Toss Up Trivia #2

This Bostonian was considered to be the greatest portrait painter in colonial America. Name this painter whose 1778 work "Watson and the Shark" depicted an actual shark attack.

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Singleton Copley

• Ernie Boch Jr.

• James Otis

This novel contains chapters entitled The Maiden, Maiden No More, and The Woman Pays. Identify this Thomas Hardy novel about the inevitability of fate and the injustice of a world that has different standards for men and women.

• Tess of the D'Urbervilles

• Legend of the Book Keeper

• The Blue Guitar

• The Handmaid's Tale

This film won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Film. What is this film that starred Russel Crowe as mathematician John Nash.

• Gladiator

• The Theory of Everything

• A Beautiful Mind

• Les Miserables

This political third party was created for the presidential election of 1892 to represent the common folk, mainly farmers. Identify this party that ran William Jennings Bryan for president and collected 22 electoral votes from 6 states.

• Libertarian

• Green

• Communist

• Populist

This is the Japanese name for flat red seaweed that is traditionally black in color. Identify this seaweed sold as a rectangular sheet that is the most commonly eaten seaweed in Japan

• Nori

• Kim

• Pho

• Shabu

This region is formed when a tuning fork struck by a mallet moves in the direction of the listener. What is this region in which the density of the moving air is at a maximum?

• Comprehension

• Compassion

• Compression

• Condensation

This American glass artist was honored with a solo exhibit in the Decorative Arts arm of the Louvre Museum in 1986. Identify this Seattle-based artist whose works are featured in a gallery at the Oklahoma City Art Museum.

• Meg Carlille

• Dale Chihuly

• Mary Fallin

• Will Rogers

This trilogy of Greek tragedies is made up of the three linked plays "Agamemnon," "The Libation Bearers," and "The Eumenidies." Identify this trilogy written by Aeschylus for the Dionysia of 458 BCE.

• The Oresteia

• The Persians

• Antigone

• Medea

In this type of poem, the first or last letters of a line vertically form a word, phrase, or sentence. What is this type of poem often used as a mnemonic device for studying?

• Apostolic

• Acrostic

• Autonomous

• Adaptive

This sculptor was the acknowledged mentor of Michelangelo and the first postclassical sculptor to render the human body realistically. Identify this sculptor of "St. George and the Dragon."

• Da Vinci

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Michelangelo