Bella
Painted in 1485 by Sandro Botticelli, creator of other famous works such as The Return of Judith to Bethulia and Madonna of the Sea, this is Bella's favorite painting of all time
What is Botticelli's Birth of Venus
This sport, named after a type of shoe in French, is Virgile's current #1 physical activity
What is Savate (kickboxing)
The northernmost marsupial in the world, this is Kiran's #1 favorite animal
What is the Opossum/Virginia Opossum
Beheaded for supposed infidelity, this one of Henry VIII's wives was the youngest of all six at the time of her marriage.
Who was Katherine Howard
This is Europe's only doubly-landlocked country
What is Liechtenstein
Sort of impressive when you think about it but in a bad way, the value of hers is -5.25
What is Bella's contact prescription
We all know he's French but Virgile is also from this Eastern European country
What is Romania
This one of Kiran's favorite bands famously attended the same University he did
Who is Arcade Fire
This man was the ruler of the Mongol Empire when Marco Polo found himself there in 1271 (also the subject of a Coleridge poem).
Who was Kublai Khan
This is the largest country in the world without a US Embassy
What is the United States
one shared with a Latin American Y2K pop star from New York and one with a Catholic saint from New York, either of these are Bella's middle names
What is Christina, Kateri (you get a 1x point for each)
A water and steel type, this gen 4 pokemon is Virgile's favourite starter
What is Piplup/Prinplup/Empoleon
This Christian Denomination, famously popular in Kiran's hometown, was also the official religion of his middle and high school
What is Quakerism/Who are the Quakers
this Plantagenet king who may have killed his nephews is also the titutular character in Bella's favorite Shakespeare play
Who is Richard III
This European nation was the first to colonze the area that is now Philadelphia, a fact alluded to by the city's flag.
What is Sweden
Made famous by the table dancing scene in Anne Wheeler's s2x18 "Reversal of Fortune" in the CW show Reign, this 2013 folk bop off the album Happier Than Me is Bella's favorite song
What is Stella by Cereus Bright
In high school, Virgile performed the role of a mysterious man with a foreign accent in this Agatha Christie murder mystery
What is The Mousetrap
(For 100 points each) These are the four streets Kiran has lived on since moving to Montreal
Sherbrooke, St. Urbain, St. Dominique, Drolet
eventually killed by his cousin Lorenzaccio (who afterwards wrote Apology for a Murder), this Medici duke of Florence was likely of likely mixed-race ancestry.
Who was Alessandro il Moro (de' Medici)
In 2011, South Sudan became the newest country in the world by joining the United Nations as a full member. By that criteria, this country is the second newest, joining in 2006.
What is Montenegro
at one time going by a much more offensive title, Bella stage managed a players' theatre production of this 1939 Agatha Christie mystery-thriller in first year
What is And Then There Were None
Virgile has sunk over 1000 in this Bungie-developped video game
What is Destiny 2
This historical figure was the only non-fictional namesake of Kiran's Black cats growing up
Who is Malcolm X
signed in 1598 vy Henri IV of France, this treaty provided religious tolerence for Huguenots, ending the French Wars of Religion.
What was the Edict of Nantes
The country of Albania shares a border with countries that use two different writing systems from itself (Greek in Greece and Cyrillic in Serbia/Macedonia/etc.) This country borders the most unique writing systems other than its own, with 8.
What is China (Cyrillic, Korean, Arabic, Devangari, Burmese, Lao, Latin, Tibetan) ((9 if you count mongolian which isnt official until next year))