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Bonus Questions (Quiz Bowl) #1

Answer the questions, organized by topic into groups of three. This quiz was made as a practice for quiz bowl bonus questions. Content is heavily pulled from the book The 99 Critical Shots in Quiz Bowl.
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Chinua Achebe
This 1958 novel by Chinua Achebe is set in the village of Umuofia
Things Fall Apart
The above novel is set in this country, the birthplace of Achebe
Nigeria
This wrestling champion from Umuofia is the protagonist of the above novel
Okonkwo
"The Second Coming"
Poet of "The Second Coming"
W. B. Yeats
Nationality of the above poet
Irish
This other poem by the above poet is about the eponymous "Rising" that occurred on a holiday
"Easter, 1916"
Quetzalcoatl
Quetzalcoatl is part of the pantheon of this culture centered on Tenochtitlan
Aztecs
This other member of the above pantheon is the god of agriculture, who flays himself to feed humans
Xipe Totec
This trickster god is an enemy of Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca
The Haber-Bosch Process
The Haber-Bosch process "fixes" this element, turning it from its namesake diatomic gas into ammonia
nitrogen
The Haber-Bosch process is most often catalyzed by this element, due to its cheapness and activity
iron
Name one of these two major products that can be made with ammonia
Explosives and Fertilizer
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Clue
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De Stijl
De Stijl was an art journal mainly published in this country
The Netherlands
Theo van Doesberg, the founder of De Stijl, developed this art philosophy, which drew from cubism, Constructivism, Bauhaus, and Dada
neoplasticism
This famous artist of Broadway Boogie Woogie split with the movement in the 1920s after a disagreement about diagonal lines
Piet Mondrian
Albert Einstein
In this year, known as Einstein's Annus Mirabilis, or his "miracle year", he published four groundbreaking physics papers
1905
His third paper in the above year, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, introduced this concept, often contrasted with a "general" version
special relativity
In his fourth paper in the Annus Mirabilis, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, Einstein established an equivalence between energy and this quantity in his most famous equation
mass
The Saturday Night Massacre
The Saturday Night Massacre names the series of events after this political scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon
Watergate
During the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon ordered attorney general Elliot Richardson to dismiss this special prosecutor, who had subpoenaed Nixon to produce Oval Office recordings
Archibald Cox
This Solicitor General then fired the above man, contributing to his rejection by the Senate for an appointment to the Supreme Court
Robert Bork
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism originated in what is now this country
Iran
This supreme deity of Zoroastrianism is opposed by Angra Mainyu, the spirit of anger, and Ahriman, the devil
Ahura Mazda
This structure is used by Zoroastrians to expose their dead, allowing them to be eaten by birds
The Tower of Silence
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