Theme
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Clue
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Answer
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Eroica
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Eroica was the third symphony by this classical composer of Turkish March and Fur Elise
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Beethoven
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Eroica was originally dedicated to this European leader, but was changed after he declared himself emperor
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Napoleon
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Eroica was composed in this minor key with one sharp
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E minor
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Dubliners
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Dubliners is a short story collection by this author, who also wrote Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake
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James Joyce
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This first story of Dubliners recounts a young boy's distress at the passing of a priest named Father Flynn, which he processes with the title characters
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"The Sisters"
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This last and longest story of Dubliners centers on Gabriel Conroy at the annual Feast of the Epiphany party, where his wife Gretta is reminded of a past lover
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"The Dead"
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Japanese Theater
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This form of Japanese theater is described as dance/drama and is usually paired with comedic kyogen plays
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Noh
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Coming from three characters meaning "sing, dance, skill," this form of Japanese theater, which is performed with its namesake masks, was a reaction to the above form, which did not include singing
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Kabuki
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This form of Japanese theater uses puppets, whose puppeteers often wear black robes
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Bunraku
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The Florence Baptistry
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This man won the contest to design the North gates of the baptistry, defeating Filippo Brunelleschi
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
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The above sculptor also designed the East gates of the Baptistry, which were called by this nickname
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"The Gates of Paradise"
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Brunelleschi is said to have established the "foundations" of this movement in architecture with Il Duomo, the dome of the Florence Cathedral
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The Renaissance
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Benzene (C₆H₆)
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This man claimed that a daydream about a snake eating its tail helped him to determine the structure of benzene
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August Kekulé
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The above man solved the problem of benzene's structure by postulating that multiple structures exist simultaneously, creating this term to describe it
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resonance
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This derivative of benzene, also known as methylbenzene, adds a methyl group in place of one of the hydrogens
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toluene
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The Election of 1824 (US)
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This winner of the Election of 1824 did not win a majority or even a plurality of electoral votes; instead, the House elected him President after the Electoral College was inconclusive
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John Quincy Adams
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This man won the plurality of both the popular vote and electoral votes, but lost due to what he called "the corrupt bargain", an agreement between the second and third place finishers to support each other
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Andrew Jackson
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This man, the creator of the "American System", came in third place in the electoral college and supported the winner of the election, which would help guarantee him a position as the Secretary of State
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Henry Clay
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The fall of the Aztecs
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This Spanish conquistador commandeered the fall of the Aztecs with the help of a rival group, the Tlaxcalans
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Hernán Cortés
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This emperor of the Aztec tried to stall the Spanish, but was captured then killed in a subsequent revolt by the Aztec people
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Montezuma II
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After the above revolt, the Spanish and their Tlaxcalan allies attempted to flee the capital, but many were killed or drowned in this disastrous event
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La Noche Triste
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Jean Sibelius
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Jean Sibelius, the composer of "The Swan of Tuonela", is from this European country
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Finland
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This is Sibelius's most famous work, written as a covert protest against Russian censorship
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Finlandia
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The above work is based on this national epic of Sibelius's home country
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The Kalevala
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