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List of Topics (for both tossup questions and bonus questions) written down at the ACF Fall tournament:

Mythology topics
Science/Math topics
- ID the neurotransmitter
- Biological phenomena - mimicry
- The Krebs Cycle/ The Calvin Cycle
- Layers of the skin
- Cell Organelles
- Areas of the brain
- Subatomic particles
- Constellations (by description)
- The Earth's Magnetosphere
- Planets in our solar system and their characteristics
- Radiation pressure
- Bernoulli's Principle, Newton's Laws of Motion, etc.
- Truth Tables/ Binary Mathematics (Boole)
- Hyperbolic geometry (eliptic)
- Hess's Law
- Brownian Motion
- Faraday's law
- Economics terms
History Topics
- Germany during WWII
- Name the wives of Henry VIII
- The Six-Day war
- Roman emperors
- Oddball political parties from the past and present
- The Spanish Inquisition
- English/Scottish battles
- "The Rough Riders" (from the Spanish-American war)
- Marcus Garvey
- James Meredith - first African American student of Mississippi University
- Sumerian History
- Assassinated presidents
- Chinese Dynasties
Law Stuff (some could also be considered history)
- Important court cases
  - Mapp v. Ohio
- The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
- "Acts of Parliament that pissed off the colonists"
- Panama treaties
  - Torrijos-Carter Treaties
- Early (notable) Supreme Court Cases
- Amendments to the Constitution
Written works/Authors
- Spanish writers
  - Pablo Neruda
- Tom Stoppard and some of his works
- Ambrose Bierce
  - An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
  - The Devil's Dictionary
- Ben Johnson - the Alchemist
- Shakespeare's Plays
  - The Tempest
- Hemingway works
  - The Sun Also Rises
- The French School of Poetry
  - Paul Verlaine
  - Rimbaud
- A Room with a View - Forster
- John Bunyan - The Pilgrim's Progress
- Jack Kerouac - On the Road
- John Webster
- Langston Hughes
- J. D. Salinger
- Wallace Stevens poetry
- Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology
- Virginia Woolf works
- Samuel Johnson
  - A Dictionary of the English Language
- T. S. Eliot
  - The Waste Land
- The Bronte sisters and their works
- Faust (the story of)
- Robert Browning (English Poet)
- Christopher Marlowe and his works
- Robert Frost Poems (name by description)
- Mark Twain (and his works)
- Oscar Wilde
- C.S. Lewis
- Leo Tolstoy
- Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales"
- Les Miserables
- Henry Adams
- Japanese Authors (link to Japanese Literature)
- Thomas Love Peacock
- Jane Eyre
- Lewis Carrol
Music
- Beethoven works - know by description
- Franz Schubert (composer)
- Leonard Bernstein (american composer)
- Giuseppe Verdi - Italian school of opera
- George Frideric Handel (composer)
- Gioacchino Rossini (composer)
- Aaron Copeland (composer)
Art
- Diego Velazquez - Las Meninas
- Name the Rembrant Painting
- 20th Century art movements (list of modern art movements here)
- Vincent van Gogh
Religion topics
- Jewish Holidays
- Hinduism
- History of the Mormon religion
- Parishes (in Christianity)
- Books of the Bible
- Notable people from the Bible (list of bible figures here)
- Thomas Aquinas
- Shinto
Philosophy/Philosophers
- Spanish philosopher - George Santayana
- German philosophers
- Socrates works
- Schopenhauer
- The World as Will and Representation
Geography Topics
- Rivers, Mountains, and more
Architects/their works/places
- Name that architect
- Inigo Jones - Whitehall
- Tintern Abbey
Anthropology/Sociology/Psychology
- Anthropologists
  - Ruth Benedict
  - Franz Boas and his students
- Auguste Comte - Positivism
- Milgram/Stanford experiments
- Sociologists
  - Weber
Random topics
- The Meospotamian Ziggurat (step pyramid)
- The Wizard of Oz