WORLD CURRENCY
AUTHORS
BODIES OF WATER
THE OLYMPIC GAMES
COMPOSERS
200
'In December 1995 Venezuela devalued by 41% this currency named for its liberator'
Bolivar
200
'His "Voyages Extraordinaires" include one "From the Earth to the Moon" & one "To the Center of the Earth"'
Jules Verne
200
'The "blue" branch of this river rises in the Ethiopian highlands'
Nile
200
'At the opening ceremony, athletes from this country march into the stadium first'
Greece
200
'This American wrote "Rhapsody in Blue" in 1924 & "Second Rhapsody" in 1931'
George Gershwin
400
'The aluminum & bronze schilling coin of this country is equivalent to 100 groschen'
Austria
400
'She met poet Percy in the spring of 1814, eloped to France with him in July & married him in 1816'
Mary Shelley
400
'Pas de Calais is the French name for this strait between France & England'
Strait of Dover
400
'A little birdie told us that in 1996 Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark won the gold in this racket sport'
badminton
400
'His father Leopold called him "The miracle which God let be born in Salzburg"'
W.A. Mozart
600
'This country's 1996 2-dollar coin features Queen Elizabeth on one side & a polar bear on the other'
Canada
600
'This author of "The Son of the Wolf" & "The Sea-Wolf" called his home "Wolf House"'
Jack London
600
'Albania lies on the eastern shore of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean'
Adriatic
600
'Bob Mathias & Daley Thompson are the only men to win this 10-event track & field contest twice'
decathlon
600
'This Norwegian "Peer Gynt Suite" composer married his first cousin, singer Nina Hagerup, in 1867'
Edward Grieg
800
'It takes about 22,500 of these Belarussian monetary units to equal 1 American dollar'
rubles
800
'He began writing the "Aeneid" around 29 B.C. & it was still unfinished at his death in 19 B.C.'
Virgil
800
'Lake Toba on Sumatra is this country's largest lake'
Indonesia
800
'The Soviet Union & this country have won more gold medals in ice hockey than any others'
Canada
800
'This German Baroque composer wrote his "Hunt Cantata" for the birthday of the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels'
J.S. Bach
1000
'The monetary systems of Nepal & India use this basic unit'
rupee
1000
'This creator of Tevye the Dairyman is known as the Jewish Mark Twain'
Sholom Aleichem
1000
'The Dnestr & Vistula rivers rise in these mountains'
Carpathians
1000
'With 6 medals, this Russian gymnast was the most decorated athlete of the Atlanta games'
Alexi Nemov
1000
'He composed his "Moravian Duets" before he moved to the U.S. & wrote his "New World Symphony"'
Antonin Dvorak
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