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Fisher 2015 Part II
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Founder of CNN | Ted Turner |
| One of the earliest known groups of arthropods flourishing throughout the Paleozoic era & finally disappeared in the Permian mass extinction. Among the most successful early animals, roaming the oceans for over 270 million years. | Trilobites |
| Considered by Russian author Tolstoy as his first true novel, it tells the tragic story of a married aristocrat/socialite/princess and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. | Anna Karenina |
| Passed under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison, it prohibits certain business activities that federal government regulators deem to be anti-competitive, and requires the federal government to investigate and pursue trusts & later monopolies & cartels. | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
| A short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842.[1] The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. | Twice Told Tales |
| Painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman pushes her people forward over the fallen, holding the flag of France in one hand and brandishing a bayonetted musket with the other. | Liberty Leading the People |
| A law which explains the behavior of many gases under many conditions. It was first stated by Émile Clapeyron in 1834 as a combination of Boyle's law, Charles's law and Avogadro's Law. The law is often written as: PV=nRT | Ideal Gas Law |
| American City home to the Space needle and the very first Starbucks. | Seattle, Washington |
| Wife of William Shakespeare | Anne Hathaway |
| State known as the "Land of Enchantment" | New Mexico |
| American composer of Camptown Races, Oh Susanna, and My Old Kentucky Home. | Stephen Foster |
| A measure of the number of specific ways in which a thermodynamic system may be arranged, commonly understood as a measure of disorder. | Entropy |
| Nicknamed the Bloodhound Law for dogs used to track down runaway slaves,it was one of the most dividing parts of the 1850 compromise.Required all escaped slaves,upon capture,to be returned to their masters,& citizens of free states comply had to comply. | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Musical which includes the songs, Tomorrow Belongs to Me, and Maybe This Time. | Cabaret |
| State home to Martha's Vineyard | Massachusetts |
| Musical version of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew | Kiss me kate |
| One of the most studied pieces of film in history, the Zapruder film is considered the most complete video recording that details the events of what infamous act in American history. | JFK assassination |
| Recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. | Anne of Green Gables by Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| The location where the earthquake begins. The ground ruptures at this spot, then seismic waves radiate outward in all directions. | Focus |
| The point on the Earth's surface located directly above the focus of an earthquake. | Epicenter |
| Classic American novel featuring title character and teenage rebel, Holden Caufield. | The Catcher in the Rye |
| Classic American novel that tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in California. | Of Mice and Men |
| American novel in which a sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on a great white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. | Moby Dick |
| State home to Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks. | Utah |
| State known as the Gem State | Idaho |
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