Which teacher strongly influenced Georgia O'Keeffe's ideas about composition and abstraction?
Answer
Arthur Wesley Dow
76285 Intermediate Trivia Questions
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At which New York art school did Georgia O'Keeffe study from 1907 to 1908?
Answer
Art Students League
During China’s 2015 stock-market crash, which benchmark index fell about 8.5% on August 24?
Answer
Shanghai Composite
During the Panic of 1907, which New York trust company’s collapse intensified the stock-market crash?
Answer
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Which company’s collapse in 1720 helped define France’s Mississippi Bubble?
Answer
Mississippi Company
What was the name of Hong Kong’s severe stock-market crash in October 1987?
Answer
Black Monday
Which U.S. president was in office during the Panic of 1907?
Answer
Theodore Roosevelt
What was the nickname of the rapid U.S. market collapse on May 6, 2010?
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Flash Crash
Which U.S. technology index peaked in March 2000 before the dot-com crash?
Answer
Nasdaq Composite
Which 1720 British company became the namesake of a famous speculative bubble and collapse?
Answer
South Sea Company
Who voices Finn McMissile in the English version of Pixar’s Cars 2?
Answer
Michael Caine
Which Pixar Cars film introduced the World Grand Prix?
Answer
Cars 2
In Pixar’s Cars 2, which spy car is revealed to be the film’s main villain?
Answer
Miles Axlerod
Which actor voices Francesco Bernoulli in Pixar's Cars 2?
Answer
John Turturro
Which son of J.R.R. Tolkien edited and assembled The Silmarillion for publication?
Answer
Christopher Tolkien
Which publisher released J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in Britain?
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George Allen & Unwin
What was J.R.R. Tolkien's academic field at Oxford before his 1945 chair?
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Anglo-Saxon
What literary discussion group did C.S. Lewis help lead at Oxford?
Answer
The Inklings
What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s wife?
Answer
Joy Davidman
Which C.S. Lewis book is an autobiography about his conversion to Christianity?
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Surprised by Joy
Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1943 as a critique of modern education and morality?
Answer
The Abolition of Man
Which C.S. Lewis novel features the character Orual?
Answer
Till We Have Faces
What subject did C.S. Lewis teach as a Cambridge professor?
Answer
Medieval and Renaissance literature
Which C.S. Lewis work is subtitled A Myth Retold?
Answer
Till We Have Faces
At which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis become a fellow in 1925?
Answer
Magdalen College
Which university employed C.S. Lewis as a professor from 1954?
Answer
Cambridge University
What is the title of the final novel in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy?
Answer
That Hideous Strength
What phrase opens the Preamble to the United States Constitution?
Answer
We the People
Which U.S. presidential proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, during the Civil War?
Answer
Emancipation Proclamation