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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A bell tower, usually not actually attached to a church.
Answer: campanile
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A continuous aisle in a building, especially around the apse in a church. 
Answer: ambulatory
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A curved structure used to span an opening.
Answer: arch
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A curved triangle at the corners of a square or polygonal room, used at the opening of a dome.
Answer: pendentive
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A cylindrical vertical support usually consisting of a base, shaft and capital.
Answer: column
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A flattened, shallow column or pier projecting from a wall. It usually has a base, shaft, and capital but is decorative rather than structural. 
Answer: pilaster
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A horizontal projection, such as a balcony or beam, supported at one end only.
Answer: cantilever
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A method of construction in which vertical beams are used to support a horizontal beam.
Answer: post and lintel
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A movement that developed in the 1920s, characterized by a regularized surface, a lightening of mass, and  often large expanses of glass. 
Answer: international style
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A multistoried building, typically Asian, forming a tower with upward curving roofs over the individual stories.
Answer: pagoda
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A part of a church or a separate building, often octagonal or round, in which baptisms take place.
Answer: baptistery
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A passageway of a Christian Church or a Roman basilica running paralell to the nave, separated from it by an arcade or colonnade. 
Answer: aisle
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A projecting support built into or against the external wall of a building, typically used in Gothic buildings. A flying … is an arch that transfers the thrust of a vault to a lower support.
Answer: buttress
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A roofed gallery with an open arcade or colonnade on at least one side.
Answer: loggia
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A row of columns, usually equidistant, supporting a beam or entablature. 
Answer: colonnade
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A row of windows in the upper part of a wall, especially in a church, to admit light below. 
Answer: clerestory
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A semicircular area at the end of a church; in most churches it contains the altar. 
Answer: apse
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A series of arches supported by columns or piers, or a passageway formed by these arches. 
Answer: arcade
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A slender, lofty tower with balconies, attached to a Muslim mosque.
Answer: minaret
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A small structure on top of a dome, tower or roof often open to admit light below.
Answer: lantern
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A spiral scroll used on Ionic and Corinthian capitals. 
Answer: volute
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A spout placed on the roof gutter of a Gothic building to carry away rainwater, usually carved in the shapes of fanciful animals and grotesque beasts.
Answer: gargoyle
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A square of rectangular area in a church between the apse and the crossing. 
Answer: choir
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A stone slab at the top of a classical column aiding the support of the architecture. 
Answer: abacus
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A structure that forms the arms of a cross-shaped church.
Answer: transept
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A structure usually attached to a building, such as a porch, consisting of a roof supported by piers or columns.
Answer: portico
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A style of English architecture prevalent from 1485-1558 transitional between Gothic and Palladian, with emphasis on country manors.
Answer: Tudor
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A style that emerged in the 1970s characterized by references to and evocations of past architectural styles, particularly the classical tradition. It is frequently colorful and wittily ornamentive.
Answer: postmodernism
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A style that flourished in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by exuberant decoration, curvaceous forms, and a grand scale generating a sense of movement; later developments within the movement show more restraint. 
Answer: baroque
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A tall, tapering, four-sided stone shaft with a pyramidal top.
Answer: obelisk
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A tall, tapering, pointed roof on a tower, as in the top of a steeple.
Answer: spire
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: A vaulted roof of circular or polygonal shape.
Answer: dome
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.
Answer: vault
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: An ornamented canopy over an altar, tomb or throne. 
Answer: baldachin
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: An upright masonry support.
Answer: pier
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: Any important face of a building, usually the principal front with the main entrance.
Answer: facade
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In German Romanesque, a monumental entrance to a church consisting of towers, with a chapel above.
Answer: westwork
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In a church, the area where the transept and the nave intersect, usually emphasized by a dome or a tower. 
Answer: crossing
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In a classical building, the triangular gable between the horizontal entablature and the sloping roof; in general, and architechtural feature over a door or window.
Answer: pediment
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Question: In 1958 the Nobel prize in literature was given to Boris Leonidovich Paternak for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great ... ?
Answer: Russian epic tradition
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In a roman basilika, the central aisle. In a church, the main section extending from the entrance to the crossing.
Answer: nave
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In an ancient Roman house, a central room open to the sky, usually having a pool for the collection of rainwater. In churches, a front courtyard. 
Answer: atrium
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In ancient Assyria and Babylonia, a tower in the shape of a stepped pyramide. It formed the base of a temple.
Answer: ziggurat
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In ancient Roman architecture, a large oblong building, generally with double columns and a semicircular apse at one end. In Christian architecture, a church with a nave, apse, and aisles. 
Answer: basilica
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: In religious institutions, a courtyard with covered walks. 
Answer: cloister
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: Moldings and ornamentation projecting from the surface of a wall.
Answer: relief
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: Ornament of ribs, bars, etc. in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window.
Answer: tracery
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: Stones hewn, squared, and smoothed for use in building, as distinguished from rough building stones.
Answer: ashlar
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: Sun-dried brick used in places with warm, dry climates, such as Egypt and Mexico; also, the structures built out of these bricks. 
Answer: adobe
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The elevated stronghold in ancient Greek cities.
Answer: acropolis
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The lowest part of an entablature resting on the capital of a column. 
Answer: architrave
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The measurement by which parts of a building are related to one another, for example, the diameter of a column. 
Answer: module 
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The middle part of an entablature, often decorated with sculpture. 
Answer: frieze
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The pointed arch used in Gothic architecture.
Answer: ogive
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The story above the cornice of a building.
Answer: attic
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The style of this school, founded in Germany by Walter Gropius in 1919, emphasizing simplicity, functionalism and craftsmanship. 
Answer: Bauhaus
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The transverse entrance hall of a church.
Answer: narthex
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The triangular area between the two sides of two adjacent arches.
Answer: spandrel
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The upper horizontal part of a classical order, between a capital and the roof; it consists of the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
Answer: entablature
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Category: Architectural terms
Question: The upper part of an entablature, extending beyond the frieze; also, ornamental molding projecting along the top of a building or wall.
Answer: cornice
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Category: Aristotle
Question: Friendship is a single soul, dwelling in ... ?   
Answer: two bodies
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Art Movements
Question: A European movement beginning in France. Gothic sculpture emerged c. 1200, Gothic painting later in the thirteenth century. The artworks are characterized by a linear, graceful, elegant style more naturalistic than that which had existed previously in Europe. 
Answer: gothic
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A European movement of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. In reaction to neoclassicism, it focused on emotion over reason, and on spontaneous expression. 
Answer: romanticism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A European style developed in France in the late eleventh century. Its sculpture is ornamental, stylized and complex. 
Answer: romanesque
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A European style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Its elegant, balanced works revived the order and harmony of ancient Greek and Roman art.  
Answer: neoclassicism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A Russian abstract movement originated by Malevich c. 1913. It was characterized by flat geometric shapes on plain backgrounds and emphasized the spiritual qualities of pure form.  
Answer: suprematism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century.  Characterized by dense assymmetrical ornamentation in sinuos forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature. 
Answer: art noveau
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A figurative movement that emerged in the United States and Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The subject matter, usually everyday scenes, is portrayed in an extremely detailed, exacting style. It is also called superrealism, especially when referring to sculpture.
Answer: photorealism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A group of American painters who united out of opposition to academic standards in the early twentieth century. 
Answer: The eight
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A group of English painters formed in 1848. These artists attempted to recapture the style of painting preceding Raphael. They rejected industrialized England and focused on painting from nature, producing detailed, colorful works.
Answer: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A late-nineteenth-century French school of painting. It focused on transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, with an emphasis on the changing effects of light and color. 
Answer: impressionism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A method of painting developed by Seurat and Signac in the 1880s. It used dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism.
Answer: pointillism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions. 
Answer: minimalism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement in European painting in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by violent movement, strong emotion, and dramatic lighting and coloring.
Answer: baroque
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. 
Answer: surrealism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement of the 1960s and 1970s that emphasized the artistic idea over the art object. It attempted to free art from the confines of the gallery and the pedestal.
Answer: conceptual art
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement that began in Britain and the United States in the 1950s. It used the images and techniques of mass media, advertising, and popular culture, often in an ironic way.
Answer: pop art
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A movement, c. 1915-23, that rejected accepted aesthetic standards. It aimed to create antiart and nonart, often employing a sense of the absurd.
Answer: dadaism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A painting movement that flourished in France in the 1880s and 1980s in which subject matter was suggested rather than directly presented. It featured decorative, stylized, and evocative images. 
Answer: symbolism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A russian abstract movement begun in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints.
Answer: cubism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A style, c. 1520-1600, that arose in reaction to the harmony and proportion of the High Renaissance. It featured elongated, contorted poses, crowded canvases, and harsh lighting and coloring.
Answer: mannerism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas.
Answer: color field painting
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Category: Art Movements
Question: A termed coined by British art critic Roger Fry to refer to a group of nine-teenth century painters, who were dissatisfied with the limitations of impressionism. It has since been used to refer to various reactions against impressionism, such as fauvism and expressionism.
Answer: postimpressionism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: An abstract movement in Europe and the United States, begun in the mid-1950s, based on the effect of optical patterns.
Answer: op art
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Category: Art Movements
Question: An eighteenth-century European style, originating in France. In reaction to the grandeur and massiveness of the baroque, it employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms. 
Answer: rococco
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Category: Art Movements
Question: An italian movement c.1909-1919. It attempted to integrate the dynamism of the machine age into art.
Answer: futurism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Artwork, usually paintings, characterized by a simplified style, nonscientific perspective, and bold colors. The artists are generally not professionally trained. 
Answer: naive art
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms.
Answer: art deco
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Category: Art Movements
Question: From the Hebrew word for 'prophet'. A group of French painters active in the 1890s who worked in a subjective, sometimes mystical style, stressing flat areas of color and pattern. 
Answer: Nabis
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Category: Art Movements
Question: From the french word 'fauve', meaning 'wild beast'. A style adopted by artists associated with Matisse, c. 1905-1908. They painted in a spontaneous manner, using bold colors.
Answer: fauvism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Group of American artists from 1908 to 1918. Their work featured scenes of urban realism.
Answer: Ash Can School
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Category: Art Movements
Question: In a general sense, refers to objective representation. More specifically, a nineteenth century movement, especially in France, that rejected idealized academic styles in favor of everyday subjects. 
Answer: realism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Meaning 'rebirth' in french. Refers to Europe c. 1400-1600. The style began in Italy and stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects.
Answer: Renaissance
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Movement in painting, originating in New York City in the 1940s. It emphasized spontaneous personal expression, freedom from accepted artistic values, surface quallities of paint, and the act of painting itself.  
Answer: abstract expressionism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Referring to the principles of Greek and Roman art of antiquity with its emphasis on harmony, proportion, balance, and simplicity. In a general sense, it refers to art based on accepted standards of beauty.
Answer: classicism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Refers to art that uses emphasis and distortion to communicate emotion. More specifically, it refers to early twentieth-century northern European art, especially in Germany c. 1905-23. 
Answer: expressionism
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Category: Art Movements
Question: Works of a culturally homogenous people without formal training, generally according to regional traditions and involving crafts.
Answer: folk art
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A band of painted or sculpted decoration, often at the top of a wall.   
Answer: frieze
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A composition made of cut and pasted pieces of materials, sometimes with images added by the artist. 
Answer: collage
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A flat board used by a painter to mix and hold colors, traditionally oblong, with a hole for the thumb; also, a range of colors used by a particular painter. 
Answer: palette
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A large painting or decoration done on a wall.  
Answer: mural
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A method of producing images or letters from sheets of cardboard, metal, or other materials from which forms have been cut away.  
Answer: stenciling
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A method of watercolor painting, but prepared with a more gluey base, producing a less transparent effect.  
Answer: gouache
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A painting or drawing executed in a single color.  
Answer: monochrome
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A painting technique using pigments mixed with egg yolk and water. It produces clear, pure colors.
Answer: tempera
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A print made by carving on a wood block, which is then inked and printed.
Answer: woodcut
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with a greasy substance, such as an oily crayon.   
Answer: litography
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A realistic style of painting in which everyday life forms the subject matter, as distinguished from religious or historical painting.  
Answer: genre painting
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A representation of a human or an animal form.  
Answer: figure
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A single print made from a metal or glass plate on which an image has been represented in paint, ink, etc.  
Answer: monotype
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A soft, subdued color; a drawing stick made of ground pigments, chalk, and gum water.  
Answer: pastel
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Category: Art Terms
Question: A technique of engraving, using a sharp-pointed needle, that produces a furrowed edge resulting in a print with soft, velvety lines.  
Answer: drypoint
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Category: Art Terms
Question: An artwork humoously excaggerating the qualities, defects, or pecularities of a person or idea.  
Answer: caricature
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Category: Art Terms
Question: An etching tecnique in which a solution of asphalt or resin is used on the plate. It produces prints with rich, gray tones.  
Answer: aquatint
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Ground chalk or plaster mixed with glue, used as a base coat for tempera and oil painting.  
Answer: gesso
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In painting, a thin layer of translucent color.
Answer: wash
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In painting, a work made of several panels or scenes joined together. A diptych has two panels; a triptych, three. 
Answer: polyptych 
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In painting, the degree of lightness or darkness in a color.
Answer: values
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In sculpting, the cutting of a form from a solid, hard material such as stone or wood, in contrast to the technique of modeling.  
Answer: carving
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In sculpture, the building up of form using a soft medium such as clay or wax, as distinguished from carving. In painting and drawing, using color and lighting variations to produce a three-dimensional effect.  
Answer: modeling
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Category: Art Terms
Question: In sculpture, the projection of an image or form from its background. Sculpture formed in this manner is described as high relief or low relief (bas-relief), depending on the degree of projection. In painting or drawing, the apparent projection of parts conveying the illusion of three dimensions. 
Answer: relief
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Meaning 'fool the eye' in french. In painting, the fine, detailed rendering of objects to convey the illusion that the painted forms are real and three-dimensional.
Answer: trompe l'oeil
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Meaning 'fresh' in italian. The technique of painting on moist lime plaster with colors ground in water.  
Answer: fresco
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Category: Art Terms
Question: On a represented form, a point of most intense light.  
Answer: highlight 
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Paint applied very thickly. It often projects from the picture surface.  
Answer: impasto
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Painting in which natural scenery is the subject.  
Answer: landscape
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Reducing or distorting in order to represent three-dimensional space as perceived by the eye, according to the rules of perspective.  
Answer: foreshortening
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Category: Art Terms
Question: The effect of the harmony of color and values in a work. 
Answer: tone
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Category: Art Terms
Question: The rendering of light and shade in painting; the subtle graduations and marked variations of light and shade for dramatic effect. 
Answer: chiaroscuro
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Category: Art Terms
Question: The representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography. 
Answer: still life
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Category: Art Terms
Question: The technique of producing printed designs through various methods of incising on wood or metal blocks, which are then inked and printed. 
Answer: etching
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Category: Art Terms
Question: The visual and tactile quality of a work based on the particular way the materials are handled; also, the distribution of tones or shades of a single color.
Answer: texture
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Category: Art Terms
Question: Water-soluble paint made from pigments and a plastic binder…?  
Answer: acrylic
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Category: Ava Gardner
Question: Deep down I am fairly ... ?  
Answer: superficial 
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Category: Benjamin Franklin
Question: Never confuse motion with ... ?  
Answer: action
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Category: Bill Cosby
Question: I do not sing, I do not dance, and I don't say ... ?  
Answer: sir 
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Category: Brigitte Bardot
Question: I am not an actor. I am a ... ?  
Answer: phenomenon
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Category: Churchill
Question: Americans usually get it right, after trying ... ?  
Answer: everything else first
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Category: Clarence Darrow
Question: The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half ... ? 
Answer: by our children
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A Bohemian folk dance in duple time with a hop on the fouth beat. It became a popular ballroom dance in the mid-nineteenth century.
Answer: polka
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A Japanese dance drama featuring stylized narrative choreographic movements.
Answer: kabuki
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A Sevillian gypsy dance, possibly originating in India, also with Moorish and Arabian influences, originally accompanied by songs and clapping and later by the guitar, and characterized by its heelwork.
Answer: flamenco
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A Spanish dance in ¾ time or 3/8 time with castanets.
Answer: cachucha 
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A ballet bow or curtsy in which one foot is pointed in front and the body leans forward.
Answer: révérence
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A ballet in which the women wear white tutus, such as the second and fourth acts of Swan Lake.
Answer: ballet blanc
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A ballet movement in which the dancer repeatedly crosses his or her legs in the air.
Answer: entrechat
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A ballet with a plot, usually tragic, to bring dramatic coherence to the performance of ballet.
Answer: ballet d'action
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A basic movement in the technique of Martha Graham, based on breath inhalation and exhalation.
Answer: contraction
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A beating movement of the legs.
Answer: battement
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A bending of the knees in any of the five positions.
Answer: plié
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A dance for two, usually a woman and a man. In its traditional form, it begins with an entreé and adagio, followed by solo variations for each dancer, and a coda.
Answer: pas de deux
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A dance with a fast or moderate tempo.
Answer: allegro
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A grave, processional court dance popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Answer: pavane
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A jump in which the legs open in second position in the air, resembling a scissors.
Answer: ciseaux
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A leap from one leg to the other in which one leg is thrown to the side, front or back. 
Answer: jeté
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A lively Spanish dance in triple time performed with castanets or tambourines.
Answer: fandango
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A lively social dance popular during the 1930s; it originated at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in 1928, where it was known as the Lindy.
Answer: jitterbug
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A male dancer who performs the 'princely' roles of the classical ballet, such as the Prince in Swan Lake.
Answer: danseur noble
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A plotless work composed of pure dance movements, although the composition may suggest a mood or subject.
Answer: abstract dance
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A polish national dance in triple time with an accent on the second beat, characterized by proud bearing, clicking of heels, and holubria, a special turning step.
Answer: mazurka
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A position on the tip of the toes.
Answer: point
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A series of small, fast steps executed with the feet very close together.
Answer: pas de bourrée
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A sliding step in which one foot 'chases' and displaces the other.
Answer: chassé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A slow and graceful dance, the most popular dance of the eighteenth century, characterized by symmetrical figures and elaborate curtsys and bows.
Answer: minuet
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A social dance in ¾ time that became widely popular in the nineteenth century. It developed from the Landler, a German-Austrian turning dance.
Answer: waltz
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A social dance in ¾ time, which after originating in Spain, developed in Argentina, where it was influenced by black dance style and rhytm. 
Answer: tango
Author: serv

Category: Dance Terms
Question: A social dance of American origin in duple time.
Answer: fox-trot
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A social dance popular in the nineteenth century. It was a square dance in five sections, each in a different time.
Answer: quadrille
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A solemn court dance usually in duple time, popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Answer: basse danse
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A spectacular movement in which the dancer propels himself or herself around a supporting leg with rapid movements of the other leg while remaining in a fixed spot.
Answer: fouetté en tournant
Author: serv

Category: Dance Terms
Question: A step that rocks from one foot to the other, usually in ¾ time.
Answer: balancé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A turn on one leg, with the toe of the other leg touching the knee of the turning leg.
Answer: pirouette
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: A turn while jumping straight up in the air.
Answer: tour en l'air
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: An American folk dance with an even number of couples forming a square, two lines, or a circle. The dance is comprised of figures announced by a caller.
Answer: square dance
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: An English folk dance that appeared in the fifteenth century, in which dancers wore bells on their legs and characters included a fool, a boy on a hobby horse, and a main in blackface.
Answer: morris dance
Author: serv

Category: Dance Terms
Question: An african-american dance in which couples strut and compete with high kicks and fast steps.
Answer: cakewalk
Author: serv

Category: Dance Terms
Question: An unfolding of the leg in the air.
Answer: développé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Any dance to slow music; also, part of the classical pas-de-deux in ballet.
Answer: adagio
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Any solo performance in a ballet.
Answer: variation
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Catlike leap in which one foot follows the other into the air, knees bent; the landing is in the fifth position.
Answer: pas de chat
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a bend from the waist to the side or to the back.
Answer: cambré
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a closed position of the feet.
Answer: fermé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a gliding step which usually connects two steps.
Answer: glissade
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a jump from one to both feet, usually landing in fifth position.
Answer: assemblé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a jump off one foot that is 'broken' by a beating of the legs in the air.
Answer: brisé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a leap in which the lower leg beats against the upper one at an angle, before the dancer lands again on the lower leg.
Answer: cabriole
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a lowering of the body by bending the knee.
Answer: fondu
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a pose in which one leg is raised in back or in front with knee bent, usually with one arm raised.
Answer: attitude
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a position of the arms above the head.
Answer: en haut
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a position of the body at an oblique angle and partly hidden.
Answer: effacé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a position with one leg extended at an oblique angle while the body is also at an oblique angle.
Answer: écarté
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a position with the body at an oblique angle and the working leg crossing the line of the body.
Answer: croisée
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a rising with a spring movement to point or demi-point.
Answer: relevé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a slow turn of the body on the whole foot.
Answer: promenade
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, a step done off the ground.
Answer: en l'air
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, an elongated line; in particular, the horizontal line of an arasbesque with one arm stretched front and the other back.
Answer: allongé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, an open position of the feet.
Answer: ouvert
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, leaning forward.
Answer: penché
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, low, as in placement of arms.
Answer: en bas
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, shifting weight from one foot to the other.
Answer: dégagé
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, the ability of a dancer to remain suspended in air during a jump; elasticity in jumping.
Answer: ballon
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, the position of the arms.
Answer: port de bras
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, the position of the torso from the waist up.
Answer: épaulement
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballet, the third and final part of the classical pas de deux.
Answer: coda
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: In ballroom dance, a characteristic figure that remains constant.
Answer: basic movement
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Originating around 1830 as a social dance, by 1844 it had become a raucous dance performed in French music halls.
Answer: cancan
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Popular social dance during the eighteenth century; done in rows or circles, it may have derived from English country dancing.
Answer: contredanse
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Principial male dancer.
Answer: premieur danseur
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Social dances usually performed by couples, including the fox-trot, waltz, tango, rumba and cha cha.
Answer: ballroom dances
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Spectacles for entertainment, usually with allegorical or mythological themes, performed by the aristocracy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, combining music, recitatives and mime.
Answer: court ballet
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Standard Italian dances and their music of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Answer: ballo
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Stepping directly onto the point of a foot.
Answer: piqué
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Steps performed on the floor. It is the opposite of en l'air.
Answer: par terre
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: The members of a ballet company who do not perform solo.
Answer: corps de ballet
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Category: Dance Terms
Question: Traditional English dance in which dancers form two facing lines.
Answer: country dance
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Category: EcoCategory: Economics
Question: What are the two basic concepts in economics ? 
Answer: Wealth and Welfare
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: 'Pareto efficiency' (after Vilfredo Pareto) is a situation in which it is not possible to make someone better off without making someone else ... ? 
Answer: worse off
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: A decision to satisfy one set of wants necessarily means sacrificing some other set: this sacrifice is called by economics the ... ? 
Answer: Opportunity cost
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: A firm is a decision-making production unit which transforms resources into goods and services which are ultimately bought by consumers, the government and ... ?  
Answer: other firms
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: A formation resulting from mergers or take-overs involving firms whose activities are not directly related could be called a ... ? 
Answer: conglomerate
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: A pure public good is a good or a service, such as defense, the consumption of which by one person does not reduce its benefit to ... ?
Answer: others
Author: serv

Category: Economics
Question: According to one argument economists are able to give advice on issues related to economic efficiency, but equity (fairness) considerations are outside the purview of economics and should be left to ... ? (3 other groups) 
Answer: Philosophers, politicians and social reformers
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Although economists tend to concentrate on the relationship between demand and price, it is sometimes useful to consider the relationship between demand and income, ceteris paribus. Represented graphically, such a relationship, named after the economist Ernst Engel is called an ... ? 
Answer: Engel curve
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: An individual's demand for a commodity may be defined as the quantity of that commodity that the individual is willing and able to buy during a given ... ?   
Answer: time period
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: As the price of one of two comparable commodities falls, the price of the other becomes relatively more expensive. The consumer is therefore induced to buy (choose) the first. This is called the ... of the price change.   
Answer: substitution effect 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Besides land, labour and capital, there is a fourth factor sometimes added to the main factors of production. This fourth factor is ... ?  
Answer: enterprise
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Differentiated products are products which are very similar, but not ... ?  
Answer: identical 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Economists analyse the relationship between a consumer's demand for a specific good and the price of a specific good by assuming that all other influencing factors remain unchanged. This is the important assumption called ... ?  
Answer: ceteris paribus
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Economists have managed to separate the problems of an efiicient allocation of resources from the controversial question of the distribution of income and wealth. The latter is concerned with ... ? 
Answer: value judgements
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Economists who believe that utility (the satisfaction deriving from consuming a certain good) can be measured in units, as if it were a physical commodity, are known as ... ? 
Answer: cardinalists
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Economists who oppose the view that utility (the satisfaction deriving from consuming a certain good) can be measured cardinally have become known as ... ? 
Answer: ordinalists
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: In economic theory, it is often found convenient to assume that there are 'constant returns to scale' in production. What this means is that when a producer employs more labour and more capital, his output increases ... ? 
Answer: proportionally
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: In the 1880s the German economist Adolph Wagner advanced his law of ever rising ... ?
Answer: public expenditures
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: In the long-run, all factors of production are variable. Firms wishing to maximise their profits, therefore, will attempt to produce their chosen output by employing combinations of capital, labour and land which minimise their ... ?  
Answer: production costs
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Macroeconomics concerns itself with large aggregates, particularly for the economy as a whole. It deals with the factors which determine national output and employment, the general price level, toal spending and saving, total imports and exports, and the demand and supply of ... ? 
Answer: money
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Most economics stress the idea of a 'state of rest', in which no economic forces are being generated to change the situation. This is also called ... ?
Answer: Equilibrium 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: One of the three major categories of inputs into productions processes is capital. Capital consists of goods which are not for current consumption, buit which will assist consumer goods to to be produced in the ... ?  
Answer: future
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: One of the three major categories of inputs into productions processes is labour. Labour includes all the ... which are used in production.  
Answer: human attributes 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: One of the three major categories of inputs into productions processes is land. Land includes all the ... which are used in production.  
Answer: natural resources
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Over the past twenty-five years or so, economists have divided their subject matter into two main branches. Which ?  
Answer: Microeconomics and macroeconomics
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Saving is that part of disposable income which is not spent in the current period. It follows that disposable income minus saving equals ... ?  
Answer: consumption
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The 'elasticity of demand' is a measure of the extent to which the quantity demanded of a good responds to changes in one of the influencing factors. The main measures are the price, income and ... elasticity of demand. 
Answer: cross 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The 'law of demand' states that a rise in the price of a good leads to a fall in the total quantity demanded. A fall in the price of a good leads to a rise in the total ... demanded.  
Answer: quantity
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The 'law of diminishing returns' states that as additional units of a variable factor are added to a given quantity of fixed factors, with a given state of technology, the average and marginal products of the variable factor will eventually ... ? 
Answer: decline
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The 'theory of revealed preference' is based on the reasonable proposition that a consumer will actually choose to consume that collection of goods that he ... ? 
Answer: prefers
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The basic economic problem is that of allocating scarce resources among the competing and virtually limitless wants of ... ?  
Answer: consumers in society
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The combining of firms that produce at a similar stage of an industry's production is called a ... ?  
Answer: horizontal integration
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The economist K.Lancaster has argued that it is the characteristics or ... of goods which yield utility to the consumer, rather than the goods themselves.   
Answer: attributes 
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The equilibrium (state of rest) behaviour of consumers and producers, whether in a single market or in the economy as a whole, is characterised by the fact that there exists no feeling of urgency on the part of buyers and sellers to ... ? 
Answer: change their behaviour
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The hypothesis of diminishing marginal utility states that as the quantity of a good consumed by an individual increases, the marginal utility of the good will eventually ... ?
Answer: decrease
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The inverse relationship between the price of a commodity and the quantity demanded in the market is summed up in the so-called  ... ? 
Answer: law of demand 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The logical progession from a one-man business is to a ... ? 
Answer: partnership
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The short-run is that period of time over which the input of at least one factor of production cannot be varied. Those factors which can be varied in the short-run (typically labour, raw materials and fuel) are called variable factors; those which cannot be varied (typically capital and land) are called ... ? 
Answer: fixed factors
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: The term 'methodology' refers to the way in which economists go about the study of their subject matter. Broadly, they have followed two main lines of approach. Which ? 
Answer: positive economics and normative economics
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: There are many different inputs into most production processes. For the purpose of analysis economists typically place each of the many different factor inputs into one of three categories ... ?  
Answer: Land, labour and capital  
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: There are two major exceptions to the law of demand. These exceptions (inferior goods and luxury items) are called ... ? 
Answer: Giffen goods and Veblen goods 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: Traditional economic theory has assumed that the typical firm has a single objective, namely to ... ?   
Answer: maximise its profits 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: When a good is consumed, the consumer presumably derives some benefit or satisfaction from the activity. Economists have called this benefit or satisfaction ... ?  
Answer: utility
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics
Question: When two or more firms in the same industry, but at different stages in the production process, join together, this is an example of ... ? 
Answer: vertical integration
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics 
Question: In a market of equilibrium (state of rest) the price and quantity of a commodity match both consumers and producers expectations and thus there is no discrepancy (conflict) betweeen the actual and desired ...? 
Answer: prices and quantities
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics 
Question: The famous italian economist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) concentrated on the efficiency aspect of welfare because he believed that ... ? 
Answer: welfare was a highly subjective concept
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics 
Question: The word equity means ? 
Answer: fairness or justice
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics 
Question: What are the 3 central economic questions facing all nations ? (concerning what, how and whom) 
Answer: What goods and services to produce, how to produce them and for whom 
Author: serv
Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Economics  
Question: Microeconomics is concerned with the behaviour of ... ? (3 groups)   
Answer: Individual firms, industries and consumers
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Comment: Hardwick/Khan/Langmead: An introduction to modern economics

Category: Eddie Cantor
Question: The most common reason for divorces is ... ?  
Answer: Men and women
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Eldridge Cleaver
Question: Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of ...?    
Answer: General Motors
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Emerson
Question: I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man ... ?  
Answer: accompanies it
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Emerson
Question: Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent ... ?   
Answer: youth
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Emile
Question: General and abstract ideas are the source of  the greatest ... ?  
Answer: errors of mankind
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: George Bernard Shaw
Question: Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the ... ? 
Answer: corrupt few
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: George Bernard Shaw
Question: He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a ... ?   
Answer: political career
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Groucho Marx
Question: From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I ... ?  
Answer: intend to read it
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Groucho Marx
Question: I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set ... ? 
Answer: I go into the other room and read a book
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Groucho Marx
Question: I knew Doris Day before she became a ... ?  
Answer: virgin
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: H.L.Mencken
Question: It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has ... ? 
Answer: descended from man
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: H.L.Mencken
Question: Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would wants to live ... ?  
Answer: in an institution
Author: serv
Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Luis Bunuel
Question: Thank god that I am still an ... ?  
Answer: atheist
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Comment: Finish the quotation

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Allen strikes gold as he examines some typically and neurotic New Yorkers whose lives intertwine. 
Answer: Hannah and her sisters
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Angie gets a workout in three separate stories about the effects of that proverbial green-eyed monster. 
Answer: Jealousy
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Appealing and intelligent comedy about a highly charged, neurotic woman who's a succesful TV news producer, and her attraction to a pretty-boy anchorman who joins her network - and represents everything she hates about TV news. 
Answer: Broadcast News
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Army officer who survies an atomic explosion starts growing; at sixty feet he attacks Las Vegas. 
Answer: Amazing colossal man
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Bishops turn into skeletons and the cow wanders into the bedroom in Bunuels first feature, a surrealistic masterpiece coscripted by Salvadore Dali. 
Answer: L'age d'or
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Bizarre, sexually-oriented parasites run rampant through dwellers in high-rise apartment building with plenty of gory violence quick to ensue. First major film by cult favorite Cronenberg sets the disgusting pattern for most of his subsequent pictures. 
Answer: They came from within
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Bland adaption of F.Scott Fitzgerald's jazz-age novel about a golden boy in Long island society; faithful to the book, and visually opulent, but lacks substance and power. 
Answer: The Great Gatsby
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Blockbuster biography of enigmatic adventurer T.E.Lawrence is that rarity, an epic film that is also literate.  
Answer: Lawrence of Arabia
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Chaplin attacks the machine age in inimitable fashion, with sharp pokes at other social ills and the struggle of modern-day survival. 
Answer: Modern Times
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Director Losey ate watermelon, pickles, and ice cream, went to sleep, woke up, and made this adaption of the comic strip about a sexy female spy. 
Answer: Modesty Blaise 
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Dull, cheap version of the D.H.Lawrence classsic, with Kristel as the lady and Clay as the lover. Kristel is beautiful but still cannot act.  
Answer: Lady Chatterley's lover 
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Excellent adaption of Albert Camus' existential novel about a man who feels completely isolated from society. 
Answer: The Stranger
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Exciting Raymond Chandler melodrama has Ladd returning from military service to find wife unfaithful. She's murdered , he's suspected in well-turned film. 
Answer: The Blue Dahlia 
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Family encounters a bigfoot-type monster in the woods and takes it home, thinking it's dead. 
Answer: Harry and the Hendersons
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Flat naval comedy set in WW2 with Cooper commanding a dumb crew on the U.S.S. Teakettle. Film debuts for Marvin and Charles Bronson. 
Answer: You're in the Navy now
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Formula filmmaking that even bored its intended audience. Cop Eastwood chews stogies for breakfast, while new partner Sheen is a rich kid, who apparently enjoys collecting facial contusions.  
Answer: The Rookie
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Gangster Steiger hires 'sensitive' hitman Palance to killl Svenson, but there are complications: Svensson is a pal who once saved Palance's life, and both of them are in love with Turkel. 
Answer: Portrait of a hitman
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Genteel, entertaining adaption of Alfred Uhry's stage play about a simple black man who's hired as chauffeur for a cantankerous old Southern woman, and winds up being her most fatihful companion. 
Answer: Driving Miss Daisy
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Good-buddy truckdrivers Fonda and Reed battle a rival kingpin's goon who want to force them off the road for good. 
Answer: High-ballin'
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Jerry is the poor stepson turned into a handsome prince for a night by fairy godfather. 
Answer: Cinderfella
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: John and Mary meet, make love, but don't know if the relationship should end right there. Innocuous, uncompelling trifle. Hoffman seems to be sleepwalking; audience may join him. 
Answer: John and Mary
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Ladd in his element as a soft-spoken but iron-willed railroad agent whose hot-headed best friend becomes involved in shady dealings.   
Answer: Whispering Smith
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Lee dies midway thorugh the production of this karate thriller. 
Answer: Game of death
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Lee is suitably cast as sinister Count Drago, who mummifies visitors to his gothic castle. Unexceptional horror fare, notably mainly as Sutherland's film debut in two roles - one as an old lady. 
Answer: Castle of the living dead
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Lithgow plays a meek butcher who wrongly believes he has killed his partner after discovering him frozen to death in the freezer. A wonderfully adept cast tries to pull off this black comedy, but the script knocks their efforts out cold. 
Answer: Out Cold
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Loud, boring, interminable tale of skier 'John' who romances skier 'Suzy' on the slopes. 
Answer: Fire and ice
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Lowbudget garbage about families developing from people who remained on island after the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Answer: The Women of Pitcairn Island
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Modest little black comedy about a hit-man whose current job is mucked up by an intrusive stranger.
Answer: Buddy Buddy  
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Moody version of Herman Melville sea classic, with Peck lending a deranged dignity to the role of Captain Ahab. 
Answer: Moby Dick
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Occult expert called in by San Francisco police in connection with series of weird murders. Intricate plot and and exceptional time period blending makes this a one-of-a-kind movie.
Answer: Dark Intruder
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Our candidate for the best Hollywood movie of all time. 
Answer: Casablanca
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Paddy Chayefsky's outrageous satire on television looks less and less like fantasy as the years pass. 
Answer: Network
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Phobic patient Murray pursues pompous psychiatrist Dreyfuss to his vacation retreat, where he ingratiates himself with the shrink's family - and drives the doctor crazy. 
Answer: What about Bob?
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Pleasant if pointless fable about a stressed-out nerd who learns he has six months to live, and accepts a millionaire's offer to enable him to live like a king, so long as he jumps into a volcano at the end of his vacation. Unfortunately the story also takes a dive.
Answer: Joe versus the Volcano
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Reed is a grotesquely ugly podiatrist who drinks a poison to commit suicide, instead turns into a handsome murderer. 
Answer: Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype 
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Repressed homosexual doctor jeopardizes 8-year-marriage by coming out of the closet with sexually carefree novelist. 
Answer: Making love
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Saucy, sexy single mother of two is a source of constant embarassment to her teenage daughter, who's trying to deal with her own sexual awakening - and not having an easy time of it. 
Answer: Mermaids
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Sexually precocious Lyon becomes involved with stolid professor Mason, and bizarre Sellers provides peculiar romance leading to murder and lust.  
Answer: Lolita
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Slow-moving mystery with Modine playing two men - a weakling auto mechanic and an underworld tough-guy - who live in the same city and lead parallel lives
Answer: Equinox
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Smart, sophisticated comedy about husband and wife lawyers on opposing sides of the same murder case. 
Answer: Adam's rib
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Standard Murphy western with every horseopera cliché intact - plot centers around missing shipment of rifles. 
Answer: 40 Guns to Apache Pass
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Standard film of couple quarreling over adopting war orphan. Nice locations in Switzerland.
Answer: High Fury 
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Tender film of faithful horse who returns to mistress after parents sell it to racing stable. Remake of 'Lassie Come Home'. 
Answer: Gypsy Colt
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: The sword-wielding warrior seeks vengeance on the cult leader who enslaved him and massacred his villagein this fullblooded adventure epic based on Robert E. Howards pulp tales.
Answer: Conan the Barbarian
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Truly perverse black-comedic suspense film about runaway teenage girl staying at her aunt's strange hotel where occupants are extremely weird.  
Answer: Private Parts
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Two young men kill prep-school pal, just for the thrill of it, and challenge themselves by inviting friends and family to their apartment afterwards. 
Answer: Rope
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Unusual hybrid of comedy, farce and screwball romance that doesn't know what it's trying to be and thus never goes anywhere. Martin plays a New England architect who meets kooky nonconformist Hawn. 
Answer: HouseSitter
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Uptight american businessman goes to Naples and finds some unfinished personal business left over from his last visit - when he was an amorous soldier during WW2. Two of the worlds most endearing actors try to keep this souffle from falling, and almost succeed. 
Answer: Macaroni
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Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Wimpy college professor becomes embroiled with pimps, prostitutes and underworld intrigue.
Answer: Doctor Detroit 
Author: serv

Category: Maltin's Movies
Question: Window dresser Locke stumbles across a half-man, half-rat - then tries to parlay him into showbiz by becoming his manager. 
Answer: Ratboy
Author: serv

Category: Mark Twain
Question: It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks that he is the best ... ? 
Answer: judge of one
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Category: Mark Twain
Question: Man is the only animal that blushes, or ... ?  
Answer: needs to 
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Category: Montaigne
Question: Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ... ?  
Answer: ass
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Category: Napoleon
Question: There is no place in a fanatics head, where ... ?  
Answer: reason can enter
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Category: Oscar Wilde
Question: Experience is the name everyone gives to ... ?  
Answer: their mistakes
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Category: Oscar Wilde
Question: There's only one thing  in the world worse than being talked about, and that is ... ?   
Answer: not being talked about
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... 's distinctive and controversial brand of pragmatism expresses itself along two main axes. One is negative---a critical diagnosis of what he takes to be defining projects of modern philosophy. The other is positive---an attempt to show what intellectual culture might look like, once we free ourselves from the governing metaphors of mind and knowledge in which the traditional problems of epistemology and metaphysics (and indeed, in his view, the self-conception of modern philosophy) are rooted.
Answer: Richard Rorty
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... asserts the relativity of morality
Answer: moral relativism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... asserts the relativity of truth.
Answer: Cognitive relativism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... can be defined as an abstract object or term which ranges over particular things. The classic problem involves whether abstract objects such as "largeness" exist in a realm independent of human thought. Realists argue that they do. 
Answer: A universal
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... can be thought of as the metaphysical theory that attempts to account for the truth of claims like 'It is possible that there are Aliens' without appealing to any nonactual objects whatsoever. What makes this theory so philosophically interesting, is that there is no obviously correct way to account for the truth of claims like 'It is possible that there are Aliens' without appealing to possible but nonactual objects. 
Answer: Actualism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless. During 1930s the most important representatives emigrated to USA, where they influenced American philosophy. Until 1950s it was the leading philosophy of science; today its influence persists especially in the way of doing philosophy, in the great attention given to the analysis of scientific thought and in the definitely acquired results of the technical researches on formal logic and the theory of probability.
Answer: Logical positivism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... denotes any metaphysical theory which claims that reality consists of a multiplicity of distinct, fundamental entities. The term was first used by Christian Wolff (1679-1754), and later popularized by William James in The Will to Believe. It is distinguished from both monism, the view that one kind of thing exists, and dualism, the view that two kinds of things exist. 
Answer: Pluralism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... entails that the individual self is either the motivating moral force and is, or should, be the end of moral action. 
Answer: Egoism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... have sought to deflate the universal pretensions of liberal theory. The main target has been Rawls description of the original position as an 'Archemedian point' from which the structure of a social system can be appraised, a position whose special virtue is that it allows us to regard the human condition 'from the perspective of eternity', from all social and temporal points of view. 
Answer: Communitarians 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... having studied science at the University of Vienna, moved into philosophy for his doctoral thesis, made a name for himself both as an expositor and (later) as a critic of Karl Popper's 'critical rationalism', and went on to become one of this century's most famous philosophers of science. An imaginative maverick, he became a critic of philosophy of science itself, particularly of 'rationalist' attempts to lay down or discover rules of scientific method. 
Answer: Paul Feyerabend
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a formulation utilitarianism which maintains that a behavioral code or rule is morally right if the consequences of adopting that rule are more favorable than unfavorable to everyone. It is contrasted with act utilitarianism which maintains that the morality of each action is to be determined in relation to the favorable or unfavorable consequences that emerge from that action.
Answer: Rule utilitarianism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a movement in cognitive science which hopes to explain human intellectual abilities using artificial neural networks (also known as 'neural networks' or 'neural nets'). Neural networks are simplified models of the brain composed of large numbers of units (the analogs of neurons) together with weights that measure the strength of connections between the units. These weights model the effects of the synapses that link one neuron to another. Experiments on models of this kind have demonstrated an ability to learn such skills as face recognition, reading, and the detection of simple grammatical structure.
Answer: Connectionism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a name given to a group of ancient philosophers who, from the existing philosophical beliefs, tried to select the doctrines that seemed to them most reasonable, and out of these constructed a new system 
Answer: Eclecticism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a philosophical position maintaining that our minds gain knowledge independently of experience through innate ideas or mental faculties.
Answer: A priorism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a term used in both ethics and epistemology. In ethics it deals with determining right actions and appropriate beliefs. In epistemology, it is the central component to knowledge as justified true belief. 
Answer: Justification
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a term used to identify a type of knowledge which is obtained independently of experience.
Answer: A priori
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is a theory in the philosophy of mind which maintains that talk of mental events should be translated into talk about observable behavior.
Answer: Behaviorism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is an epistemological position that we do not have knowledge or justification for believing in objective moral principles. It does not involve the rejection of moral values themselves, but simply the denial that we have knowledge of an objective realm of morals
Answer: Moral skepticism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is defined as the complex method of obtaining information about our surrounding world, specifically through our senses, and apprehending this information as beliefs. 
Answer: Perception
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is sometimes identified (usually by its critics) as the thesis that all points of view are equally valid. In ethics, this amounts to saying that all moralities are equally good; in epistemology it implies that all beliefs, or belief systems, are equally true.
Answer: Relativism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence.
Answer: Nihilism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the description and study of appearances. The term has come to be closely associated with the method of inquiry that was originated by Brentano and further developed by Husserl. The movement originally placed an emphasis on human experience descriptions, as the human experience was directed onto objects.
Answer: Phenomenology
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the idea, often associated with the political theories of John Locke and the "founders" of the American republic, that government can and should be legally limited in its powers, and that its authority depends on its observing these limitations. 
Answer: Constitutionalism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the position that arises out of the difficulties present in the dualism between the phenomenon and the object. It maintains that all we know are phenomena; we know nothing of the external things causing the phenomena.
Answer: phenomenalism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the theory that God or the ultimate nature of reality is to be conceived as some form of will (or conation). This theory is contrasted to intellectualism, which gives primacy to God's reason.
Answer: Voluntarism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the view that moral principles have an objective foundation, and are not based on subjective human convention.The term in its broadest sense, applies to moral theories that emphasize the use of reason or a rational procedure in moral decision making. 
Answer: moral rationalism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... is the view that moral utterances are neither true nor false statements about the world. They are, instead, expressions of feelings or prescriptive utterances. The key to this issue is distinguishing between two types of utterances: (1) propositional utterances, and (2) nonpropositional utterances. 
Answer: noncognitivism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. This crisis flared up just as universities were being founded. 
Answer: Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... maintained that knowledge comes from foundational concepts known intuitively through reason, such as innate ideas. Other concepts are then deductively drawn from these.
Answer: Continental Rationalists
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... names both a political theory of the legitimacy of political authority and a moral theory about the origin and/or legitimate content of moral norms. The political theory of authority claims that legitimate authority of government must derive from the consent of the governed, where the form and content of this consent derives from the idea of contract or mutual agreement. The moral theory of (this theory) claims that moral norms derive their normative force from the idea of contract or mutual agreement and is thus skeptical of the possibility of grounding morality or political authority in either divine will or some perfectionist ideal of the nature of humanity.
Answer: Contractarianism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... refers to a class of normative moral theories which maintain that an action is morally right if the consequences of that action are more favorable than unfavorable. Thus, correct moral conduct is determined solely by a cost-benefit analysis of an action's consequences.
Answer: Consequentialism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... refers to the 18th century philosophical movement in Great Britain which maintained that all knowledge comes from experience
Answer: British Empiricism 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... refers to the view that the truth of a thing is independent from the observing subject. The notion entails that certain things exist independently from the mind, or that they are at least in an external sphere.
Answer: objectivity
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... traditionally refers to a 17th century philosophical movement begun by Descartes. After Descartes, several dozen scientists and philosophers continued his teachings throughout continental Europe and, accordingly were titled "Cartesians." Some Cartesians strayed little from Descartes' scientific and metaphysical theories. Others incorporated his theories into Calvinistic theology. But a handful of philosophers influenced by Descartes were more original in developing their own views and these people are included under this more more general title. 
Answer: Continental rationalism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... was a profound and prolific writer in the Danish "golden age" of intellectual and artistic activity. His work crosses the boundaries of philosophy, theology, psychology, literary criticism, devotional literature and fiction. Kierkegaard brought this potent mixture of discourses to bear as social critique and for the purpose of renewing Christian faith within Christendom. At the same time he made many original conceptual contributions to each of the disciplines he employed. He is known as the "father of existentialism", but at least as important are his critiques of Hegel and of the German romantics, his contributions to the development of modernism, his literary experimentation, his vivid re-presentation of biblical figures to bring out their modern relevance, his invention of key concepts which have been explored and redeployed by thinkers ever since, his interventions in contemporary Danish church politics, and his fervent attempts to analyse and revitalise Christian faith.
Answer: Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ... was the founder of American pragmatism (which he called "pragmaticism"), an extender of the Scotistic theory of signs (which he called "semeiotic"), an extraordinarily prolific logician and mathematician, and a developer of an evolutionary, psycho-physically monistic metaphysical system. A practicing chemist and geodesist by profession, he nevertheless considered scientific philosophy, and especially logic, to be his vocation. In the course of his polymathic researches, he wrote on a wide range of topics, ranging from mathematical logic to psychology. 
Answer: Charles Sanders Peirce
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Category: Philosophy
Question: ..., British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and administrator, was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. His views are of continuing significance, and are generally recognized to be among the deepest and certainly the most effective defenses of empiricism and of a liberal political view of society and culture. The overall aim of his philosophy is to develop a positive view of the universe and the place of humans in it, one which contributes to the progress of human knowledge, individual freedom and human well-being. His views are not entirely original, having their roots in the British empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, and in the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham. But he gave them a new depth, and his formulations were sufficiently articulate to gain for them a continuing influence among a broad public. 
Answer: John Stuart Mill
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Category: Philosophy
Question: Along with J. G. Fichte and F. W. J. Schelling, ... belongs to the period of "German idealism" in the decades following Kant. The most systematic of the post-Kantian idealists, he attempted, throughout his published writings as well as in his lectures, to elaborate a comprehensive and systematic ontology from a "logical" starting point. He is perhaps most well-known for his teleological account of history, an account which was later taken over by Marx and "inverted" into a materialist theory of an historical development culminating in communism.
Answer: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Category: Philosophy
Question: An ... may be defined as an object that has been intentionally made or produced for a certain purpose. Often the word is used in a more restricted sense to refer to simple, hand-made objects (for example, tools) which represent a particular culture. (This might be termed the 'archaeological sense' of the word.) In experimental science, the expression is sometimes used to refer to experimental results which are not manifestations of the natural phenomena under investigation, but are due to the particular experimental arrangement.
Answer: artifact 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: Generally regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English,  the last of the great triumvirate of "British empiricists", ... was also noted as an historian and essayist. A master stylist in any genre, his major philosophical works remain widely and deeply influential, despite their being denounced by many of his contemporaries as works of scepticism and atheism. While Hume's influence is evident in the moral philosophy and economic writings of his close friend Adam Smith, he also awakened Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumbers" and "caused the scales to fall" from Jeremy Bentham's eyes. Charles Darwin counted him as a central influence, as did "Darwin's bulldog," Thomas Henry Huxley
Answer: David Hume
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Category: Philosophy
Question: In its most general philosophical sense, a ... involves any object in the world around us that we perceive through our senses. It is that perception of an object which becomes visible to our consciousness. 
Answer: phenomenon
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Category: Philosophy
Question: Philosophers are interested in a constellation of issues involving the concept of truth. A preliminary issue, although somewhat subsidiary, is to decide what sorts of things can be true. Is truth a property of sentences (which are linguistic entities in some language or other), or is truth a property of propositions (nonlinguistic, abstract and timeless entities)? The principal issue is: What is truth? It is the problem of being clear about what you are saying when you say some claim or other is true. The most important theories of truth are the ... ? 
Answer: Correspondence Theory, the Semantic Theory, the Deflationary Theory, the Coherence Theory and the Pragmatic Theory 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The ... theory claims that we perceive something called ... in place of the actual objects that are in the world around us. This concept was first introduced by Moore, and was later adopted by Russell and Broad. This theory has come under scrutiny from Ryle and Austin, who propose that the notion of ... only complicates our account of perceptions. We do not perceive discrete bits of information, but instead perceive objects in our surrounding world
Answer: sense-data
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The concept of ... is that all derived or secondary things proceed or flow from the more primary. It is distinguished from the doctrine of creation by its elimination of a definite will in the first cause, from which all things are made to emanate according to natural laws and without conscious volition. It differs from the theory of formation at the hands of a supreme artisan who finds his matter ready to his hand, in teaching that all things, whether actually or only apparently material, flow from the primal principle.  
Answer: emanation 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The exact point in time when the term ... was first adopted is unknown. It is, qhowever, certain that Italy and the re-adopting of Latin letters as the staple of human culture were responsible for the name of Humanists. Literoe humaniores was an expression coined in reference to the classic literature of Rome and the imitation and reproduction of its literary forms in the new learning; this was in contrast to and against the Literoe sacroe of scholasticism. 
Answer: humanism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The field of ethics, also called moral philosophy, involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior. Philosophers today usually divide ethical theories into three general subject areas, ... ?
Answer: metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics 
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The term ... is ambiguous. It refers to a type of moral theory, as well as to a type of legal theory, despite the fact that the core claims of the two kinds of theory are logically independent.
Answer: natural law
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The term ... refers to information obtained externally by means of the senses or internally through emotion. The term a posteriori is often used interchangeably.
Answer: experience
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The term ... was first used by Christian Wolff in his discussions of the mind-body problem to depict both philosophers who would only acknowledge the mind (idealism or mentalism) and philosophers who only acknowledged the body (materialism). The meaning Wolff originally intended by using the term has broadened in scope through the centuries, and today applies to any doctrine or theory that claims that all things, no matter how many or of what variety, can be reduced to one unified thing in time, space, or quality.
Answer: monism
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Category: Philosophy
Question: The term ... was originally coined by Thomas Hyde around the beginning of the eighteenth century. As a metaphysical theory, it states that the world is made up of two elemental categories which are incommensurable. This includes distinctions between mind and body, good and evil, universal and particular, and phenomena and noumena.
Answer: dualism
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Category: Proverb
Question: Money isn't everything, says ... ?  
Answer: my boss
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Category: Ronald Reagan
Question: Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves ... ?  
Answer: been born
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Category: Sam Goldwyn
Question: Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his ... ?  
Answer: head examined
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Category: Sam Goldwyn
Question: Coffee isn't my ... ?  
Answer: cup of tea
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Category: Sam Goldwyn
Question: Color-television. I don't believe that, until I have seen it ... ? 
Answer: black on white
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Category: Sam Goldwyn
Question: Include me ... ?   
Answer: out 
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Category: Sean Connery
Question: I am not vicious. I am ... ?  
Answer: scottish
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Category: Sophia Loren
Question: Thank you for the compliment. But everything you see, I owe to ... ?  
Answer: spaghetti
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Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing 1994 and known as Double M.
Answer: Michael Moorer
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1885-1892, and known as the Boston strong boy. 
Answer: John L. Sullivan
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1892-1897, and known as Gentleman Jim. 
Answer: James J. Corbett
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1897-1899, and known as Ruby Robert.
Answer: Bob Fitzsimmons
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1899-1905, and known as The boilermaker.
Answer: James J. Jeffries
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1905-1906, and known as The Fightin' Kentuckian
Answer: Marvin Hart
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1906-1908, and known as The Little Giant of Hanover
Answer: Tommy Burns
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1908-1915, and known as Lil' Arthur.
Answer: Jack Johnson
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1915-1919, and known as The Pottawatomie Giant
Answer: Jess Willard
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1919-1926, and known as the Manassa Mauler.
Answer: Jack Dempsey 
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1926-1928, and known as The fighting Marine.
Answer: Gene Tunney 
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1930-1932, and known as The Black Uhlan of the Rhine
Answer: Max Schmeling 
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1932-1933, and known as The Boston Gob. 
Answer: Jack Sharkey
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1933-1934, and known as The ambling Alp.
Answer: Primo Carnera
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1934-1935, and known as The Livermore Larruper
Answer: Max Baer
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1935-1937, and known as The Cinderella Man
Answer: James J. Braddock
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1937-1949, and known as The Black Bomber
Answer: Joe Louis
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1949-1951, and known as The Cincinnatti Cobra
Answer: Ezzard Charles
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1951-1952, and known as Jersey Joe.
Answer: Joe Walcott
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1952-1956, and known as The Brockton Blockbuster
Answer: Rocky Marciano
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1956-1959, and from 1960-1962.  
Answer: Floyd Patterson
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1959-1960.
Answer: Ingemar Johansson
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1962-1964, and known as Sonny. 
Answer: Charles Liston
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1964-1970, and known as The Louisville Lip.
Answer: Cassius Clay
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1970-1973 and known as Smokin'.
Answer: Joe Frazier
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1973-1974 and from 1994-1997 and known as Big George.
Answer: George Foreman
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1974-1978 and from 1978-1979 and known as The Greatest.
Answer: Muhammad Ali
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1980-1985 and known as The Easton Assasin
Answer: Larry Holmes 
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1985-1988 and known as The Spinks Jinx
Answer: Michael Spinks
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1988-1990 and known as Iron Mike.
Answer: Mike Tyson
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1990-1992 and from 1993-1994 and known as The real deal.
Answer: Evander Holyfield
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1992-1993 and known as Big Daddy.
Answer: Riddick Bowe
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1997-1998 and known as  The Cannon.
Answer: Shannon Briggs
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing from 1998-2001 and known as The Lion.
Answer: Lennox Lewis
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing in 1978 and known as Neon Leon. 
Answer: Leon Spinks
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing in 1990 and known as Buster.
Answer: James Douglas
Author: soervo

Category: Sport - Boxing
Question: He was heavy-weight champion in boxing in 2001 and known as The Rock. 
Answer: Hasim Rahman
Author: soervo

Category: St. John Ervine
Question: American Motion Pictures are written by the half-educated for the ... ? 
Answer: half-witted
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Category: Stendhal
Question: Women are always eagerly on the lookout for any ... ?  
Answer: emotion
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Category: Steven Wright
Question: If you shoot at mimes, should you ... ?  
Answer: use a silencer?
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Category: Thomas Henry Huxley
Question: Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of ... ?  
Answer: wise men
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Category: Thoreau
Question: Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me ... ?  
Answer: truth
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Category: US Politics
Question: In 1909, which U.S. President became the first to be depicted on a coin?
Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Author: Heyaz

Category: US Politics
Question: What the W. of George W. Bush stand for?
Answer: Walker
Author: Heyaz

Question: The number unemployed consists of all those people in a country who are willing and able to work but are unable to ... ?  
Answer: find jobs
Author: serv
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Category: US Politics
Question: Which Vice President was the only one to serve two full terms as President?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
Author: Heyaz

Category: US Politics
Question: Who was the first Vice President to resign?
Answer: John C. Calhoun
Author: Heyaz

Category: W.C.Fields
Question: I am free of all prejudice. I ... ?  
Answer: hate everyone equally
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Category: W.C.Fields
Question: Who removed the cork from my ... ?  
Answer: lunch
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Category: W.H.Auden
Question: Men will pay large sums to whores, for telling them they are not ... ?   
Answer: bores
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Category: Whitney Grisword
Question: The only sure weapon against bad ideas is ... ?  
Answer: better ideas
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Category: William Faulkner
Question: She tried to sit in my lap, while I was ... ?   
Answer: standing
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Category: William Hazlitt
Question: It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of ... ?    
Answer: books
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Category: Woody Allen
Question: What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely ... ?  
Answer: overpaid for my carpet
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Category: Zsa Zsa Gabor
Question: I never hated a man so much, that I returned his ... ?  
Answer: diamants
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