Academic Challenge ROUND DEUX

Question 1

first president to die in office, served shortest tenure in history: 32 days. Whig party member

Accepted Answer

William Henry Harrison

Question 2

This quantity equals current times resistance, also known as electric potential

Accepted Answer

Voltage

Question 3

Name this scholar who sells his soul to the devil for unlimited knowledge and power

Accepted Answer

Faust

Question 4

Opera; title character is arrogant & horny and abuses the rest of the cast; later sent to hell

Accepted Answer

Don Giovanni

Question 5

Composer of musicals Starlight Express, Sunset blvd. , & some much more well known ones

Accepted Answer

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question 6

This famous group of authors all wrote under pseudonyms with the last name Bell

Accepted Answer

The Brönte Sisters

Question 7

Who sculpted this iconic statue

Accepted Answer

Rodin

Question 8

This mathematician gave the world modern trigonometry and the concept of generating functions

Accepted Answer

Euler

Question 9

Name this language spoken prominently in northern India and Pakistan

Accepted Answer

Urdu

Question 10

one of the most feared conquerors of all time, founded mongol empire

Accepted Answer

Ghengis Khan

Question 11

Name this religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard

Accepted Answer

Scientology

Question 12

3 headed dog in Greek mythology

Accepted Answer

Cerberus

Question 13

Ancient Greek playwrite and comedian; wrote The Frogs, The Knights and Lysistrata

Accepted Answer

Aristophanes

Question 14

Name this director of films such as The Shining and 2001: A Space Oddyssey

Accepted Answer

Stanley Kubrick

Question 15

this country is home to the Luo and Kikuyu people, cities include Mombasa and capital Nairobi

Accepted Answer

Kenya

Question 16

What state is the setting of Of Mice and Men and many other novels by Steinbeck?

Accepted Answer

California

Question 17

WW11 battle cited as bloodiest in history, Germany fought USSR for control of this city

Accepted Answer

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 18

This American poet wrote Song of Myself, and O Captain! My Captain!

Accepted Answer

Walt Whitman

Question 19

Surrealist painter most well known for Persistence of Memory

Accepted Answer

Salvador Dali

Question 20

the ratio of the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the same medium

Accepted Answer

Mach number

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