General Knowledge - Very Difficult VIII

The quote “Only the dead have seen the end of war” is attributed to _____, but it is actually from the work of Spanish-born philosopher and critic George Santayana.

______ was a Jewish-Italian chemist, partisan, writer, and Holocaust survivor. His best-known work is If This Is a Man (1947) his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Tanya Savicheva is often called the Russian Anna Frank. She was a Russian teenager who kept a diary in 1942 whilst enduring the siege of_______ during World War II, but tragically died on 1 July 1944, age 14 (Hint, it's now called Saint Petersburg).

Lepa Svetozara Radić was a ______ Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War. She was executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German troops

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was painted from 1884 to 1886 by Georges _____ and is considered his most famous work.

A leading example of pointillist technique, executed on a large canvas, it is a founding work of the neo-_______ movement.

Who painted The Kiss?

The Kiss is an example of _______, this was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.

The _______ were a comic strip which later became a cartoon created by Swedish-speaking Finnish writer and illustrator Tove Jansson

The _____ campaign was a counterinsurgency operation which was carried out by Ba'athist Iraq from February to September 1988 during the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict at the end of the Iran–Iraq War

Plötzensee Prison in the north of _____ was the central site for the guillotine executions of political prisoners by the Nazi Regime.

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was executed at 21, alongside her brother Hans (24) by guillotine in Munich's Stadelheim Prison. What was the name of the non-violent resistance group she was part of? The ________

An Anglo-American novelist & playwright. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (1966) and A Single Man (1964), which was adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009.

An African-American lesbian poet of the 20th century. Most famous book Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)

An African-American gay writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels. His 1955 essay collection Notes of a Native Son helped establish his reputation as a voice for human equality

“They make a desert and call it peace” is a quote from a speech attributed to Calgacus, the leader of the _______ who fought the Romans at the Battle of Mons Graupius in AD 84.

______- actually wrote the above mentioned speech, which describes how Rome exploited Britain and encourages Calgacus's troops to fight. The speech is an example of a convention in Graeco-Roman histories, where speeches are used to exhort followers to resist.

A form of anarchism. It sees labour unions as something which will cause revolutionary change. This change will give freedom and equality to the workers. Anarcho ______

The oscar statuettes is made from solid _____ and plated in 24-karat gold.

Due to a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of painted _____for three years.

BAFTA Awards, is an annual award show hosted in the UK. What does the name mean?

What year was the first Academy Awards (Oscars)?

T-rex is short for?

______ memory is the ability to recall an image, sound, or event with great accuracy after seeing or hearing it only once. It's also known as photographic memory or total recall.

A pyrotechnic mixture of metal powder and metal oxide that produces intense heat when ignited.

An American theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 jointly with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga.