United States Academic Decathlon topics

Section from the Book of the Dead of Nany from the 2004–05 curriculum. Students were to memorize facts including that the whole scroll is 17 feet long, Nany was a ritual singer for Amen-Ra and that her coffin was a hollow wooden sculpture of Osiris.^[1]

The United States Academic Decathlon (USAD) is an academic competition for high school students in the United States. The Academic Decathlon consists of 10 events: Art, Economics, Essay, Interview, Language and Literature, Math, Music, Science, Social Science, Speech and Super Quiz. Each year, one of the ten subjects is chosen as the Super Quiz, which uses a different format than the other events. The topics and theme of the competition are released in March of every year, giving students time to prepare for the competition season which runs from November to April.^[2] The events are split up into two groups: the seven objective tests (Art, Economics, Language and Literature, Math, Music, Science and Social Science) and the three subjective events (Essay, Interview and Speech). They are designated as such because the former seven are multiple choice tests, whereas the latter three are graded by judges. Students are given half an hour to answer each multiple choice exam. These exams consist of 50 questions, with the exception of Math and Super Quiz which have 35 and 52 questions respectively.^[3]

Topics used

1982–1997

Season	Subject	Topic
1982-83	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Profits and the free Enterprise System; Emphasis on Today's Housing Crisis[4][5]
1983–84	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Olympic Games[5][6][7]
1984–85	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Futurism—Megatrends[5][6][8]
1985–86	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Immigration to the United States[5][6][9][10]
1986–87	Economics
	Fine Arts	Renaissance
	Language and Literature	Hamlet, Heart of Darkness
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	We The People: The Constitution of the United States[5][6][11]
1987–88	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	History of Flight: From Daedalus to Kitty Hawk to Voyager[5][6][12][13]
1988–89	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	Steven Crane: War is Kind Emily Dickinson: A Bird came down the Walk Emily Dickinson: There is no Frigate like a Book Emily Dickinson: Twas just this time last year I died
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	The U.S. Presidency[5][6][14][15]
1989–90	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	American Indians: Our American Heritage[5][6][16][17]
1990–91	Economics
	Fine Arts	Art and music after World War II[18]
	Language and Literature	Science fiction[18]
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Space Exploration[5][6][6][19][20]
1991–92	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	Woman in the Mists, biography of Dian Fossey, by Farley Mowat
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	"Habitat Earth"[5][6][6][21][22]
1992–93	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	"A Diversity of Achievers"[6][6][23][24]
1993–94	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich[25]
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Documents of Freedom[5][6][26][27]
1994–1995	Theme	Health, Wellness, and Biotechnology[6][28]
	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	Arrowsmith[29]
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	Biotechnology: The Next Frontier[5][6][6][30][31]
1995–1996	Theme	Competition and Cooperation[6]
	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	The Odyssey and Selected Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson[32][33]
	Math
	Science
	Social Science
	Super Quiz	The United Nations[5][6][6][34][35]
1996–1997	Theme	Communication and Culture[6]
	Economics
	Fine Arts
	Language and Literature	William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion[36]
	Math
	Science
	Social Science	World Geography[37]
	Super Quiz	The Information Revolution[5][6][38][39]

Since 1997

1997–1998

Theme	Subject	Topic
Looking Outward: Forces Shaping Society[40][41]	Art	Fundamentals of art and selected art objects from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
	Language and Literature	Jane Eyre[40][42] by Charlotte Brontë
	Math	Algebra, geometry, trigonometry and differential calculus
	Music	Music of the twentieth century "Pierrot lunaire" by Arnold Schoenberg "Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber "Music for strings, percussion and celesta" by Béla Bartók "Sinfonia India" by Carlos Chávez "Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major" by George Enescu "Concerto in F for piano and orchestra" by George Gershwin "Symphony No. 4 in G major" by Gustav Mahler "Quartet for the End of Time" by Olivier Messiaen "Vision Fugitives" for piano by Sergei Prokofiev "Che gelida manina" by Giacomo Puccini "Alborada del gracioso" by Maurice Ravel "Mazurka No. 7, Op. 3" by Alexander Scriabin "The Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky "Ionisation" by Edgard Varèse "Introduction to Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner "Ballad of Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill
	Science	The structure and behavior of matter
	Social Science	World events and new developments of the 1980s
	Super Quiz	Globalization: The New Economy[6][42][43]

1998–1999

Theme	Subject	Topic
Looking Inward: Developing a Sense of Meaning[44]	Art	20th century American and European Art (entirely from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection) Still Life with Violin, 1913 by Georges Braque Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio by David Hockney White Center by Mark Rothko
	Economics	Fundamentals of economics, macroeconomics, and investment methods and strategies
	Language and Literature	Siddhartha by Herman Hesse and The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro[45] Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples replaced Siddhartha for the junior varsity competition.
	Math	Geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and calculus
	Music	Opera
	Social Science	Ancient Civilizations
	Super Quiz	The Brain[6][45][46]

1999–2000

Theme	Subject	Topic
Looking Forward: Creating the Future[47]	Art[47]	Art focused on innovations in the Fine Arts. Featured pieces: Figure of Striding Man Wearing a Kilt by an anonymous Egyptian sculptor Madonna and Child Enthroned with (Four Saints) by Piero di Cosimo Capriccio: An Island in the Lagoon by Canaletto Empire Chair by Benjamin Latrobe Port-en-Bessin by Georges Seurat The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand by Thomas Eakins Dining Chair by Frank Lloyd Wright The Dream by Max Beckmann Composition of Red and White by Piet Mondrian Plate by Maria Martinez White Lily by Alexander Calder New Continent by Louise Nevelson The Intimacy of Water by Romare Bearden Goldfish Bowl II by Roy Lichtenstein Burning Rods by Anselm Kiefer Charm of Subsistence by Martin Puryear Tanabata (Star Festival) by Kayama Matazó Untitled by Alan Saret.
	Economics[47]	Fundamentals of economics, microeconomics, and environmental economics
	Language and Literature[47]	Novel My Antonia[48] by Willa Cather Play An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen Selected poems "The Mower Against Gardens" by Andrew Marvell "The Deserted Village" (excerpt) by Oliver Goldsmith "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways" by William Wordsworth "The Horses" by Edwin Muir "Foreclosure" by Sterling A. Brown
	Math[47]	Fractals, fractal geometry, and algorithms in the complex plane
	Music[47]	Music focused on breakthroughs in American Jazz. Featured pieces: "St. James Infirmary" by Louis Armstrong "Carolina Shout" by Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, and Fats Waller "Take the 'A' Train" by Duke Ellington "Body and Soul" by Benny Goodman "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" by Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday "Night in Tunisia" by Dizzy Gillespie "'Round Midnight" by Thelonious Monk "My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman "Once in a While" by Art Blakey, and Horace Silver "Eat That Chicken" by Charles Mingus "Ko Ko" by Charlie Parker "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane
	Social Science[47]	Infrastructures Around the Globe: Suez Canal, Transmerican Railroad, Panama Canal, Alaska Pipeline, Channel Tunnel, Glen Canyon Dam, Three Gorges Dam, and the International Space Station
	Super Quiz	Sustainable Earth[6][49]

2000–2001

Theme	Subject	Topic
Understanding the Self	Art[50]	Art focused on images of the self. Featured selections: Paintings Fray Hortensio Felix Paravicino by El Greco Artist in His Studio by Rembrandt van Rijn Pat Lyon at the Forge by John Neagle Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli by Edgar Degas La Japonaise by Claude Monet Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair by Paul Cézanne In the Loge by Mary Cassatt The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent Ellen Day Hale Postman Joseph Roulin by Vincent van Gogh Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? by Paul Gauguin Portrait of a Woman by Pablo Picasso Schiele's Wife with Her Little Nephew by Egon Schiele Sculptures Portrait of a Man from Rome (c. 50 BCE) Guanyin from China (c. 580 CE) Walking Woman (Femme qui Marche) and Annette, both by Alberto Giacometti Masks Deangle from the Dan people Kifwebe from the Songye people
	Economics[50]	Fundamentals of economics, business organizations, and profiles in individual enterprise
	Language and Literature[50]	Novel Frankenstein[51] by Mary Shelley Poems Sonnet 14 by John Donne Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning There Was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman My Name and I by Robert Graves Theme for English B by Langston Hughes Mirror by Sylvia Plath.
	Math[50]	Logic and set theory, numbers, combinatorics and probability, and application
	Music[50]	Music focused on sacred music from around the world. Featured songs: "El Melej" by Alia Musica "Al-'Ada" by La Sulamiyya "Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder" by Netherlands Bach Society "Bluebird Song" by Lena Clark "Quen a Virgen Ben Servira" by Ensemble Alcatraz "Nyamaropa yeVana Vava Mushonga" by Muchatera "Arrullo San Antonio" by BMOSA "Ngoma ra Mrongo" from Kenya & Tanzania "Kriti: Ninnadanela" by Ramnad Krishnan "Kecak" by Music for the Gods "Move on up a Little Higher" by Mahalia Jackson "O Magnum Mysterium" by Choir of Westminster Cathedral
	Science[50]	The Biological Self: biology of the cell, molecular genetics, and the immune system
	Super Quiz[6][50][52]	Concepts of the Self: Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

2001–2002

Theme	Subject	Topic
Understanding Others[53]	Art[54]	Drawings The Old Savoyard by Jean-Antoine Watteau The Artist's Mother by Arshile Gorky Paintings The Combat Of The Giaour And Hassan by Eugène Delacroix Woman At Her Toilette by Berthe Morisot The Herring Net by Winslow Homer A Sunday at La Grande Jatte-1884 by Georges Seurat At the Moulin Rouge by Henri Marie Raymonde Toulouse-Lautrec Portrait Of Picasso by Juan Gris (José Victoriano Gonzalez) American Gothic by Grant Wood Printmaking The Great Wave Off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai Mao by Andy Warhol Sculptures Armored Guardian (tomb figure) from China (Tang Dynasty) Plaque Of A Warrior Chief from Nigeria (Benin Kingdom) The Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington Golden Bird by Constantin Brâncuși Textiles Nulhaku (Na Drama Robe) from Japan (Momoyama period) Fixed Media Untitled (called Hotel De La Duchsse-Anne) by Joseph Cornell Lincoln by Robert Rauschenberg
	Economics[55]	Economics basics, relationships, taxation, labor markets, and behaviors. Also included a feature on several prominent historical economists.
	Language and Literature[56]	Novel Cry, the Beloved Country[57] by Alan Paton Poems Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare Modern Love: Sonnet 17 by George Meredith "We and They" by Rudyard Kipling "The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost "A Woman Mourned by Daughters" by Adrienne Rich "A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott
	Math[58]	Algebra, geometry and statistics.
	Music[59]	Music focused on the country music genre (1920's to the present). Featured songs: The House Carpenter by Mrs. Texas Gladden Sallie Gooden by Alexander "Eck" Robertson Eighteen Hammers by Johnny Lee Moore and 12 Mississippi Penitentiary Convicts Single Girl, Married Girl by The Carter Family Waiting For A Train by Jimmie Rodgers A Cowboy Has To Sing by Roy Rogers New San Antonio Rose by Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys Bluegrass Breakdown by Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys Lovesick Blues by Hank Williams Sr. I Walk the Line by Johnny Cash Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache) by Buck Owens Still Feeling Blue by Gram Parsons Our Town by Iris Dement
	Science[60]	Light, sound and waves.
	Super Quiz	E-communication: The Internet & Society[6][61]

2002–2003

Theme	Subject	Topic
Understanding the Natural World[6]	Art	Romantic, Realist, Impressionist, and Asian Art, including Two Men Contemplating the Moon by Caspar David Friedrich Salisbury Cathedral by John Constable The Gleaners by Jean-François Millet Horse Fair by Rosa Bonheur Four Poplars on the Banks of the Epte River near Giverny by Claude Monet Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers by Camille Pissarro Arques-la-Bataille by John Henry Twachtman The Oxbow by Thomas Cole Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church The Rocky Mountains: Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute by J. M. W. Turner
	Economics	Fundamentals of economics; micro- and macro-economics; a special section on "The Economics of the Natural World"
	Language and Literature	Novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy[62] Poems "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth "Ode to a Skylark" by Percy Bysshe Shelley Excerpt from "Forest Hymn" by William Cullen Bryant "The Tropics of New York" by Countee Cullen "The Métier of Blossoming" by Denise Levertov
	Math	General math, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry
	Music	Music of the Romantic Era, featuring the following works: Symphony No. 5 (3rd & 4th movements) and Symphony No. 6 (4th movement) by Ludwig van Beethoven March to the Scaffold (4th movement of Symphonie fantastique) by Hector Berlioz William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini Étude Op. 10, No. 12 ('Revolutionary Study') by Frédéric Chopin Symphony No. 1 (1st movement) by Johannes Brahms Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore (Act 2, Scene 1) by Giuseppe Verdi Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner March of the Toreadors from Carmen by Georges Bizet Symphony No. 1 (1st movement) by Felix Mendelssohn 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 (4th movement: Stürmisch bewegt- Energisch) by Gustav Mahler Also Sprach Zarathustra: Sunrise (Op. 30) by Richard Strauss
	Social Science	The Natural World as it Shapes Human History: early cultures in the Americas, technology and the natural world, the impact of natural disasters in U.S. history, and the preservation of nature.
	Super Quiz	The Blue Planet: Beneath the Surface[63]

2003–2004

Theme	Subject	Topic
America: The Growth of a Nation[64]	Art[65]	Early American Art Monticello - Thomas Jefferson Cardinal Grosbeak - John James Audubon The Last Race, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony - George Catlin Dover Plain, Dutchess County, New York - Asher B. Durand Family Group before United States Capitol - Unidentified Portrait Painter Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way - Emanuel Leutze Palmer-Epard Cabin - Unidentified Architect Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California - Albert Bierstadt The Last of the Tribe - Hiram Powers A Visit from the Old Mistress - Winslow Homer Native American Art Bowl (Sikyatki Style) - Sikyatki Cultural Group Taos Pueblo - Pueblo Nation Scenes of Plains Indian Life - Cadzi Cody Cape - Anishinabe Cultural Group Photography Pimos Indians, Arizona - Elias Bonine Grand Canyon of the Colorado - William Henry Jackson Pueblo Scene - Forman Hanna Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California - Ansel Adams
	Economics[66]	Fundamentals of economics; micro- and macro-economics; The U.S. Economy in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
	Language and Literature[67]	Novel Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather Shorter Selections Speech on the Signing of the Treaty of Port Elliott, 1855 - Chief Seattle "The White Man's Foot" from The Song of Hiawatha - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "Pioneers, O Pioneers!" - Walt Whitman "O Black and Unknown Bards" - James Weldon Johnson "The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1790–1871" - Stephen Vincent Benét "A Story of How a Wall Stands" - Simon Ortiz
	Math[68]	General math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus
	Music[69]	"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" - Stephen Foster "Camptown Races" - Stephen Foster "Ojos Criollos, Danse cubaine" - Louis Moreau Gottschalk "The Union" Concert Paraphrase on National Airs - Louis Moreau Gottschalk "Andante moderato" from String Quartet in E minor - George W. Chadwick "A Deserted Farm" from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 - Edward MacDowell "The Washington Post March" - John Philip Sousa "The Entertainer" - Scott Joplin Variations on "America" - Charles Ives "American Salute" - Morton Gould "Rhapsody in Blue" - George Gershwin "Allegro giocoso" from Two Sketches Based on Indian Themes - Charles Tomlinson Griffes "Fanfare for the Common Man" - Aaron Copland "Adagio for Strings" from String Quartet, Op. 11 - Samuel Barber
	Science[70]	Botany Botany as a Science General Characteristics of Plants Plant Physiology Plant Reproductiona and Life Cycles Plant Phyla Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Plant Ecology Plant Genetics
	Super Quiz[71]	The Lewis and Clark Expedition

2004–2005

Theme	Subject	Topic
Exploring the Ancient World[72]	Art[73]	Ancient Near Eastern Art Standing Male Worshipper - Sumer Human-headed winged lion (lamassu) - Assyria Panel: striding lion - Neo-Babylon Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion - Iran: Archaemenid Persia Ancient Egyptian Art Status of Demedji and Hennutsen - Old Kingdom Model of a Riverboat - Middle Kingdom Section for the "Book of the Dead" of Nany - Third Intermediate Period of Egypt Art of Ancient Aegean Civilizations (Cyclades, Minoa, and Mycenaea) Statuette of a Woman - Cylcades Palace at Knossos - Minoa Stirrup jar with octopus - Mycenaea Ancient Greek Art Statue of a kouros (youth) - Archaic period Amphora (jar), Side A: Kithara Player - Classical period Grave stele with a family group - Classical period Statuette of a veiled and masked dancer - Hellenistic period Ancient Etruscan and Roman Art Chariot - Etruscan Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor - Republic period Statue of a Boy - Early Roman Empire Arch of Constantine - Late Roman Empire
	Economics[74]	Fundamentals of economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics International trade and Global Economic Development The Economies of Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (Egyptian, Greek, and Roman)
	Language and Literature[75]	Plays by Sophocles Antigone Oedipus the King Electra Shorter Selections Excerpt from Book XXII of the Iliad - Homer Allegory of the Cave - Plato "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - John Keats "Musée des Beaux Arts" - W. H. Auden "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" - Anne Sexton "Siren Song" - Margaret Atwood
	Math[76]	General Math Algebra Geometry Trigonometry Differential Calculus
	Music[77]	Music focused on the Classical Era with the following selected pieces: "Voi che sapete" from Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in D Major, op. 64, no. 5, "The Lark" finale: vivace - Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G, K. 387, molto allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516, adagio non troppo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony no. 44 in E Minor, "Trauersinfonie" allegro con brio - Joseph Haydn "Son imbrogliato io già" from La Serva Padrona (The Maid as Mistress) - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Symphony no. 104 in D, finale, spiritoso - Joseph Haydn Die Schöpfung (The Creation), Recitative and Chorus: "In the beginning" - Joseph Haydn Piano Concerto in A Major, K. 488, allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Ah taci ingiusto core" from Don Giovanni - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, "Eroica" allegro con brio - Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Presto (scherzo) - Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Allegro (finale) - Ludwig van Beethoven
	Social Science[78]	Emerging Empires in the Near East, Egypt, Greece, and Rome Ancient Mesopotamia: Sumer, Akkad, Ur Ancient Egypt Minoa Mycenae Ancient Greece Roman Empire
	Super Quiz[79]	From Empty Space to Incredible Universe: The Sky Is Not the Limit

2005–2006

Theme	Subject	Topic
The European Renaissance: Renewal and Reform [80]	Art[81]	Early to Mid Fifteenth-Century Italian St. Mark by Donatello Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital) by Filippo Brunelleschi The Holy Trinity by Masaccio The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi Mid to Late Fifteenth-Century Italian Giuliano de' Medici by Andrea del Verrocchio The Nativity by Luca della Robbia Sant' Andrea by Leon Battista Alberti Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli Sixteenth-Century Italian David by Michelangelo Palazzo Farnese by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci The Small Cowper Madonna by Raphael The Holy Family by Bronzino Venus with a Mirror by Titian Renaissance Outside of Italy The Annunciation by Jan van Eyck Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer Sir Brian Tuke by Hans Holbein the Younger Madonna and Child with Saint Martina and St. Agnes by El Greco
	Economics[82]	Fundamentals of economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics International trade and Global Economic Development The European Economy During the Renaissance
	Language and Literature[83]	Plays Antony and Cleopatra and Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Shorter Selections "They Flee from Me That Sometime Did Me Seek" by Sir Thomas Wyatt Sonnet LIIII by Edmund Spenser "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" by Christopher Marlowe Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare "The Sun Rising" by John Donne "Of Travel" by Francis Bacon
	Math[84]	General Math Algebra Geometry Trigonometry Differential Calculus
	Music[85]	The music in this year's curriculum was broken up into two sections: Music in the Early Renaissance ( c. 1450–1520 CE) Quam pulcra es (Motet) by John Dunstaple "Gloria" from Missa Se la face ay pale (Mass) by Guillaume Dufay Absalon, fili mi (Motet) by Josquin des Prez "Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys" (Chanson) by Guillaume Dufay "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen" (Lied) by Heinrich Isaac "El grillo" (Frottola) by Josquin des Prez Music in the High Renaissance ( c. 1520–1600 CE) "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" (Chorale) by Johann Walter "Agnus Dei" from Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass) by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina "Sing Joyfully Unto God" (Anthem) by William Byrd O magnum mysterium (Motet) by Tomás Luis de Victoria "Tant que vivray" (Parisian Chanson) by Claudin de Sermisy "Solo e pensoso" (Italian Madrigal) by Luca Marenzio "Now is the Month of Maying" (English Madrigal) by Thomas Morley "Come Heavy Sleep" (Lute Song) by John Dowland
	Science[86]	Anatomy Overview Principles of Support and Movement Human Control Systems Maintenance of the Human Body Endocrine System and Medical Imaging Techniques
	Super Quiz [80]	The European Renaissance: Renewal and Reform

2006–2007

Theme	Subject	Topic
China and Its Influence on the World	Art[87]	Tripod Ritual Vessel Pendent in the Form of a Dragon Female "Long-Sleeve" Dancer Spirit Jar (Hung Ping) Exalted Gathering in the Green Woods Boy Leading an Ox Along the Farm Path Boddhisttva Kuan-Yin Verse in Cursive Script Bamboo and Rocks Book of Sudhana from the Garland Sutra Taihe Dian Imperial Throne Empress's Twelve Symbol Robe Blue-and-White Dish Pillow Official Seal Cricket Container Cosmetic Case and Mirror Stand
	Economics[88]	Fundamentals of economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, areas, international trade and development, and the development of the Chinese market economy.
	Language and Literature	The featured novel was The Good Earth.[6][88] Shorter selections includedI Watered My Horse, Sent to My Two Little Children, The Terrace in the Snow, Half of Me is Aching, Kubla Khan, and The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter[89][90]
	Math[88]	General math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.
	Music[88]	There were 18 selected pieces on the Music of China.
	Social Science[88]	Introduction to the People's Republic of China
	Super Quiz	An Introduction to Climatology[6][88]

2007–2008

Theme	Subject	Topic
History of the Civil War	Art[91]	There were 18 selected works chosen from museums in Washington, D.C. Traditions and Innovations in Painting Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley Mississippi Boatman by George Caleb Bingham The Lackawanna Valley by George Inness A Visit from the Old Mistress by Winslow Homer The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt Memorializing the Civil War Shaw Memorial by Augustus Saint-Gaudens Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial by Henry Bacon (architect) and Daniel Chester French (sculptor) Stone Mountain Memorial to the Confederacy by Gutzon Borglum, Augustus Lukeman, Walker Hancock, and Ray Faulkner Photography Frederick Douglass by an unidentified photographer The Sick Soldier by Mathew Brady Cañon de Chelle, Walls of the Grand Cañon about 1200 Feet high (Wheeler Survey) by Timothy H. O'Sullivan African-American Art The Westwood Children by Joshua Johnson Alkaline Glazed Stoneware Jar by David Drake Bible Quilt by Harriet Powers The Seine by Henry Ossawa Tanner Architecture Oak Alley Plantation, Louisiana, 1837–39 Lyndhurst for George Merritt, Tarrytown, New York by Alexander Jackson Davis (architect) Shotgun House, New Orleans, nineteenth century
	Economics[92]	Fundamentals of economics, including general topics in macro- and microeconomics and international trade and global economic development, slavery, and the economics of the U.S. Civil War.
	Language and Literature[93]	Featured Novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Shorter Selections Gettysburg Address Lincoln's second inaugural address Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (excerpt) by Frederick Douglass "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce "Grant and Lee: A Study in Contrasts" (excerpt) by Bruce Canton O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman "The Unsung Heroes" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
	Math[92]	General math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.
	Music[92]	There were 14 selected works that focused on music from the Civil War era: Public Performances and Private Amusements "Home Sweet Home" by Jenny Lind "The Last Hope" by Louis Moreau Gottschalk "Washington Greys March" by The Dodworth Band "Jim Along Josie" by an unknown minstrel Music in African-American Life "Ain't I Right" by unknown "Live Humble" by unknown "Follow the Drinking Gourd" by unknown Music of the Conflict "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Julia Ward Howe "The Battle Cry of Freedom" by George Frederick Root "I Wish I Was in Dixie Land" "The Bonnie Blue Flag" "Un Ballo in Maschera Quickstep" "The Vacant Chair" "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" by Patrick S. Gilmore
	Science[94]	Infectious disease An Introduction to Epidemiology The Natural History of Disease and the Transmission of Disease The Infectious Disease Process and Agents of Disease Disease Prevention and the Treatment of Disease Case Study: Disease and the Civil War
	Super Quiz[92]	The Civil War

2008–2009

Theme	Subject	Topic
Latin America with a focus on Mexico[95]	Art[96]	There were 18 or 19 selected works: "Olmec Figure Sitting with Spread Legs, Standing Female (Jalisco) and Standing Female (Ancient Michocán), View of the Street of the Dead Showing the Plaza of the Moon and the Pyramid of the Sun, Tikal: Temple of the Giant Jaguar, Mosaic Skull and Jaw, Codex Huejotzingo (Painting 5), Untitled (Our Lady of Guadalupe), Don Juan Joachín Gutiérrez Altamirano y Velasco, From Spaniard, Black, and Mulatto, Shawl, Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, Valley of Oaxaca, La Calavera Catrina, The Flower Carrier, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and Figure in Illuminated Doorway
	Economics[97]	Fundamentals of economics, including general topics in macro- and microeconomics, international trade, global economic development, and Mexican economic history
	Language and Literature	The featured novel was Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya. Also featured were six short works: Sonnets 27 and 28 by Sor Juana de la Cruz, The Ruby, La Extranjera, United Fruit Co., The Switchman, and Painting To Survive.[98]
	Math[99]	General math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.
	Music[100]	There were fourteen featured selections: Copal Offering to the Four Directions, Kyrie, Sol-fa de Pedro, Campo, Sinfonia India, Sensemayá, Las Mañanitas, Jocotan - Small Marimba, Aria, Scherzo, Verano Porteno, Samba Urbano, Los Jilacatas, Brand New Cha Cha Cha
	Social Science[101]	History of Mexico, from the Olmecs to modern day.
	Super Quiz	Evolutionary Biology[6][102]

2009–2010

Theme	Subject	Topic
The French Revolution[103]	Art	The 17 featured selections included: Rococo Jean-Antoine Watteau, Mezzetin Jean Siméon Chardin, Soap Bubbles Vincennes porcelain factory, Wine Cooler Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Broken Eggs François Boucher, Shepherd's Idyll Neoclassicalism Giovanni Paolo Panini, Modern Rome Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates Carle Vernet, The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus Joseph-Antoine Romagnési, Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome Romanticism Théodore Géricault, Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct Émile-Jean-Horace Vernet, The Start of the Race of the Riderless Horses and Stormy Coast Scene after a Shipwreck Eugène Delacroix, Royal Tiger Théodore Chassériau, Young Jewish Woman of Algeria, Seated Portraiture Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Portrait of a Young Man Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils: Mademoiselle Marie Gabrielle Capet and Mademoiselle Carreaux de Rosemond Jean-Antoine Houdon, Bust of Voltaire Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Princesse de Broglie.
	Economics[103]	Fundamentals of economics, including general topics in macro- and microeconomics, international trade, global economic development, and the economic history of France during the French Revolution
	Language and Literature[103]	The novel was A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Also featured were six shorter works: "A Song of Liberty" from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake "The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement" by William Wordsworth The "Dedication" from Don Juan by Lord Byron Excerpt from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Mary Wollstonecraft Excerpt from Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.
	Math[103]	General math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and differential calculus.
	Music[103]	18th and 19th century French music. The fourteen selected works were: "Tic-Toc-Choc", François Couperin "Brillant auteur de la lumière", from Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck "Cosa sento" from Le nozze di Figaro and "Là ci darem la mano" from Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 85 ("La Reine de France") by Joseph Haydn "La Marseillaise" and "Chant du neuf Thermidor" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle "Le chant du départ" by Étienne Méhul "Hymne à la statue de la liberté" by François Joseph Gossec "March of the Priests" and "Thunderstorm" from La vestale by Gaspare Spontini Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") and "Gott! Welch' Dunkel hier!" from Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz "Salve Regina" from Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc
	Science[103]	Introduction to Chemistry, history of chemistry with a focus on Antoine Lavoisier.
	Super Quiz[103]	History of the French Revolution

2010–2011

Theme	Subject	Topic
The Great Depression[104]	Art[105]	Art fundamentals as well as 17 selected works from the art of the Great Depression. The selected works were: New Deal South Wall of a Mural Depicting Detroit Industry, by Diego Rivera Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, by Aaron Douglas Tenement (Mural Study, Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.), by George Biddle The Riveter (Mural Study for the Bronx, New York Central Postal Station), by Ben Shahn Muse of Music, Dance, Drama, by George Stanley Documentary Photography of the 1930s Negro Barbershop Interior, Atlanta, by Walker Evans Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, by Dorothea Lange Contrasting No. 331 East 39th Street with Chrysler Building and Daily News Building, Manhattan, by Berenice Abbott Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, by Ansel Adams Architecture of the 1930s Empire State Building, by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Hoover Dam, by Gordon Kaufmann Fallingwater, by Frank Lloyd Wright Winona, by Sears Honor-Bilt Home American Regionalism/American Experiences American Gothic, by Grant Wood Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses, by Georgia O'Keeffe Departure of the Joads, from The Grapes of Wrath, by Thomas Hart Benton And the Migrants Kept Coming, by Jacob Lawrence Nighthawks, by Edward Hopper
	Economics[106]	Fundamentals of economics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and the economic history of the Great Depression
	Language and Literature[107]	Featured novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck Shorter selections Connections to The Great Depression and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath Selection from Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and César Chávez, by Studs Terkel "Women on the Breadlines", by Meridel LeSueur "The Gilded Six-Bits", by Zora Neale Hurston "Barn Burning", by William Faulkner Excerpt from The People, Yes, by Carl Sandburg "Let America Be America Again", by Langston Hughes
	Math[108]	Algebra and trigonometry.
	Music[109]	Basic elements of music theory and American music of the 1930s, including blues, jazz, popular songs, and classical music. The 14 listening sections were: Blues and Jazz "St. Louis Blues", by W.C. Handy, sung by Billie Holiday "Midnight Special" sung by Lead Belly "I Got Rhythm", by George Gershwin "Cotton Tail", by Duke Ellington Popular songs "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" by Ella Fitzgerald "Cheek to Cheek" by Irving Berlin, sung by Fred Astaire "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", sung by Rudy Vallee "So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You", by Woody Guthrie Classical music Ruth Crawford Seeger’s String Quartet Aaron Copland's Piano Variations Excerpts from Virgil Thomson's Score to "The Plow that Broke the Plains" Excerpts from Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock Silvestre Revueltas's "Ocho Por Radio" William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony
	Social Science[110]	Origins of the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the legacy of the New Deal.
	Super Quiz[111]	Geology

2011–2012

Theme	Subject	Topic
The Age of Empire[112]	Art	Africa and Europe Lidded Saltcellar by Sapi-Portuguese Plaque, Benin Kingdom Court Style by Edo Peoples Asafo Flag by Fante peoples Wrapper by Yoruba People Face Mask by Guro Peoples Fading Cloth by El Anatsui Commodities and Trade Plate from China A Common Indian Nightjar from India Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley Architecture and Power Victoria Terminus Building (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) designed by Frederick William Stevens Royal Exhibition Building designed by Joseph Reed St. George's Anglican Cathedral designed by Arthur Blomfield Europe Envisions the Empire Penn's Treaty with the Indians by Benjamin West HMS 'Resolution' and 'Adventure' with Fishing Craft in Matavai Bay by William Hodges Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) by J. M. W. Turner Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks by James Abbott McNeill Whistler A Lady Receiving Visitors by John Frederick Lewis The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Yinka Shonibare
	Economics[112]	The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on the economics of imperialism.
	Language and Literature[112]	Featured Novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Shorter Selections "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling "A Little African Story" by Olive Schreiner "Certain Winds from the South" by Ama Ata Aidoo "A Far Cry from Africa" by Derek Walcott
	Math[112]	The mathematics curriculum will cover topics in general mathematics and geometry and will include a brief introduction to differential calculus.
	Music[112]	The music curriculum covers basic elements of music theory and focuses on music of the Romantic era. The 14 selections are: Program Music Symphony No. 6 in F Major, fourth movement by Ludwig Van Beethoven The Swan of Tuonela by Jean Sibelius Danse macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns "March to the Scaffold" from Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz Eusebius and Florestan from Carnaval by Robert Schumann Solveig's Song from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks" from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky Nationalism in Music Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner Mazurka in g minor, Op. 67, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin "Polovtsian Dances" from Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 by Edward Elgar "From a Log Cabin" from New England Idylls by Edward MacDowell Symphony No. 4 in e minor, fourth movement by Johannes Brahms
	Science[112]	The science curriculum will present an introduction to physical science and will include discussions of significant scientific advances made during the nineteenth century.
	Super Quiz[112]	The Super Quiz™ topic will be The Age of Imperialism: The Making of a European Global Order. The Super Quiz Resource Guide will include readings on such topics as mercantile empires, the Atlantic economy, motives for imperialism, the role of technology in the age of imperialism, New Imperialism, tactics of colonial rule, and decolonization and postcolonial immigration.

2012-2013

Theme	Subject	Topic
Russia[113]	Art[113]	Christian Art and Architecture in Russia St. Sophia's Cathedral, Kiev, interior of dome with Christ Pantocrator and Angels Christ in Glory Cathedral of St. Vasily the Blessed by Postnik Yakovlev and Barma St. Isaac's Cathedral designed by Auguste de Montferrand Art and Architecture of the Russian Empire Façade of the Northern Pavilion of the Small Hermitage designed by Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe and Yury Velten Monument to Peter the Great by Étienne-Maurice Falconet Portrait of the Countess Samoilova by Karl Bruillov Imperial Peter the Great Easter Egg by the House of Fabergé Intersections: Literature, Dance, and the Visual Arts Illustration for "L'oiseau de Feu" by Boris Zvorykin The Tsar's Palace, stage set for "Le coq d’or" (The Golden Cockerel) opera by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova Tutu worn in "Le Mort du Cygne" (The Dying Swan) by Anna Pavlova designed by Léon Bakst Modern Art and Architecture Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin by Ilya Repin I and the Village by Marc Chagall Proun by El Lissitzky The Motherland Calls by Irakli Toidze Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building designed by Dmitry Chechylin and Andrei Rostkovsky Blindman's Buff by Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid Untitled: Washington and Lenin by Leonid Lamm
	Economics[113]	The economics curriculum will cover fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum will also include a thematic section focused on the economy of communist and post-communist Russia.
	Language and Literature[113]	Featured Novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Shorter Selections - two poems and two short stories “Autumn” by Alexander Pushkin “After the Dance” by Leo Tolstoy “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov “On the Field of Kulikovo” by Alexander Blok
	Math[113]	The mathematics curriculum will cover permutations and combinations, algebra, and statistics.
	Music[113]	Introduction to Russian Folk Music “The Day was Breaking", traditional folksong "Akh Ty Step", traditional folksong Russian Music of the Nineteenth Century A Life for the Tsar, “The Glory Chorus” by Mikhail Glinka Kamarinskaya (from the fast section to the end) by Mikhail Glinka Symphony No. 2, opening by Alexander Borodin Boris Godunov, Boris’s death scene by Modest Mussorgsky Sheherazade, First Movement by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Symphony No. 6, beginning of the finale by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Second Piano Concerto, beginning by Sergei Rachmaninoff Russian Music of the Twentieth Century Prometheus (the end) by Alexander Scriabin Petrushka, beginning of Scene 1 by Igor Stravinsky The Iron Foundry by Alexander Mosolov Romeo and Juliet, Second Suite, before parting by Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 7, First Movement, the “Invasion Episode” by Dmitri Shostakovich Octet, Movements 4 and 5 by Galina Ustvolskaya Concerto Grosso No. 1, Second Movement: Toccata by Alfred Schnittke
	Science[113]	The science topic will be space exploration, and the Science Resource Guide will include a section on the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
	Social Science[113]	The social science curriculum will present an introduction to the history of Russia.

2013-2014

Theme	Subject	Topic
World War I[114]	Art[114]	Developments in Early Twentieth-Century Modernism Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse Ma Jolie by Pablo Picasso Street, Berlin by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Little Painting with Yellow (Improvisation) by Wassily Kandinsky Fountain by Marcel Duchamp Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius Art and World War I Unique Forms of Continuity in Space by Umberto Boccioni Portrait of a German Officer by Marsden Hartley Republican Automatons by George Grosz Wake Up, America! by James Montgomery Flagg Liberty Memorial designed by Harold Van Buren Magonigle Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens American Identities in the Early Modern Era The Hand of Man by Alfred Steiglitz Nature Symbolized No. 2 by Arthur Dove Both Members of This Club by George Bellows Ethiopia Awakening by Meta Warrick Fuller City Night by Georgia O'Keeffe Chicago Tribune Tower designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood
	Economics[114]	The economics curriculum covered fundamental economic concepts, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. The economics curriculum also included a thematic section providing an economic history of World War I.
	Language and Literature[114]	Featured Novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Shorter Selections - two poems and two short stories "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" (excerpts) by Ezra Pound "The Waste Land" (excerpts) by T. S. Eliot "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf "All the Dead Pilots" by William Faulkner
	Math[114]	The mathematics curriculum covered algebra and trigonometry.
	Music[114]	Classical Music and Modernism Preludes, No. 2 "Voiles" by Claude Debussy Pierrot Lunaire, No. 8 "Nacht" by Arnold Schoenberg The Rite of Spring, "Introduction" and "Omens of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky Romanian Christmas Carols, First Series by Bela Bartok Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, No. 5 "Auberst Langsam" by Anton Webern Early Twentieth-Century "Popular" Music "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy "Dippermouth Blues" by Joe "King" Oliver "I Wants to Be (A Actor Lady)" from In Dahomey by Harry von Tilzer and Vincent Bryan "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer Musical Responses to "The Great War" "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary" by Jack Judge "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" by Alfred Bryan and Al Piantadosi "Over There" by George M. Cohan "On Patrol in No Man's Land" by Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, and James Reese Europe
	Science[114]	The science topic was an introduction to genetics and included a discussion of some of the significant advancements made in the field of genetics in the early twentieth century.
	Social Science[114]	The social science curriculum covered the history of World War I.

Footnotes

1^ The two Standing Females are two different sculptures, but are in the same picture.

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