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13. Palazzo Ducale is translated as the Doge’s Palace. Who was the Doge?
14. What is the angle of lean on the Tower of Pisa?
15. How many spectators could the Colosseum seat in its prime?
16. Vatican City was established in 1929 by what treaty?
17. The Castel del Monte was built by which Holy Roman Emperor?
18. The day Mount Vesuvius erupted was the day after Vulcanalia, a festival for whom?
19. Which king ordered the construction of El Escorial?
20. In what year was the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle completed?
21. What day was William Shakespeare born?
22. Oxford is the second oldest surviving university in the world. What is the oldest?
23. What kind of stone is Stonehenge comprised of?
24. When did Buckingham Palace officially become the royal palace of the British monarch and for which monarch?
25. The Eiffel Tower was originally intended to remain for only twenty years. Why was it saved?
26. In what year was the Benedictine monastery established on the island of Mont-St-Michel?
27. What is the name of Charlemagne’s marble throne located in Aachen Cathedral?
28. Who commissioned the building of Neuschwanstein?
29. The design for the Brandenburg Gate was based on what?
30. Who was the Wilanów Palace built for in the 17th century?
31. The motto of Auschwitz was “Arbeit Macht Frei”. How does that translate to English?
32. Who was the architect of Karlštejn Castle?”
33. There is a bronze statue in Red Square. Who is the statue of?
34. In the sixteenth century, ownership of Mir Castle changed hands. Who was the new owner that made the change from Gothic to Renaissance architecture?
35. Which group of people is said to have built the city of Derinkuyu in the 8th–7th centuries B.C.?
36. Besides the Jaffa Gate, there are six other open gates to the Old City of Jerusalem. Name four of them.
37. Who is believed to be buried in the Tomb of the Prophets at the Mount of Olives?
38. Petra was established around the sixth Century B.C. as the capital of what people?
39. Who was the Turkish architect that designed the main dome of the Taj Mahal?
40. What was the original name of Ta Prohm?
41. In what year did Confucius die? (Hint: Kong Miao was built one year later.)
42. What is unusual about the coffin of Mao Zedong?
43. How long is the Great Wall of China?
44. What is the population of Shanghai?
45. Tokyo was originally founded as a village known by what name?
46. In 1868, Matsumoto Castle was scheduled for demolition. What local man led the drive to save the castle?
47. Rokuonji Temple is featured in a photograph in the desktop picture art of which computer operating system?
48. What is the name of the garden created to commemorate the city of Himeji’s 100th anniversary?
49. When did the Enola Gay drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima?
50. How did King Uthong choose Ayutthaya as the capital of Thailand back in 1350?
51. Borobudur is separated into three divisions, each symbolizing the three "realms" of Buddhist cosmology. Name them.
52. Who designed the Sydney Opera House?
53. How much area does the Great Barrier Reef cover?
54. Name three of your favorite celebrities on the Walk of Fame.
55. Who designed the Statue of Liberty?
56. What metals make up the composition of the Liberty Bell?
57. When did Washington, D.C. become the capital of the United States?
58. Who was the first President of the United States? (Hint: It is not George Washington.)
ANSWER KEY
List all of the plays by William Shakespeare
All’s Well That Ends Well; Anthony and Cleopatra; As You Like It; The Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; Henry V; Henry VI, Part 1; Henry VI, Part 2; Henry VI, Part 3; Henry VIII; Julius Caesar; King John; King Lear; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; A Midsummer’s Night Dream; Much Ado About Nothing; Othello; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Richard II; Richard III; Romeo and Juliet; The Taming of the Shrew; The Tempest; Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus; Troilus and Cressida; Twelfth Night; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Two Noble Kinsmen; The Winter’s Tale
List all of the sports that were in competition from the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2010 Winter Olympics
Alpine Skiing; Archery; Artistic Gymnastics; Badminton; Baseball; Basketball; Beach Volleyball; Biathlon; Bobsleigh; Boxing; Canoeing-Slalom; Canoeing-Sprint; Cross-Country Skiing; Curling; Cycling-BMX; Cycling-Mountain Bike; Cycling-Road; Cycling-Track; Diving; Equestrian-Dressage; Equestrian-Eventing; Equestrian-Jumping; Fencing; Field Hockey; Figure Skating; Freestyle Skiing; Freestyle Wrestling; Greco-Roman Wrestling; Handball; Ice Hockey; Judo; Luge; Modern Pentathlon; Nordic Combined; Rhythmic Gymnastics; Rowing; Sailing; Shooting; Short Track Speed Skating; Skeleton; Ski Jumping; Snowboarding; Soccer; Softball; Speed Skating; Swimming; Synchronized Swimming; Table Tennis; Taekwondo; Tennis; Track & Field; Trampoline Gymnastics; Triathlon; Volleyball; Water Polo; Weightlifting
Name the bones in the human body
Skull: Erhmoid bone; Frontal bone; Occipital bone; Parietal bone; Sphenoid bone; Temporal bone
Face: Inferior nasal conchae; Lacrimal bone; Mandible; Maxilla; Nasal bone; Palatine bone; Vomer bone; Zygomatic bone
Middle Ear: Incus; Malleus; Stapes
Throat: Hyoid bone
Shoulder: Clavicle; Scapula
Thorax: Ribs; Sternum
Vertebrae: Cervical vertebrae; Lumbar vertebrae; Thoracic vertebrae
Arm: Humerus; Radius; Ulna
Hand: Capitate bone; Distal phalanges; Hamate bone; Intermediate phalanges; Lunate bone; Metacarpal bones; Pisiform bone; Scaphoid bone; Trapezium; Trapezoid bone; Triquetrum bone
Pelvis: Coccyx; Hipbone; Sacrum
Leg: Femur; Fibula; Patella; Tibia
Foot: Calcaneus; Cuboid bone; Distal phalanges; Intermediate cuneiform bone; Intermediate phalanges; Lateral cuneiform bone; Medial cuneiform bone; Metatarsal bone; Navicular bone; Proximal phalanges; Talus
Name fifty of the Fortune 500’s top one hundred businesses of 2010
Wal-Mart Stores; Exxon Mobil; Chevron; General Electric; Bank of America Corp.; ConocoPhillips; AT&T; Ford Motor; J. P. Morgan Chase & Co.; Hewlett-Packard; Berkshire Hathaway; Citigroup; Verizon Communications; McKesson; General Motors; American International Group; Cardinal Health; CVS Caremark; Wells Fargo; International Business Machines; UnitedHealth Group; Proctor & Gamble; Kroger; AmerisourceBergen; Costco Wholesale; Valero Energy; Archer Daniels Midland; Boeing; Home Depot; Target; WellPoint; Walgreen; Johnson & Johnson; State Farm Insurance Cos.; Medco Health Solutions; Microsoft; United Technologies; Dell; Goldman Sachs Group; Pfizer; Marathon Oil; Lowe’s; United Parcel Service; Lockheed Martin; Best Buy; Dow Chemical; Supervalu; Sears Holdings; International Assets Holding; PepsiCo; MetLife; Safeway; Kraft Foods; Freddie Mac; Sysco; Apple; Walt Disney; Cisco Systems; Comcast; FedEx; Northrop Grumman; Intel; Aetna; New York Life Insurance; Prudential Financial; Caterpillar; Sprint Nextel; Allstate; General Dynamics; Morgan Stanley; Liberty Mutual Insurance Group; Coca-Cola; Humana; Honeywell International; Abbott Laboratories; News Corp.; HCA; Sunoco; Hess; Ingram Micro; Fannie Mae; Time Warner; Johnson Controls; Delta Air Lines; Merck; DuPont; Tyson Foods; American Express; Rite Aid; TIAA-CREF; CHS; Enterprise GP Holdings; Massachusetts Mutual Life Holdings; Philip Morris International; Raytheon; Express Scripts; Hartford Financial Services; Travelers Cos.; Publix Super Markets; Amazon.com
Name the men that were elected to or appointed to the office of President and/or Vice President
John Adams; John Quincy Adams; Spiro Agnew;
Chester A. Arthur; Alben Barkley; Joseph Biden; John Breckenridge; James Buchanan; Aaron Burr; George H. W. Bush; George W. Bush; John Calhoun; James Carter; Dick Cheney; Grover Cleveland; Bill Clinton; George Clinton; Schuyler Colfax; Calvin Coolidge; Charles Curtis; George Dallas; Charles Dawes; Dwight Eisenhower; Charles Fairbanks; Millard Fillmore; Gerald Ford; James Garfield; John Nance Garner; Elbridge Gerry; Al Gore; Ulysses S. Grant; Hannibal Hamlin; Warren Harding; Benjamin Harrison; William Henry Harrison; Rutherford Hayes; Thomas Hendricks; Garret Hobart; Herbert Hoover; Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.; Andrew Jackson; Thomas Jefferson; Andrew Johnson; Lyndon Johnson; Richard Johnson; John Kennedy; William King; Abraham Lincoln; James Madison; Thomas Marshall; William McKinley; Walter Mondale; James Monroe; Levi Morton; Richard Nixon; Barack Obama; Franklin Pierce; James Polk; Dan Quayle; Ronald Reagan; Nelson Rockefeller; Franklin Roosevelt; Theodore Roosevelt; James Sherman; Adlai Stevenson; William Howard Taft; Zachary Taylor; Daniel Tompkins; Harry Truman; John Tyler; Martin Van Buren; Henry Wallace; George Washington; William Wheeler; Henry Wilson; Woodrow Wilson
Name the artist
Nympheas – Claude Monet
The Last Supper – Leonardo da Vinci
Starry Night – Vincent Van Gogh
Campbell's Soup I (Tomato) – Andy Warhol
Portrait of a Man in a Turban – Jan Van Eyck
Guernica – Pablo Picasso
Descent from the Cross – Rembrandt van Rijn
The Parnassus – Raphael
Las Menina – Diego Velázquez
Girl with a Pearl Earring – Jan Vermeer
Supper at Emmaus – Caravaggio
Boy in a Red Waistcoat – Paul Cézanne
Number 1, 1950 – Jackson Pollock
The Scream – Edvard Munch
Les Alyscamps – Paul Gauguin
The Clothed Maja – Francisco Goya
The Old Musician – Édouard Manet
The Open Window – Henri Matisse
The Circus – Marc Chagall
View of Toledo – El Greco
Name the books of the Old and New Testament
Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy; Joshua; Judges; Ruth; 1 Samuel; 2 Samuel; 1 Kings; 2 Kings; 1 Chronicles; 2 Chronicles; Ezra; Nehemiah; Esther; Job; Psalms; Proverbs; Ecclesiastes; Song of Solomon; Isaiah; Jeremiah; Lamentations; Ezekiel; Daniel; Hosea; Joel; Amos; Obadiah; Jonah; Micah; Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Haggai; Zechariah; Malachi; Matthew; Mark; Luke; John; Acts; Romans; 1 Corinthians; 2 Corinthians; Galatians; Ephesians; Philippians; Colossians; 1 Thessalonians; 2 Thessalonians; 1 Timothy; 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon; Hebrews; James; 1 Peter; 2 Peter; 1 John; 2 John; 3 John; Jude; Revelation
Name the elements from the Periodic Table
Actinium; Aluminum; Americium; Antimony; Argon; Arsenic; Astatine; Barium; Berkelium; Beryllium; Bismuth; Bohrium; Boron; Bromine; Cadmium; Calcium; Californium; Carbon; Cerium; Cesium; Chlorine; Chromium; Cobalt; Copernicium; Copper; Curium; Darmstadtium; Dubnium; Dysprosium; Einsteinium; Erbium; Europium; Fermium; Fluorine; Francium; Gadolinium; Gallium; Germanium; Gold; Hafnium; Hassium; Helium; Holmium; Hydrogen; Indium; Iodine; Iridium; Iron; Krypton; Lanthanum; Lawrencium; Lead; Lithium; Lutetium; Magnesium; Manganese; Meitnerium; Mendelevium; Mercury; Molybdenum; Neodymium; Neon; Neptunium; Niobium; Nitrogen; Nickel; Nobelium; Osmium; Oxygen; Palladium; Phosphorus; Platinum; Plutonium; Polonium; Potassium; Praseodymium; Promethium; Protactinium; Radium; Radon; Rhenium; Rhodium; Roentgenium; Rubidium; Ruthenium; Rutherfordium; Samarium; Scandium; Seaborgium; Selenium; Silicon; Silver; Sodium; Strontium; Sulfur; Tantalum; Technetium; Tellurium; Terbium; Thallium; Thorium; Thulium; Tin; Titanium; Tungsten; Ununhexium; Ununoctium; Ununpentium; Ununquadrium; Ununseptium; Ununtrium; Uranium; Vanadium; Xenon; Ytterbium; Yttrium; Zinc; Zirconium
Name the countries of the world
Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Andorra; Angola; Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China; Colombia; Comoros; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire ; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominica; Dominican Republic; East Timor; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; England; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; Fiji; Finland; France; Gabon; the Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Grenada; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Holy See; Honduras; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kiribati; Kosovo; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libya; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Malta; Marshall Islands; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Micronesia; Moldova; Monaco; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nauru; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; North Korea; Northern Ireland; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Qatar; Republic of the Congo; Romania; Russia; Rwanda; Samoa; San Marino; Sao Tome and Principe; Saudi Arabia; Scotland; Senegal; Serbia; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slovakia; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Korea; Spain; Sri Lanka; St. Kitts-Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syria; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Togo; Tonga; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Tuvalu; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United States; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Vietnam; Wales; Yemen; Zambia; Zimbabwe
(Great Britain accepted in place of England, Scotland, and Wales.)
(United Kingdom accepted in place of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.)
Keys to Success
1. After a nearby grove of cottonwood trees, called Alamo trees
2. At the mouth of the well of the Itzá
3. Birthplace of the gods
4. Pachacuti
5. By the island's first recorded European visitor, the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who encountered it on Easter Sunday 1722
6. 275
7. 130 feet tall by 98 feet wide
8. 354 feet
9. 480.6 feet
10. 1922 by Howard Carter and George Herbert
11. The legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first Athenian king
12. "know thyself", "nothing in excess", "make a pledge and mischief is nigh"
13. The supreme authority over the Republic of Venice
14. 3.99 degrees to the south
15. 50,000
16. Lateran Treaty
17. Frederick II
18. The Roman god of fire
19. King Phillip II
20. 1511
21. April 23, 1564
22. University of Bologna
23. Bluestone, Sarsen, and Welsh Sandstone
24. 1837 for Queen Victoria
25. Scientific experiments with radio transmissions
26. 966
27. Königsstuhl
28. Ludwig II
29. The Propylaea, the gate to the Acropolis in Athens
30. King John III Sobieski
31. Work makes (one) free
32. Matthias of Arras
33. Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who helped to clear Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612
34. Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł
35. The Phrygians
36. New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod’s Gate, Lions’ Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate
37. Haggai, Malachi, and Zechariah
38. Nabataeans
39. Ismail Afandi
40. Rajavihara
41. 479 B.C.
42. It is made of crystal
43. 5500 miles
44. Over 23 million people
45. Edo
46. Ichikaw
a Ryozo
47. Apple's OS X computer operating system
48. Koko-en Garden
49. August 6, 1945
50. He found a conch buried in the ground
51. Kamadhatu (the world inhabited by common people) is the base, Rupadhatu (humans are released from worldly matters) is the next five platforms, and Arupadhatu (the abode of the gods) is the top three platforms and the main dome
52. Danish architect Jørn Utzon
53. 133,000 square miles
55. Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
56. 70% copper and 25% tin, with the remainder consisting of lead, zinc, arsenic, gold and silver
57. July 16, 1790
58. John Hanson, from November 5, 1781 until November 3, 1782
UNFORGETTABLE
by Todd Wickham
He Said
My life was very boring. I went to work. I came home. I had very few friends and nothing that resembled a social life.
Then, I saw her. I was walking into the laundromat. What normally smelled of detergent and bleach instead smelled like roses. I only caught a glimpse of her as she walked out with her clean clothes.
The first thing I saw were the bluest eyes I had ever seen. Blonde hair done up in a ponytail. A smile that could brighten up the darkest of rooms. And yet, she wore baggy sweat pants and an oversized sweatshirt. Still, she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
She was that single rose growing in the desert that was my life. She was the silver lining to my cloud. Yet, I didn’t know a single thing about her, not even her name.
As I washed my clothes, all I could think of was her. The smell of roses continued to fill the air.
A few hours later, as I hung my clothes in my closet, the vision of her stayed in my head. I was not about to forget the best thing ever to walk into my life.
And yet, that is exactly what happened the next morning. She was gone. No matter how much I tried, I could not bring back the light at the end of my tunnel.
Life went back to its boring ways.
Then, as I was leaving Starbucks with my venti caramel macchiato the next day, she walked back into my life. The smell of roses overwhelmed me.
I thought to go up to her and introduce myself. Then, I chickened out. I didn’t want to give the feeling I was desperate to meet her.