Qualification round

This French artist was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. He painted during the last twenty years of his life even after his arthritis severely limited his mobility .It has often been reported that in the advanced stages of his arthritis, he painted by having a brush strapped to his paralyzed fingers. Name him

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This American sculptor is best known for his 1874 sculpture The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, and his 1920 monumental statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.. His sculptures are mostly in the eastern and midwestern United States, but one, Thomas Starr King, is in San Francisco, and two, General George Washington and the Marseillaise Memorial, are in France. In 1918, a year after the Prizes began, the gold medal was also designed by him. Name him

• Hank Willis Thomas

• Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi

• Daniel Chester French

• Henry Bacon

Name the 1956 volume of short biographies describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators by John F. Kennedy , then a Senator, who also won the Pulitzer prize for biography for it.

• Prelude to leadership

• The burden and the glory

• Profiles in Courage

• The strategy of peace

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known for his novella Notes from the Underground and for four long novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed (also and more accurately known as The Demons and The Devils), and The Brothers Karamazov. Name the protagonist in crime and punishment

• Pierre Kirillovich Bezukhov

• Alexei Ivanovich

• Rodion Raskolnikov

• Emma Bovary

Which US state has union jack of United Kingdom on its state flag.

• Tennessee

• Hawaii

• North Carolina

• Georgia

Other than Ecuador , what is the only South American country belongs to OPEC

• Colombia

• Mexico

• Venezuela

• Brazil

What physicist and head of Los Alamos laboratory during world war 2 was the subject of 2005 Pulitzer prize wining biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

• Karl Donitz

• Enrico Fermi

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Gene Roddenberry

She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organized care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. Her nickname is lady with the lamp. Name her.

Name this British Beligian pilot who became the youngest to fly solo around the world at the age of 17 on 24th of August 2022 following a five-month journey spanning 52 countries. He set off from Sofia on March 23rd and landed back in the Bulgarian capital.

• Jessica Watson

• Travis Ludlow

• Mack Rutherford

Vietnam has claimed a new world record of having the longest glass-bottomed bridge in May 2022. Named Bach Long in the Son La Province, Northwest Vietnam. What does Bach long means?

• Black dragon

• White Dragon

• Sky bridge