Quiz Bowl 227A 11

This is the first ethnically Jewish prime minister of Britain.

This Country's leader was overthown in Operation Ajax

The pirate Jean Lafitte aided in this battle

He wrote Crime and Punishment

Symbolized as h, this is a fundamental universal constant.

This Senator from South Carolina was Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson

People in this story say that nine-pins played by Henry Hudson's men causes thunder.

This philosopher wrote The Social Contract and Emile or Treatise on Education

This element has the highest melting point of a metal.

Bernard Marx is a character in this dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.

The Miller and the Pardoner are Pilgrims in

This housekeeper narrates most of Weathering Heights to Mr. Lockwood.

The engraving Knight, Death and the Devil is by

This is the longest river in France.

This became the first successful mission to another planet when it flew by Venus in 1962.

Who wrote The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome?