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Theme	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Eroica	Eroica was the third symphony by this classical composer of Turkish March and Fur Elise	Beethoven	100%
	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	Andrew Jackson	83%
The fall of the Aztecs	This Spanish conquistador commandeered the fall of the Aztecs with the help of a rival group, the Tlaxcalans	Hernán Cortés	83%
Dubliners	Dubliners is a short story collection by this author, who also wrote Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake	James Joyce	83%
The Election of 1824 (US)	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	John Quincy Adams	83%
	This emperor of the Aztec tried to stall the Spanish, but was captured then killed in a subsequent revolt by the Aztec people	Montezuma II	83%
	Eroica was originally dedicated to this European leader, but was changed after he declared himself emperor	Napoleon	83%
Jean Sibelius	Jean Sibelius, the composer of "The Swan of Tuonela", is from this European country	Finland	67%
	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	Henry Clay	67%
	Eroica was composed in this minor key with one sharp	E minor	50%
	This is Sibelius's most famous work, written as a covert protest against Russian censorship	Finlandia	50%
	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	Kabuki	50%
Japanese Theater	This form of Japanese theater is described as dance/drama and is usually paired with comedic kyogen plays	Noh	50%
The Florence Baptistry	This man won the contest to design the North gates of the baptistry, defeating Filippo Brunelleschi	Lorenzo Ghiberti	33%
	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	"The Dead"	33%
	The above sculptor also designed the East gates of the Baptistry, which were called by this nickname	"The Gates of Paradise"	33%
	The above work is based on this national epic of Sibelius's home country	The Kalevala	33%
	Brunelleschi is said to have established the "foundations" of this movement in architecture with Il Duomo, the dome of the Florence Cathedral	The Renaissance	33%
	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	"The Sisters"	33%
Benzene (C₆H₆)	This man claimed that a daydream about a snake eating its tail helped him to determine the structure of benzene	August Kekulé	17%
	This form of Japanese theater uses puppets, whose puppeteers often wear black robes	Bunraku	17%
	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	La Noche Triste	17%
	The above man solved the problem of benzene's structure by postulating that multiple structures exist simultaneously, creating this term to describe it	resonance	17%
	This derivative of benzene, also known as methylbenzene, adds a methyl group in place of one of the hydrogens	toluene	17%