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Theme	Clue	Answer	% Correct
Japanese Poetry	This form of Japanese poetry consists of seventeen syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern, usually describing an aspect of nature	haiku	100%
The Election of 1860 (US)	This winner of the Election of 1860 was the first president from his party, and his election largely contributed to South Carolina's secession from the Union	Abraham Lincoln	80%
The Battle of the Plains of Abraham	The Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place in Quebec on September 13, 1759, helped turn the course of this war	The French and Indian War	80%
The Epic of Gilgamesh	The Epic of Gilgamesh was written by this ancient civilization centered in Mesopotamia	Akkad	60%
John Sherman	In 1905, as a senator, Sherman helped to ratify this act, which would be used against Standard Oil and General Electric	Sherman Antitrust Act	60%
	This man came fourth place in the Electoral College but is much better known for the style of debate that is named for him and the 16th President	Stephen Douglas	60%
	This brother of John Sherman led a namesake "march to the sea" while serving as a general in the Civil War	William Tecumseh Sherman	60%
	This "wild man", who Gilgamesh initially fights but then befriends, was created by the gods as response to Gilgamesh's treatment of his subjects	Enkidu	40%
	Also in 1905, Sherman helped to ratify an act that would increase government purchases of this substance, which was later advocated for by William Jennings Bryant	silver	40%
Fluid Mechanics	This measure of how easily a fluid flows usually relates the velocity to the stress, but in Newtonian fluids, it is independent of the stress	viscosity	40%
	This artist immortalized the battle with his painting The Death of General Wolfe	Benjamin West	20%
	While Newton published the first bits of information about calculus, this German simultaneously and separately developed his version, and we still use his notation today	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz	20%
	This Hopper painting, a commentary on urban alienation, shows a solitary woman in the eponymous building, a cross between a cafeteria and a vending machine	Automat	20%
Edward Hopper	This best-known work of Hopper shows four people at a diner at night; an advertisement for Phillies 5¢ cigars is shown at the top	Nighthawks	20%
Calculus	This work, considered Isaac Newton's opus magnum, contains the first historical references to calculus	Principia Mathematica	20%
	This then-current vice president for James Buchanan came in second place in the Electoral College	John C. Breckenridge	20%
	This poet, often referred to as the "master" of the above form of poetry, wrote Oku no Hosomichi, translated as The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a poetry collection and travelogue through Edo-era Japan	Matsuo Basho	20%
	This dimensionless constant indicates the degree to which inertial forces dominate the flow, which can predict if a flow will be laminar or turbulent	Reynolds number	20%
	This iconic Hopper painting, featuring a couple seated at a table in a Chinese restaurant, captures a moment of quiet intimacy amidst the bustling city, and also evokes themes of urban isolation	Chop Suey	0%
	The battle of the Plains of Abraham saw the deaths of the leaders of both forces; General James Wolfe and this French nobleman	Louis-Joseph de Montcalm	0%
	This fundamental equation of fluid dynamics is notoriously difficult to solve; its general solution is one of the Millennium Prize Problems	Navier-Stokes equation	0%
	This form of cooperative poetry was a group effort in which participants would spontaneously compose new verses in response to the previous ones	renku	0%
	This scientific organization led by Isaac Newton declared him the official inventor of Calculus, ignoring the letters of the above man	The Royal Society	0%
	After the above character's death to the "Bull of Heaven" sent by Ishtar, Gilgamesh visits this character, who had previously survived a global flood, to search for the secret to eternal life, but learns to accept his mortality	Utnapishtim	0%