QBFOD 2012

finds contaminated water in the town's baths in Heinrik Ibsen's " An Enemy of the People"

The Strait of Malacca

granted toleration to Huguenots

Edict of Nantes was issued by

Edict of Nantes revoked by

issued Edict of Fortainbleau

Norse god of light who was killed by a dart of mistletoe thrown by his brother, Hoder

Balder

wrote "Poetics" & "Nichomachean Ethics"

are love interests of Amory Blaine in Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise"

Octavio Paz wrote…….based on the Aztec calendar

collaborated with Gertrude Stein on "Four Saints in Three Acts"

the Aztec rain god

kills the title bird in Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull"

created client-centered therapy

he first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

the American diplomats involved in the XYZ Affair

wrote "History of the Persian War"

the "Father of History"

Platonic dialogue where Socrates refuses to escape from prison

sacred book of Sikhism

The 1825 Decembrist Uprising was in opposition to the rule of

The tendency of a molecule to expand or escape its current phase

wrote the majority opinion in Dred Scott vs. Sandford

South African doctor who performed the first successful transplant of a human heart

Lucy Honeychurch marries George Emerson in

criticizes Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"

defeated Edward II at the 1314 Battle of Bannockburn

wrote "The Protestant Ethic an the Spirit of Capitalism"

Malaria is caused by

the parents of Roman Emperor Caligula

Justinian's general  that helped quash the Nika Riots

Philosopher John Locke asserted a right to "life, liberty and property" in.....

Tantalus is punished ......

ascended into heaven in a fiery chariot

was succeeded by Elisha

 Located between Iceland and Britain...owned by Denmark

The title characters in Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers" are tasked to kill.....

wrote about the Trueba family in "The House of the Spirits"

Huckel's Rule states that.....

John Milton's  discourse in support of freedom of the press

founded the Jehovah's Witnesses

the subject of E.M. Forster's novel "A Room with a View"

"Old Fuss and Feathers"

calculated the charge of an electron

the narrator of Albert Camus' "The Plague"

founded the Akkadian Empire

Moses was the son of

Moses was the husband of

 a puppet ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky

wrote "Vanessa" and "Adagio for Strings"

GB Shaw's "Major Barbara" is the daughter of ....

Herbert Hoover headed..... during WWI

are the thread-like filaments in the mycelium of fungi

last emperor of China

Shinto god of the winds

Susanoo is.....

What do Rodin,  Brancusi, Klimt and  Eisenstaedt have in common?

sings the aria "Nessun Dorma"

Calaf sings the aria "Nessun Dorma" in.....

the court painter to England's King Charles I

the ward of Mr. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"

was the mentor for the group Les Six

The Aral Sea is fed by...

the narrator of Evelyn Waugh's novel "Brideshead Revisited"

William III defeated........at the 1690 Battle of the Boyne

the ibis-headed Egyptian god of wisdom

to death in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery"

the SI unit of charge

nihilist protagonist of Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons"

wrote "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous" #qbfod #Buzzstrong

Cuban poet who wrote "Versos Libres"

Secretary of State under Harry Truman

The celebration of Yom Kippur begins with

the narrator of Samuel Butler's "Erewhon"

espoused Pantheism and wrote "Ethics"

the protagonist of Herman Hesse's novel "The Glass Bead Game"

"The Glass Bead Game" AKA

wrote the introduction to "Gitanjali"

Gitanjali by....

Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus died at

wrote the poem "Easter 1916"

The national epic of Portugal is

The spirits in the syncretic religion of Santeria

coined the term "conspicuous consumption" in his "Theory of the Leisure Class"

are love interests of the title character in Dreiser's "Sister Carrie"

took power in France after Charles X was overthrown in the July Revolution

the first to synthesize Urea

designed the Tempietto in Rome

the brother of Prometheus and the husband of Pandora

wrote the poem "Thirteen Ways at Looking at a Blackbird"

gave the "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon

is murdered at Pat Scully's title establishment in Stephen Crane's short story "The Blue Hotel"

said that "fire was the essential element" &" the you cannot step in same river twice"

separates Louisiana and Texas

best known for his Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate

outlined his Ontological Proof for the existence of God in "Proslogion"

have a dinner party in Ionesco's play "The Bald Soprano"

built the Labyrinth which held the Minotaur

negotiated the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas which divided the New World between Spain and Portugal

Bandura founded social cognitive theory and conducted the notorious "bobo doll" experiment

is forced to resign after an affair with a student in South African JM Coetzee's novel "Disgrace"

wrote "Mikrokosmos" and "Music for Percussion, Strings and Celesta"

was fought in 1969 between Honduras and El Salvador

 wrote "The True Law of Free Monarchs"

the mother of Pyrrha and the wife of Epimetheus

1.consist of 2 layers of cells separated by a gelatinous layer called the 2.

was the leader of the Polish labor union and political party Solidarity

ended the Thirty Years War

(carried by the Anopheles mosquito) causes malaria

carbonyl group bonded to a nitrogen

sections of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition"

"chiral" molecules that are exact mirror images of each other; usually described by "handedness"

"twilight & evening bell" & the speaker's desire to see his "Pilot face to face"

was the court painter to King Henry VIII of England

In 1. play "Fences" former baseball player 2. fathers 3. during an affair with 4.

Charles Ives composed.......

have a jelly-like middle layer called the mesoglea & come in two different body forms (polyp & medusa)

connects Copenhagen, Denmark with Malmo, Sweden

dies in a snowstorm but his ghost returns to rob the Person of Consequence in Gogol's "The Overcoat"

 introduced the idea of "transformational grammar" in his book "Syntactic Structures"

the Irish-born architect of the whitehouse

wrote "On Becoming a Person" and developed "client-centered therapy"

wrote "Commentaries on the Gallic Wars"

defeated Louis II of Hungary at the 1526 Battle of Mohacs

 Polynesian trickster god who created the Hawaiian Islands by fishing them out of the sea

sculpted "Hermes with the Infant Dionysus

Mountains  in South Africa

brother of Europa who founded the city of Thebes

designed the Barcelona apt. building "Casa Mila" & the still unfinished church "La Sagrada Familia"

Trinidadian author of A Bend in the River and A House for Mr. Biswas

coined the phrase "conspicuous consumption" in his book "Theory of the Leisure Class"

is produced in the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas

The titular carpenter of George Eliot's "Adam Bede" is in love with.......

led the "Copperheads" (anti-Civil War Democrats)

defeated the forces of Charles I at the 1645 Battle of Naseby (English Civil War)

Tony Lumpkin and Charles Marlow are characters in...

said "to be is to be perceived"& wrote "Three Dialogues between Hylas& Philonius"

"Totem and Taboo" and "Civilization and Its Discontents" were both written by

Henry VII Tudor defeated…at the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, ending the Wars of the Roses

known for composing "lieder"(songs) such as "Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel" & "Der Erlkonig"

is accused of the murder of Mary Dalton in Richard Wright's novel "Native Son"

recites his poem "The Death of Parnell" in Joyce's "Ivy Day in the Committee Room"

 wrote the novel "The Klansman" inspired D.W. Griffith's film "Birth of a Nation"

Carbonyls that contain a carbon double bonded to an oxygen bound to two R groups

was a cause of the Aroostook War (Maine/New Brunswwick border conflict)

wrote "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" & "Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair"

Gianlorenzo Bernini sculpted...

ruled that 4th Amendment protection against unreasonable search & seizure required "exclusionary rule"

Depression photographer Dorothea Lange is best known for her...

dark lines in the spectrum of the Sun or other stars

"The Professor", Vladimir, & Verloc plot to blow up the Greenwich Obersvatory in ..

wrote "In Memoriam A.H.H." to commemorate the death of his friend Arthur Henry Hallam

rulers of the Mauryan dynasty of ancient India

"When I was One-and-Twenty" and "To an Athlete Dying Young," are poems in the A.E. Housman collection ......

makes a deal with the devil in Thomas Mann's novel "Doktor Faustus"

(who worked closely with Robert Bunsen) developed 2 circuit laws (the Loop Rule & the Point (or Junction) Rule)

Secret 1854 plan of Pierre Soule, John Mason & James Buchanan to purchase Cuba from Spain

said"Stone walls do not a prison make/ Nor iron bars a cage." in "To Althea From Prison"

ended the War of 1812

collaborated on the design for the Seagram Building in New York

sister of Hippolyta, a queen of the Amazons slain by Achilles

prequel of "Jane Eyre"

 tells story of Rochester's wife Bertha Mason(AKA Antoinette Cosway)

What is it? Pre-conventional, Conventional & Post-Conventional.

called Brahms' Symphony #1"Beethoven's Tenth" because the 4th movement resembled "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven's 9th)

was the first president of the AFL

French Post Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne

flows into the Mekong River (SE Asia river that forms border of Laos/Myanmar & runs through Vietnam etc.)

founded church of Christian Science (NOT Scientology)

wrote "Science & Health with a Key to the Scriptures"

blinded Odysseus

characters in Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly"

sculpted "The Fountain of the Four Rivers" & "The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa"

(a tributary of the Orinoco River) feeds Venezuela's Angel Falls

states that, in a static infinite universe, the entire night sky should be as bright as the sun

converts ketones into alkanes

Mozart's 41st (and last) symphony is nicknamed

John Calvin outlined his concept of predestination in

was the first female cabinet member

American archaeologist Hiram Bingham discovered the ruins of the

used for the calculation of pH of a buffer solution

about execution of Charles Wooldridge; contains line "each man kills the thing he loves"

founder of "functionalism"

wrote "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" & "Magic, Science, and Religion"

lost the Battle of Legnano to the Lombard League

drowned in Saleph River trying to join the 3rd Crusade

implicated in the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth

Priscilla Mullins marries John Alden in

will be killed at Ragnarok by Vidarr (on the field of Vigrid) (son of Loki & Angrboda)

wrote about a "whiskey priest" captured and killed in Mexico in his novel "The Power and the Glory"

wrote "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" & "September 1, 1939" and also wrote about Brueghel's Icarus in his "Musée des Beaux Arts."

emancipated the serfs in 1861

was assassinated by People's Will in 1881

between the Triassic & Cretaceous in the Mesozoic Era

was named for a subrange of the Alps

is thrown out of the castle of Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh for kissing Cunegonde #qbfod

were major rulers of the west African empire of Songhai

capital at Gao

Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" is based on

The lack of Vitamin C causes

The lack of Vitamin B1 causes

in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery"

For wisdom Odin pierced himself with

Following 1867……..John Macdonald became Canada's 1st PM

"Drink to me only with thine eyes" is the opening line from...

the Original 6 NHL teams

married actor Charlie Chaplin and had 8 children with him

battle that figures into the plot of Julius Caesar

figures into the plot of Antony and Cleopatra

is the headwaters of the Everglades

was inspired by the art of Victor Hartmann

assassinated President McKinley at the 1901 Pan-American EXPOSITION in Buffalo