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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE IN COMMON
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WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR?
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Julia Whelan's novel "My Oxford Year" follows the young American recipient of one of these scholarships

Rhodes

400

Belarus, Kyrgyzstan

Russian

400

Alright, alright--in 2019 Matthew McConaughey became a communications professor at the university of this, his home state

Texas

400

Not quite 5 inches tall, a statuette found in Austria is known as this love goddess of Willendorf

Venus

400

Boots & handbags are also sold at DSW, short for designer shoe this type of building

Warehouse

800

The 2015 novel "Cow Country" is set in one of these alliterative institutions AKA a junior college

Community college

800

Chad, Bahrain

Arabic

800

Angelina Jolie lectured on women, peace & security at the LSE, the London school of this

Economics
800

Georges Braque & this Spaniard are considered the founders of Cubism

Pablo Picasso

800

It's the "K" in the AKC, an authority on dogs

Kennel

1200

A Langston Hughes poem begins in a "college on the hill above" this area of upper Manhattan

Harlem

1200

Suriname, Curacao

Dutch

1200

John Cleese of this comedy troupe was professor-at-large at Cornell starting in 1999, but he didn't teach silly walks

Monty Python

1200

In 1654, the city of Delft was devastated by a gunpowder explosion depicted here; Rembrandt's student Carel Fabritius didn't survive, but this now-famous painting of his did, and went on to inspire a best-selling novel of the same name

The Goldfinch

1200

In a computer, a CPU is a central this unit

Processing

1600

This Jazz Age man's "This Side of Paradise" is set at Princeton

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1600

Daily Double!!

Burundi, Switzerland

French

1600

At NYU, Prince 101 (about the purple one) had a lecture by this drummer for The Roots

Questlove

1600

Michelangelo was 33 in 1508 when he began painting this Vatican chapel

Sistine chapel

1600

Used in the kitchen, EVOO stands for this

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

2000

The characters in Wendy Wasserstein's "Uncommon Women and Others" are alumnae of this numerical group of northeastern schools

Seven Sisters

2000

Bolivia, Peru: Aymara & these 2

Spanish and Quechua

2000

This director & writer of "Do the Right Thing" taught African-American cinema at Harvard  

Spike Lee

2000

One of the tours at the Belgian museum dedicated to this surrealist is titled "Hats Off"

René Magritte

2000

Daily Double!!

The last name of this British mathematician is the "T" in CAPTCHA, a computer security test

(Alan) Turing

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