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Question 1

This philosopher called labor added to natural resources the basis for property. He noted that the state of nature is more or less free and equal, in contrast to the pessimist Hobbes.

Answer 1

John Locke

Question 2

The Curie brothers discovered that an oxide of this element exhibits piezoelectricity, lending to its usefulness in resonators and clocks.

Answer 2

Silicon

Question 3

The Jameson Raid preceded this conflict, in which the Transvaal and Orange Free State allied against British troops.

Answer 3

The Second Boer War

Question 4

Another character in this novel claims God is “a shout in the street” after being kicked out of Martello Tower by Buck Mulligan.

Answer 4

Ulysses

Question 5

where was the continental congress held?

Answer 5

Pennsylvania

Question 6

ethnic group of this name comprised the Scorpions unit under Ratko Mladić (RAT-koh m’LAD-itch), which was responsible for the Srebrenica (s’REB-en-EETS-yuh) massacre.

Answer 6

Serbs

Question 7

This man delivered the “Lectures on Rhetoric and belles Lettres” and said an important question of moral philosophy is “Wherein does virtue consist?”

Answer 7

Adam Smith

Question 8

This scientist argued against Franciscus Linus by running an experiment with a J shaped tube.

Answer 8

Robert William Boyle

Question 9

This process can make use of a Perkin triangle or a Kugelrohr apparatus in its vacuum form.

Answer 9

Distillation

Question 10

The last king of a country known by this ethnic group’s name, Peter I the Liberator, rose to power after the murder of Alexander I in 1903.

Answer 10

Serbs (Serbians)

Question 11

This city’s 2013 comptroller elections were contested by a former governor and a madam involved in his prostitution scandal.

Answer 11

New York City

Question 12

and was husband of Sarpanit and father of Numa has his most famous act depicted in the Enuma Elish.

Answer 12

Marduk

Question 13

name this creator of Jean Valjean who wrote Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Answer 13

Victor-Marie Hugo

Question 14

who is this poet, who asked about a rough beast slouching back to Bethlehem to be born in “The Second Coming”?

Answer 14

William Butler Yeats

Question 15

name this Russian composer of The Firebird.

Answer 15

Igor Stravinsky

Question 16

This Asian man was supported by a right-wing Blue Shirts Society. Under his rule, an uprising was suppressed in the 228 Incident.

Answer 16

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 17

this man said individuals’ self-interest would benefit society through an “invisible hand”.

Answer 17

Adam Smith

Question 18

Euler angles describe this transformation.

Answer 18

rotation

Question 19

this man’s opera Rinaldo.

Answer 19

George Frideric Handel

Question 20

In another novel by this author, two characters who look nearly identical are named Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay.

Answer 20

Charles (John Huffam) Dickens

Question 21

It is isoelectronic with the cyanide ion, as its stablest form has a triple bond.

Answer 21

Carbon Monoxide

Question 22

In this country, the “Big Hole” is a 705-foot-deep former diamond mine.

Answer 22

South Africa

Question 23

name this novel which follows Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom’s journeys in Dublin, a novel by James Joyce.

Answer 23

Ulysses

Question 24

Another well-known aria by this composer asks that the title Persian king’s dear plane tree be safe from storms, and is titled “Ombra mai fu” but often performed as “Largo from Xerxes.”

Answer 24

Handel

Question 25

In January 2023, representatives voted until the 15th ballot to elect this person, whose district includes Bakersfield.

Answer 25

Kevin McCarthy

Question 26

This thinker used 7 plus 5 equals 12 as an example of a synthetic a priori truth. In their Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, this thinker stated that one should act in accordance to laws as if they were universal, a formulation called the categorical imperative.

Answer 26

Immanuel Kant

Question 27

When a charged particle exceeds this quantity while in a medium, it produces Cherenkov radiation.

Answer 27

The speed of light

Question 28

Native Americans living in this territory were forced to sign the Treaty of Payne’s Landing in 1832. A dispute over this territory’s northern border was settled by Thomas Pinckney, who set it at the 31st parallel.

Answer 28

Florida

Question 29

This scientist believed that it was possible to change metals, and he wrote an account about the degradation of gold.

Answer 29

Robert William Boyle

Question 30

name this territory that shares its name with the state home to a majority of members of the Mormon church.

Answer 30

Utah

Question 31

name this composer whose fifth symphony opens with a famous “short-short-short-long”

Answer 31

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 32

He wrote the opera Rusalka, and deviated from sonata form in one of his chamber pieces, the Dumky trio.

Answer 32

Antonin Dvorak

Question 33

This man succeeded Sun Yat-sen as leader of the Kuomintang nationalists.

Answer 33

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 34

Name this play in which Vladimir and Estragon wait for a friend, by Samuel Beckett.

Answer 34

Waiting for Godot

Question 35

This type of dance caused a craze when it was first introduced to Vienna. A dog chasing its tail inspired a “Minute,” or small, one of these.

Answer 35

Waltz

Question 36

Materials composed of this element may be made n-type or p-type depending on whether they are doped by either a group 15 or group 13 element, respectively.

Answer 36

Silicon

Question 37

Name this Czech composer of the New World Symphony.

Answer 37

Antonin Dvorak

Question 38

Outside of India, this country’s city of Durban has the highest Indian population of any city.

Answer 38

South Africa

Question 39

Millicent Fawcett led a commission investigating Herbert Kitchener’s use of concentration camps during this conflict.

Answer 39

The Second Boer War

Question 40

This thinker opened one book by declaring, “everything degenerates in the hands of man”.

Answer 40

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Question 41

name this former Republican Speaker of the House from California.

Answer 41

Kevin McCarthy

Question 42

Eroica, was this man’s third symphony.

Answer 42

Ludwig van Beethoven

Question 43

Another work by him sees the gypsy Esmeralda saved from execution by the deformed Quasimodo.

Answer 43

Victor-Marie Hugo

Question 44

In one account, this deity demonstrated his power by making either a cloth or a constellation disappear.

Answer 44

Marduk

Question 45

An asymmetric rigid body has six degrees of freedom: three from translation and three from this transformation.

Answer 45

rotation

Question 46

This quantity is in the numerator in the formula for the index of refraction.

Answer 46

The speed of light

Question 47

The term “khaki election” was first used to describe a parliamentary election during this conflict.

Answer 47

The Second Boer war

Question 48

“Buchanan’s Blunder” was the nickname of an 1857 “war” named for this state.

Answer 48

Utah

Question 49

This play’s protagonists consider suicide and do meet Pozzo and Lucky.

Answer 49

Waiting for Godot

Question 50

Irish uprising in another poem. This author of “Easter 1916” inspired Achebe with his line “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

Answer 50

William Butler Yeats

Question 51

Over 1 million people were displaced by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on this river, which is connected to another river to its north by the Grand Canal.

Answer 51

Yangtze River

Question 52

A species of fish native to this river’s basin known as Dabry’s sturgeon was recently declared extinct in the wild.

Answer 52

Yangtze River

Question 53

An early ballet by this composer depicts 13 princesses playing with golden apples before dancing a khorovod.

Answer 53

Igor Stravinsky

Question 54

This composer of an “American” string quartet was inspired by a visit to America to write his ninth symphony.

Answer 54

Antonin Dvorak

Question 55

The “King” of this type of musical piece wrote ones titled Roses in the South and Tales from the woods of the city where this type of music originated.

Answer 55

Waltz

Question 56

Like nitric oxide, it is a gaseous neurotransmitter in the body, formed from the breakdown of hemoglobin.

Answer 56

Carbon monoxide

Question 57

Glass beads are often added during this process to increase its speed by providing nucleation points, especially in its fractional form.

Answer 57

Distillation

Question 58

A plan to retaliate against this politician’s negotiation of a continuing resolution using the motion to vacate was put forth successfully by Matt Gaetz.

Answer 58

Kevin McCarthy

Question 59

Name this German philosopher, who wrote the Critique of Pure Reason.

Answer 59

Immanuel Kant