Academic Team Flashcards, Part One

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Academic TeamFlashcards, Part One
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First Chief Justice
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John Jay
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Most famous philosopher of Existentialism
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Jean Paul Sartre
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Painted The Haywain
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John Constable
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Discovered X-Rays
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Wilhelm Roentgen
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Author of On the Road
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Jack Kerouac
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Two friends of Jack Kerouac
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Allen Ginsberg andWilliam S. Burroughs

• Members of the Beat Generation

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Highest mountain in Antarctica
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The Vinson Massif
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Tallest mountain in South America
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Mt. Aconcagua
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Highest mountain in North America
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Mt. McKinley

• Also known as Denali

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Designed Central Park
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Frederick Law Olmstead

• Also worked on UC Berkeley Campus, Stanford
  Campus, Capitol Building landscape, University of
  Chicago Campus
• Lesser known Point Chautauqua in NY

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Author of Tales of Genji
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

• Recognized as worlds first novel

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Inventor of the Air Brake
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Westinghouse
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Inventor of the Reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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Author of Winesburg, Ohio
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Sherwood Anderson

• Book of short stories

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Kidnapped and Treasure Island were written by
this man
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Robert Louis Stephenson
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State Department official accused of being a
communist spy in the 1950s
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Alger Hiss
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Author of rags to riches stories in the 1800s
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Horatio Alger

• Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps

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Author of The Importance of Being Earnest
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Oscar Wilde
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Who painted The Last Supper?
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Who gave the Cross of Gold speech in the 1890s?
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William Jennings Bryan
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Who opposed William Jennings Bryan at the Scopes
Monkey Trial in 1925?
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Clarence Darrow
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Who painted The Persistence of Memory?
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Salvador Dali

• Surrealism

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Author of the famous Russian play The Seagull
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Anton Chekhov
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Russian author of Dr. Zhivago
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Boris Pasternak
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Who painted Guernica?
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Pablo Picasso

• German bombing of Spanish village during Spanish
  Civil War in 1930s

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What fascist dictator won the Spanish Civil War?
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Generalissimo Francisco Franco
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Author of To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
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British Prime Minister who appeased Hitler at
Munich in 1938
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Neville Chamberlain

• I believe this means peace for our time
• Gave away the Sudetenland (western Czechoslovakia)

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British Prime Minister who beat Hitler in World
War II
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Winston Churchill

• until we have rid the earth of his shadow

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American inventor of the telegraph
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Samuel Morse

• and Morse Code

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First woman Prime Minister of Britain
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Margaret Thatcher

• The Iron Lady

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First woman Prime Minister of India
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Indira Gandhi

• Nehrus daughter
• Not related to
• Mohandas Gandhi

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First woman Prime Minister of Israel
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Golda Meir
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Nixons last and best Secretary of State
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Henry Kissinger
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Deepest lake in world
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Lake Baikal
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Author of Brave New World
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Aldous Huxley

• Baby factories
• Perfect kids
• Perfect Society

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Darwins Bulldog who defended him against
religious attacks
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Thomas Huxley

• Father of Aldous Huxley

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Most famous Ragtime composer
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Scott Joplin

• Maple Leaf Rag, and other songs

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Author of The Good Earth
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Pearl S. Buck
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Composed West Side Story and Candide
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Leonard Bernstein
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Invented sewing machine
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Elias Howe
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Wrote Morte dArthur
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Sir Thomas Mallory
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Wrote The Road not Taken and is buried in
Bennington, Vermont
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Robert Frost
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Who wrote the play The Iceman Cometh?
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Eugene ONeill
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Who wrote the play The Crucible?
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Arthur Miller

• Married Marilyn Monroe (as did Joe DiMaggio)
• Does the play deal with Salem in 1692 or the
  Communist hunts of the 1950s?

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Most successful Jeopardy contestant of all time?
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Ken Jennings
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Author of Don Quixote
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Cervantes
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Who wrote Catcher in the Rye?
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J.D. Salinger
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Main character in Catcher in the Rye
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Holden Caulfield
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Who originated the idea of Tabula Rasa?
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John Locke
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Author of existential novels like The Plague
and The Stranger
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Albert Camus (ka mu)
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Ancient Greek philosopher who drank hemlock?
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Socrates
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Republican turncoats in a Presidential election
in the 1880s
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Mugwumps
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Absolute zero in degrees Celsius
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-273
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Absolute Zero in Kelvin
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0
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Highest navigable lake in the world
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Lake Titicaca
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Author of For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Ernest Hemingway

• Main character is Robert Jordan
• Hemingway fought personally in the Spanish Civil
  War in the 1930s

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Author of Absalom, Absalom
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William Faulkner

• Mississippi author
• Fictional Yoknapawtha county
• Fictional Snopes family
• Also wrote As I Lay Dying in a stream of
  consciousness style

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Poet who wrote the poems inThe Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath

• Married to British writer Ted Hughes whose
  cheating helped cause her suicide

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Author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy
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Norwegian playwright whose plays included A
Dolls House
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Henrik Ibsen
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Who composed Water Music?
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Handel

• Also The Messiah, a Christmas oratorio which
  includes the Hallelujah Chorus

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Name the first four books of the New Testament.
What are they called?
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Matthew, Mark, Luke and JohnThe Gospels
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Name the first five books of the Old Testament.
What are they called by Jewish people?
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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
DeuteronomyThe Torah
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Author of Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
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Author of Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
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Who wrote The Misanthrope and Tartuffe?
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Moliere

• French playwright

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Who wroteBeing and Nothingnessand No Exit?
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Jean Paul Sartre

• Leading 20th century existentialist

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Sartres girlfriend/companion and author of The
Second Sex
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Simone de Beauvoir

• strengthened the womens movement
• would not want to be called a girlfriend

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Please go to Part Two for more fun.