| Theme | Clue | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quetzalcoatl | Quetzalcoatl is part of the pantheon of this culture centered on Tenochtitlan | Aztecs | 73%
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| The above novel is set in this country, the birthplace of Achebe | Nigeria | 65%
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| The Saturday Night Massacre | The Saturday Night Massacre names the series of events after this political scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon | Watergate | 62%
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| Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism originated in what is now this country | Iran | 54%
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| Chinua Achebe | This 1958 novel by Chinua Achebe is set in the village of Umuofia | Things Fall Apart | 46%
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| In his fourth paper in the Annus Mirabilis, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, Einstein established an equivalence between energy and this quantity in his most famous equation | mass | 46%
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| De Stijl | De Stijl was an art journal mainly published in this country | The Netherlands | 42%
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| The Haber-Bosch Process | The Haber-Bosch process "fixes" this element, turning it from its namesake diatomic gas into ammonia | nitrogen | 35%
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| Albert Einstein | In this year, known as Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, or his "miracle year", he published four groundbreaking physics papers | 1905 | 31%
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| Nationality of the above poet | Irish | 31%
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| The Haber-Bosch process is most often catalyzed by this element, due to its cheapness and activity | iron | 31%
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| His third paper in the above year, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, introduced this concept, often contrasted with a "general" version | special relativity | 31%
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| "The Second Coming" | Poet of "The Second Coming" | W. B. Yeats | 27%
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| Name one of these two major products that can be made with ammonia | Explosives and Fertilizer | 19%
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| This wrestling champion from Umuofia is the protagonist of the above novel | Okonkwo | 19%
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| This famous artist of Broadway Boogie Woogie split with the movement in the 1920s after a disagreement about diagonal lines | Piet Mondrian | 19%
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| This other poem by the above poet is about the eponymous "Rising" that occurred on a holiday | "Easter, 1916" | 15%
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| This supreme deity of Zoroastrianism is opposed by Angra Mainyu, the spirit of anger, and Ahriman, the devil | Ahura Mazda | 12%
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| During the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon ordered attorney general Elliot Richardson to dismiss this special prosecutor, who had subpoenaed Nixon to produce Oval Office recordings | Archibald Cox | 8%
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| This Solicitor General then fired the above man, contributing to his rejection by the Senate for an appointment to the Supreme Court | Robert Bork | 8%
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| This structure is used by Zoroastrians to expose their dead, allowing them to be eaten by birds | The Tower of Silence | 8%
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| This other member of the above pantheon is the god of agriculture, who flays himself to feed humans | Xipe Totec | 8%
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| Theo van Doesberg, the founder of De Stijl, developed this art philosophy, which drew from cubism, Constructivism, Bauhaus, and Dada | neoplasticism | 4%
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| This trickster god is an enemy of Quetzalcoatl | Tezcatlipoca | 4%
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