Sept 30 random

Question 1

Mr. Micawber, modeled after author’s father

Answer 1

David Copperfield (villain was Heep)

Question 2

A Room of One’s Own, Mrs Dalloway

Answer 2

Virginia Wolf

Question 3

Cry the Beloved Country author

Answer 3

Paton

Question 4

James Earl Jones won an EGOT with this honorary award

Answer 4

Oscar

Question 5

A back room & bar of Harry Hope’s saloon is the setting for this Eugene O’Neill play

Answer 5

The Iceman Cometh (Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey into Night)

Question 6

Neuromancer author

Answer 6

Gibson

Question 7

Richard Bachman pen name

Answer 7

Stephen King

Question 8

John Paul Jones ship need to honor Franklin

Answer 8

Bonhomme Richard

Question 9

First black American to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Answer 9

Toni Morrison (she’s MORE important than others)

Question 10

Haystacks and waterlillies

Answer 10

Monet

Question 11

Still life painter

Answer 11

Cezanne, alt: Matisse

Question 12

Postman Always Rings Twice– gas station murder; Double Indemnity

Answer 12

James Cain

Question 13

James Ellroy

Answer 13

The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential

Question 14

Atonement author

Answer 14

McEwan

Question 15

Last Pres served in War 1812

Answer 15

Buchanan

Question 16

Pepsi inventor

Answer 16

Bradham in NC

Question 17

Bosch creator and Lincoln Lawyer author

Answer 17

Connelly

Question 18

Flemish Baroque painter

Answer 18

Reubens

Question 19

Emmy best actor 2023, for Roman Roy on Succession

Answer 19

Kieran Culkin

Question 20

Longest tenured member of SNL

Answer 20

Kenna Thompson

Question 21

Alex Cross detective author

Answer 21

James Patterson

Question 22

Turco-Mongol conqueror; founded the empire around Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia in 14th c

Answer 22

Tamerlane

Question 23

Alexandria astronomer

Answer 23

Ptolemy

Question 24

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Answer 24

Edward Gibbon

Question 25

A Trip to the Moon

Answer 25

by Melies

Question 26

The Thief of Bagdad actor

Answer 26

Douglas Fairbanks

Question 27

doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune

Answer 27

Kuiper belt

Question 28

most common igneous rock

Answer 28

basalt

Question 29

started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed

Answer 29

metamorphic rocks

Question 30

held statue of Zeus (7 wonders/Phidias)and hosted Olympic games

Answer 30

Olympia (nowhere near Mount Olympus, despite name)

Question 31

lost the Peloponnesian Wars

Answer 31

Athens

Question 32

Birth name Augustus

Answer 32

Octavian

Question 33

Emperor when Christ crucified

Answer 33

Tiberius

Question 34

Little Boot

Answer 34

Caligula

Question 35

Conquered Britain

Answer 35

Claudius

Question 36

Fiddled Rome

Answer 36

Nero

Question 37

Greatest extent of Empire

Answer 37

Trajan

Question 38

Last emperor

Answer 38

Romulus Augustulus

Question 39

Raised by Lady of the Lake. Had an affair with Guinevere

Answer 39

Sir Lancelot

Question 40

Writer who referred to Helen as "face that launched a thousand ships"

Answer 40

Christopher Marlowe (Tamburlaine)

Question 41

Son of Odysseus

Answer 41

Telemachus (mom was Penelope)

Question 42

Mother of Paris and Hector

Answer 42

Hecuba (wife of Priam)

Question 43

Liquid rockets

Answer 43

Goddard

Question 44

Nazi rockets

Answer 44

von Braun

Question 45

Cubism creator

Answer 45

Picasso

Question 46

Hastings in 1066 preceded by this battle

Answer 46

Stamford Bridge (FORD was First)

Question 47

Russians and Alexander Nevsky def this order

Answer 47

Teutonic Order

Question 48

William Wallace def English at

Answer 48

Sterling Bridge (on the SILVER screen)

Question 49

King Henry V of England defeated the army of King Charles VI of France.

Answer 49

Agincourt

Question 50

restored William's Protestant ascendancy over Ireland (of William and Mary fame)

Answer 50

Battle of the Boyne (near Drogheda) in 1690

Question 51

Argentine who liberated ARG and Chile from the Spanish

Answer 51

Jose de San Martin

Question 52

Stoicism founder

Answer 52

Zeno

Question 53

Earliest known civilization

Answer 53

Sumer

Question 54

Def by Ramses II at Battle of Kadesh

Answer 54

Hittites

Question 55

Led Achaemenid Empire that razed Athens but lost at naval battle Salamis

Answer 55

Xerxes

Question 56

First battle of Revolution

Answer 56

Lexington and Concord

Question 57

Gates def Burgoyne

Answer 57

Saratoga

Question 58

Named Pacific Ocean

Answer 58

Magellan

Question 59

First Sec Def

Answer 59

Forrestal

Question 60

Translated Bible into English

Answer 60

Wycliffe

Question 61

Nocturnes

Answer 61

Debussy

Question 62

most common element on Earth

Answer 62

Oxygen

Question 63

rarest element on Earth

Answer 63

Astatine

Question 64

First explorer NYC Bay

Answer 64

Verrazano (for FR)

Question 65

River Florence

Answer 65

Arno

Question 66

American violinist who fled USSR

Answer 66

Isaac Stern

Question 67

Second largest city in FR

Answer 67

Marseille

Question 68

Greek measured earth

Answer 68

Eratosthenes ERA TOSSED A KNEES

Question 69

SPY WRITER IN from cold

Answer 69

Le Carre (Car-ay)

Question 70

Third VP

Answer 70

Burr. Killed Hamilton

Question 71

Ivan the Great

Answer 71

III

Question 72

First Sec of War

Answer 72

Henry Knox

Question 73

Point where one enters space is the

Answer 73

Karman Line

Question 74

Dead astronaut

Answer 74

Grissom

Question 75

he invented the first modern computer, the “Difference Engine”

Answer 75

Babbage

Question 76

centaur who Heracles killed

Answer 76

Nessus