1. In which of the following arts, crafts, professions, or occupations were the 20th Century women Twyla Tharp, Agnes DeMille, and Martha Graham most famous? -- movie acting; sculpting; dancing; or singing?

2. This 19th century American man is known as America's first famous songwriter. He wrote "Swanee River," "Camptown Races," and "Oh! Susanna!" Name him.

3. In the 1960's American artist Andy Warhol painted a very realistic looking picture of a Campbell Soup can. That painting is an example of which of the following styles of painting? -- pop art; abstract expressionism; minimalism; or cubism?

4. Which of the following men in 1891invented the disposable razor blade? -- Henry Ford; King C. Gillette; Dr. John S. Pemberton; or E. I. Du Pont?

5. Name the two most heavily populated countries in the world.

6. Under which of the following flags did Ferdinand Magellan sail on his voyage around the world? -- Spain; Holland; Portugal; or England?

7. In which of the following years did the Boston Tea Party take place? -- 1620; 1773; 1776; or 1812?

8. By what popular name do we know the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

9. Two of the best-known science fiction novels of the 20th Century were Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. Which of the following authors wrote those books? -- Arthur C. Clarke; Isaac Asimov; Ray Bradbury; or Ursula K. LeGuin?

10. The Fifth Century B.C. Greek author Sophocles is best known which of the following? -- his epic poems; his comedies; his odes; or his tragedies?

11. As of 2004, which of the following U.S. newspapers had the highest circulation? -- USA Today; The Washington Post; The New York Times; or The Wall Street Journal?

12. According to Homer, what city was ruled by King Priam and Queen Hecuba?

13. Which of the following definitions best fits the word polytheism? -- the worship of one true God; the worship of many gods; the worship of the Holy Trinity; or the worship of the forces of Nature?

14. Element #98 in the periodic table uses the abbreviation Cf. The name of this element is based on the name of one of fifty states of the U.S. Which state is that?

15. A rainbow is a beautiful example of which of the following scientific phenomena? -- surface tension; a spectrum; potential energy; or evaporation?

16. What exactly does the computer abbreviation HTML stand for?

17. Rewrite the following sentence by adding the appropriate intensive pronoun to the subject of the sentence: "Eve had already eaten the forbidden fruit."

18. What is the tense and the voice of the verb in the following sentence? -- "He had never been arrested before that horrible night."

19. The English sometimes say things differently from the Americans. What is the name that Englishmen give to the last letter of the alphabet, that is, the letter that the Americans call "ZEE"?

20. Tara is the name of the O'Hara plantation in Gone With The Wind, but what I want to know is what number is represented by the Greek root word tera.

21. How was the thirty-second U.S. president -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- related to the twenty-sixth U.S. president -- Theodore Roosevelt?

22. He won a gold medal for boxing at the 1960 Olympics and then went on to become the heavyweight champion of professional boxing against such great fighters as Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman. Give me both his birth name and the name he adopted after he became a Black Muslim.

23. Name the 19th Century English woman who wrote such famous novels as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

24. In which of the following arts, crafts, professions, or occupations did the 1974 defector to the U.S. from the Soviet Union named Mikhail Baryshnikov become most famous? -- chess champion; nuclear physicist; ballet dancer; or concert pianist?

25. She was a Civil War nurse who was known as "the angel of the battlefield." Later -- in 1881 -- she organized the American version of the Red Cross and introduced the idea that the Red Cross should care for the victims of natural disasters. Name this famous nurse.