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What date in the twenty-first century irrevocably changed life and the direction of world events? |
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Who wrote The Second Sex, a 1949 treatise that pointed out how men accord women a different and lower existence than themselves? |
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Who is the most famous black figure in Western history and an advocate of civil disobedience based on Christian teachings, Thoreau, and Ghandi? |
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Who wrote "Howl"? |
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Name the form of twentieth century drama that stresses poetic language, abandons realistic plots, concentrates on outrageous situations, and mixes tragedy with comedy. |
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What Welsh poet is famous for poetry that has glorious sound and a verse play, Under Milk Wood? |
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Who wrote The Golden Notebook, a 1962 novel that talks about the socialization process that stifles women's creativity? |
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What Irish writer created the play Waiting for Godot, in which nothing "happens" in the conventional sense of the word? |
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What American painter is known for spontaneous "drip paintings"? |
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What innovative composer of unearthly effects believes that music, above all things, must speak to the human heart? |
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What Late Modernist composer is influenced by Zen Buddhism and has created a work in which the performer sits immobile before a keyboard and does not play? |
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Name the Abstract Expressionist artist who stains the canvas with pigment spilled from coffee cans, creating exquisite, amorphous shapes of color. |
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Name the mystical Abstract Expressionist artist who creates shimmering fields of color floating in space on his canvases. |
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Who created wooden grid sculptures from found objects that she frequently painted black? |
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Who prompted a revolution in linguistics, arguing that below the surface form of sentences lies a deeper linguistic structure that is intuitively grasped by the mind and is common to all languages? |
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Name the leader of the Chinese Communists that defeated the ruling Kuomintang party and installed a socialist system. |
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Name the first globe-circling satellite. |
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Name the Russian author who writes realistic novels that praise the Russian people while criticizing Marxism. |
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Name the author who drew on his experience as a soldier in World War II to capture the horror of modern war in one of his more famous works, which portrays a handful of enlisted men who are victims of their leaders' bad choices. |
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