ROME, THE ETERNAL CITY
CENTRAL PARK STATUES
THE COLD WAR
THE "COLD" WAR
FISH TALES
100
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers commemorates the Nile, the Danube, the Plata & this river of India
the Ganges
100
Funded by subscriptions to NYC's Il Progresso newspaper & unveiled in 1892, his memorial depicts his 3 ships
Columbus
100
The Cold War between the U.S. & the Soviet Union is said to have begun in this year a major hot war ended
1945
100
Ponds is a popular brand of this product for softening & cleaning the skin
cold cream
100
He & Jim catch a catfish that "was as big a fish as was ever catched in the Mississipp!"
Huck Finn
200
You can see the rebuilt Ara Pacis, or Altar of this; ironically, it was built in the field of Mars
Peace
200
His monument, seen here, was sponsored by the Danish-American Women's Association
Hans Christian Andersen
200
The USA's long involvement in this country included an effort to prop up President Diem in 1961
Vietnam
200
Boundary between air masses characterized by changes in precipitation & temperature
cold front
200
The title guy of this Hemingway work "fished alone in a skiff in the gulf stream"
The Old Man and the Sea
300
This Roman arena was begun by Vespasian around 75 A.D. & dedicated by his son Titus in 80 A.D.
the Colosseum
300
One hand of his statue rests on his most famous invention; the other holds a strip of code
Samuel Morse
300
In a speech in Missouri in 1946, Winston Churchill declared that this division had fallen between East & West
an Iron Curtain
300
The senseless, brutal murder of the Clutter family is at the heart of this work
In Cold Blood
300
"The Angler and the Little Fish" is one of his fables
Aesop
400
The Santa Susanna Church in Rome is considered the national church there for this country's Catholics
the United States
400
The statue of this "Mood Indigo" composer & bandleader has him standing next to an open grand piano
Duke Ellington
400
Declaring it permanently neutral, Western & Soviet forces withdrew in 1955 from this German-speaking nation
Austria
400
The hypothetical mixing of atomic nuclei at a low pressure & near room temperature
cold fusion
400
This Defoe character says he "was most dextrous to catch fish"
Robinson Crusoe
500
There are 138 of these "National" steps that lead up to the Trinita Dei Monti Church
Spanish Steps
500
This Union general stands in Grand Army Plaza; a rear hoof of his horse is crushing a Georgia pine branch
(William Tecumseh) Sherman
500
Tool nickname for the Soviet flag, lowered for the last time over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991
hammer & sickle
500
Pro wrestler Steve Austin's nickname
Stone Cold
500
Mark Kurlansky's book about this food fish says in 1895 a 211-lb. one was caught off the coast of Massachusetts
cod