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1. "The Waste Land" Name the five parts of T. S. Eliot's 1922 masterpiece "The Waste Land".
   
   
2. Mitosis Name the five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones).
   
   
3. Nobel Prize Winners Name the five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901).
   
   
4. The Mighty Handful Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as "The Mighty Handful" or "The Five." Name them.
   
   
5. D-Day Give the codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day.
   
   
6. Orders of Architecture There are five classical "orders of architecture," a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building. Name them.
   
   
7. Cooperstown Name the first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
   
   
8. Spectral Lines Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines. The first five of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon. Name these first five series.
   
   
9. Platonic Solids There are only five regular polyhedra, three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides. Name the 5 Platonic solids.
   
   
10. Pillars of Islam Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life, a group known as the Pillars of Islam. Name the five Pillars of Islam.

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