Quiz Bowl 2016 SCOP MS 7 RD 10

Themistocles defeated Xerxes at this 480 BCE Battle

This "Old Fuss and Feathers" developed the Anaconda Plan

He said "Cogito Ergo Sum"

He designed the glass pyramid at the Louvre.

During the Spanish-American War, George Dewey said "You may fire when ready, Gridley" before this critical battle.

This is NOT one of China's four classics

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According to Thucydides, he delivered a funeral oration at the end of the first year of Peloponnesian war.

He wrote the "The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry."

One tectonic plate moves under another in

The Seikan Tunnel connects Honshu to this second largest and northern most island of Japan.

At the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented

In the Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, a Knight and other pilgrims tell stories at this Inn.

According to TS Eliot's The Waste Land, this is the cruelest month.

In The Call of the Wild, this dog is kidnapped from Judge Miller's home and saved by John Thornton.

While we are at the Louvre, this is the Winged Victory of this Greek island.

In The Red Badge of Courage, this Christ-like friend of Henry Fleming dies.

This President was a former Peanut Farmer and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

In Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, this Lithuanian immigrant marries Ona and ends up in jail.

This theory states that acids can donate protons and bases can accept a proton.

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette is by