OPERAS TEENS LOVE
Teens go ape over the opera in which this gigantic movie ape falls for Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"
King Kong
Lake Nasser was formed in 1968 when the waters of this river were blocked by the Aswan High Dam
The Nile
At a 2005 auction, paintings by Warhol & Renoir didn't sell, but 3 by Congo, one of these playful primates, did
Chimp
UC Berkeley's teams are known as the golden these, & there's one on the state flag
Bears
Around 400 B.C. the Greek Ctesias described it as having a white body with a straight cubit-long horn
Unicorn
In a Menotti opera Madame Flora is a fake one of these psychics; Patricia Arquette plays a title one on TV
Medium
Banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found around Bahrain, on the Arabian shore of this gulf
The Persian Gulf
The "Citrus Obsession" version of this classic Mattel doll is scented to smell like a piece of fruit
Barbie
Pepperdine's nickname is this, & some lap not too far away from the campus
Waves
The earliest ballads of this outlaw say that his activities took place in the South Yorkshire, not Nottinghamshire
Robin Hood
You could say there's a lot at stake in "Giovanna d'Arco", Verdi's opera about this saint
Joan of Arc
Toyama, Wakasa & Ishikari bays are arms of this sea
Sea of Japan
Hey, Bullwinkle! On Aug. 16, 2001, one of these large deer took a dip in a swimming pool near Spokane
Moose
This word describing Penn State's Lions comes from an Algonquian term meaning "single mountain"
Nittany
This steel drivin' man beat a steam drill in a race to make a railroad tunnel but died with his "hammer in his hand"
John Henry
The ghosts of Louis XVI & his court return to one of their favorite haunts in "The Ghosts of" this French palace
Versailles
3 important cities on this sea include Stockholm, Gdansk & Klaipeda, Lithuania
Baltic Sea
It sounds rude, but this 5-letter word is the correct term for a ventriloquist's puppet
Dummy
The University of Texas at Arlington uses this nickname shared by the NBA team closest to them
Mavericks
In some legends it's the influence of the full moon that changes a man into one of these, also called a lycanthrope
A high school graduation party leads to romance in "The Tender Land" by this "Appalachian Spring" composer
Aaron Copland
This large Siberian lake is more than a mile deep at its deepest point
Lake Baikal
What is the cocoon caterpillars make for themselves called?
Chrysalis
This University of Idaho nickname is from an old Germanic tribe whose name has come to mean troublemakers
Vandals
This hero of mythology cleaned the Augean stables by diverting the courses of 2 nearby rivers
Hercules