzu
This man emphasized the role of deception and claimed, "he who knows his enemies and himself would be victorious in 100 battles."
James Cook
This man explored Botany Bay on his first voyage; on this third and final voyage he was killed in the Hawaiian Islands.
Langston Hughes
This man famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue."
George Patton
This man first saw combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916, taking part in America's first military action using motor vehicles.
Theodore von Karman
This man formed the company Aerojet to develop short-takeoff aircraft technologies.
Archimedes
This man from Syracuse shouted "Eureka!" after a discovery that depends on a principle of buoyancy he now names.
Yo-Yo Ma
This man has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006 and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2001, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 and the Polar Music Prize in 2012.
Desmond Tutu
This man is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist.
Brooks Robinson
This man is a former baseball player who played his entire 23-year major league career for the Baltimore Orioles.
Chuck Yeager
This man is a retired US Air Force general officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.
Garrison Keillor
This man is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor and radio personality. He is best known as the creator of the Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) show A Prarie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016.
Woody Allen
This man is an American film director. He was born as Allen Stewart Konigsberg.
Michael Phelps
This man is an American retired competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals.
Michael Brooks
This man is an English science writer who is best known for explaining difficult scientific concepts to people in his books.
Langston Hughes
This man is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.
Allen Ginsberg
This man is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in teh United States.
James Cagney
This man is best remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in movies such as "The Public Enemy", "Taxi!", "Angels with Dirty Faces" and "White Heat" and was typecast or limited by this view earlier in his career.
Ernest Hemingway
This man is known for his economical and understated style of writing--which he termed the Iceberg Theory--which had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and his public image brought him admiration from later generations.
Adam Smith
This man laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory. His "The Wealth of Nations" was a precursor to the modern academic discipline of economics.
James Cagney
This man landed the lead in the 1929 play "Penny Arcade."
Louis Desaix
This man led a column of French reinforcements to Napoleon's aid in Genoa. The additional troops supplied drove off the Austrian army, but this man was shot and killed.
Charles de Gaulle
This man led the Free French Army in World War II
Jimmy Doolittle
This man led the first US air attack on Japan.
Hermann Oberth
This man lends his name to a phenomenon by which rockets operate more efficiently when moving at higher speeds, and he also formulated the idea behind multiple-stage rocketry.
Isaac Newton
This man made pathbreaking contributions to optics and shares credit with Gottfried Leibniz for developing the infinitesimal calculus.
Enrico Fermi
This man made significant contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics and statistical mechanics.
Hermann Oberth
This man mentored many German rocket engineers through the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt, whose formation was inspired partially by this man's writing.
George Gershwin
This man moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, but she refused him; he subsequently composed An American in Paris.
Edwin Hubble
This man names a constant that is defined as one over 67.8 kilometers per second per megaparsec, or 14.4 billion years.
Edwin Hubble
This man names a telescope that was used to take NASA's Deep Field photo, which depicts more than three thousand galaxies.
Saddam Hussein
This man played a key role in the 1968 coup, the 17 July Revolution, that brought the Ba'ath Party to power in Iraq.
Wilt Chamberlain
This man played basketball for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. This man was 7 foot 1 inch and weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and then eventually over 300 pounds as a Laker.
Enrico Fermi
This man postulated the existence of an uncharged invisible particle emitted along with an electron during beta decay, to satisfy the law of conservation of energy.
Wernher von Braun
This man presided over Mercury-Redstone development as Director of NASA's newly-opened Marshall Spaceflight center, which produced the rockets used in the Mercury spaceflights, and the Saturn V rocket used to launch the Apollo spacecraft.
Gene Kranz
This man presided over a departure from NASA's traditional incremental testing structure, in favor of a more aggressive, manned campaign.
Gregor Mendel
This man proposed the Law of Independent Assortment
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
This man published theoretical studies on the capabilities of multi-stage, liquid-fueled engines, gyroscopes, and escape velocities.
Andrew Jackson
This man ran for president in 1824, winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote. But since no candidate won an electoral majority, the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams, leading to this man's claims of a "corrupt bargain" between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.
Spiro Agnew
This man resigned the vice-presidency in 1973 after evidence revealed political corruption during his years in Maryland politics, and pleaded no contest to the charge of income tax evasion.
Idi Amin
This man seized control of the Ugandan government from Milton Obote in 1971 and was exiled in 1979.
Leon Trotsky
This man served as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army with the title of People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs.
Bill Clinton
This man served as President of the United STates from 1993 to 2001.
Thomas Jefferson
This man served as the 2nd Vice President of the US
John F. Kennedy
This man served as the 35th President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.
Richard Nixon
This man served as the 36th Vice President of the US from 1953 to 1961 and prior to that served as a US Representative and Senator from California.
Ronald Reagan
This man served as the US President from 1981 to 1989.
Idi Amin
This man served as the Ugandan president from 1971 - 1979.
Horace Mann
This man served in the Massachusetts State legislature (1827 - 1837).
Allen Ginsberg
This man vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
John F. Kennedy
This man was President of the US through the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis before his assassination
Harry Truman
This man was President of the United States at the conclusion of WWII.
George W. Bush
This man was President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
Dean Acheson
This man was Secretary of State from 1949 to 1953 under President Truman.
Huey Long
This man was a Democrat and an outspoken populist who denounced the wealthy elites and the banks.
Guy de Maupassant
This man was a French writer who is remembered as a master of the short story form and as a representative of the naturalist school of writers who depicted human lives and destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This man was a New England Romantic writer of "The Scarlet Letter" and "Twice-Told Tales"
Edvard Grieg
This man was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.
George Washington
This man was a Revolutionary War commander-in-chief
Edgar Allan Poe
This man was a Romantic poet and short-story writer who was the main contributor of the detective fiction genre.
Leon Trotsky
This man was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician who had a namesake particular strain of Marxist thoughts.
Leo Tolstoy
This man was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He was born to an aristocratic Russian family in 1828 and is best known for his novels War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, often cited as pinnacles of realist fiction.
Adam Smith
This man was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment.
Joseph Stalin
This man was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Georgian nationality. He governed the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, serving as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953,
Miguel de Cervantes
This man was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists.
Andrew Foote
This man was a Union naval officer who was highly commended for his brave and successful attack on Fort Henry, in the run-up to the encounter at Fort Donelson.
Theodore von Karman
This man was a fluid dynamicist by training. As a graduate student at Gottingen, he described his namesake vortex street and went on to provide the theoretical basis for the idea of turbulent flows.
Saddam Hussein
This man was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party, and the Iraqi Ba'ath Party--which espoused Ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and socialism.
Guy de Maupassant
This man was a protege of Flaubert and his storeis are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless denouements.
George Patton
This man was a senior officer of the US Army. He commanded the US Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the US Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
Aesop
This man was a slave and semi-legendary ancient Greek fabulist. Fables attributed to this man include The Fox and the Grapes and The Tortoise and the Hare.
Gene Kranz
This man was a trained aeronautical engineer and pilot and is best known for his Flight Directorship during the Mercury and Apollo projects.
Alexios I
This man was able to curb the Byzantine decline and begin the military, financial and territorial recovery known as the Komnenian restoration.
James Cagney
This man was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film. He is known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style and deadpan comic timing, he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.
Acid-base titration
This is usually performed in a thin glass tube called a buret and use pH indicators like phenolphthalein and bromothymol blue.
xylem
This kind of tissue is composed of tracheids and vessel elements. Its name comes from a Greek word for "wood."
Buzz Aldrin
This man was an American astronaut. During the Apollo 11 mission, he became the second person, after Neil Armstrong, to walk on the moon.
Wilt Chamberlain
This man was an American basketball player who played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA.
John Deere
This man was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who founded one of the largest and leading agricultural and construction equipment manufacturers in the world.
Muhammad Ali
This man was an American boxer who was born Cassius Clay. He changed his name after becoming a Black Muslim in 1964.
William Wrigley
This man was an American chewing gum industrialist.
Ralph David Abernathy
This man was an American civil rights leader. He succeeded Martin Luther King Jr. as leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference after King's assassination.
George Gershwin
This man was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres.
Sinclair Lewis
This man was an American novelist, short-story writer and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the US to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters."
Kurt Vonnegut
This man was an American writer who published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five"
Sir Walter Raleigh
This man was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.
Isaac Newton
This man was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
John Keats
This man was an English romantic poet who was one of the main figures of the seocnd generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Pery Shelley, despite his works having been in publication for only four years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25.
Enrico Fermi
This man was an ITalian-American physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.
Gioachino Rossini
This man was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some works of sacred music.
Ronald Reagan
This man was an actor prior to entering politics. He started as Governor of California before becoming President of the United States.
Robert Goddard
This man was an early explorer of the theory and practice of launching rockets.
Alexander the Great
This man was an undefeated general and conqueror of Persia, and created many cities named for him.
Mickey Mantle
This man was arguably the greatest offensive threat of any center fielder in baseball history. He has the highest career OPS+ of any center fielder and he had the highest stolen base percentage in history at the time of his retirement.
Wernher von Braun
This man was at one time a student of Oberth in the Spaceflight Society. He is best-known for leading Nazi Germany's development and construction of the V-2 rocket which wreaked destruction on southern England during World War II.
Hellmuth Walter
This man was awarded a patent in 1925 for suggesting that a catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide could provide oxygen for combustion.
Enrico Fermi
This man was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements.
Hieronymus Bosch
This man was born Jheronimus van Aken. He was a Dutch/Netherlandish draughtsman and painter from Brabant.
John Deere
This man was born in Rutland, Vermont; moved to Illinois; and invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837.
John Quincy Adams
This man was defeated by Andrew Jackson in his 1828 re-election bid. This man was elected to the House of Representatives after his presidential term ended.
Homer Hickam
This man was inspired by seeing Sputnik fly overhead to study rocketry in his early teens. From his coal-company town in West Virginia, he and his rocket club, The Big Creek Missile Agency, designed modest-sized rockets and won the propulsion category of the 1960 National Science Fair.
Sir Walter Raleigh
This man was instrumental in the English colonization of North America and was granted a royal patent to explore Virginia, paving the way for future English settlements.
Sergei Korolev
This man was known until his death by the pseudonym "Chief Designer", headed design and construction for the Soviet long-range ballistic missile program, as well as the R-7 ICBM program.
Mickey Mantle
This man was nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The Mick. He was a MLB player who spent his entire career with the New York Yankees as a centerfielder and first baseman, from 1958 through 1968.
Mickey Mantle
This man was one of the best baseball players and sluggers, and is regarded by many as the greatest switch hitter in baseball history. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 and was elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999.
Allen Ginsberg
This man was one of the many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
Sinclair Lewis
This man was respected for his strong characterizations of modern working women.
Thomas Jefferson
This man was the 1st Secretary of State for the US
John Adams
This man was the 2nd President of the United States.
Richard Nixon
This man was the 37th President of the United States.
Spiro Agnew
This man was the 39th vice president of the US. He served as governor of Maryland before becoming vice president under Richard Nixon.
Ronald Reagan
This man was the 40th President of the United States, serving as an American politician and actor.
John Quincy Adams
This man was the 6th President of the United States.
Desmond Tutu
This man was the Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then the Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black man to hold the position.
George W. Bush
This man was the Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000.
Saddam Hussein
This man was the President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
Woodrow Wilson
This man was the President of the United States during World War I.
Crispus Attucks
This man was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre
Konrad Adenauer
This man was the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Stephen Harper
This man was the first prime minister to come from the modern Conservative Party of Canada, though older center-right conservative have been active since Canada's founding by Sir John A. Macdonald.
Ulysses S. Grant
This man was the lead general of the Union armies from March 1864 until the Civil War ended and was a 2-term Republican president
Jefferson Davis
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Richard Nixon
This man was the running mate of Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 election.
Wilt Chamberlain
This man won seven scoring, eleven rebounding, nine field goal percentage titles and led the league in assists once. He is the only player in the NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds in a game per season, a feat he accomplsihed seven times.
Hans Geiger
This man worked with Ernest Rutherford and Ernest Marsden on the gold foil experiment, and devised a radiation detector known as his "counter"
Gregor Mendel
This man worked with seven characteristics including plant height, seed shape and color.
Robert Hooke
This man wrote Micrographia where he depicted insects in stunning detail
Robert Hooke
This man wrote Micrographia, where he depicted insects in stunning detail.
Peter Abelard
This man wrote Sic et Non (Yes and No).
Adam Smith
This man wrote two classic works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."
Isaac Newton
This man's "Principia" formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.
Felix Mendelssohn
This man's "Songs Without Words" are his most famous solo piano compositions.
Napoleon
This man's Grand Army struck east at Austria and Russia, the land-bound members of the Third Coalition.
Ernest Hemingway
This man's World War I experience inspired some of his work
Alexios I
This man's appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were the catalyst that likely contributed to the convoking of the Crusades.
Andy Warhol
This man's art studio, known as "The Factory" became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.
Felix Mendelssohn
This man's best-known musical works include his Overture and incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the "Italian Symphony", the "Scottish Symphony", the overture "The Hebrides", his mature "Violin Concerto" and his "String Octet."
Noah Webster
This man's blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read.
Isaac Newton
This man's book "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", first published in 1687, laid the foundations of classical mechanics;.
Chuck Yeager
This man's career began in World War II as a private in the US Army Air Forces. After serving as an aircraft mechanic, in September 1942 he entered enlisted pilot training and upon graduation was promoted ot the rank of flight officer and became a P-51 fighter pilot.
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
This overthrower of the khanates and Astrakhan divided lands under his control into zemshina and created a standing army called the streltsy.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
This marked a definite end to the Space Race, and was a symbol of the de-escalation of tensions between the US and the USSR.
Sine
This mathematical function is commonly used to model such phenomena as sunlight intensity and the velocity of harmonic oscillators.
Binomial Theorem
This mathematical theorem explains how a namesake like "x plus y, quantity to the n" can be expanded into a sum of n plus 1 terms.
particles
This may be a speck of dust, smoke, or sand among many.
Rudy Giuliani
This mayor of New York city during the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks won Time's Person of the Year in 2001.
iron
This metal's sulfide, pyrite, is also known as fool's gold.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
This mission demonstrated that two dissimilar spacecraft could rendezvous and dock while in space and also enable the crew of one of the spacecraft to photograph the Suns' corona through an artificial eclipse created by the Apollo spacecraft. Each spacecraft also carried out independent experiments.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
This mission saw Deke Slayton, an original Mercury 7 astronaut grounded for medical reasons until 1973, accompanied by Tom Stafford and Vance Brand on the last launch of Apollo before the advent of the Space Shuttle.
Apollo 13
This mission was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. But an improperly-refurbished No.2 oxygen tank and subsequent improper repairs caused the tank to rupture during a routine "cryo-stir" before entering lunar orbit. The explosion also damaged the No. 1 oxygen tank and caused further leakage.
cholesterol
This molecule keeps the cell membrane fluid and is transported by HDL and LDL.
cholesterol
This molecule's buildup on the walls of arteries can cause atherosclerosis.
Johann Sebastian Bach
This musician was known for counterpoint and fugue; his Well-Tempered Clavier includes all major/minor keys
Wolfgang Mozart
This musician was prolific from the age of 5 in most forms of classical vocal and instrumental music.
Actium
This naval engagement off the coast of Greece ushered in the final demise of the Republic and the accession of Rome's first emperor.
Les Miserables
This novel describes the young Cosette as having "no ungraceful feature."
Oliver Twist
This novel ends happy, as the TC's chief enemies die or emigrate, and the TC is left in the care of Mr. Brownlow and Rose, who is revealed to be his aunt.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
This novel includes songs like "Lobster Quadrille" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat," the latter of which is sung by the Hatter at a "Mad Tea-Party."
Bleak House
This novel revolves around the Chancery case Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has dragged on for many years as family members fight over an inheritance.
Wuthering Heights
This novel sees Zillah and Joseph serve in the home of the gloomy and morose protagonist, who is often called a gypsy because of his dark skin.
David Copperfield
This novel was Dickens' favorite of his own books, and the most autobiographical.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.
Wuthering Heights
This novel's narrators are Mr. Lockwood, who rents a room at Thurshcross Grange, and the maid Nelly Dean.
Fahrenheit 451
This novel's protagonist rides a train on which he is bombarded with advertisements for a toothpaste named Denham's Dentifrice.
My Antonia
This novel's title character marries Anton Cuzak and reunites with Jim Burden after leaving Black Hawk, Nebraska and was written by Wila Cather.
Wuthering Heights
This novel, narrated by Nelly Dean and Mr. Lockwood, sees the protagonist marry Isabella to inherit Thurshcross Grange.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel, subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," includes Eva St. Claire being saved from drowning and the title character's death at the hands of Simon Legree.
The Kreutzer Sonata
This novella's lead character advocates the ideal of celibacy even in marriage, astonishing the other train passengers.
Cross Product
This operation is applied to the force and the displacement from the pivot to find the torque and is contrasted with the dot product.
Addition
This operation on two complex numbers can be carried out by finding the diagonal of a parllelogram with one point at the origin.
Spleen
This organ may be removed to alleviate symptoms of hereditary spherocytosis.
thyroid
This organ synthesizes T3 and T4, for which it requires tyrosine and iodine.
kidney
This organ's functional units contain capillaries that filter fluid called glomeruli.
Golgi
This organelle modifies proteins after they are synthesized, named after an Italian biologist.
Golgi
This organelle sends late endosomes to the lysosome by adding a mannose-6-phosphate tag to them.
Golgi
This organelle tags certain molecules with mannose-6-phosphate.
Edvard Grieg
This man's use and development of Norwegian folk music in his own compositions put the music of Norway in the international spectrum.
Robert Goddard
This man's work provided the foundation for modern rocketry: in particular, gimballed engines, fuel pumps, steering with vanes, and gyroscopic stabilization.
Sinclair Lewis
This man's works are known for their insightful and critical views of American capitalism and materialism between the wards.
Andy Warhol
This man's works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture.
Gregor Mendel
This man, an Austrian monk, proposed the Law of Segregation
Napoleon Bonaparte
This man, who was born in 1769 on the Mediterranean island Corsica, rose to power during the later stages of the French Revolution.
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This process can end when Rho factor binds to rut sites in prokaryotes.
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This process creates products that can be further modified by five prime capping and polyadenylation.
speciation
This process has many periods of relative stability according to the theory of punctuated equilibrium.
speed of light
This quantity in a vacuum is 186,282 miles per second. Nothing can travel faster than this quantity.
Power
This quantity is measured in watts.
pH
This quantity remains relatively constant in a buffer solution.
First Barons' War
This result of this Civil War was a French invasion and 16 month occupation of England eventually recalled. It returned England to status quo ante bellum, with some monarchic concessions to the rebellious landowners.
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
This ruler called the first zemsky sobor, or "assembly of the land," in his country.
Cleopatra
This ruler returned to power after having her sister Arsinoe killed on the steps of the Temple of Artemis, and she gave her country up to Roman rule in order to maintain it.
Maria Theresa
This ruler's father, Charles VI, unsuccessfully issued the Pragmatic Sanction to protect her claim to the throne; that claim led to teh War of the Austrian Succession.
Spinal Cord
This part of the central nervous system extends down through the spinal column.
Maria Theresa
This ruler's father, Charles VI, unsuccessfully issued the Pragmatic Sanction to protect her claim to the throne; that claim led to the War of the Austrian Succession.
kinetic energy
This scalar quantity is maximized at the bottom of a pendulum's swing, and goes to zero at the top of the swing.
electron
This particle was shown to behave like a wave when it was observed scattering as it bounced off a nickel crystal in the Davisson-Germer experiment.
Venus
This planet has a 224-day orbit and is covered in perpetual clouds.
Venus
This planet's tallest mountains, the Maxwell Montes, lie on its large highland region of Ishtar Terra.
Pygmalion
This play centers on a phonetics professor's bet with Colonel Pickering that he can pass a Cockney flower girl off as a duchess.
Antigone
This play's title character hangs herself rather than suffer being buried alive after burying her brother Polyneices.
Annabel Lee
This poem claims that not even "the demons down under the sea" can "dissever" a linked pair of souls. Angels envy this poem's title character, who "loved with a love that was more than love" when she was a child in a "kingdom by the sea." The poem was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
The Road Not Taken
This poem describes "leaves no step had trodden black," on a path "less traveled by" that the speaker finds in a "yellow wood," and it concludes "and that has made all the difference."
Dover Beach
This poem describes a light that "gleams and is gone."
Ozymandias
This poem is framed as a conversation with an "antique traveler from a foreign land," who describe a statue where the words "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" are inscribed.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
This poem opens by describing the title object, which is an "unravish'd bride of quiteness."
The Second Coming
This poem references its author's theory of 2000-year cone-like cycles from his "A Vision."
Ozymandias
This poem shares its name with a poem published by the author's friend Horace Smith, and the speaker of this poem describes a "wrinkled lip" and a "sneer of cold command."
The Raven
This poem states "The silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token."
The Raven
This poem's speaker explores a mystery and determines "Tis the wind and nothing more!" When that conclusion turns out to be wrong, this poem's narrator says "Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" and is given a one-word answer from a creature atop a "pallid bust of Pallas."
I heard a Fly buzz --when I died
This poem's speaker noticed a "stillness in the room" when the title event occurs. Name this poem in which a "blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz" appears after which the speaker realizes that "I could not see to see."
Archimedes
This scientist claimed to be able to move the Earth given a long enough lever.
Alfred Nobel
This scientist invented gelignite as well as ballistite, which was eventually supplanted by cordite.
Alfred Nobel
This scientist pioneered the use of mercury fulminate in blasting caps and developed a substance that mixed diatomaceous earth and nitroglycerin to generate a safe explosive.
Michael Faraday
This scientist used the term "bicarburet of hydrogen" for benzene, which he isolated.
Archimedes
This scientist's namesake "screw" pumps water upward, and he found that a crown was not entirely golden by measuring the water it displaced.
sphere
This shape can be created by rotating a circle 180 degrees around its diameter.
The Necklace
This short story's protagonist uses money her husband had saved for a hunting rifle to buy a dress for a Ministry of Education ball.
John Quincy Adams
This son of the 2nd President of the United States graduated from Harvard and served as secretary of state under James Monroe before winning the 1824 Presidential election as the Federalist Party candidate.
Sputnik 2
This space mission carried a dog named Laika into low-earth orbit, and was destroyed upon re-entry.
Apollo 11
This space mission saw the first Moon landing and moonwalk by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Michael Collins piloted the Command Module in lunar orbit and never walked on the moon.
Volstok 1
This space mission transported the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin.
Volstok 6
This space mission transported the first woman into space, Valentina Tereshkova.
Apollo 1
This space mission was intended to be a test of the Command/Service Module in low-Earth orbit (LEO). However, a fire on the launchpad during a test killed the three astronauts aboard (Gus Grissom, Roger, Chaffee and Ed White)
Sputnik 1
This space mission was originally intended to carry many scientific instruments, but those instruments were descoped, in favor of a simple radio transmitter. That transmitter broadcasted a "beep" at a specified interval, allowing scientists to map its deceleration as a result of atmospheric drag.
gas
This state of matter is governed by the van der Waals equation and law written PV = nRT, and can be ionized to make plasma or can be created by boiling a liquid.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
This story by Leo Tolstoy begins in a courtroom, as the death of the middle-aged titular magistrate prompts other members of the legal profession to think about how the vacancy will affect their status.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
This story describes the title character's unhappy marriage to Praskovya Fedorovna, and his move to Saint Petersburg.
The Overcoat
This story's final words hint that the supposed ghost at the end of the work was actually an ordinary robber.
The Overcoat
This story's protagonist is Akaky Akakievich, a poor government clerk whose only joy in life is copying documents.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
This story's title characteer's accident slowly causes him to suffer increasing pain, during which he becomes dependant on the peasant servant Gerasim, and contemplates how meaningless his existence has been.
Mendeleev
This student of Bunsen predicted the properties of "eka-aluminum" and "eka-boron," which are now known as gallium and scandium.
infrared spectroscopy
This technique acquires information about the chemical groups present in a compound based on which wavelengths of infrared light the bonds in those groups absorb.
Ray tracing
This technique for generating realistic images constructs namesake "half-lines" through each pixel of an image plane and see which object and lights each hits.
mass spectrometry
This technique identifies an unknown compound by ionizing it, fragmenting it into pieces, then passing it through electromagnetic fields to separate pieces based on their mass-to-charge ratio (m/z).
chromatography
This technique involves two components: a mobile phase, which moves, and a stationary phase, which interacts differently with different components of the mobile phase to produce a separation.
Liquid-Liquid Extraction
This technique is commonly performed by placing in the mixture and solvents into a separatory funnel, shaking, then using the stopcock to remove one of the two phases.
High-performance liquid chromatography
This technique is like gas chromotagraphy, but the sample remains in the liquid phase and is pushed through using pressures of up to 400 atmospheres.
Ultraviolet-Visible Spectrophotometry
This technique quantifies the presence of compounds by shining light in the ultraviolet-to-visible range on a molecule, then measuring which wavelengths are absorbed.
chromatography
This technique separates a complex mixture into its individual components, commonly illustrated by the separation of pen ink into many colors.
Distillation
This technique separates a mixture of liquids based on their boiling points by heating, causing the more volatile component to vaporize and condense in a different container while the other components remain in the original vessel.
Liquid-Liquid Extraction
This technique separates mixtures based on their relative solubilities in two immiscible solvents, such as oil and water.
nuclear magnetic resonance
This technique uses magnetic fields to determine the arrangement of nuclei in a molecule.
ion-exchange chromatography
This technique uses stationary phases with acidic and basic functional groups to remove charged compounds; it can be used for water softening.
mass
This term and weight are often used interchangeably, but weight is really a measure of the pull of gravity on the object.
subatmoic
This term describes anything that is smaller than an atom.
The Republic
This text discusses three decreasingly satisfying versions of a bed, the last of which is a painting, before it suggests expelling the poets.
Universal Gravitation Theory
This theory explains that due to the acceleration force due to gravity is the same for a massive elephant as it is for a tiny pea.
Universal Gravitation Theory
This theory formulated by Sir Isaac Newton says that there is a mutual attraction between anything that has mass--anything made of normal matter, that is.
Universal Gravitation Theory
This theory says that attraction between anything made of matter is dependent on the two masses involved, the distance between them, and a constant known as the gravitational constant.
Phloem
This tissue consists of sieve tube elements and parenchyma cells and transports sugars in plants.
Phloem
This tissue contrasts with the water-transporting xylem.
xylem
This tissue distributes water throughout a plant is often contrasted with phloem.
xylem
This tissue uses capillary action to transport material from the roots.
Vicksburg
This town was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River, therefore, when US Grant captured it, it completed the second part of the Northern strategy called the Anaconda Plan.
Treaty of Paris (1783)
This treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War
Treaty of Versailles
This treaty was signed on June 28, 1919, ending World War I.
ammonia
This trigonal pyramidal compound is produced industrially using an iron catalyst and high pressures in the Haber-Bosch process.
capacitor
This type of circuit component may be strengthened by inserting a dielectric and is used to store electric charge on a pair of parallel plates.
diffraction
This type of grating produces light and dark fringe patterns similar to Young's double-slit experiment, which confirmed this phenomenon for light.
V-2
This type of rocket is known literally as the vengeance weapon. It was developed and constructed by Wernher von Braun and was used by Nazi Germany to wreak destruction on southern England in World War II.
recoil
This type of rocket propels itself by exhausting gas from its base.
Gulf War
This war against Saddam Hussein ran from 1990 to 1991.
Gulf War
This war began seven months after a surprise attack on the oilfields of Kuwait.
French and Indian War
This war began with a dispute over the control and the confluence of the Allegheny and Monogahela rivers called the Forks of the Ohio, and the site of the French Fort Duquesne within present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
War of the Roses
This war ended after Thomas Stanley betrayed Richard III in favor of Henry Tudor at Bosworth Field.
French and Indian War
This war lasted from 1754 - 1763 and was the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War.
World War I
This war lasted from 1914 - 1918.
World War I
This war led to the foundation of the Soviet Union
Gulf War
This war names a syndrome whose symptoms included cramps, headaches, and short-term memory loss.
French and Indian War
This war pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.
First Barons' War
This war resulted from the king's refusal to accept and abide by Magna Carta which he had sealed on June 15, 1215 and from the ambitions of the French prince, who dragged the war on after many of the rebels had made peace with John.
World War I
This war resulted in the fall of the German, Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires.
Battle of Shiloh
This was a battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6 - 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee.
Space Race
This was a manifestation of the Cold War where successes in launching objects and people into space was seen as a proxy for capacity to build intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Ethan Allen
This was an American Revolutionary figure who led the Green Mountain Boys at the capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775.
Andy Warhol
This was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the art movement known as pop art.
Cole Porter
This was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, this man defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theater.
Pickett's Charge
This was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate General Robert E. Lee against Major General George G. Meade's Union positions on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Parrott gun
This was invented right before the US Civil War. It was a rifled muzzle-loader. The commonest version of this weapon was a 10-pounder with superior range and accuracy to the smoothbore 12-pound "Napoleon."
Fighting 69th New York State Militia
This was one of the more famous units of the Civil War. They fought as part of William T. Sherman's brigade at the First Battle of Manassas under Colonel Michael Corcoran. This regiment was composed of Irish immigrants and was one of the first units of 90 day volunteers to enlist for the war.
Enrico Fermi
This was one of the very few physicists in history to excel both theoretically and experimentally.
Sputnik 1
This was the first artificial satellite, launched by the USSR that kicked off the so-called "Space Race"
First Bull Run
This was the first battle fought along the namesake stream, north of Manassas Junction, some 25 miles southwest of Washington DC.
SpaceX CRS-1
This was the first commercial mission to resupply the International Space Station.
Chickamauga
This was the first major Civil War battle fought in Georgia and was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater.
First Battle of Bull Run
This was the first major battle of the American Civil War.
Battle of Wilson's Creek
This was the first major battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War.
Cleopatra
This was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
Vicksburg
This was the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi Rover, therefore, capturing it completed the second part of the Anaconda Plan.
Yorktown
This was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in the North American theater, as the surrender by Cornwallis and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict.
Adolf Hitler
This was the leader of the Nazi Part in the era known as the Third Reich who pursued genocide and holocaust.
Voskhod 2
This was the platform for the first EVA (extra-vehicular activity or "spacewalk")
Horatio Alger
This wasan American writer famous for his rags to riches stories for boys including Ragged Dick.
Barbara Walters
This woman first became known as a television personality in the early 1960s, when she was a writer and segment producer of "women's interest stories" on the NBC News morning program The Today Show, where she began work with host Hugh Downs.
Barbara Walters
This woman is an American broadcast journalist, author and television personality who is known for having hosted a variety of television programs, including Today, The View, 20/20, and the ABC Evening News.
Jane Addams
This woman is an American social reformer. She co-founded the Hull House, a social settlement that served as a community center for the poor in Chicago.
Sonia Sotomayor
This woman is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by Barack Obama in 2009 and confirmed in August 2009.
Cleopatra
This woman originally ruled jointly with her father Ptolemy XII Auletes and later with her brothers Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator and Ptolemy XIV, whom she married as per Egyptian custom, but eventually became sole ruler.
Cleopatra
This woman was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period.
Rosa Parks
This woman was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. The United States Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement."
Abigail Adams
This woman was the wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams.
The Queen of Spades
This work by Alexander Pushkin begins at a late-night gambling party given by the Russian army officer Naroumov.
Ward No. 6
This work by Anton Chekhov is set in a run-down asylum, whose five inmates include the university-educated Ivan Gromov and the imbecilic Moiseika. Moiseika is the only inmate allowed to go into town, where he begs for items that are all confiscated by Nikita, the asylum's porter.
Nevsky Prospekt
This work by Nikolai Gogol is a major thoroughfare in Saint Petersburg.
The Republic
This work describes a number now named for its author which is probably 216.
Nevsky Prospekt
This work features Lieutenant Pirogov, who follows a blond woman.
The Overcoat
This work's main character's ghost is said to haunt the streets of Saint Petersburg, searching for the stolen title item. Eventually, the "important persoange" is accosted by a figure whom he believes to be Akaky's ghost, and is forced to surrender his own clothing item.
Madame Bovary
This work's protagonist finds a velvet-lined cigar case on the street after a party at the Vicomte's house and later feigns taking piano lessons from Mademoiselle Lempereur.
Gilgamesh
This work's title character kills Humbaba, the guardian of the Cedar Forest. Name this epic, whose Akkadian version is told on twelve tablets.
The Raven
This work's title figure, which is said to have a "mien of lord or lady," enters the narrator's "chamber door" and perches on a bust of Pallas.
Rememberance of Things Past
This work, which was expanded from its author's unfinished novel Jean Santeuil, describes a man's love of Odette de Crecy in Swann's Way, and also includes Sodom and Gomorrah and Within a Budding Grove.
Crystal
Thjs ordered material structure is exhibited by diamond.
The Republic
Thrasymachus' attack on justice is countered in this dialogue, which introduces the "Myth of Er," "Ring of Gyges," and "Allegory of the Cave."
Pythagorean
Three trigonometric identities are named for this theorem, generalized by the law of cosines, that relates the lengths of sides of right triangles.
Saddam Hussein
Through the 1970s, this man cemented his authority over the apparatus of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace.
Josip Broz Tito
Through the Treaty of Vis, this leader gained recognition by the royal government-in-exile of King Peter II.
David Copperfield
Throughout this novel, the TC progresses in the literary world, ultimately becoming a successful novelist.
Cylinder
To find the surface area of this figure, you take 2 times pi times the radius times the sum of the height and radius.
Sphere
To find the surface area of this figure, you take 4 times pi times the square of its radius.
Cube
To find the surface area of this figure, you take 6 times the square of its side length.
Cinderella
a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward.
Germantown
Washington's attack on this town was the Continental Army's last major effort to retake Philadelphia before the winter of 1777-1778.
The Queen of Spades
When Herman draws a pistol, the countess dies of fright in this story.
dipole moment
When IR-active bonds absorb infrared light, they undergo a change in this and are excited to a higher-energy vibrational mode, which have names like "stretching," "wagging," and "scissoring."
Nevsky Prospekt
When Piskaryov proposes to a woman in this work, she mocks his advances. After this, Piskaryov cuts his own throat.
Pharsalus
When Pompey saw his cavalry decimated in this battle, he realized that defeat was inevitable and fled the battlefield.
Isaac Newton
When adjusted for variable-mass systems, a law named for this scientist can be used to derive the ideal rocket equation.
soft
When analyzing proteins, fragmentation is often undesirable, so these type of ionization methods such as matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) or electrospray ionization (ESI) are used.
annihilation
When antimatter and ordinary matter meet, they are converted into enormous amounts of energy in this process.
Vicksburg
When the first two major assaults (May 19 and 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications here were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. After holding out for more than 40 days, with their reinforcement and supplies nearly gone, this garrison finally surrendered on July 4, 1863.
Great Expectations
When the lawyer Mr. Jaggers reveals that a mysterious benefactor will fund Pip's education, Pip assumes that Miss Havisham is making him a "gentlman" so that he can marry Estella. Instead, in this novel, Estella marries the wealthy Bentley Drummle, who mistreats her.
ammonia
When the liquid form of this substance is mixed with sodium, it turns a deep blue due to the presence of solvated electrons.
Pendulum
When the small angle approximation is applied, the frequency of these objects is proportional to the square root of the acceleration due to gravity over their length.
George Gershwin
When this American composer returned to New York, he wrote Porgy and Bess with his brother Ira and DuBose Heyward.
William Wrigley
When this man moved from Philadelphia to Chicago in 1891 to go into business for himself, he had $32 to his name. He used that $32 to form a business to sell his namesake scouring soap.
Rudy Giuliani
When this man took office as Mayor of New York City, he appointed a new police commissioner who applied the broken windows theory of urban decay. Within several years, this man was widely credited for making major improvements in the city's qualify of life and lowering the rate of violent crimes.
Bill Clinton
When this man was governor of Arkansas, he overhauled the state's education system and served as chairman of the National Governors Association.
Michael Phelps
When this man won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, he broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games.
Peninsular War
While Napoleon struggled against Austrians, Russians and Prussians on the plains of central and eastern Europe, this smaller (but no less violent conflict) war was fought for control of Spain and Portugal. This war ran from 1807 - 1814.
Egpyt
While Napoleon's stated goal for invading this country was to strike a blow against British trade with the Middle East and Asia, it also catered to Napoleon's fascination with antiquity.
The Bet
While the lawyer betters himself in solitary confinement in this work, the banker grows steadily poorer, and realizes that paying off his end of the wager will leave him bankrupt.
Michelson-Morley experiment
While the two namesake scientists expected to find a shift in the interference's pattern's fringes as a result of the ether, this experiment showed that the Earth had no motion relative to the ether, suggesting that the ether did not exist.
Huey Long
While this man initially supported FDR's "New Deal" policies, he eventually came to believe that those policies did not do enough to alleviate the issues of the poor. In time, he developed his own solution, the "Share Our Wealth" program, which would establist a net asset tax, the earnings of which would be redistributed so as to curb the poverty and homelessness epidemic nationwide during the Great Depression.
Napoleon
While this man was absent in Egypt, a coalition of Austria, Russia and Britain had pushed French troops back on all fronts.
Great Expectations
While visiting a churchyard in this novel, Pip meets the escaped convict Abel Magwitch, and renders him aid.
Jean Sibelius
Widely recognized as Finland's greatest composer and is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia.
Statosphere
With a circulation named after English scientist Brewer, the distribution of water within this region is graphed, and the quasi-horizontal mixing is the main method of air exchange within this area.
Capacitor
With angular frequency and series resistance, a measure of this device's efficiency can be calculated using the Q Factor.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Twice the Emperor of France, lost the Battle of Waterloo, exiled to St. Helena
Golden Ratio
Two quantities have this ratio if their sum is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities.
Saratoga
Two separate battles at this location (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the namesake campaign, which gave a decisive victory to the Americans over the British
Larmor precession
Typical NMR methods only work on nuclei that have a nonzero spin, such as 1H and 13C--the nonzero spin means that the nuceli oscillate between two spin states in a phenomenon called Larmor precession.
Spanish-American War
US public opinion was agitated by anti-Spanish propoganda led by newspaper publishers such as Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst which used yellow journalism to call for this war.
mutation
UV radiation can induce this kind of event, which is generally more common in RNA than DNA since RNA typically lacks proofreading enzymes.
diffraction
Under the Bragg condition, x-rays experience this effect to show crystal structure.
giant
Under the MK system, stellar objects of this type occupy luminosity classes one through four.
Vicksburg
Union Major General Ulysses Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate Army of Mississippi, led by Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton, into the defensive lines surrounding this fortress city.
American Civil War
Union forces defeated Confederate secession attempt, abolished slavery.
momentum
Unlike energy, this quantity is always conserved in collisions.
The Nose
Upon encountering his missing body part , which is traveling in a carriage and wearing the uniform of a state councillor, Kovalyov chases it to a shopping center called the Gostiny Dvor, in this work.
giant
Uranus and Neptune are described as ice examples of these and, because more than 90 percent of their mass is hydrogen and helium, Jupiter and Saturn are the gas kind.
Millikan oil-drop experiment
Using the information previously gained in this experiment and the mass of the drop, the total charge on the drop can be calculated.
Harry Truman
Vice-President under FDR, succeeded him upon his death, approved atomic bomb drops
Charles Dickens
Victorian who drew on personal experience with poverty for Great Expectations
Margaret Mead
With the help of James Baldwin, this thinker recorded their talks in A Rap on Race.
Nicholas NIckleby
With the help of the disabled Smike, the TC of this book beats the foul schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, and escapes to London.
Hooke's Law
With the use of Young's modulus and the bulk modulus, the namesake constant parameter of this law can be approximated, and the integral of this equation with respect to displacement gives an expression for elastic potential energy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Won the 1932 Presidential Election
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Won the 1944 Presidential Election
The Second Coming
Words from this poem's last line name an essay in which San Francisco parents give peyote to a child, which titles a Joan Didion collection.
Poland
World War II is said to hve started on September 1, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded this country.
Actium
the battle where Octavian crushed Antony and Cleopatra and took over the Roman empire
mutation
"Frame-shift" and "point" are types of these events in which an organism's genome changes.
buffers
20 of this type of substance are named after Norman Good and are typically comprised of a weak acid or weak base and resist large changes in pH
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States
Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
Andrew Jackson
7th US President; served as a general in the Army prior to being elected President.
Don Quixote
A "captive" describes his escape from Barbary pirates in this Cervantes novel about a would-be-knight from La Mancha.
Dover Beach
A "darkling plain" where "ignorant armies clash by night" is evoked in this Matthew Arnold poem that depicts a strait separating England from France.
DSC
This is a variant that measures how a compound's heat capacity changes with temperature.
refraction
This is when a beam of light, or other radiation, changes direction slightly as it is passed from one medium (e.g. the air) to another (e.g. water).
Henry's Law
This law explains the bubbling of soda bottles upon opening and this law explains a diver experiencing "the bends."
Hooke's Law
This law gives the force needed to stretch a spring.
Hooke's Law
This law is used to model the restoring force of a spring with the formula F equals negative k x.
Beer's Law
This law is used to quantify the concentration of the present compound.
Law of Independent Assortment
This law says that genes for individual traits are inherited independently.
Newton's Third Law of Motion
This law states that "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction"
Newton's Second Law of Motion
This law states that "The acceleration of an object depends on the mass of the object and the amount of force applied."
Stratosphere
This layer of the earth's atmosphere lies between the troposphere and mesosphere.
Josip Broz Tito
This leader's goverment put on trail Draza Mihailovic, the leader of the royalist Chetnik movement.
Josip Broz Tito
This leader's government placed Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac on trial, accusing him of collaborating with the fascist Ustase.
F
This letter is fourth of the original seven spectral classes in the Morgan-Keenan system.
F
This letter is the atomic symbol of flourine.
F
This letter is the symbol for the SI unit of capacitance, and the atomic symbol of the element with the highest Pauling electronegativity.
Z
This letter is traditionally the first one used to represent a complex-valued variable.
Enrico Fermi
This man has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb."
Michael Phelps
This man has won 82 medals in major international long course competition, of which 65 were gold, 14 silver, and 3 bronze.
Enrico Fermi
This man held several patents related to the use of nuclear power, and was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and the discovery of transuranic elements.
Robert Hooke
This man helped Christopher Wren build the dome of London's St. Paul Cathedral.
Robert Hooke
This man helped Christopher Wren build the dome of London's St. Paul's cathedral.
Wilt Chamberlain
This man holds numerous NBA records in scoring, rebounding and durability categories. He is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game or average more than 40 and 50 points in a season.
Michael Phelps
This man holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals, Olympic gold medals in individual events and Olympic medals in individual events.
Hermann Oberth
This man imagined at the age of 14 a recoil rocket, which could propel itself by exhausting gas from its base.
Mendeleev
This man invented a smokeless gunpowder substitute called pyrocollodion, and theorized the existence of coronium in an attempt to explain the aether.
Stephen Harper
This man is a Canadian economist, entrepreneur, and retired politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada for nearly a decade from 2006 - 2015.
Yo-Yo Ma
This man is a Chinese-American cellist who was a child prodigy, performing from the age of four and a half.
Haruki Murakami
This man is a Japanese writer who has won the World Fantasy Award (2006), the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award (2006), the Franz Kafka Prize (2006) and the Jerusalem Prize (2009).
Brooks Robinson
This man is considered one of the greatest defensive third basemen in major league history, winning 16 consecutive Gold Glove Awards during his career.
Peter Abelard
This man is known for his love affair with Heloise.
Andy Warhol
This man is known for the experimental film Chelsea Girls and the multimedia event known as Exploding Plastic Inevitable
William Wrigley
This man is rumored to have co-founded his namesake company with a lesser-known Canadian named M. Bessemer, who was a close childhood friend of this man.
Rene Descartes
This man is the inventor, and sometimes the namesake, of the field of analytic geometry.
Michael Phelps
This man is the long course world record holder in the men's 100 meter butterfly, 200 meter butterfly, and 400 meter individual medley as well as the former long course world record holder in the 200 meter freestyle and 200 meter individual medley.
Edvard Grieg
This man is the most celebrated person from the city of Bergen, with numerous statues dipicting his image and many cultural entities named after him.
Robert Goddard
This man is the namesake of the NASA Spaceflight Center in Maryland.
Richard Nixon
This man is the only President to resign the office following the 1972 Watergate scandal.
Sir Walter Raleigh
This man is well known for popularizing tobacco in England
Hieronymus Bosch
This man is widely considered to be one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work is known for its fantastic illustrations of religious concepts and narratives.
Edgar Allan Poe
This man is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literatures as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest earliest practitioners of the short story.
Andrew Jackson
This man led US forces in the First Seminole War, which led to the annexation of Florida from Spain. He briefly served as Florida's first territorial governor before returning to the Senate.
Henry VIII
This man led the Anglican split from Rome, took six wives, was the 2nd Tudor king after his father.
Rudy Giuliani
This man sought the Republican Party's 2008 presidential nomination, and was considered the early front runner in the race. However, he withdrew from the race to endorse the eventual nominee, John McCain.
James Cagney
This man spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925.
Adam Smith
This man studied social philosophy at the University of Glasgow where he was one of the first students to benefit from scholarships set up by fellow Scot John Snell.
Gregor Mendel
This man supported the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment with experimental evidence by growing and counting pea plants.
Sun Tzu
This man supposedly had a king's two favorite concubines executed to demonstrate his notion of duty.
Homer Hickam
This man trained crews for the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment extra-vehicular activity and the first two servicing missions.
Horace Mann
This man was an American educational reformer and Whig politician dedicated to promoting public education.
H.L. Mencken
This man was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English who was known as the "Sage of Baltimore"
Noah Webster
This man was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
Ken Kesey
This man was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s.
Ansel Adams
This man was an American photographer and cofounder of the f/64 group.
Allen Ginsberg
This man was an American poet, philosopher, and writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed.
Langston Hughes
This man was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
George Washington
This man was an American statesman and solider who served as the first President of the United States frmo 1789 to 1797.
Franklin Roosevelt
This man was the President of the United States when the US entered WWII.
Richard Nixon
This man was the US President from 1969 until 1974.
Kurt Vonnegut
This man's first novel was "Player Piano".
Othello
This play's villain leaves a handkerchief in Cassio's room to convince the title character of Desdemona's adultery.
precipitation
This process forms a supernatant as a solid falls out of solution and can also involve atmospheric water vapor condensing into snow, sleet, or rain.
pH
This quantity is 7 for pure water.
force
This quantity is inversely proportional to the squared distance between two point charges, by Coulomb's law.
Temperature
This quantity is measured in Kelvin
Magnetic Flux
This quantity is measured in Webers
Electric Current
This quantity is measured in amperes
Distance
This quantity is measured in angstroms.
Capacitance
This quantity is measured in farads
Inductance
This quantity is measured in henrys
Frequency
This quantity is measured in hertz
Distance
This quantity is measured in light years
Illuminance
This quantity is measured in lux
force
This quantity is measured in newtons.
Pressure
This quantity is measured in pascals
Diffraction
This wave phenomenon that particles exhibited in the double slit experiment can be caused by a "grating," and consists of bending around an obstacle.
Cleopatra
This woman elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion to co-ruler in name.
Sonia Sotomayor
This woman has the distinction of being the first Hispanic and Latina Supreme Court Justice.
The Lady with a Dog
This story ends on an unresolved note, stating "to both of them it was clear that the end was still very far off, and that their hardest and most difficult period was only just beginning.
Isadora Duncan
This woman was an American dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe. She died when her scarf became entangled in the wheels and axle of the car in which she was riding.
Brooks Robinson
This third baseman batted and threw righthanded despite being a natural left-hander. He is nicknamed "The Human Vacuum Cleaner" or "Mr. Hoover."
Woodrow Wilson
This was the President of the US during World War I, and led support for the League of Nations following it.
Battle of Shiloh
This was the bloodiest battle in American history until the Battle of Antietam in September 1862.
George Washington
This was the first US President
Alfred the Great
This was the king of Wessex from 871 - 899.
alcohol
A hydroxl group is bonded to a carbon atom in this class of substances that includes methanol and ethanol.
Alan Turing
A hypothetical device named for this man manipulates symbols on an infinite strip of tape accourding to a table of rules, his namesake machine.
Amphibian
A metamorphic phase in which water habitats are exchanged for land habitats characterizes this class that includes salamanders and frogs.
Ender's Game
A military science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card in which aliens nicknamed "buggers" attack Earth, causing Andrew Wiggin to attend Battle School while his siblings Peter and Valentine create a global war.
Thomas Young's double-slit experiment
A modern variant of this experiment, called a Quantum Eraser, demonstrates Quantum Entanglement.
Miller-Urey experiment
A more modern "volcanic" version of this experiment produced evn more amino acids by including sulfur compounds.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
A poem by Langston Hughes. Contains the line "I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep."
Ozymandias
A poem that shares its title with this poem wonders, "What powerful but unrecorded race once dwelt in that annihilated place."
On the Road
A poet with a "dark mind" in this novel named Carlo Marx was based on the author's friend, Allen Ginsberg.
Cosmic Microwave Background
Alfred Behr incorrectly predicted an unusually high temperature for this entity due to a miscalculation of Hubble's constant.
Trafalgar
As a result of this battle, the French plans to invade Britain were postponed indefinitely.
cheetah
Aside from the African wild dog, this animal is the only major diurnal predator in Africa.
PGT Beauregard
At 2 PM on April 13, a truce at Fort Sumter is called and Anderson finally surrenders Fort Sumter to this General. The Union troops were evacuated.
The Nose
At the shopping center, Kovalyov wonders how to approach the title body part, since its uniform indicates that it has a higher status than him, in this work.
alcohol
Biodiesel and one of these compounds are teh two most common biofuels.
Enzyme
Biological catalysts
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Fall of the House of Usher"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Masque of the Red Death"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
Langston Hughes
Author of "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Ernest Hemingway
Author of "The Old Man and the Sea"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Pit and the Pendulum"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Raven"
Ernest Hemingway
Author of "The Sun Also Rises"
Langston Hughes
Author of "The Weary Blues"
Haruki Murakami
Author of "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
Leo Tolstoy
Author of Anna Karenina
Sandra Cisneros
Author of The House on Mango Street
Leo Tolstoy
Author of War and Peace
James Thurber
Author of the sort story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
diffraction
Babinet's principle allows this phenomenon to determine the size and shape of small objects.
aluminum
Because it was more valuable than silver in 1884, this element was chosen for the capstone of the Washington Monument.
Trenton
December 26, 1776
Quebec
December 31, 1775
food chain
Decline at the apex of these constructs can result in mesopredator release, and proposed models for the longest of these structures include phytoplankton.
Oliver Twist
During an attempt to rob a house, this novel's TC is shot. He is tended to by an occupant of the house named Rose Maylie, who eventually learns that the TC is being plotted against by his villainous half-brother, Monks.
Joseph Bonaparte
During the Peninsular War, the throne of Spain was claimed by this man, Napoleon's older brother.
War of the Roses
Edward of Westminster and Edmund Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset, were executed after this war's Battle of Tewkesbury.
Lord Horatio Nelson
Even though this man was killed by a French sniper in the battle of Trafalgar, his ships captured half of the French fleet, including Admiral Villeneuve.
John Adams
Events of this man's term in office include the XYZ Affair. This man was the father of the 6th President of the United States.
waves
Examples of these phenomena that have traveled far from their place of origin are known as swells.
Hooke's Law
F = -kx
First Bull Run
In this Civil War battle, the Union forces executed a number of poorly coordinated attacks. While they enjoyed initial success, the Union army was ultimately thrown back in confusion.
Current
Flow of charge measured in amperes
cholesterol
Foam cells are macrophages which have ingested large amounts of this compound, and this compound makes up the majority of gallstones.
Gulf War
General Norman Schwarzkopf helped launch this war, which was sparked over allegations of illegal use of the Rumaila oil fields.
Julius Caesar
General who ignited civil war after Gallic warsm became dictator, stabbed to death
Animal Farm
In this George Orwell allegorical novel, Stalin and Trotsky are represented by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball.
Catcher in the Rye
In this JD Salinger novel ,fencing equipment belonging to the Pencey Prep team is lost by the teenaged Holden Caulfield.
Apoptosis
It involves the release of cytochrome C from the mitochondria, which activates a cascade of initiator and executioner caspases.
Cowpens
January 12, 1781
Hard Times
Mr. Gradgrind arranges for his daughter Louisa to marry Josiah Bounderby in this nove.. Josiah Bounderby is an unpleasant older banker who employs Mr. Gradgrind's son, Tom.
Nothing But Death
Name this Pablo Neruda poem that contains the lines "among all that sound/like a shoe with no foot in it."
Ozymandias
Name this Percy Shelley poem about a statue of a "king of kings."
cube
Name this Platonic solid whose faces are all squares.
Death
Name this Rainer Maria Rilke poem that contains the lines "Life's red wine/to drink deep of the mystic shining up."
The Road Not Taken
Name this Robert Frost poem in which the speaker chooses between two "equal" paths
Mendeleev
Name this Russian chemist credited with formulating the Periodic Table of the elements.
Othello
Name this Shakespeare play in which Iago deceives the "Moor of Venice."
Alfred Nobel
Name this Swedish chemist who invented dynamite and endowed prizes for achievement in some sciences and Peace.
Utopia
Name this Thomas More book about an idyllic society.
The Republic
Name this book by Plato about a perfect city.
geometry
Name this branch of mathematics studied in Euclid's Elements, which opens by defining objects like points, lines, and angles.
coal
Name this carbon fossil fuel, often burned to make electricity.
thyroid
Name this endocrine gland in the neck.
Spleen
Name this largest lymphoid organ in the body, which sequesters and destroys old blood cells.
Antigone
Name this last play in the Theban cycle, titled for a daughter of Oedipus.
Hundred Years' War
Name this lengthy war in which Joan of Arc helped France repel English invaders.
Z
Name this letter used for the third axis in three-dimensional coordinates.
d
Name this letter which describes the subshell with a capactity of 10 electrons that follows the s and p subshells.
Rememberance of Things Past
Name this magnum opus of Marcel Proust.
Sine
Name this mathematical term, which can tell the "rise" of a slope and is the trigonometric function of an angle.
iron
Name this metal with symbol Fe that oxidizes to form rust.
aluminum
Name this metallic element whose malleability is exploited to make soda cans.
Charles Darwin
Name this naturalist who described finches of the Galapagos Islands in The Voyage of the Beagle.
electron
Name this negatively charged particle that resides outside the nucleus.
Fahrenheit 451
Name this novel about Guy Montag, a work by Ray Bradbury named for the temperature at which paper burns.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Name this novel about the title slave, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Wuthering Heights
Name this novel which talks about Heathcliff's relationship with Catherine Earnshaw, the only novel by Emily Bronte.
i
Name this number whose square is -1, and which is sometimes called the "imaginary unit."
Wuthering Heights
Name this only published novel by Emily Bronte.
Unix
Name this operating system, the basis of OS X and Linux.
Golgi
Name this organelle, a site of protein processing.
Cosmic Microwave Background
Name this pervasive radiation left over from the start of the universe that has a temperature of about 2.72 Kelvin.
termite
Name this pest that causes damage when it eats wood.
sine
Name this trig function that, in a right triangle, equals "opposite over hypotenuse".
Gulf War
Name this war that included the American-led Operation Desert Storm against Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
ammonia
Name this weak base whose formula is NH3.
Large Hadron Collider
Name this world's largest particle accelerator, which is located at CERN.
Coup of 13 Vendemiaire
Napoleon defended the revolutionary government with artillery during this coup in October 1795.
Third Coalition
Napoleon faced an array of enemies who made up "this", which consisted of the humiliated Austrians who saught military aid from both Russia and Britain.
Battle of the Pyramids
Napoleon supposedly cried, "Soldiers, forty centuries look down upon you" at this 1798 Battle, where his troops used modern artillery and large square formations to ward off a cavalry charge by the Egyptian Mamluks.
Borodino
Napoleon's march on Moscow was slowed by Russian resistance at this town, where Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov's army was driven out of foritified redoubts after a day of destructive fighting.
Genoa
Napoleon's troops, which were overextended in an attempt to relieve the Austrian siege of this town, were hit by an Austrian surprise attack on June 14, 1800.
Prussia
Napoleon's victory over this country's forces at Ligny led him to falsely believe that he had enough time to pursue and defeat the British without further interference.
Hatsheput
She was the fifth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the second historically confirmed female pharaoh, the first being Sobekneferu.
George Washington
Shortly after this man joined the colonial militia at the start of the French and Indian War, he became a senior Virginian officer.
Nelson Aldrich
This US Senator from Rhode Island was a Republican who was best known for co-authoring the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, a compromise law that lowered some tariffs but increased others. This Act was the chief issue during William Howard Taft's presidency.
Spleen
This abdominal organ, which is often enlarged in patients with mononucleosis, has red and white pulp.
giant
This adjective describes stars above the main sequence on the H-R diagram.
Margaret Mead
This anthropologist studied the Arapesh and Mundugmor people of New Guinea in her work, Sex and Temperament in Three Primative Socieities.
Margaret Mead
This anthropologist studied the Arapesh and Mundugumor people of New Guinea in her work, Sex and Temperament in Three Primative Societies.
Addition
This arithmetic operation is the inverse of subtraction.
mutation
The Hardy-Weinberg principle assumes that selection, migration, and these events do not occur.
pH
The Henderson-Hasselbach equation calculates this quantity.
Trenton
The Hessians, under the command of Johann Rall, were surprised in this battle and about two-thirds of them were captured.
Oort Cloud
The Hills Cloud is the inner portion of this region beyond the scattered disk that is a source of comets and is located halfway to Proxima Centauri
Andrew Wyeth
This artist painted the Olson farmhouse and barn in Cushing, Maine.
Pickett's Charge
This assault is named after one of three Confederate Generals who led the assault under Longstreet. This assault was part of Lee's "general plan" to take Cemetery Hill and the network of roads it commanded.
Pickett's Charge
This assault's futility was predicted by the charge's commander Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, and it was arguably an avoidable mistake from which the Souther war effort never fully recovered militarily or pyschologically.
Emily Dickinson
This author called herself a "Debauchee of Dew" in a poem whose first line refers to a "liquor never brewed."
The Fall of the House of Usher
The appearance of an "enshrouded figure" frightens Roderick to death just before the title mansion burns apart in this Edgar Allan Poe story.
Square
The area of this figure is by taking its side length times itself.
Trapezoid
The area of this figure is found by taking half of the sum of its bases and then multiplying that by its height.
Triangle
The area of this figure is found by taking one-half the product of its base and height.
Parallelogram
The area of this figure is found by taking the product of its base and height.
Rectangle
The area of this figure is found by taking the product of its length and width. This figure is a parallelogram with 4 right angles.
Circle
The area of this figure is pi times its radius squared.
Spinal Cord
The artery of Adamkiewicz supplies the anterior part of this structure, whose C3, C4 and C5 segments supply the diaphragm.
Cube
The volume of this figure can be found by taking the third power of its side length.
Sphere
The volume of this figure is found by taking 4/3 times pi times its radius to the third power.
Cone
The volume of this figure is found by taking one third times the product of the figure's base and height.
Cylinder
The volume of this figure is found by taking pi times the radius squared times the height of the figure.
waves
The wind excites these periodic phenomena, which steepen and break in the surf zone.
Nevsky Prospekt
The woman Lieutenant Pirogov follows turns out to be the wife of a German tinsmith, who beats Pirogov. The lieutenant plans to avenge himself, but abandons the idea after eating pastries and going dancing.
Muhammad Ali
This American boxer won a gold medal in the 1960 Olympics and defeated Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight crown in 1964.
Bomb calorimeter
These are very sturdy containers used to conduct combustion reactions at constant volume.
Woody Allen
This American film director's films include Annie Hall (a 1977 Academy Award winner), Hannah and Her Sisters (1987) and Alice (1990).
Edward Albee
This American playwright wrote clever and satirical plays like Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Delicate Balance, Seascape, and Three Tall Women.
Bill Clinton
This American president was the governor of Arkansas.
Spanish-American War
These hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to US intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
Parallel
These kinds of lines do not intersect and are coplanar.
Skew
These kinds of lines do not intersect and are noncoplanar.
Perpendicular
These kinds of lines have slopes that are opposite reciprocals of each other.
Battle of Paducah
This American Civil War battle took place on March 25, 1864.
Ronald Reagan
This American President served as the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975.
The Joy Luck Club
This Amy Tan novel is named after friends who gather to share food, invest in stocks and play a game.
Austerlitz
This battle is known as the "Battle of the Three Emperors."
William Faulkner
This is a southern author who set many works in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
gravitational force
the force of attraction between all masses in the universe
Newton's First Law of Motion
the scientific law that states that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with a constant speed and direction unless acted on by a force
Henry's Law
the solubility of a gas in a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas over the solution
Farad
this is the unit of capacitance
Ampere
this is the unit of electric current
Henry
this is the unit of inductance
Adam Smith
"The Wealth of Nations" is considered this man's magnum opus and the first modern work of economics.
The Second Coming
"The ceremony of innocence is drowned" by a "blood-dimmed tide" so that "the best lack all conviction" in this poem, which laments the coming of a "rough beast" with a "lion body and the head of a man" that "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born."
Horace Mann
A central theme to this man's life was that "it is the law of our nature to desire happiness. This law is not local, but universal; not temporary, but eternal. It is not a law to be proved by exceptions, for it knows no exception."
Catch-22
A character in this novel acquires such titles as Caliph of Baghdad and Vice-Shah of Oran via his business dealings. Milo Minderbinder runs a "syndicate" in this novel, in which Yossarian often tries to get out of flying bombing missions. Written by Joseph Heller.
Slaughterhouse-Five
A character in this novel explains that a test pilot who presses a "starter button" will one day destroy the universe.
Wuthering Heights
A character in this novel throws hot applesauce in the face of a character who insults his hair.
Antigone
A character in this play declares that the "ship of state" has safely been put into harbor.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A character in this play insists that a small mahogany table is found to replicate the room of a woman who is accused of using "robes et manteaux" to lure good girls into her atelier.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
A character in this play tells another character that he represents the shells of the eggs that he is beating and complains about the dearth of good French comedies.
The Necklace
A character in this story suggests that the protagonist buy "two or three gorgeous roses," but instead she borrows a decoration from Madame Forestier that she later discovers is worth only a few francs.
Amphibian
A chytrid fungus pandemic endangers many members of this class in the tropics, including several poison dart species.
First Barons' War
A civil war in the Kingdom of England in which a group of rebellious major landowners led by Robert Fitzwalter and supported by a French army under the future of Louis VIII of France, waged war against King John of England.
electronegativity
A covalent bond is considered nonpolar when the difference in this quantity between both atoms is less than 0.6.
Bannockburn
A decisive victory for Robert the Bruce, King of Scots over King Edward II of England.
thyroid
A deficiency of iodine will cause this structure to enlarge and form a goiter.
Interferometer
A device that splits a beam of light and aims it using mirrors to allow the beam to interfere with itself.
Middlemarch
A doctor's wife in this novel defies her husband's warning of horseback riding and suffers a micarriage.
The Princess and the Pea
A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
A fearsome Grand Prince of Moscow.
electronegativity
A form of this quantity can be calculated from the effective charge squared divided by the covalent radius; that form of this quantity is named for Allred and Rochow.
speciation
A gradual type of this process exemplified by Larus gulls is called its "ring" type.
Apollo
A helicopter called "Old 66" was famous for rescuing participants in this program.
nickel
A highly porous form of this element is made by alloying it with aluminum, then adding sodium hydroxide to remove the aluminum; that highly catalytic form of this element is named for Murray Raney.
Oliver Twist
A kindly gentleman named Mr. Brownlow temporarily rescues this novel's TC, but he is returned to Fagin by the cruel Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy.
sine
A law named for this function states that three different ratios are all equal to the circumradius of a triangle.
Stoke's Law
A law that allows us to calculate drag force.
The Old Curiosity Shop
A major subplot in this novel concerns Quilp's efforts to frame a boy named Kit Nubbles for theft.
Las Navas de Tolosa
A major turning point in the Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.
Medea
A man in this play accuses women of basing their entire disposition on whether "everything is fine in bed" and suggests "we ought to have no female sex."
base peak
A mass spectrum plots the abundance of each fragment against the m/z--the spectrum features this, the peak of highest intensity, and a series of peaks whose spacing tells you what elements are present--for instance, a peak spacing of 14 typically indicates a CH2 or methylene unit.
Wuthering Heights
A narrator of this novel dreams that a ghost's hand reaches into his room and breaks his window.
golden ratio
1 plus the square root of 5, all over 2, equals this constant, the limiting ratio of terms in the Fibonacci sequence, with a value around 1.618.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
4-term President during the Great Depression, Dust Bowl and WWII.
The Republic
A "Noble Lie" about the composition of souls from varying precious metals is considered in this book, in which Glaucon is told a story about invisibility-granting jewelry.
The Second Coming
A "stony sleep" is "vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle" in this poem.
Las Navas de Tolosa
A Christian alliance of Alfonso VIII of Castille, Sancho VII of Navarre, Afonso II of Portugal and Peter II of Aragon defeated Muhammad al-Nasir and the Almohads
Rumplestiltskin
A German fairy tale where in order to appear superior, a miller lies to the king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold.
A Modest Proposal
A Juvenalian satrical essay written and published by Jonathan Swift anonymously. It suggests that the people of Ireland should sell their children as meat to help them survive the Potato Famine.
momentum
A Lagrangian that has translational invariance corresponds to the conservation of this quantity by Noether's theorem.
London, 1802
A William Wordsworth poem that castigates the English people as stagnant and selfish and eulogises 17th century poet John Milton. "She is a fen of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen."
Lord of the Flies
A band of hunters creates this novel's title figure by placing a sow's head on a stick.
First Battle of Bull Run
A brigade of Virginians in this battle under the relatively unknown brigadier general from the Virginia Military Institute, Thomas Jackson, stood its ground in this battle, which resulted in Jackson receiving his famous nickname "Stonewall."
Blue
Because of the bright yellow flame, sodium can contaminate samples, so flames are usually viewed through a cobalt glass of this color, which filters out the yellow.
buffer
Bicarbonate and CO2 cause blood to behave as what kind of substance that resists a large change in pH.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim survives the firebombing of Dresden in this Kurt Vonnegut novel.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Both Russia and the US censored this Leo Tolstoy novella, which describes the fatal results of an affair.
Pharsalus
Both commanders of this battle had no doubt that Caesar's veteran infantry, while outnumbered, would have little trouble in overcoming Pompey's inexperienced foot soliders.
Albert Einstein
Both the special and general theories of relativity were developed by this physicist, whose multiple breakthroughs in 1905 led to that year being called his Annus Miarbilis.
Saratoga
British General John Burgoyne led an invasion into New York from Canada with hopes of meeting another British army and splitting the American colonies.
Mother
Bruno Bettelheim wrongly said autism was caused by the "refrigerator" type of these beings, which were modeled with wire and cloth in Harry Harlow's monkey experiments.
Isaac Newton
Built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a sophisticated theory of color based on the observation that a prism separates white light into the colors of the visible spectrum.
Isaac Newton
By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary motion from his mathematical description of gravity, and using the same principles to account for the trajectories of comets, the tides, the precession of the equinoxes, and other phenomena, this man removed the last doubts about the validity of the heliocentric model of the Solar System and demonstrated that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies could be accounted for by the same principles.
Enzyme
By the lock-and-key model, these molecules bind to specific substrates and lower the activation energy of their corresponding reactions.
Millikan oil-drop experiment
By turning on an electric field, the particle in this experiment starts to move upward with a terminal velocity when the electric force balances out the forces of gravity and drag.
Crime and Punishment
A novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novel focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in Saint Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov, in an attempt to defend his actions, argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a vermin. He also commits the murder to test a theory of his that dictates some people are naturally capable of such actions, and even have the right to perform them.
Moby-Dick
A novel by Herman Melville. Published during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on the TC, the white whal that on the previous whaling voyage bit off Ahab's leg at the knee. The novel begins with the sentence, "Call me Ishmael."
The House of the Seven Gables
A novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
beta decay
A nucleus emits an electron in this radioactive process with greater penetrating power than alpha decay.
Gulf War
A paper about this war by the French thinker Jean Baudrillard claims that it "did not take place."
red
A phosphorus allotrope that is named for this color is formed by exposing white phosphorus to sunlight.
A Doll's House
A physician in this play hints that he will soon be dead by saying that he will attend a costume ball in the guise of an invisible person.
entropy
A process that has no heat exchange and is reversible will conserve this quantity, a result derived from Clausius' theorem.
Franz Liszt
A prolific 19th century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist, and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A prolific and influential composer of the classical era. He showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood.
Gottfried Leibniz
A prominent German polymath and philosopher whose most notable accomplishment was conceiving the ideas of differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton's contemporaneous developments.
SpaceX CRS-1
A structural failure in one of this structure's nine Merlin engines that make up the Falcon 9 rocket first stage necessitated a longer burn with the remaining eight engines. That correction resulted in a proper orbital insertion for the primary payload (a Dragon resupply vehicle), but an unstable, decaying orbit for its secondary payload (and ORBCOMM satellite).
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
A teacher in this book named Mrs. Jewls initially thinks that all of her students are monkeys. The school in this book by Louis Sachar was built to be 30 stories tall.
Egypt
A team of scientists followed Napoleon on his military expedition to this country, whose most lasting result was the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, unearthed by soldiers digging to construct a fort in the Nile delta.
geometry
A theorem in this branch of math is known as "pons asinorum," or the "bridge of donkeys," because weaker mathematicians could not get past it in a textbook.
Rene Descartes
A theorem introduced by this man gives a formula to find the radii of four mutually tangent circles.
cheetah
A thin frame, overall light body, and semi-retractable claws allow this mammal to reach up to 70 miles per hour while chasing prey.
Orion
A three-star "belt" is in this constellation that depicts a mythical Greek hunter.
Hamlet
A tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Set in Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge the title prince is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of the title character's father, the King. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow.
The Innocents Abroad
A travel book by Mark Twain. He humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered vessel Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was the best-selling of Twain's works during his lifetime.
Lake Isle of Innisfree
A twelve line poem by William Butler Yeats. It is divided into three quatrains. The poem explores the speaker's longing for peace and tranquility in the title location while residing in an urban setting.
Stern-Gerlach experiment
A variant on this experiment was used to create an energy source for the first hydrogen maser.
Henry's Law
A version of this law explains the solubility of noble gases in silicate melt.
Henry's Law
A version of this law that takes electrolytes into account is called Sechenov's equation.
violet
A wavelength of 400 nanometers indicates this color of light whose wavelength is just longer than that of UV rays.
Othello
A woman in this play sings about a "poor soul" who "sat sighing by a sycamore tree."
sphere
A zenith angle, an azimuthal angle, and a radius are used in the 3D coordinate system named for this shape.
The Thousand and One Nights
Cassim's brother discovers the password to a cave inhabited by forty thieves in a story in this collection.
Columbia
According to its Accident Investigation Board, this disaster was due to a piece of foam from the external fuel tank hitting and breaching the left wing of the Orbiter during launch. The breach damaged the heat shielding, allowing hot gas to enter the Orbiter during re-entry. Ultimately, that damage caused the vehicle to disintegrate over Texas. This mission resulted in the complete loss of crew.
Wernher von Braun
After World War II, this man was recruited to the US as part of Operation Paperclip, and proposed to launch a space station carrying a nuclear arsenal, though he hedged the concept as "particularly dreadful."
Cole Porter
After a slow start, this man began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, this man wrote the lyrics, as well as the music, for his songs.
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
After complaining that theatrical portrayals of death are unrealistic, one of this play's title characters tries to stab an actor. Name this drama in which a troupe of "Players" enacts a variety of death scenes on board a ship taking the title characters to England.
Jean Sibelius
After completing his Seventh Symphony in 1924, the music for "The Tempest" in 1926 and the tone poem "Tapiola" in 1926, he stopped producing major works, a stunning and perplexing decline commonly referred to as "The Silence of Jarvenpaa."
Tours
After conquering Iberia, the Umayyads advanced into France as far as Poitiers. The Franks were led by Charles Martel while the Umayyads were led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi.
Nevsky Prospekt
After describing the various types of people who walk down the street at different times of the day, this story focuses on two men, who each pursue a beautiful woman.
Oliver Twist
After fighting with the bully Noah Claypole, this novel's TC runs away to London. On the road, he meets the pickpocket Jack Dawkins, known as the "Artful Dodger," who leads him to the den of the criminal Fagin.
Adam Smith
After graduating from the University of Glasgow, this man delivered a successful series of public lectures at Edinburgh, which led him to collaborate with David Hume during the Scottish Enlightenment.
The Queen of Spades
After hearing this tale, an engineering officer of German descent named Herman schemes to meet the countess by courting her ward Lizaveta, who tells Herman how to secretly enter the house in this story.
David Copperfield
After helping to extricate Mr. Wickfield from teh schemes of the "humble" clerk Uriah Heep, this novel's TC marries Mr. Wickfield's daughter Agnes.
Nicholas Nickleby
After his father dies, the TC in this Charles Dickens work is sent to work at Dotheboys Hall by his cruel uncle Ralph.
Gettysburg
After his success at Chancellorsville in May 1863, Lee led his army through the Shenandoah Valley to begin his second invasion of the North-- this campaign.
Egpyt
After his victory over Austria, Napoleon proposed crossing the Mediterranean and invading this country.
Qingdao
After landing at Lau Shan Bay, Kamio Mitsuomi's forces dug parallel trenches, employing a similar strategy as they had nine years before during the Battle of Port Arthur.
Thomas Young's double-slit experiment
After passing a beam of a light through two narrowly spaced slits in this experiment, the experimenter observed the characteristic light and dark fringes of interference seen when light acts as a wave.
The Lady with a Dog
After returning to Moscow, Dmitri cannot forget the memory of Anna, in this work, and realizes he has fallen in love.
A Tale of Two Cities
After returning to Paris during the French Revolution, Darnay is arrested as a result of a vendetta against the Evremondes waged by the Defarges, a proletarian couple in this novel, who encode information about their enemies into Madame Defarge's knitting.
Homer Hickam
After serving in Vietnam, this man worked at the US Army Missile Command in Germany and Huntsville. Later, he moved to NASA, where he specialized in astronaut training.
Neil Armstrong
After stepping onto the lunar surface, this man said, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Joseph Stalin
After the Bolsheviks gained power in the October Revolution of 1917 and established the Russian Soviet Republic, this man sat on the governing Politburo during the Russian Civil War and helped form the Soviet Union in 1922.
Neil Armstrong
After the Lunar Module of Apollo 11 landed in the Sea of Tranquility, this man said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
Peace of Thorn
After their defeat at Grunwald, the Teutonic Knights held out in Marienburg Castle until this Peace Treaty.
glaciers
After these features disappear, land masses rise in a process called isostatic rebound.
Margaret Mead
After this anthropologist's work on the island of Ta'u, Derek Freeman heavily criticized her on her analysis of adolescent girls.
Hershey-Chase experiment
After using a centrifuge to remove the viral coats from the bacteria, the experimenters found that the viruses labeled with sulfur did not transfer their radioactivity to the cells while the viruses labeled with phosphorus did.
Hamlet
After watching a play within this play, the TC mistakenly kills Polonius behind a curtain and declares "get thee to a nunnery" to Ophelia.
The Overcoat
Akaky Akakievich's coworkers often make fun of his worn-out title clothing piece in this work, so he visits his tailor Petrovich, who says that this item must be replaced.
The Overcoat
Akaky scimps to save up the necessary 80 roubles, and finally acquires this work's title piece of clothing, after receiving an unexpectedly large bonus.
The Overcoat
Akaky tries to seek justice from the municipal superintendent and from an "important personage" in this work, but both refuse to help him. Soon afterwards, Akaky contracts a fever and dies.
electrons
Albert Einstein's 1921 Nobel Prize cited his 1905 explanation of the effect in which shining light on metals causes them to emit these subatomic particles.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Although Posdnicheff is initially suspicious of Troukhatchevsky, he is comforted by his wife's disavowal of interest in the musician, and by the elevated emotions he feels while listening to his wife and Troukatchevsky play the titular Beethoven song in this novella.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Although Posdnicheff is jailed while awaiting trial, in this novella, he is ultimately acquitted because of his wife's suspected infidelity.
Borodino
Although the French forces were able to briefly seize control of Moscow, as a result of the loss of this battle, the subsequent retreat through the worst of the Russian winter ruined Napoleon's Grand Army.
Ticonderoga
Although the scope of this military action was relatively minor, it had a significant strategic importance. It impeded communication between northern and southern units of the British Army, and gave the nascent Continental Army a staging ground for the invasion of Quebec later in 1775.
Antietam
Although this battle was tactically inconclusive, the Confederate troops had withdrawn first from the battlefield, making it a Union strategic victory. This made a sufficiently significant victory to give President Lincoln the confidence to announce his Emancipation Proclamation, which discouraged the British and French governments from pursuing any potential plans to recognize the Confederacy.
Quantized
Always an integer multiple of some constant, in the Millikan oil-drop experiment, this constant is about 1.59 x 10^-19 coulombs, within 1% of the currently accepted value.
Amelia Earhart
American aviation pioneer. The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She was declared dead in 1939 despite her body never being found.
Monmouth
American general Charles Lee was court-martialed for his actions at this battle.
Huey Long
American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the US Senate from 1932 to his assassination in 1935. Nicknamed "The Kingfish".
George Gershwin
Among this American composer's are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, the songs Swanee and Fascinating Rhythm, the jazz standard I Got Rhythm and the opera Porgy and Bess which spawned the hit Summertime.
Amphibian
An American member of this vertebrate class produces a toxin that only garter snakes can tolerate.
Oedipus Rex
An Athenian tragedy by Sophocles. The play concerns the TC's search for the murderer of LAius in order to end a plague ravaging Thebes, unaware that the killer he is looking for is none other than himself. At the end of this play, when the truth finally comes to light, Jocasta hangs herself while the TC, horrified at his patricide and incest, proceeds to gouge out his own eyes in despair.
The Odyssey
An acient Greek epic poem written by Homer. A sequel to the Iliad. The poem mainly focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths), king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. In his absence, it is assumed Odysseus has died, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, the Mnesteres or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage.
Convection
An adiabatic temperature profile results from this form of heat transfer that causes granulation in the Sun's photosphere
thermometer
An ammonium chloride mixture will register zero on the mercury type of this device invented by Gabriel Fahrenheit.
The Art of War
An ancient Chinese military treatise dating to the 5th century BC. Attributed to Sun Tzu. The most influential strategy text in East Asia. It also ah influence on Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy and beyond.
Utopia
An argument in this book arises between a friar and a jester who proposes that all beggars should be sent to monasteries.
Rene Descartes
An upper limit on the number of positive roots of a polynomial can be found using this mathematician's "rule of signs."
epilepsy
Anticonvulsants treat this neurological disorder that causes seizures.
Camden
Charles Cornwallis inflicted a humiliating defeat on the forces of Horatio Gates in this battle.
War of the Austrian Succession
Charles VI unsuccessfully issued the Pragmatic Sanction to protect Maria Theresa's claim to the throne, leading to this war.
Lysistrata
Aristophanes' more famous work. It is a satire on war, in which women strike for peace by practicing celibicy (much to the chagrin of their warring husbands...)
Ticonderoga
Artillery from this fort would be dragged across Massachusetts to the heights commanding Boston Harbor, forcing the British to withdraw from that city.
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "St. John the Baptist Preaching"
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "The Burghers of Calais"
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "The Gates of Hell"
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "The Kiss"
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "The Thinker"
Auguste Rodin
Artist of "The Walking Man"
Salvador Dali
Artist of Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Salvador Dali
Artist of The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
Artist of The Temptation of St. Anthony
Mendeleev
As Head of the State Bureau of Weights and Measures, this man determined the proper balance of alcohol in vodka to be 40%.
Franz Liszt
As a composer, he was one of the most prominent representatives of the New German School.
George Washington
As one of the leading patriots, this man served as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Apollo 13
As part of this mission's "white team", Gene Kranz and his associates engineered the free-return trajectory and human-factors management that brough this mission's crew back safely after a near-fatal spacecraft anomaly.
Andrew Jackson
As president, this man sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy." and to preserve the Union.
Cleopatra
As queen, this woman consummated a liaison with Julius Caesar that solidified her grip on the throne.
Joseph Stalin
As sa young man, this man edited the Democratic Labour Party newspaper "Pravda" and raised funds for Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction via robberies, kidnappings, and protection rackets. He was repeatedly arrested and underwent several internal exiles.
A Raisin in the Sun
As this play starts, Ruth chides her son Travis for sleeping past 7:30; later, Ruth exults that she will no longer have to use "that cramped little closet which ain't now or never was no kitchen" once she lives in Clybourne Park.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
As this story's title character decorates his new house, he has an accident while demonstrating how he wishes the curtains to be hung.
The Overcoat
As this work's main character walks home from a party that was given in part to honor his new garment, he is accosted by two ruffians who steal his garment.
Saddam Hussein
As vice president under General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, this man created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflicts between the Iraqi government and the armed forces.
perpendicular
At a right angle (90 degrees) to something else. Walls often times have this relationship (hopefully) with the floor.
Michael Phelps
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, this man had already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals.
Michael Phelps
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, his man won four gold and two silver medals and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
William Sherman
At the First Battle of Manassas, this man commanded the Third Brigade of Tyler's division which launched an attack against the Confederate flank, driving them from Matthews Hill.
Seven Days Battles
At the conclusion of the fight, General Lee became convinced that McClellan would not resume his threat against Richmond, he moved north for the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Maryland Campaign.
The Queen of Spades
At the countess's funeral, her corpse appears to wink at Herman. That night, Herman is visited by the countess's ghost, who tells him that the cards are the three, seven, and ace, in this story.
The League of Nations
At the end of World War II, this entity was replaced with the creation of the United Nations.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
At the end of this Mark Twain novel, the TC plans to escape Aunt Sally and "light out for the Territory.
The Old Curiosity Shop
At the end of this novel, Quilp drowns and Nell dies shortly before her grandfather also passes away.
On the Road
At the end of this novel, the protagonist goes to a Duke Ellington concert in a Cadillac driven by Remi Boncoeur's bookie.
Madame Bovary
At the end of this novel, the town chemist receives the Legion of Honor, while the protagonist's daughter is sent to work in a cotton mill.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
At the end of this play, a boy commits suicide with a revolver while his sibling drowns in a fountain, prompting a confused man to muse that he has wasted a day regardless.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
At the end of this story's title character's life, he screams continuously for three days.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
At the start of this play, the Director of a version of "The Rules of the Game" is interrupted by characters including the father and the mother.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
At the start of this story by Leo Tolstoy, a peasant named Pahom listens to his wife and sister-in-law debate whether it is better to live in the town or the country.
Duke of Brunswick
At the twin October battles, Jena and Auerstedt, Napoleon and Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout worked together to smash a Prussian army led by this man, who was mortally wounded by Davout's troops near Auerstadt.
Austerlitz
At this battle on December 2, 1805m a mostly-Russian coalition army collided with the waiting French.
Waterloo
At this battle, William II of the Netherlands suffered a bullet wound and was knocked off his horse at a spot now commemorated by the 140-foot-tall Lion's Mound.
Leipzig
At this town in central Germany, coalition forces met a hastily-assembled replacement army raised by Napoleon after the disaster in Russia.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
At varying times throughout this short story, the title character is depicted as a lawyer, a surgeon, a victim of a firing squad, a military captain, and an ordinary visitor to Waterbury, Connecticut with an overbearing wife. Written by James Thurber
Venus
Atmospheric carbon dioxide creates very high temperatures on this planet between the Earth and the Sun.
Camden
August 16, 1780
Long Island
August 27, 1776
Haruki Murakami
Author of "1Q84"
Haruki Murakami
Author of "A Wild Sheep Chase"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "Annabel Lee"
Sinclair Lewis
Author of "Babbit"
Miguel de Cervantes
Author of "Don Quixote"
Euclid
Author of "Elements"
Leo Tolstoy
Author of "Family Happiness"
Miguel de Cervantes
Author of "La Galatea", a pastoral novel.
Isaac Newton
Author of "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"
Haruki Murakami
Author of "Norwegian Wood"
Edgar Allan Poe
Author of "The Cask of Amontillado"
Leo Tolstoy
Author of "The Death of Ivan Ilyich"
Proton
Bacteriorhodospin uses energy from photons to transport these particles out of the cell.
Albert Einstein
One of this scientist's ideas successfully explained the precession of Mercury's orbit.
War of the Roses
One side in this war claimed to see three suns appear in the sky during the Battle of Mortimer's Cross.
pH
One way to determine this logarithmic quantity can make use of the anthocyanin in red cabbage juice.
kinetic energy
One-half times mass times velocity gives this energy of motion.
entropy
Only fast-moving particles are allowed through a gate between two sides of a closed container in a paradox in which "Maxwell's demon" causes this quantity to decrease.
speciation
Organisms that do not exhibit phenomenon are selected against due to the Wallace effect.
carbon
Other forms of this element, found in molecules such as alkenes and alkanes, include graphite and diamond.
Kurt Vonnegut
Other novels by this author include "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater."
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Pahom returns to the starting point just in time, buy immediately drops dead from exhaustion. A servant buries Pahom in a grave that is six feet long, thus answering this story's title question: a man only needs six feet of land.
Leonardo da Vinci
Painted "Virgin and Child with St. Anne"
Leonardo da Vinci
Painted the Mona Lisa
A Tale of Two Cities
Paris and London are the title cities of this novel, which famously begins "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
Antietam
Part of the Maryland Campaign, this battle was the frst field army-level engagement in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War to take place on Union soil.
chromophores
Parts of a molecule which absorb visible light are referred to as this term; since different molecules have different "these", the wavelength of maximum absorbance, or lambda-max, can be used to identify a compound.
Spleen
Patients with sickle cell anemia often "auto-infarct" this organ.
Charles Darwin
Paul Ekman's research on facial expressions was inspired by this man's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals."
J-coupling
Peaks in NMR can be "split" into several peaks due to this if they are adjacent to identical nuclei, like the three hydrogens of a methyl group.
Albert Einstein
Galaxy custers act as lenses to create this man's namesake rings.
Volume
Gamma is used to symbolize the ratio of the specific heat at constant pressure to the specific heat at a constant value for this quantity, which can be measured in liters.
uranium
Gas centrifuges are commonly used to separate the 235 and 238 isotopes of this element, which is why arms treaties sometimes control the number of centrifuges.
Saratoga
General Burgoyne retreated to this location when he found himself trapped by superior American forces and with no relief in sight. He surrendered his entire army here on October 17, 1777. His surrender was a great turning point int he Revolutionary War because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element needed for victory.
Yorktown
General Charles O'Hara presented Cornwallis's sword of surrender at this final battle of the American Revolutionary War.
catalyst
Green chemistry promotes the use of these compounds, which increase the rate of a chemical reaction without actually being consumed in the process.
Agincourt
Guillaume de Sauveuse led a charge on the left flank at this battle, but was killed after his horse was impaled on a stake.
Robert Bunsen
Gustav Kirchhoff and what man developed the spectroscope out of a design that mixes gaseous fuel and air before combustion in a namesake "burner?"
Hydrogen
H
Water
H2O
speciation
Hampton Carson proposed a type of this process with "flush" and "crash" stages.
William Yeats
He declared "I will arise and go now" in his poem "The Lake of Innisfree"
Jawaharlal Nehru
He emerged as an eminent leader of the Indian independence movement under the tutelage of Mahatma Gandhi and served India as Prime Minister from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in 1964.
Isaac Newton
He formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that formed the dominant scientific viewpoint until was superseded by the theory of relativity.
Enrico Fermi
He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb."
Albert Einstein
He investigated the thermal properties of light which laid the foundation of the photon theory of light.
Jawaharlal Nehru
He is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state: a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic.
Leon Trotsky
He led a failed struggle of the Left Opposition against the policies and rise of Joseph Stalin in the 1920s and against the increasing role of bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
He murdered his heir in a fit of rage, which ultimately led to the end of the Rurikid dynasty and the beginning of the Time of Troubles with the ascension of his son Feodor.
Archimedes
He names thirteen non-Johnson, non-Platonic soliuds, and estimated that there are ten to the sixty third grams of sand in the universe.
Hubert Humphrey
He ran on a ticket with Ed Muskie but lost to Richard Nixon.
James Cook
He replaced Alexander Dalrymple as the leader of an expedition to observe the 1769 transit of Venus.
Isaac Newton
He stated that, in an inertial reference frame, force equals mass times acceleration.
Isaac Newton
He used his mathematical description of gravity to prove Kepler's laws of planetary motion, account for tides, the trajectories of comets, the precession of the equinoxes and other phenomena, eradicating doubt about the Solar System's heliocentricity.
The Queen of Spades
Herman accosts the countess, who refuses to reveal the names of the cards in this story.
The Queen of Spades
Herman goes insane and is put in an asylum, where he spends his days muttering "three seven ace! Three seven queen!" in this story.
The Queen of Spades
Herman goes to the gambling salon of Chekalinsky, where he wins a massive sum of money by betting on the three. The following night, Herman wins again by betting on the seven. On the third night he intends to bet everything on the ace, but the card that he actually plays is the title card.
Robert Hooke
His eponymous law gives the force needed to stretch a spring.
Horace Mann
Historian Ellwood Cubberley said about this man's intellectual progressivism, "No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, free, and that its aims should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of education ends."
dimension
Humans are aware of four of these--length, width, height, and time--but scientific theories often involve multiple of these that are only perceived through mathematics.
typhoon
Hurricanes in the Northwest Pacific are generally referred to by this seven-letter term derived from Chinese.
diffraction
Huygens' principle, applied to sound waves, explains why this effect makes hearing around corners possible.
War of the Roses
Identify this English war named for the symbols of the Houses of Lancaster and York.
Emily Dickinson
Identify this poet who was nicknamed the "Belle of Amherst."
Archimedes
If no element in a group is infinitesimal to another, that group has a property named for this thinker.
mutation
If these events occur too often, there is an error catastrophe.
kidney
If these organs fail, their function can be replaced by dialysis.
Hershey-Chase experiment
In one population of this experiment, the phages' DNA contained phosphorus-32 in its backbone; in the other population, the phages' proteins contained sulfur-35. The phages were then allowed to infect E. coli.
particles
In physics on the tiniest length scales, this may be a minute building block within an atom, or a molecule of water, oxygen, or any other substance.
sting
In some organisms, this behavior involves the injection of melittin.
Lorentz factor
In special relativity, this factor is used to transform between reference frames and is symbolized by the Greek letter gamma.
John Quincy Adams
In the 1824 Presidential election, Andrew Jackson received more popular votes than this man, but the Election was decided in the House of Representatives in this man's favor.
Sergei Korolev
In the 1950s, this man personally oversaw Sputnik and Sputnik 2, and he returned to the R-7, modifying it for lunar insertion of robotic probes.
Spanish-American War
In the aftermath of this war, Spain relinquished sovereignty over Cuba, ceded Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the US for $20 million.
Millikan oil-drop experiment
In the first step of this experiment, the terminal velocity of an oil drop was measured, which means that the drag force equals the force of gravity. This allows the calculation of the mass.
Glycolysis
In the first step of this process, phosphorylation converts phophofructokinase into two isomerases, dihydroxyacetone phosphate and glyceraldehyde phosphate, more commonly known as G3P, which is created in the first five reactions of this process.
Liebig condenser
In the laboratory, the vapors are usually cooled with this water-based item and the product is collected in a round-bottomed receiving flask.
Violet
In the mneumonic ROYGBIV, this color has the shortest wavelength.
Glycolysis
In the second reaction within this process, four ATP molecules and two water molecules are produced.
Complexometric titrations
In these, the analyte forms a coordination complex with the titrant.
Spanish-American War
In this 1898 War, the US seized Spanish colonies like Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines
The Lady with a Dog
In this Anton Chekhov story, the married banker Dmitri Gurov has been on vacation by himself in Yalta for two weeks when he hears of a "new face" attracting attention, the character mentioned by the title.
On the Road
In this Beat novel by Jack Kerouac, the protagonist meets Carlo Marx in Denver before setting off on adventures wtih Dean Moriarty.
Fort Donelson
In this Civil War battle, Union forces surrounded the fort and probed the defenses, prompting a Confederate breakout attempt.
Fort Donelson
In this Civil War battle, the Confederate breakout was unsuccessful and the trapped Confederates were forced to surrender.
First Bull Run
In this Civil War battle, the Union Army of Northeastern Virginia under Brigadier General Irvin McDowell attacked the Confederate Army of the Potomac under Brigadier General PGT Beauregard, which was later reinforced by some 12,000 troops under Brigadier General Joseph E Johnston.
Crime and Punishment
In this Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel, Porfiry investigates the deaths of Lizaveta and an old pawnbroker at the hands of the Raskolnikov
The Scarlet Letter
In this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, Arthur Dimmesdale tries to hide his affair with Hester Prynne.
Pharsalus
In this battle, Pompey gambled that he could win the battle by deploying his more numerous cavalry on his left flank. His plan was to use them to swiftly neutralize Caesar's cavalry before attacking the rest of his army from the rear. But Caesar second-guessed his adversary's game plan, forgoing the customary three-line formation of his infantry in favor of a fourth line, which he used to attack Pompey's cavalry hea-on as soon as it had, as expected, overrun his own cavalry.
Animal Farm
In this book, Mr. Pilkington and Mr. Frederick help Mr. Jones to fight the Battle of Cowshed.
Animal Farm
In this book, the lovable Boxer is sent to "retirement" at a glue factory.
Les Fleurs du mal
In this collection's second edition, the poem "To a Red-Haired Beggar Girl" was moved into the section "Parisian Scenes" instead of "Spleen and Ideal."
Stern-Gerlach experiment
In this experiment, a beam of silver atoms was fired through an inhomogeneous magnetic field (one that varies through space).
Stern-Gerlach experiment
In this experiment, the atoms hit a screen at discrete points rather than in a continuous distribution. This demonstrated the quantized nature of angular momentum.
Davission-Germer experiment
In this experiment, the experimenters fired electrons at a nickel crystal, and measured the diffraction patterns using an electron counter called a Faraday Box, mounted on an arc so that it could detect electrons emitted at various angles.
Davisson-Germer experiment
In this experiment, the peak intensity was observed at 50 degrees and 54 electronvolts, which corresponded to the diffraction predicted for X-rays by Bragg's Law.
Miller-Urey experiment
In this experiment, the resulting mixture of water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen contained more than 20 distinct amino acids that formed spontaneously
Millikan oil-drop experiment
In this experiment, the scientists found that the total charge on the drops were always quantized.
James Cagney
In this man's first professional acting performance, he danced costumed as a woman in the chorus line of the revue Early Sailor in 1919.
Bleak House
In this novel, Ada has a companion named Esther Summerson, who narrates much of the novel, and is Dickens's only female narrator.
A Tale of Two Cities
In this novel, Carton expresses his love for Lucie by taking Darnay's place in jail, and goes to the guillotine thinking "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done."
A Tale of Two Cities
In this novel, Dr. Manette relocates to England with the help of his daughter Lucie and the Tellson's Bank employee Jarvis Lorry.
Bleak House
In this novel, Esther suffers a severe illness after caring for a sick boy named Jo, and learns that she is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Dedlock.
Middlemarch
In this novel, Featherstone attempts to convince Mary to destroy one of his two wills.
Wuthering Heights
In this novel, Isabella Linton marries Heathcliff, who loves Catherine Earnshaw.
A Christmas Carol
In this novel, Marley's ghost, who wears heavy chains made of cash boxes and other symbols of greed, tells Scrooge to expect the arrival of three spirits.
Animal Farm
In this novel, Moses claims that there are seven Sundays a week in Sugarcandy Mountain.
The Old Curiosity Shop
In this novel, Nell Trent's grandfather's gambling causes him to lose the shop to the evil dwarfish moneylender Daniel Quilp.
The Old Curiosity Shop
In this novel, Nell's older brother Frederick plots to marry her off to Dick Swiveller to get a share of a supposed treasure trove, but Dick eventually marries a servant girl nicknamed "the Marchioness" instead.
Oliver Twist
In this novel, Old Sally steals a locket that is later thrown into a river by Mr. Monks.
The Pickwick Papers
In this novel, Pickwick befriends and employs the Cockney valet Sam Weller, who is known for grotesquely humorous sayings such as "out with it, as teh father said to his child, when he swallowed a farthing."
Great Expectations
In this novel, Pip discovers that his benefactor was actually the convict Magwitch, and he tries to help Magwitch flee England with the help of Pip's friends Startop and Herbert Pocket.
Great Expectations
In this novel, Pip is brought up by his sister and her kind husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery.
Great Expectations
In this novel, Pip is hired to "play" with a girl named Estella at Satis House, whose owner Miss Havisham was spurned on her wedding day and has worn a wedding dress ever since.
Great Expectations
In this novel, Pip's great expectations are dashed, but he becomes a better person, and is finally reunited with the widowed Estella.
A Christmas Carol
In this novel, Scrooge has a change of heart, celebrates Christmas and becomes a benefactor to the Cratchit family, preventing Tiny Tim from dying.
Hard Times
In this novel, Thomas Gradgrind is a fact-obsessed utilitarian from Coketown, in the north of England.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
In this novel, Topsy steals a necklace from a character who later gives away locks of her own hair.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
In this novel, Winston Smith is eventually arrested for thoughtcrime against Big Brother.
Jane Eyre
In this novel, a grave near Brocklebridge Church finally gets a gravestone marked "Resurgam" fifteen years after the protagonist's friend dies at Lowood School. This novel's protagonist is locked up as a child by Sarah Reed and comforts her future husband after Grace Poole's charge, Bertha Mason, burns down Thornfield Hall. The novel is written by Charlotte Bronte.
Don Quixote
In this novel, a man from La Mancha has adventures throughout Spain with his squire Sancho Panza.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
In this novel, citizens of Airstrip One who do not conform to the ideology of The Party are sent to Room 101 to be subjected to their worst fear.
The Nose
In this novel, on April 7, Kovalyov wakes up with this title body part reattached, and resumes his normal life.
Wuthering Heights
In this novel, that protagonist returns wth mysteriously acquired wealth and digs up his true love's grave so that he can see her one last time.
A Christmas Carol
In this novel, the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge to the homes of his nephew Fred and his clerk Bob Cratchit, whose son Tiny Tim is near death.
The Pickwick Papers
In this novel, the London gentlemam Samuel Pickwick, the president of his namesake "club" sets out with fellow members Nathaniel Winkle, Tracy Tupman, and Augustus Snodgrass on a series of coach journeys to sites in provincial England.
David Copperfield
In this novel, the TC befriends the optimistic but indebted Mr. Micawber while working in London.
David Copperfield
In this novel, the TC eventually escapes his grim warehouse job by walking to Dover. There, he finds his great-aunt Betsey Trotwood, who arranges for the TC to be educated by the lawyer Mr. Wickfield.
Oliver Twist
In this novel, the TC is apprenticed to the undertaker Mr. Sowerberry.
David Copperfield
In this novel, the TC is sent to a school where he is tormented by the headmaster Creakle, but finds comfort in his friendships with Tommy Traddles and James Steerforth.
David Copperfield
In this novel, the TC keeps in touch with his old nurse Clara Peggottym whose relative "Little Em'ly" is seduced and abandoned by the TC's former friend Steerforth.
A Christmas Carol
In this novel, the cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley.
Bleak House
In this novel, the lawyer Mr. Tulkinghorn discovers Lady Dedlock's secret but is murdered by the maid Hortense, a crime that is investigated by Inspector Bucket.
The Bet
In this novel, the lawyer is often unhappy during the early years of his confinement in a lodge on the banker's estate. However, he betters himself by refusing wine and tobacco, and gradually studies languages, history, literature, philosophy, the Bible, theology, and science.
The Kreutzer Sonata
In this novella, Posdnicheff describes quarrels with his wife, complaining that she was overly concerned with the health of their children, and that she eventually used contraception. As the marriage grows intolerable, Posdnifcheff's wife spends more time playing the piano, and is introduced by Posdnicheff to Troukhatchevsky, who studied the violin in Paris.
The Kreutzer Sonata
In this novella, Posdnicheff recalls the dissipations of his bachelor days before explaining how he courted his wife, whom he accuses of trapping him into marriage with her physical charms. According to Posdnicheff, the idleness of the well-fed upper classes leads to an unhealthy emphasis on romance, giving women power over men.
The Kreutzer Sonata
In this novella, Posdnicheff removes his shoes to walk more quietly, takes a dagger from the wall and surprises the pair in the dining room. Because he does not wish to run after Troukatchevsky without shoes, Posdnicheff turns on his wife, and fatally stabs her.
Hamlet
In this play's graveyard scene, the title character mourns "Alas, poor Yorick" after picking up the jester's skull.
Kubla Khan
In this poem, described by its author as "a vision in a dream," the title character decreed a "stately pleasure-dome" "in Xanadu".
Kubla Khan
In this poem, the title character hears "from far/ancestral voices prophesying war" amid the "tumult" caused by the fall "to a lifeless ocean" of the "sacred river" Alph.
The Thousand and One Nights
In this story collection, a fisherman tells his captive the story of "The Vizier and the Sage Duban" and is shown a lake of exotic fish by an ifrit.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In this story, Pahom becomes exceedingly jealous and protective of his property, causing him to quarrel with his neighbors and the local judges.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In this story, Pahom learns of rich land elsewhere and moves his family, but still is not satisfied. Desirous of acquiring even more land, Pahom visits the nomadic Bashkirs, whose chief is possibly the Devil in disguise and says that one thousand roubles will buy as much land as Pahom can walk around in a single day. However, if Pahom does not return to his starting point by sunset, both the money and the land are forfeit.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In this story, Pahom thinks "if I had plenty of land, I wouldn't fear the Devil himself!"--which the Devil hears from behind the stove. Shortly thereafter, Pahom purchases land from a village woman.
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
In this story, Pahom's greed causes him to venture too far. He sprints back while the chief laughts, just as the Devil did in one of Pahom's dreams.
The Queen of Spades
In this story, Tomsky discusses his own grandmother, a countess who once lost a fortune playing the card game faro in Paris, and who subsequently sought assistance from the Comte de Saint-Germain, a real historical figure.
Thin-layer chromatography
In this technique, a mixture is spotted on one end of a plate of silica gel, then a solvent carries the components across the plate and separates them based on their polarity--polar substances will strongly interact with the polar silica gel and not move very far, while nonpolar substances will move very far.
gas chromatography
In this technique, substances are vaporized and run through a packed column, where the time it takes each component to travel through--the retention time--is determined.
Binomial Theorem
In this theorem, terms have the form of "a coefficient times x to the i, times y to the quantity n minus i."
The Bet
In this work by Anton Chekov, an old banker recalls this action that took place 15 years ago at a party, in response to an argument about whether capital punishment is more or less cruel than life in prison.
The Lady with a Dog
In this work, Dmitri confronts Anna at the performance of "The Geisha", and she confesses that she too has fallen in love. Anna begins making excuses to visit Moscow every few months to see Dmitri. The two fall deeper in love, but do not know how to leave their marriages.
The Lady with a Dog
In this work, Dmitri pretends to be going to Saint Petersburg for business, but instead travels to Anna's hometown. There, he finds her at the debut of a play titled "The Geisha."
Ward No. 6
In this work, Dr. Hobotov tricks Andrei into entering the title location, where mental patients are confined. When Andrei protests his incarceration, Nikita beats him. Andrei soon dies of a stroke. Mikhail and Andrei's servant Daryushka are the only people at the funeral.
Ward No. 6
In this work, Dr. Yevgeny Hobotov, whom a local council appoints to work at the hospital, grows concerned at Andrei's long conversations with an inmate. Fearing that Andrei is not well, Mikhail proposes that they take a trip to Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Warsaw, but the journey goes poorly, and Andrei spends most of his money paying off Mikhail's gambling debts.
The Nose
In this work, Kovalyov goes to a newspaper, intending to offer a reward for the return of the title body part, but the clerk refuses his absurd-sounding request.
The Bet
In this work, a lawyer suggests that life in prison is superior to capital punishment because it would be better to have some existence than none at all. A rash banker wagers two million roubles taht the lawyer would not last five years in solitary confinement; the lawyer insists he could withstand 15 years.
The Bet
In this work, the banker departs the lodge without doing the lawyer harm and the lawyer carries out his plan, allowing the banker to avoid ruin. The banker hides the lawyer's note in a safe, to avoid "unnecessary talk."
Ward No. 6
In this work, upon his return, Andrei finds out that he has been fired and replaced by Dr. Hobotov. Andrei withdraws into himself, and eventually shouts at Mikahil and Dr. Hobotov to leave him alone.
Rene Descartes
In two dimensions, ordered pairs are used to represent the x- and y-coordinates of numbers in his namesake coordinate system.
Joseph Stalin
Initially, this man headed a collective one-party state government; but by 1937 he was his country's de facto dictator. Ideologically he was a Marxist and a Leninist, he helped to formalize these ideas as Marxism-Leninism.
The Nose
Kovalyov then speaks with the police, who later catch this work's title body part attempting to flee to Riga. However, the doctor that Kovalyov consults is unable to re-attach the title body part, even with an operation.
The Nose
Kovalyov writes a letter to Madame Alexandra Podtochina Grigorievna, accusing her of cursing him so that he will marry her daughter, in this work, but receives an uncomprehending reply.
Bleak House
Lady Dedlock dies after fleeing home in this novel, and the Chancery suit ends, as the disputed inheritance has been totally consumed by court costs.
Hundred Years' War
Later in this war the use of the longbow helped Henry V win the Battle of Agincourt.
Chiang Kai-shek
Led the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.
Theodore Roosevelt
Colonel of the Rough Riders; Vice President to William McKinley; succeeded McKinley after his assassination.
Vicksburg
Combined with Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg, this was the turning point of the war. It cut off the states of Arkansas, Louisianam and Texas from the rest of the Confederate States, effectively splitting the Confederacy in two for the duration of the states.
Franz Liszt
Composer of "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"
Jean Sibelius
Composer of Finlandia
ionic bonding
Compounds such as potassium bromide form by this kind of bonding in which a metal and non-metal do not share electrons.
Apollo 1
Lessons learned from the failures of this mission were taken into account during the design of the Space Shuttle.
Great Expectations
Magwitch's escape is foiled by Compeyson in this novel, the man who jilted Miss Havisham.
Gettysburg
Major General Joseph Hooker was relieved of command just three days before this battle. Hooker ws replaced by Meade.
Guy de Maupassant
Many of this man's short stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futilit of the war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences.
Margaret Thatcher
Conservative British prime minister who won the Falklands War.
Bleak House
Memorable characters in this novel include the merchant Krook, who dies of spontaneous human combustion; Mrs. Jellyby, who busies herself with charitable causes but neglects her own family; and Horace Skimpole, whose blithe irresponsibility burdens others.
Millikan oil-drop experiment
Performed by the namesake scientist and Harvey Fletcher to measure the charge of an electron.
The Kreutzer Sonata
Posdnicheff's jealousy returns during a work trip, when he receives a letter from his wife mentioning Troukhatchevsky. He takes a long journey back to his house, where he find's Troukatchevsky's overcoat, in this novella.
i
Powers of this number repeat in a cycle whose length is 4.
Constantinople
Preparations for this siege included the building of Rumeli Hisar across from Anadolu Hisar on the Bosphorus.
food chain
Primary producers form the base of these pathways, whose links are connected by decomposers.
War and Peace
Prince Adrei is wounded at the Battle of Borodino in this novel, which depicts the romances of Natasha Rostova.
Bill Clinton
Prior to the presidency, this man was the Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and agains from 1983 to 1992.
Qingdao
Prior to this battle, Maximilian von Spee evacuated much of the East Asia Squadron from port.
Cytoskeleton
Proteins like FtsZ make up this structure in prokaryotes. This network of interconnected fibers provides cell structure, as well as a mechanism for transport across a cell.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson described the first shot by the Patriots at the North Bridge in this battle in his namsake hymn, as the "shot heard round the world."
Lord of the Flies
Ralph tries to lead young castaways in this novel by William Golding.
epilepsy
Rapidly flashing lights can cause reactions in those with its "photosensitive" type.
Gulf War
Depleted uranium may have caused a fatigue-inducing "syndrome" among this war's veterans.
Apollo 13
Despite the troubles of this mission, all three astronauts returned to Earth safely and the landing site was re-assigned to the subsequent mission.
Albert Einstein
Developer of relativity theory, expressed mass and energy equivalence of e = mc^2
Isaac Newton
Devised three laws of motion.
polymers
Differential scanning calorimetry is commonly used to determine properties of these items such as their melting point or glass transition temperature.
The Lady with a Dog
Dmitri meets the title woman, Anna Sergeyevna von Diderits, in this work. She is vacationing without her spouse, as her marriage is unhappy--just like Dmitri's. The two sleep together.
Stratosphere
Dobson units are used to measure a molecule found in this region of the earth, and the increase of temperature with altitude is due to the absorption of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation.
Hooke's Law
Due to the tendency of returning to equilibrium position, this law contains a negative sign, and objects that obey this law display simple harmonic motion.
ammonia
Due to tunneling, this compound can undergo an inversion that is sometimes compared to an umbrella turning itself inside-out in wind.
Auguste Marmont
Duke Wellington's triumph over this man at the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812 was a decisive blow against the stability of Joseph Bonaparte's regime.
William the Conqueror
Duke of Normandy, led the winning side at the Battle of Hastings
A Christmas Carol
During a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Past in this novel, Scrooge is shown a holiday party given by his former employer Mr. Fezziwig, and is taken back to the moment when his fiancee Belle left him on account of his avarice.
Gulf War
During this war the "Highway of Death" was bombed by forces led by Norman Schwarzkopf.
equation
E=mc^2 is one of these showing how the energy in an object (E) equals the object's mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c) squared (2).
Law of Segregation
Each organism has two alleles for each trait, which are segregated into gametes so that each gamete inherits one copy.
War and Peace
Early in this novel, Anatole Kuragin falls in love with a woman at the opera house.
Hundred Years' War
Early in this war, Edward the Black Prince led a pillaging expedition across Languedoc.
Gottfried Leibniz
It was only in the 20th century that this man's law of continuity and transcendental law of homogeneity found mathematical implementation.
El Nino
Its 2014-to-2016 occurrence was blamed for record numbers of starving or dead sea lions, due to this phenomenon driving their anchovy prey into colder waters.
momentum
Its change during a process is called impulse.
Capacitor
Its namesake quantity is equal to permittivity times area divided by the distance between two plates and is measured in farads.
Current
James Clerk Maxwell introduced a form of this quantity produced by a time-varying electric field called its "displacement" type.
outlier
John Turkey used this term to mean values that are under the first quartile by more than 1.5 times the interquartile range, or more than the third quartile by more than 1.5 times the IQR. Give this term that, in general, means a value in a data set that is very different from most of the data.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Julia yells "Swine! Swine! Swine! at Emmanuel Goldstein during one of the daily periods of "Two Minutes Hate". Julia's forehead is marked by a long scar after she is released by the custody of the Thought Police. Julia appears in this dystopian novel by George Orwell named for a year.
HMS Victory
Just before the battle of Trafalgar, Nelson's flagship, this ship, flew the signal "England expects that every man will do his duty."
sting
Justin O. Schmidt devised a namesake "index" to classify the intensity of pain resulting from this behavior; tarantula hawks and bullet ants are at the top of that index.
Apollo
Michael Collins was a pilot for this pogram who stayed in orbit while "one giant leap for mankind" was made by Neil Armstrong.
Fahrenheit 451
Mildred is found asleep in this novel after encountering Clarisse McClellan.
Fahrenheit 451
Mildred is pursued by Beatty's mechanical houn and joins Faber's society of memorizers.
Yorktown
Ended October 19, 1781
Saratoga
Ended on October 17, 1777
Monmouth
Molly Pitcher became famous for fighting in this battle in place of her husband.
aluminum
Molten cryolite is needed to extract this element via the Hall-Heroult process.
Thomas Young's double-slit experiment
More modern versions of this experiment that have added detectors showing which slit the light passes through, however, show that the light passes through one slit or the other, acting as photons.
Leipzig
More than 600,000 men fought in this four-day struggle, popularly known as the "Battle of Nations" for the multi-ethnic nature of the coalition army.
Albert Einstein
Received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photelectric effect", a pivotal step in the development of quantum theory.
St. Helena
Following the loss at Waterlo, Napoleon was exiled once more, this time to this isolated South Atlantic island, where he died in 1821.
Brick Lane
Follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age of 18, to marry an olderman, Chanu. They live in Tower Hamlets. At first, her English consists only of "sorry" and "thank you." A novel by Monica Ali.
force
For a particle of charge q, moving with the velocity v through a magnetic field of strength B, this quantity equals q v cross B.
temperature
For ideal gases, the speed of sound is proportional to the square root of this quantity, and the internal energy is proportional to this measure of the average translational kinetic energy.
temperature
For reversible processes, the integral of this quantity with respect to entropy equals the heat absorbed by the system.
Rutherford gold foil experiment
Most of the alpha particles in this experiment went straight through the foil with minimal scattering, a small fraction of alpha particles were reflected back at the source.
Bunker Hill
Most of the fighting in this battle actually occurred on Breed's Hill.
mutation
Motoo Kimura and James Crow developed the infinite alleles model to study these events, which was developed into a stepwise model.
Horace Mann
From September 1852 to his death this man served as President of Antioch College.
mutation
Muller's morphs are five ways to classify these events.
Addition
Multiplication always distributes over this associative and commutative operation.
Rosa Parks
NAACP organizers believed that this woman was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, although eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts while a different case succeeded.
Ken Mattingly
NASA engineers solved power-management, water-conservation and trajectory planning problems for Apollo 13 with the help of this man, the primary Command Module pilot who had been grounded due to exposure to German measles.
reference nucleus
NMR measures the frequency at which each nucleus oscillates, whose deviation from this (like tetramethylsilane) depends on the local electron density and is called the chemical shift
The Second Coming
Name the apocalyptic poem by W.B. Yeats
carbon
Name the element found in all organic compounds, which has atomic number six and atomic symbol C.
Albert Einsten
Name the scientist who modernized cosmology by incorporating gravity into his theory of general relativity.
telescope
Name these devices that may use lenses or mirrors to detect electromagnetic radiation coming from space.
food chain
Name these lists of organisms that show the transfer of matter and energy from plants to herbivores to carnivores.
glaciers
Name these moving ice sheets that carved plains into the American landscape.
electron
Name these negatively charged particles that orbit outside the atomic nucleus.
black hole
Name these objects from which nothing can escape.
Pendulum
Name these swinging devices, the simplest of which consists of a mass on a string.
Middlemarch
Name this "study of provincial life" about residents of the title town, like Dorothea Brooke, written by George Eliot.
Agincourt
Name this 1415 battle from the Hundred Years' War, a victory for longbowmen led by Henry V.
Waterloo
Name this 1815 battle, the final defeat of Napoleon.
Qingdao
Name this 1914 battle in which Japenese and British forces captured a German colony in China.
James Cook
Name this British captain who explored New Zealand and Australia.
Alan Turing
Name this British computer scientist, the focus of the 2014 film The Imitation Game.
Oliver Twist
Name this Charles Dickens novel about a title orphan who says "please, sir, I want some more."
The Raven
Name this Edgar Allan Poe poem about an avian presence that only speaks the word "Nevermore."
Cleopatra
Name this Egyptian queen who famously had a relationship with Julius Caesar.
Rene Descartes
Name this French mathematician, who, in a famous work of philosophy, stated "Cogito ergo sum."
War and Peace
Name this Leo Tolstoy novel whose title contrasts two social conditions.
Apollo
Name this NASA program that put the first man on the Moon.
transcription
Name this cellular process that synthesizes mRNA from a DNA template.
ionic
Name this chemical bond between positively and negatively charged atoms.
The Thousand and One Nights
Name this collection of Middle Eastern folk tales that includes the stories of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba, and Aladdin.
thermometer
Name this device that may use the Celsius scale to measure temperature.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Name this dystopian novel, set in the title year, written by George Orwell.
cheetah
Name this feline that is the world's fastest animal.
Henry's Law
Name this gas law stating that for a constant temperature, the amount of gas dissolved in a given volume of liquid is proportional to the partial pressure of that gas.
Proton
Name this ion whose movement drives ATP synthase.
Les Miserables
Name this novel that depicts 1832's June Rebellion.
diffraction
Name this phenomenon in which waves bend around an obstacle.
Pygmalion
Name this play about Eliza Doolittle and her teacher Henry Higgins, written by George Bernard Shaw.
Medea
Name this play by Euripides whose protagonist kills the children she had with Jason.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Name this play in which several characters struggle to piece together their story, which is by Luigi Pirandello.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Name this poem by John Keats that depicts an ancient container.
Kubla Khan
Name this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge titled for a Mongol ruler.
cholesterol
Name this precursor to steroid hormones known for its role in heart disease.
speciation
Name this process in which two populations become unable to interbreed.
polarity
Name this property in which a molecule has an asymmetric charge distribution, also called a dipole moment.
momentum
Name this quantity equal to mass times velocity.
electronegativity
Name this quantity, the measure of an atom's ability to attract electrons in a bond.
sphere
Name this shape that encloses a volume equal to four-thirds pi times its radius cubed.
The Necklace
Name this short story by Guy de Maupassant, in which Mathilde Loisel struggles for ten years to replace the title fake piece of jewelry.
nickel
Name this silvery-white transition metal whose atomic symbol is Ni.
Hundred Days
Napoleon's escape from Elba began a period known as this, in which the emperor briefly returned to the throne of France.
Ulm
Napoleon's first move at Austerlitz was to force the surrender of 30,000 Austrians under General Mack at this town.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Near the conclusion of this novel, George and Eliza arrive in Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation.
Animal Farm
Near the end of this novel, Benjamin fails to rescue a character whose personal motto is "I will work harder!"
transcription
Negative elongation factor can greatly slow down this process by forcing a central enzyme involved in it to stall.
Pendulum
Newton's Cradle collides these objects to demonstrate the conservation of momentum.
Spanish-American War
Notable commanders in this war included William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt
Meteor shower
November 18 is usually the peak one of these events whose parent body is the comet Tempel-Tuttle.
deshielded
Nuclei that have less electron density (due to proximity to electron-withdrawing groups like halogens) are said to be "this" and have higher chemical shifts.
shielded
Nuclei that have more electron density (due to proximity to electron-donating groups like alkyl groups) are said to be "this" and have lower chemical shifts
Manzikert
Occurred in 1071
Las Navas de Tolosa
Occurred in 1212.
Lake Peipus
Occurred in 1242.
Bannockburn
Occurred in 1314.
Kosovo
Occurred in 1389.
Grunwald/Tannenberg
Occurred in 1410.
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, this woman refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order to give up her seat in the "colored section" to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.
Fort Moultrie
On December 26, 1860 Major Robert Anderson transferred his Union garrison from this fort to Fort Sumter, heightening the tension between the North and the South.
The Star of the West
On January 9, 1861, this relief ship attempted to run supplies to the Union garrison at Fort Sumter, but was forced to retire by gunfire from batteries on Morris Island and Sullivan's Island.
Duke of Wellington
On June 18, 1815, Napoleon's advance on Brussels approached the crossroads of Mont St. Jean, where this man had set up a defensive position for a combined army of British Peninsular War veterans, Dutch and pro-British Germans.
Waterloo
On the French left, at this battle, British troops defended the walled farm Hougoumont from a series of infantry assaults; in the center, Marshal Michel Ney's massed calvary charge was broken by the square formations of the British infantry; on the right, Gebhard von Blucher's Prussian army arrived to attack the French army in the flank.
Gettysburg
On the first day of this battle, two large Confederate corps assaulted the defensive Union cavalry division. The cavalary division colla[sed and retreated through the streets of this town to the hills just south of this town.
The Nose
On the morning of March 25, the barber Yakovlevich cuts open a loaf of bread and discovers the title body part inside it in this novel.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
On the night before this battle, warning of the British expedition had been repaidly sent from Boston to militias in the area by several riders, including Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott, with information about British plans.
Gettysburg
On the second day of this battle, the Union line was laid out in a defensive formation resembling a fishhook. Lee launched a heavy assault on the Union left flank. On the Union right, Confederate demonstrations escalated into full-scale assaults on Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. Despite significant losses, the Union defenders held their lines.
Gettysburg
On the third day of this battle, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
James Cook
On this man's second voyage, he claimed the South Georgia Islands for Britain.
Treaty of Campo Formio
Once Napoleon was rewarded with command of the French forces in Italy, his battlefield victories forced Austria to sign this 1797 treaty.
Saddam Hussein
Once this man formally rose to power in 1979, he suppressed several movements, particularly Shi'a and Kurdish movements which sought to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively, and maintained power during the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
One character in this novel is given a ten-dollar bill by Senator Byrd, shortly after taking her to the home of John Van Trompe.
The Fall of the House of Usher
One character in this story improvises a song about "evil things" that "assailed monarch's high estate" titled "The Haunted Palace."
Margaret Mead
One critic of this thinker wrote about the "fateful hoaxing" of this figure and published a book about The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth in regards to this thinker's study.
constant
One example of this quantity is the speed of light. This kind of quantity can be used to relate one physical property to another, properties that are said to be "proportional" to another. When one property changes, the other also changes by an equal proportion.
Large Hadron Collidor
One experiment using this device is MoEDAL, which is dedicated to searching for one-poled magnets.
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
One formulation of this statement relates energy and time. Name this principle stating that position and momentum cannot both be determined precisely simultaneously.
A Raisin in the Sun
One man in this play uses a gay slur to insult George's white shoes.
Nevsky Propsekt
One man in this work is Piskaryov, a painter who sees a dark-haired woman, who follows her to the brothel where she works, and falls obsessively in love with her, eventually turning to opium to calm himself.
green
One of the twelve principles in this field of chemistry is that generation of byproducts should be minimized. Identify this field of chemistry whose colorful name reflects its goal of designing products and prcoesses that have little to no effect on the environment.
telescope
One of these objects is nicknamed SALT and uses 91 hexagonal segments.
telescope
One of these objects named for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar detected an X-ray burst from Sagittarius A*.
Leo Tolstoy
Author of "Hadji Murad"
Mickey Spillane
Author of "I, the Jury"
Haruki Murakami
Author of "Kafka on the Shore"
glaciers
"Joint blocks" can be transported by these objects during a process called plucking.
Maria Theresa
18th century empress of Austria
potential energy
A boulder teetering on a hilltop has this type of energy. If the boulder is pushed down the hill, this energy will be converted to kinetic, or movement, energy.
Pierre-Charles Villeneuve
A combined French and Spanish fleet under this admira was attacked by Royal Navy ships.
Capacitor
A common example of this device consists of two parallel plates.
iron
A porphyrin ring surrounds this element in hemoglobin.
DNA
A variant of liquid-liquid extraction that uses phenol and chloroform as the two solvents is used to isolate this from cells.
AIDS
AZT and other antiretroviral drugs treat this disease caused by HIV.
i
According to Euler's formula, e to the power of this number times "x" always equals cosine "x" plus this number times the sine of "x".
electronegativity
According to Pauling's scale, the largest value of this quantity, 4.0, is possessed by fluorine.
Dover Beach
According to this poem, the sound of pebbles brings in a "note of sadness," which Sophocles "long ago" heard "on the Aegean".
Vienna
After Ulm, the French turned east into the heart of Austria, where they seized this town and awaited counterattack by the Russians.
Enrico Fermi
After Wolfgang Pauli announced his exclusion principle in 1925, this man followed with a paper in which he applied the principle to an ideal gas, employing a statistical formulation now known as [his name]-Dirac statistics.
Chuck Yeager
After World War II, this man became a test pilot of many types of aircraft, including experimental rocket-powered aircraft.
Cole Porter
After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, this man was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work.
Beaufort
All hurricanes rank as a 12 or higher on this wind speed scale first developed in 1805 by a Royal Navy officer.
d
Along with L, this letter is used in describing the chirality of different sugars and denotes an atomic orbital with azimuthal quantum number from -2 to 2.
nickel
Along with iron and cobalt, this metal is ferromagnetic.
Alan Turing
Alonzo Church's lambda calculus satisfies this man's namesake "completeness", and along with Church, this man names a thesis that states that all computable functions can be computed using a namesake device.
Glycolysis
Also known as the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway, name this anaerobic process that breaks down glucose into pyruvate, the first step of cellular respiration.
Large Hadron Collider
Another experiment using this device, ALICE, works on the collisions of lead nuclei, while ATLAS searches for heavy particles.
Les Fleurs du mal
An introductory poem in this book uses the phrase "my likeness, my brother" to describe a "hypocrite reader."
kinetic energy
An object's momentum squared divided by twice the object's mass gives this quantity.
Thomas Jefferson
Architect of Monticello
Auguste Rodin
Arist of "The Age of Bronze"
Andy Warhol
Artist of "Campbell's Soup Cans"
Ernest Hemingway
Author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
Green
Barium presents this color when it undergoes the flame test.
Chattanooga
Battles occurred at this place in October and November 1863. Following the defeat of General William Rosecrans' Union Army of the Cumberland at Chickamauga, the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg beseiged Rosecrans and his men by occupying key high terrain around Chattanooga.
Kosovo
Bayezid I, who was present at this battle, became the Ottoman Sultan once his father died.
Battle of Paducah
Before this successful raid by Major General Nathan Bedford, Tennessee had been occupied by Union troops since 1862
red
Blue litmus paper turns this color in acids.
El Nino
Boosted precipitation in the southern US is a common result of this phenomenon.
Jesus
Born in Nazareth, taught in Jerusalem, believed to be the Messiah from the Old Testament.
Kosovo
Both Prince Lazar of Serbia and Sultan Murad I died during the battle.
Lexington and Concord
British regulars under Francis Smith attempted to destroy the supplies of the colonial militia, but were stopped by Minutemen.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Creater of symphonic, chamber and piano works despite hearing loss
Volstok 1
During this space mission, Gagarin completed a single orbit around Earth before re-entering and parachuting out of his capsule.
nickel
Electrodes containing it and cadmium comprise a common type of rechargeable battery.
Michael Faraday
Electromagnetic fields can be shielded by "cages" named for this man.
Euclid
Father of Geometry
French and Indian War
Fighting in this war took place primarily along the frontiers between New France and the British colonies from Virginia in the south to Newfoundland in the north.
Pentagon
Five sided polygon
Treaty of Troyes
Five years after Agincourt, King Henry was recognized as the heir to the French throne through this treaty.
mutation
Give this term for a change in a genome.
Pendulum
Harmonographs are drawn using these devices, such as the Blackburn type.
Thomas Jackson
Having been pushed off Matthews Hill at the First Battle of Manassas, Confederate troops rallied, inspired by the stand of this general's Virginians on the plateau of Henry House Hill
William Yeats
He commented on a failed Irish rebellion in "Easter, 1916"
constant
This is a physical quantity that is measured in nature and does not change.
Noah Webster
He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education"
temperature
Heat flows spontaneously from high to low values of this intensive property.
Niels Bohr
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle was the subject of debates between Einstein and this scientist, who postulated that electrons orbit an atom's nucleus in discrete energy levels.
Isaac Newton
His major works include optics, calculus, laws of motion and gravitation
Hieronymus Bosch
His most acclaimed works consist of a few triptych altarpieces, including The Garden of Earthly Delights
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
His personal army of men on black horses was called the oprichniki.
James Cook
His voyage to observe the 1769 transit of Venus, which included Joseph Banks, was made in the Endeavor and visited Australia and New Zealand.
Saratoga
Horatio Gates led the American forces in this campaign.
AIDS
In October 2016 Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant, was deemed to have been wrongly accused of being "Patient Zero" of this disease.
Turing machine
Identify these abstract computational models named for a UK scientist.
Addition Property of Equality
If a = b, then a + c = b + c
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois lawyer, won 1864 election during Civil War, killed by JW Booth
Barack Obama
Illinois senator elected president in 2008 and 2012
Miguel de Cervantes
In 1569, in this man's force exile from Castile, this man moved to Rome where he worked as a chamber assistant of a cardinal. He then enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Barbary pirates.
George Washington
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress made this man commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution.
Alps
In 1800, Napoleon marched over this mountain range to roll back Austrian gains in Italy.
Napoleon
In 1804, this man abolished the consulate and became France's emperor.
Microtubules
In cilia, a "9+2" arrangment of these cytoskeletal components form an axoneme. These cytoskeletal components are polymers of tubulin dimers.
transcription
In eukaryotes, this process begins when the TBP subunit of TFIID protein recognizes the TATA box.
mass
In everyday terms, this quantity and weight are the same on Earth, but on the Moon, the same object's measure of this quantity is unchanged while its weight is reduced by 85 percent by the lower gravity.
Column
In industry, multiple rounds of distillation are performed in a single one of these packed with trays, each of which can be modeled as a "theoretical plate."
Golgi
In most vertebrate cells, this structure is packed into a namesake "ribbon" typically located near the centrosomes.
ants
In mythology, these creatures helped Psyche sort grains into heaps.
Pratzen Heights
In the battle of Austerlitz, the allies, planning to advance to their left, abandoned this area, a dominating hill in the center of the battlefield. Napoleon seized this area, splitting the Russian army and then defeating each half in turn.
Saddam Hussein
In the early 1970s, this man nationalized oil and foreign banks leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran-Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions.
Fort Sumter
In this Civil War battle, a small Union garrison occupied the fort. The fort was effectively beseiged, then bombarded, by surrounding Confederate batteries.
Crystal
In one system for classifying these materials, negative integers are written with a bar on top, and the three integers h, k and l are used to represent a vector in reciprocal space.
ants
In rainforests, the "lemon" type of these creatures creates "devil's gardens."
To Kill a Mockingbird
In this novel, Mayella Ewell gives false testimony at Tom Robinson's trial.
David Copperfield
In this novel, after the TC's father dies, his mother marries the cruel Mr. Murdstone.
Hard Times
In this novel, the politician James Harthouse tries to seduce Louisa, who returns home to her father and causes him to see the error of his ways.
Oliver Twist
In this novel, the title orphan is brought up in a workhouse, where he horrifies the beadle Mr. Bumble by asking for more food.
The Old Curiosity Shop
In this novel, thirteen-year-old Nell Trent goes to live with her grandfather, a gambling addict who owns a London shop filled with mysterious and horrible objects.
The Kreutzer Sonata
In this novella, as passengers on a train discuss marriage and love, a "nervous man" named Basile Posdnicheff breaks into the conversation, and insists that romantic love cannot endure a lifetime.
The Queen of Spades
In this story, when Herman looks at the title card, it seems to wink at him as the countess had done.
The Bet
In this work, the lawyer plans to leave the lodge five hours before 12 o'clock on November 14, 1885, when he would have wong the wager.
sting
Insects in order Hymenoptera engage in this defense mechanism that inflicts pain.
Enrico Fermi
Italian-American physicist; creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1
Bunker Hill
June 17, 1775
William Shakespeare
Known for his 154 sonnets as well as comedies and tragedies.
A Tale of Two Cities
Lucie and Darnay escape with the help of the governess Miss Pross, who shoots Madame Defarge in this novel.
A Tale of Two Cities
Lucie marries Charles Darnay in this novel. Darnay is a Frenchman who bears a striking resemblance to the English lawyer Sidney Carton. Darnay is also a member of the Evremonde family.
glaciers
Mark Brandon found evidence that these objects do not adhere to the "buzzsaw" hypothesis in the Andes.
MRI
NMR is the theoretical basis for this medical procedure.
Margaret Thatcher
Nicknamed the "Iron Lady"
Germantown
October 4, 1777
Hastings
Occurred in 1066.
Proton
Omeprazole is a drug that inhibits a transporter of these ions.
Fahrenheit 451
One character in this novel claims that humans are superior to the phoenix because humanity can remember its mistakes. Name this dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury about the fireman Guy Montag.
Eminem
Rolling Stone placed this man in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and labeled him as the "King of Hip Hop"
Middlemarch
One character in this novel is unable to ready German, stalling his research on "The Key to All Mythologies."
Hatsheput
She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty.
Leonardo da Vinci
Painted "Madonna of the Rocks"
Lilac
Potassium presents this color when it undergoes the flame test.
Lexington and Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson described the first shot as the "shot heard round the world."
Golden Ratio
Represented by the Greek letter phi
Auguste Rodin
Sculpted "The Man with the Broken Nose"
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Sculptor of The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
Michelangelo
Sculptor of the marble David.
thyroid
Several autoimmune disorders affect this structure, including ones named after Hakaru Hashimoto and Robert Graves
Hatsheput
She ruled jointly with Thutmose III, who had ascended to the throne the previous year as a child of about two years old. She was the chief wife of Thutmose II.
violet
Siegfried Ruhemann names a pigment of this color that forms when a primary amine is detected using ninhydrin.
Barbara Walters
Since this woman's retirement, she has continued to occasionally report for ABC News.
Nicholas Nickleby
Smike dies in this novel, and Ralph commits suicide after learning that Smike was his son.
Second Batle of Bull Run
Success in this battle emboldened General Lee to initiate the ensuing Maryland Campaign.
The Nose
Summoning his courage, Kovalyov tries to convince the title body part to return to his face, but it claims not to recognize him, in this novel.
violet
Solutions of permanganate ions are intensely this color.
polarity
Solvents with this property include dichloromethane but not carbon tetrachloride.
John Keats
Some of the most acclaimed works of this man are "Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
alcohol
Some yeasts produce carbon dioxide and one of these molecules when they metabolize glucose through anaerobic fermentation.
Salvador Dali
Spanish Surrealist artist
Yellow
The D lines of sodium produce one of the strongest flame test colors: a bright shade of this color.
Charles II
The English King who reigned during the Great Fire of London
Bannockburn
The English attempted to lift the siege of Stirling Castle.
Nicholas Nickleby
The TC of this novel marries a woman named Madeline Bray, and Kate weds the Cheerybles' nephew, Frank.
Hamlet
The TC remarks to his mother that "frality, thy name is woman" after they attend his father's funeral.
Madame Bovary
The TC's husband causes a gangrenous infection after attempting to cure Hippolyte's case of clubfoot.
Vicksburg
The Union victory at this battle permanently severed communication between the Trans-Mississippi Department and the balance of the Confederacy.
American Civil War
The United States were involved in this war from 1861-1865.
telescope
The Very Large Array consists of 27 of these devices that are currently performing a full scan of the sky.
Quantum Entanglement
The ability to exchange information over large distances instantaneously.
Isaac Newton
The author of Principia.
Virgil
The author of the Roman epic "Aeneid"
Pygmalion
The author of this play rejected an alternate ending written by Herbert Tree, and one character receives a fortune from Ezra Wannafeller after he is praised for being England's "most original moralist."
Waterloo
The battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras were fought two days prior to this battle, where Blucher's Prussians broke through the right flank.
Antigone
The chorus of this play states "There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man" in its "Ode to Man."
Pascal's Triangle
The coefficients involved in a binomial expansion form the rows of this numerical arrangement
Prussia
The collapse of this country's army, widely considered the continent's most experienced and professional military force, shocked European observers.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The first Prime Minister of India
Lexington and Concord
The first battles of the American Revolutionary War were skirmishes near Boston in these two towns.
Voskhod 1
The first flight to contain multiple astronauts.
A Tale of a Tub
The first major work written by Jonathan Swift. It features Peter, Martin and Jack who represent different factions of Christianity.
Les Fleurs du mal
The first part of this collection contains poems named after "venal" and "sick" muses.
Mein Kampf
The first volume of this work written in Landsberg Prison discusses the author's time in Vienna.
Crystal
The formation of these materials requires the presence of a "seed" to begin nucleation.
Pygmalion
The heroine of this play throws her slippers at a man who had previously passed off her comments as "the new small talk."
Cosmic Microwave Background
The high uniformity of this entity's blackbody spectrum is considered some of the strongest evidence for the Big Bang Theory.
Amperes
The measure of electric current.
Great Expectations
The narrator of this novel, Philip Pirrip is nicknamed "Pip".
The Raven
The narrator of this poem is impressed by the "grave and stern decorum" of the title entity's "countenance," which beguiles his "sad fancy into smiling."
Rememberance of Things Past
The narrator's romance with Albertine Simonet ends in one volume of this work, while another volume is centered on the Guermantes.
five
The only odd proper factor of ten is this prime number, the number of sides of a pentagon.
Enyzme
The performance of these molecules can be visualized with a Lineweaver-Burk plot and quantified with Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
red
The planet Mars is nicknamed after this color of rust.
Allen Ginsberg
The poem "Howl" reflects this man's homosexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner.
Madame Bovary
The protagonist of this novel is ultimately drive into debt by the merchant Lheureux and eats arsenic.
Rene Descartes
The second book of a work by this mathematician consists of a classification of algebraic curves, including his namesake "folium."
entropy
The second law of thermodynamics states that a closed system cannot decrease this measure of a system's disorder.
John Keats
The poetry of this man is characterised by sensual imagery, most notably i the series of odes.
Meteor shower
The point from which these events originate is called the radiant.
atom
The precise combination of protons, neutrons and electrons give each type of this its physical and chemical properties.
mutation
The prematuer placement of a stop codon results in the "nonsense" type of these events.
Elster
The premature destruction of a bridge over this river hindered Napoleon's retreat from Leipzig, the first in a series of military disasters that led to the emperor's forced abdication and exile to the Mediterranean island Elba in 1814.
Middlemarch
The protagonist of this novel marries the poor Will Ladislaw, renouncing the fortune of her dead husband Casaubon.
A Doll's House
The protagonist of this play dances the Tarantella for her husband, who refers to her as his "little squirrel."
Sine
The reciprocal of this function is cosecant, and it can be extended to any real value in terms of the length of a certain line segment in a unit circle.
Proton
The reduction of coenzyme Q in the electron transport chain moves four of these ions out of the mitochondrial matrix using namesake "pumps," in a process that generates a gradient across the inner membrane.
Hershey-Chase experiment
The result of this experiment along with other experiments, demonstrated that the genetic material was DNA, not protein.
Mein Kampf
The second part of this book discusses the formation of the National Socialist Party.
Ode on a Grecian Urn
The second stanza of this poem observes that "heard melodies are sweet," though "those unheard/Are sweeter."
Mantle
The shallow part of this layer of the earth contains abundant olivine. This layer comprises over 80% of the earth's volume, which lies above the core and below the crust.
black hole
The simplest examples of these objects extend out to the Schwarzschild radius, where the escape velocity equals the speed of light.
atom
The smallest unit of any substance found on Earth.
Cosmic Microwave Background
The source of this entity was first mistaken to be pigeon droppings in the Holmdel Horn Antenna, and it was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.
Meselson-Stahl experiment
The two namesake scientists used E. coli grown in a medium containing only nitrogen-15. They were then allowed to synthesize DNA in an environment containing only nitrogen-14 over two generations.
Flame
The unique emission spectrum of the element present causes this to briefly change color.
The Road Not Taken
The speaker of the poem, "knowing how way leads on to way," believes he "shall be telling this with a sigh/somewhere ages and ages hence."
The Raven
The speaker of this poem feels sorrow for the loss of Lenore, and he is told "Nevermore" by a bird. Name this poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Frederick the Great
The victories at Jena and Auerstedt led Napoleon to feel that he had secured revenge for this man's victory over France at Rossbach in the Seven Years' War.
Desmond Tutu
Theologically, this man sought to fuse ideas from black theology with African theology, politically he identifies as a socialist.
Periodic Table
There are seven rows in this diagram introduced by Dmitri Mendeleev.
five
There are this many Platonic solids, and there are this many complex solutions to a quintic polynomial.
Ernest Hemingway
This man won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954
Dean Acheson
This man won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for Present at the Creation.
To Kill a Mockingbird
This novel's narrator is surprised to learn that Dolphus Raymond is drinking a bottle of Coke from a brown paper bag.
Oliver Twist
This novel's protagonist beats Noah Claypole for insulting his dead mother.
George W. Bush
This was the 43rd President of the United States.
cube
This polyhedron has twelve edges, eight vertices and six faces.
Andrew Jackson
This president founded the Democratic party
Principle of Least Action
This principle says that things happen in the way that requires the least amount of effort.
Eminem
This rapper's real name is Marshall Mathers.
Cosmic Microwave Background
This result of photon decoupling has been studied by COBE and WMAP.
Hard Times
Thomas Gradgrind superintends a school in this novel, whose students include an ambitious boy named Bitzer, and Sissy Jupe, a young member of Mr. Sleary's traveling circus.
iron
Though not aluminum or zinc, this metal can be used as a catalyst to electrophilically halogenate aromatic rings.
Apollo 13
To bring back the astronauts of this mission, the orbiter was put on a free-return trajectory around the moon.
World War I
Trench warfare between European alliances produced "Lost Generation"
telescope
Two of these devices named for WM Keck are on altazimuth mounts.
Current
Voltage over resistance
AIDS
While being treated for this illness, Timothy Ray Brown became known as the "Berlin patient."
Slaughterhouse-Five
While dying of gangrene in a boxcar, Roland Weary arranges the murder of this novel's protagonist.
Leon Trotsky
While he initially supported the Menshevik-Internationalists faction within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, he joined the Bolsheviks just before the 1917 October Revolution and immediately became a leader within the Communist Party, becoming one of the seven members fo the first Politburo.
The Pickwick Papers
While on their travels in this novel, the Pickwickians foil the attempt of Alfred Jingle to elope with Rachael Wardle of Dingley Dell.
Adam Smith
While teaching moral philosophy at Glasgow, this man wrote and published "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
The Jew of Malta
Written by Christopher Marlowe. After his massive fortune is seized by Malta's governor Ferenze to pay tribute to the Turks, the Jewish merchant Barabas embarks on a complex journey of revenge.
The Overcoat
Remarking on this story by Nikolai Gogol's importance to Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoyevsky quipped "we all come out of Gogol's title apperature."
Michelangelo
Renaissance creator of frescoes on Sistine Chapel, nude marble David
On the Road
Sal Paradise travels the US in this Beat novel written by Jare Kerouac.
cuvettes
Samples are held in these small square plastic or quartz tubes
Nujol
Samples of this technique are typically prepared by grinding them into a potassium bromide pellet or by creating a mull with this oil.
alcohol
"Primary" examples of these molecules can be synthesized by reducing an aldehyde.
coal
170,000 men extracted this resource in County Durham alone in 1923, a decade after its use was abandoned in battleships.
World War II
1939 - 1945
Barack Obama
2009 Nobel Peace laureate
John Adams
2nd President of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President of the United States
Turing machine
A "universal" one of these constructs, which can simulate any other one, is analogous to a modern computer.
Alexios I
A Byzantine emperor. It was during this man's reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.
Hastings
A little more than two weeks after Stamford Bridge, Harold Godwinson was defeated by another claimant to the throne of Hastings, William the Conqueror.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
A lyric poem by William Wordsworth. Inspired by an event on April 15, 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister came across a "long belt" of "golden" daffodils. The poem is commonly seen as a classic of English romantic poetry.
Abel-Ruffini theorem
According to this theorem, polynomials of order five or higher cannot be solved analytically.
black hole
Accretion disks surrounding these objects are the power source for active galactic nuclei.
Slaughterhouse-Five
After being abducted, this novel's protagonist lives with the actress Montana Wildhack in an alien zoo.
Germantown
After this defeat, Washington's troops wintered at Valley Forge.
Lake Peipus
Also know as the Battle on the Ice
telescope
Another one of these devices is planned for launch in 2019 and is named for James Webb.
Golden Ratio
Approximately 1.6180339887...
Lexington and Concord
April 19, 1775
Andy Warhol
Artist of "Marilyn Diptych"
Huey Long
As political leader of Louisiana, this man commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
At the end of this story, the title character sees light all around him at the same time that his son Vasya kisses his hand, and realizes that all he can do to end his family's suffering is to die. The title character thus dies happily.
A Tale of Two Cities
At the start of this novel, the French doctor Alexandre Manette is released after 18 years in the Bastille, where he was imprisoned to prevent him from revealing the crimes of the Evremonde family.
Gold
Au
violet
Bacteria with a thick peptidoglycan-rich cell wall can be detected by staining with a "crystal" dye of this color.
thyroid
Berry's ligament suspends this structure, which contains follicular and parafollicular cells.
electron
Beta decay is the emission of a positron or this particle.
median
Box plots often have a segment in the middle to represent this property of the data set. In a large data set, half the data is greater than this value nad half of it is less than this value
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer of "The Magic Flute"
Jean Sibelius
Composer of the Karelia Suite
Blue
Copper, Selenium, Arsenic and indium present this color when the flame test is performed.
Peter Tchaikovsky
Creator of ballets including Swan Lake and orchestral works such as the 1812 Overture
Cowpens
Daniel Morgan commanded the Continentals and Banastre Tarleton led the British in this battle.
Unix
Dennis Ritchie also worked on this operating system, which was designed at Bell Labs.
Bayeux Tapestry
Depicts Harold Godwinson's death and the Battle of Hastings.
Great Expectations
Dickens modified this novel's conclusion at the suggestion of the author Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who objected to an ending in which Estella weds another man.
Leonardo da Vinci
Drawer of the Vitruvian Man
Josip Broz Tito
During World War II, this leader resisted occupation by Axis forces as the commander of the Partisans.
Alan Turing
During World War II, this man worked at Bletchley Park to develop a machine that could break the German Enigma cipher.
noble gases
Electron configurations are often shortened by including a symbol for these elements. Name these elements that typically have a full valence shell. They appear on the far right column of the periodic table.
epilepsy
Ethosuximide is used for this disorder's "childhood absence" type.
Spleen
Follicles in this organ's Malpighian corpsucles contain B lymphocytes.
Hamlet
Following Claudius's rise to the throne, the TC of this play delivers the "to be or not to be" soliloquy.
Ivan the Terrible (Ivan IV)
Following the capture of Kazan Khanate, this man lost the Battle of Wenden, leading to the failure of the Livonian War.
ionization energy
For a given period of the periodic table, this quantity is highest for a noble gas. This quantity is the energy needed to remove an electron from the valence shell of an atom.
Hatsheput
Foremost of Noble Ladies
Britain
France and Spain allied in the hope of challenging this country's Royal Navy, which made it possible for Napoleon's armies to launch an invasion of this country.
Mein Kampf
Future US Senator Alan Cranston translated this text in 1939, 14 years after it was first published.
beta decay
GERDA and NEMO-3 search for a vision of this process that would show the existence of Majorana fermions.
Enrico Fermi
He developed a model that incorporated the postulated particle, which he named the "neutrino."
mutation
Hermann Joseph Muller classified these events as types of morphs, building on the work of Hugo de Vries.
Large Hadron Collider
In July 2012 the CMS detector of this underground facility achieved its goal of allowing indirect observation of a Higgs boson.
Quebec
In a blinding snowstorm, the American general Richard Montgomery was killed in this battle, while Benedict Arnold was wounded and Daniel Morgan was captured.
Emily Dickinson
In another of her poems, the speaker describes taking a carriage ride with Death, who "kindly stopped" for her.
Napoleonic Wars
In the 18 years after the Treaty of Campo Formio, Napoleon rose from general to first consul to emperor of France, effectively ending the French Revolution and provoked a series of "these" wars that sent French troops into battle in places as distant as Egypt, Portugal, and central Russia.
First Bull Run
In this Civil War battle, Brigadier General Irvin McDowell's forces launched a series of attacks against the Confederates defending the namesake stream.
A Christmas Carol
In this novel, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge the grave of an unloved man--Scrooge himself.
Golgi
It receives COPII-coated vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum, when then move in cis to trans fashion through this organelle's cisternae.
Monmouth
June 28, 1778
termite
Like bees, this insect's colonies have queens.
Apoptosis
Many genes controlling this process, such as ced-4, were first studied in C. elegans.
ants
Name these insects that live in colonies.
kidney
Name these organs that filter waste out of the blood via nephrons.
waves
Name these pheomena on the surfaces of lakes and oceans.
Agincourt
Occurred in 1415.
Constantinople
Occurred in 1453.
Tours
Occurred in 732.
Fractional
Oil refining relies on this type of distillation, in which different products are pulled out of the mixture at various trays along the column.
The Bet
On the last day of the wager in this work, the banker resolves to kill the lawyer, and sneaks into the lodge while the lawyer is sleeping. There, the banker finds a letter in which the lawyer explains that years of study have taught him to scorn earthly knowledge and riches, and to care only about the salvation of his soul.
box and whisker plot
Outliers are often plotted as points on these diagrams showing the five-number summary.
transcription
RNA polymerase II binds to namesake factors to perform this process.
First Barons' War
Ran from 1215-1217
Qingdao
Reconaissance pilot Gunther Pluschow was regarded as "the hero of this battle" after he downed an enemy plane with his pistol.
electronegativity
Robert Mulliken proposed calculating this quantity by averaging ionization energy and electron affinity.
The Queen of Spades
Saint-German taught the countess how to win back her money by playing a sequence of three cards in this story.
Mark Twain
Steamboat pilot work inspired his pen name, his characters include Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
cheetah
The "Tanzanian" subspecies of this animal is the primary preditor of Thomson's gazelle.
World War I
The Central Powers of this war were Germany and Austria-Hungary.
A Raisin in the Sun
The Younger family moves to a predominantly white neighborhood in this 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry.
Long Island
The largest battle of the Revolutionary War
Henry's Law
The nonideal behavior of a solution follows this law at low concentrations, and the coefficient in this law is affected by temperature.
Capacitor
The strength of these devices can be increased with the use of dielectrics.
hurricane
The strength of these disasters can be ranked on Saffir-Simpson scale. Name these Atlantic storms that have sustained winds above 74 miles per hour. Their namesake "eye" is a region of calm activity.
electron
The transfer of these particles between atoms underlies nearly all chemical reactions.
Azeotropes
These are mixtures that cannot be separated because at the specified pressure and composition, both components boil at the same temperature.
oscillations
These are rhythmic movements which occur around a central, unchanging point in space.
waves
These phenomena change in height due to a depth-induced change in their group velocity, a process known as shoaling.
Margaret Mead
This American anthropologist wrote Coming of Age in Samoa.
Saint Albertus Magnus
This Domenican philosopher was also a scientist and was the first to produce arsenic in a free form.
SM4
This Space Shuttle was originally cancelled after the Columbia Disaster by then-NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, but was revived by Michael Griffin, who took over the post in 2005.
Pixel
This five letter contraction of the phrase "picture element" denotes a single dot on a computer screen.
termite
This insect has protozoa in its guts that break down cellulose.
V
This is the Roman Numeral for 5
L
This is the Roman Numeral for 50
D
This is the Roman Numeral for 500
Kelvin
This is the SI base for temperature
Hertz
This is the measure of frequency
eight
This is the number of planets in our solar system
John F. Kennedy
This man represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate prior to becoming president.
Felix Mendelssohn
This man was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. He wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music.
Aristotle
This man was a student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great, and was the earliest to study formal logic.
Langston Hughes
This man was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry.
Andrew Jackson
This man's victory at the Battle of New Orleans made him a national hero.
Lord of the Flies
This novel's protagonist discovers "dirt and decay" as he realizes that his clothes have become stiff and frayed.
On the Road
This novel's protagonist was abandoned in Mexico City after he was stricken with dysentery.
El Nino
This phenomenon is the warm couterpart of La Nina.
beta decay
This process increases the atomic number but leaves the mass number unchanged.
Apoptosis
This process produces cell fragments that can be engulfed by surrounding cells.
partition coefficient
This quantifies the desired compound's relative solubility in the two phases.
constant
This type of physical quantity allows you to calculate exactly how much one change will affect the other.
Enrico Fermi
Today, particles that obey the exclusion principle are named after him.
Hieronymus Bosch
Today, this man is seen as a hugely individualistic painter with deep insight into humanity's desires and deepest fears.
Hard Times
Tom Gradgrind steals from Mr. Bounderby, unsuccessfully tries to frame a worker named Stephen Blackpool, and flees to American in this novel.
Theodore Roosevelt
Vice President to William McKinley
Hooke's Law
Voigt notation can simplify one tensor with this statement to a six-by-six matrix.
natural selection
While Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed evolution through acquired characteristics, Darwin proposed that evolution occurs through this mechanism often called "survival of the fittest."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Won the 1936 Presidential Election
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Won the 1940 Presidential Election
Tintern Abbey
Written by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister in this section of the Welsh Borders. His description of his encounters with the countryside on the banks of the River Wye grows into an outline of his general philosophy. The titular building does not appear within this poem.
David Copperfield
Youthful infatuation causes this novel's TC to wed the flighty Dora Spenlow, who eventually dies.
Pythagorean Theorem
a²+b²=c²
Ode on a Grecian Urn
A stanza in this poem depicts a tree that cannot "bid the spring adieu," while a later section depicts a heifer that is sacrificed at a green altar.
sphere
A stereographic projection is a method for mapping this shape, except one point, onto a plane.
Golden Ratio
(1 + square root of 5)/2
thermometer
A platinum wire around a ceramic core forms the highly accurate resistance type of this device.
The Imaginary Invalid
A play by Moliere. It would turn out to be Molière's last work. He collapsed during his fourth performance as Argan on 17 February and died soon after.
Diffraction
A property of waves, not particles, and can only be observed if electrons can act as waves.
Wuthering Heights
A protagonist of this book is adopted from an orphanage in Liverpool.
thermometer
A psychrometer uses both the wet- and dry-bulb types of this to find the dew point, and one of them is used to collect data from a calorimeter.
The Minister's Black Veil
A short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story begins with the sexton standing in front of the meeting-house, ringing the bell. He is to stop ringing the bell when the Reverend Mr. Hooper comes into sight. However, the congregation is met with an unusual sight: Mr. Hooper is wearing a black semi-transparent veil that obscures all of his face but his mouth and chin from view. This creates a stir among the townspeople, who begin to speculate about his veil and its significance. As he takes the pulpit, Mr. Hooper's sermon is on secret sin and is "tinged, rather more darkly than usual, with the gentle gloom of Mr. Hooper's temperament"
Calorimeter
A simple one of these devices can be made by placing a thermometer in an insulating polystyrene coffee cup and sealing it with a lid, causing the reaction inside to occur at constant pressure.
law
A single description of a pattern that has been observed in nature. Most of these descriptions are expressed as equations.
Ticonderoga
A small but symbolic victory for the American forces led by Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold.
Capacitor
An early example of one of these devices used a glass jar with metal foil cemented on the inside and outside and is known as the Leyden jar.
Capacitor
An early example of this was the Leyden jar
ionic bonding
An electronegativity difference greater than 1.7 defines this interaction, which dissociates in water as crystals dissolve.
"O Captain! My Captain!"
An extended metaphor poem by Walt Whitman written in 1865 after the death of Abraham Lincoln. Contains the line "drops of red/Where on the deck my Captain lies." Part of the Leaves of Grass Collection.
Wohlwill Process
An industrial-scale chemical procedure used to refine gold to the highest degree of purity.
Medea
An oracle about "untying the wineskin's foot" is shared in this play by Aegeus, whom the protagonist gives fertility drugs in exhcange for safe haven after an exile. After Glauce is poisoned, that character flies away in a chariot pulled by dragons.
Isaac Newton
English mathematician and scientist- invented differential calculus and formulated the theory of universal gravitation, a theory about the nature of light, and three laws of motion. was supposedly inspired by the sight of a falling apple.
cholesterol
Enzymes in the membrane of the ER convert squalene to this molecule, which itself is a precursor to vitamin D.
ants
Formic acid is named for these creatures, whose varieties include "leafcutter" and "army."
geometry
Forms of this branch of math that differ in whether Playfair's postulate is assumed may be called "elliptic" or "hyperbolic."
Pendulum
Foucault designed one of these devices which revolves once per day at the poles and whose frequency decreases as it approaches the equator.
French and Indian War
France ceded New France east of the Mississippi River to Great Britain, but retained Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and transfered Louisian to Spain as a result of this war.
Agincourt
French commanders Jean Le Maingre and Charles d'Orleans were captured during this battle.
Aboukir Bay
French control of Egypt was dependet on communications across the Mediterranean, which were interrupted by the Royal Navy's attack on the French fleet in this bay in early August.
Gioachino Rossini
From 1810 - 1823, he produced his most popular works including the comic operas "L'italiana in Algeri" and "The Barber of Seville" and "La Cenerentola".
Yorktown
George Washington, with help from the French navy under the Comte de Grasse, surrounded the forces of Cornwallis and forced the British to surrender.
Amphibian
Gills persist into adulthood in the mudpuppy, axolotl, and some other members of this class.
giant
Give this adjective that describes the size of the red star that our Sun will eventually become.
World War II
Global conflict that led to the downfall of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan.
Grunwald/Tannenberg
Grand Master Ulrich led the Teutonic Knights while King Wladyslaw II Jagiello led the Polish forces and Grand Duke Vytautas led the Lithuanians.
Prussia
In 1806, Napoleon turned his forces against this country.
Russia
In 1812, Napoleon assembled the largest army of his reign for the most ambitious military operation of the 19th century: a full-scale invasion of this country.
Sixth Coalition
In 1813, the Russian army marched west into central Europe at the head of this coalition that brought the previously defeated Austrians and Prussians back into hostilities against France.
coal
In 1830 Thomas Hepburn established a union of men who extracted this resource, which was a major export of Newcastle.
Horace Mann
In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, this man was elected to the US House of Representatives (1848 - 1853).
relativity
In 1905, the special form of this theory was published, dealing with time dilation and arguing that the speed of light is constant for all observers, Ten years later, the general form of this theory, which concerns the curvature of spacetime around mass, was announced.
Akahito
In 1959, this man became the first member of the Japanese royal family to marry a commoner, Shoda Michiko.
Barbara Walters
In 1974, this woman became co-host of The Today Show, becoming the first woman to hold such a title on an American news program.
coal
In 1984 Arthur Scargill led miners of this resource in a strike that was defeated by Margaret Thatcher.
El Nino
In 2015 this recurring interaction led to increased sightings of yellow-bellied sea snakes on California beaches.
Yo-Yo Ma
In addition to his recordings of the standard classical repertoire, this man has recorded a wide variety of folk music, American bluegrass music, traditional Chinese melodies, the tangos of Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla, and Brazilian music.
The Thousand and One Nights
In another story in this collection, sailors who eat the chick inside an enormous egg have their ship destroyed by roc birds.
buffer
In biology, an example of one of these solutions that uses phosphate is called PBS.
radiation
Light, heat, radio waves, as well as dangerous gamma rays, are all types of this, each carrying varying amounts of energy.
red
Lithium and strontium compounds burn this color is a flame test.
Red
Lithium, calcium and strontium present this color when it undergoes the flame test
Grunwald/Tannenberg
Marked a major turning point in Eastern European history as it led to the decline of Teutonic Knights and the rise of Poland-Lithuania.
Gottfried Leibniz
Mathematical works have always favored his notation as the conventional expression of calculus, while Newton's notation became unused.
Ticonderoga
May 10, 1775
electron
Measuring the terminal velocity of drops of oil led Robert Millikan to determine this particle's charge.
Flagella
The "9+2" microtubule arrangement is also observed in these whip-like cellular appendages that are used for locomotion.
Pendulum
The "compound" or "physical" type of these objects allows one component to have an arbitrary inertial mass.
Hubert Humphrey
The 1968 Democratic presidential nominee who hailed from Minnesota.
Gulf War
The 1st Armored Division's destruction during this war led to a road becoming known as the "Highway of Death."
World War I
The Allies in this war included the Triple Entente of the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Abraham Lincoln
The American Civil War started shortly after this man was elected President in the election of 1860.
Camden
The American defeat at this battle was part of the British "southern strategy," which included the earlier capture of Charleston and Savannah.
Peace of Pressburg
The Battle at Austerlitz resulted in this peace treaty, signed on December 26, 1805, that ended the War of the Third Coalition and brought about the downfall of the Holy Roman Empire.
aluminum
The ore bauxite is the primary source of this metal, the most abundant metal in Earth's crust.
Fort Sumter
The outcome of this Civil War battle was a 36-hour Confederate bombardment that forced the Union garrison to surrender the fort. This action began the American Civil War.
First Bull Run
The outcome of this battle was the Union troops being routed back to Washington and they ceased to exist as a viable fighting force.
Agincourt
The outnumbered army of King Henry V of England dfeated the army of King Charles VI of France under Charles D'Albret.
absorbance
The output of an IR experiment (called an "IR spectrum") is a graph of this on the y-axis against wavenumbers, measured in inverse centimeters, on the x-axis.
Oliver Twist
The protagonist of this novel meets Nancy and is inducted into a pickpocket organization led by Fagin after a run-in with the Artful Dodger.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The protagonist of this novel secretly reads "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" in a room above Mr. Charrington's shop while on break from the Ministry of Truth.
Turing machine
These constructs are defined by a 7-tuple that encodes how their "head" transitions over an infinite tape of cells.
Flame Tests
These detect the presence of elements by dipping a wooden splint or nichrome wire in a sample of the element or its salt, then placing the sample over a Bunsen burner,
Gimballed
These are engines where the exhaust nozzles can change direction allowing the rocket to be steered.
atom
These are made up of yet smaller particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons.
particles
These are small units of matter.
Photons
These are the quanta of light
Battles of Lexington and Concord
These battles marked the outbreak of armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in America.
comet
These bodies undergo sublimation to form a coma, include the Hale-Bopp, and may enter the inner solar system after leaving the Kuiper belt or Oort cloud.
Titrations
These calculate the concentration of a solution by adding in small volumes of a reactant of known concentration until a chemical change, like a pH indicator changing color, occurs.
Capacitor
These circuit devices store charge.
