You Gotta Know

"You Gotta Know" is a series of articles that highlights a category and the list of the (more or less) ten answers that NAQT's editors have judged the most valuable to know for the purposes of quiz bowl. These will be the people, places, events, or ideas that had the strongest and most far-reaching impact on history (perhaps mixed with those that had the most interesting and memorable stories associated with them). The lists will include very brief summaries of the answers' importance, but will in no way aspire to be a complete description of the answers' significance. That exercise is left to the reader...

Naturally, there is no guarantee that these topics or clues will appear in NAQT question sets (or in any other question sets, for that matter), but statistically speaking, they should be a great place to start.

You gotta know...

...these aviators (September 2012).
...these World War II battles (August 2012).
...these African bodies of water (July 2012).
...these art museums (June 2012).
...these musicals (September 2011).
...these deserts (September 2008).
...these mathematicians (March 2008).
...these sculptors (January 2008).
...these works of art, music, literature, and non-fiction (October 2007).
...these treaties (September 2007).
...these works of non-fiction (October 2005).
...these works of art (updated!) (September 2005).
...these works of music (updated!) (August 2005).
...these works of literature (updated!) (July 2005).
...these Supreme Court cases (April 2004).
...these operas (March 2004).
...these classes of particles (February 2004).
...these Asian rivers (January 2004).
...these Old Testament characters (December 2003).
...these New York Yankees (November 2003).
...these architects (October 2003).
...these 20th-century composers (September 2003).
...these Hindu gods and heroes (August 2003).
...these Trojan War heroes (July 2003).
...these tennis players (June 2003).
...these Latin American authors (May 2003).
...these Civil War battles (April 2003).
...these Jewish holidays (March 2003).
...these types of computation problems (February 2003).
...these quintuples (January 2003).
...these Olympics (December 2002).
...these programming languages (November 2002).
...these works of music (October 2002).
...these American warships (September 2002).
...these common mistakes (part 2) (August 2002).
...these religious texts (July 2002).
...these British monarchs (June 2002).
...these Norse gods and goddesses (May 2002).
...these medieval Islamic dynasties (April 2002).
...these animal phyla (March 2002).
...these common mistakes (February 2002).
...these American plays (January 2002).
...these world leaders (December 2001).
...these golfers (November 2001).
...these Russian tsars (October 2001).
...these works of art (September 2001).
...these psychologists (August 2001).
...these works of literature (July 2001).
...these 20th-century paintings (June 2001).
...these elections (May 2001).
...these planetary moons (April 2001).
...these Egyptian deities (March 2001).
...these Japanese authors (February 2001).
...these Hockey Hall of Famers (January 2001).
...these Revolutionary War generals (December 2000).
...these organelles (November 2000).
...these footballers (soccer players) (October 2000).
...these kings of France (September 2000).
...these economists (August 2000).

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