SERGEI EISENSTEIN CINEMA
BOTSWANA ANAGRAMS
FRANCE LOSES THE FIGHT
EGGS-ACTLY
OPERA HAS BEEN VERDI, VERDI GOOD TO ME
200
'Sergei's film about one of these labor events juxtaposed shots of workers with slaughterhouse footage'
strike
200
'The Limpopo River also has the name of this reptile that some want to make into "coil decor"'
crocodile (coil decor)
200
'Napoleon's forces suffered about 40,000 casualties losing this June 18, 1815 battle'
Waterloo
200
'After the robin goes bob-bob-bobbing along, it lays an egg of this color'
blue
200
'In the 1830s Verdi studied with Vincenzo Lavigna, formerly maestro al cembalo at this Milan opera house'
La Scala
400
'Sergei ran afoul of Stalin while making a film on the life & times of this brutal czar'
Ivan the Terrible
400
'Though Botswana has little or no gold, these mineral products might get the "Midas nod"'
diamonds (Midas nod)
400
'In May 1940 Germany attacked France through this country, now home to NATO HQ; France fell by June'
Belgium
400
'A pound of this egg delicacy from Russia could set you back $1,200; from Iran, over $1,600'
caviar
400
'In English "Il Trovatore" means this, a wandering minstrel'
a troubadour
600
'Beatrice Vitoldi played "Mother with Baby Carriage" in this film'
Battleship Potemkin
600
'In this area that covers much of Botswana, you might take "a rash ideal trek"'
Kalahari Desert (a rash ideal trek)
600
'The Third Republic began after France lost the war to this Bismarck-led German state'
Prussia
600
'The Sauropod, a dinosaur the size of a bus, came from eggs discovered in this country's Patagonia region'
Argentina
600
'The title character of this Verdi opera is a hunchbacked court jester'
Rigoletto
800
'The title month "October" is the one in this revolutionary year'
1917
800
'If you lose all your clothes in this capital, just "go on bare"'
Gabarone (go on bare)
800
'The English won most of the battles in this 1337-1453 war but in the end France drove them out'
Hundred Years\' War
800
'Chinese cooking has extremes of Egg Foo Yung & this dish of duck eggs that have been buried for a long while'
thousand/hundred-year-old eggs
800
'Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera'
Aida
1000
'Sponsored by Upton Sinclair, Eisenstein set out to film "Que Viva" this country'
Mexico
1000
'When Botswana was this British protectorate, it was perhaps more of a "can and ale hub"'
Bechuanaland (can and ale hub)
1000
'The 1520s weren't good for France either; it lost Milan to Charles V, leader of this "empire" that began in 962'
Holy Roman Empire
1000
'The Franklin Mint has the eggs named for this artisan ranging from $37.50 to the eggs-pensive $6,900'
Faberge
1000
'Verdi's last opera, this comic masterpiece is based in part on Shakespeare's "King Henry IV"'
Falstaff
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