“SEASONAL” POTPOURRI
CORN MISCELLANY
GITALONG, OLD PAINT
SHADES OF BLUE
AN ASSORTMENT OF GHOSTS
100
The Summer Game by Roger Angell and The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn are classic books about this subject.
Baseball
100
Some medieval Europeans believed narwhal tusks to be the horn from this legendary horse-like creature.
The Unicorn
100
Her interest in Mexican folk art can be seen in a 1931 portrait of herself with her new husband, a fellow artist
Frida Kahlo
100
In shades of blue, it follows ultra & aqua
Marine
100
It is said that ghosts are the cause of a mysterious chill in cell 14-D of this former California island prison.
Alcatraz. Cell 14-D was the worst cell in Alcatraz, and was used as punishment for prisoners who broke the rules.
200
From Porgy and Bess: “Summertime, and the …” what?
“ … living is easy.”
200
Henry Miller followed up his novel Tropic of Cancer with this title.
Tropic of Capricorn
200
Rather than the Magi, Guido Reni depicted "The Adoration of" these rustic fellows
The Shepherds
200
Robin's Egg
200
In this 1999 movie, nine year-old Cole Sear saw ghosts; or, as he put it: “I see dead people.”
The Sixth Sense
300
This 1962 book by Rachel Carson focused on the environmental damage caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
Silent Spring
300
Graduates of this Ithaca, New York Ivy League college include Carl Sagan, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Cornell University
300
This painter who was totally for the birds gave us the oil-on-canvas "Washington Sea Eagle" around 1839
John James Audubon
300
Some call it a bachelor's button, others call it this, also a shade of blue
A Cornflower
300
The first ghost that visited Ebenezer Scrooge was this character, his former business partner.
Jacob Marley
400
From Shakespeare’s Richard III: “Now this is the winter of our …” what?
“… discontent.”
400
A style of braiding hair in tight narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp.
Cornrows
400
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Seurat's "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" helped pioneer this -ism using small, detached strokes
Pointillism
400
In his "Great Waves" print, Hokusai used this imported blue pigment first made in Germany
Prussian Blue
400
In this 1988 movie, Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis play the ghosts of a recently dead couple who are haunting their former house. Michael Keaton plays an obnoxious poltergeist determined to scare away the new homeowners.
Beetlejuice
500
In what season’s “mist” did Puff the Magic Dragon frolic?
Autumn. (“Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee.”)
500
Until 1851, this sauce thickener was used primarily for starching laundry.
Corn Starch
500
As it's by this painter, you might call an 1876 view of the Mediterranean at l'Estaque a "C" scape
Paul Cezanne
500
In 1999 Pantone named this peaceful 8-letter shade of sky blue its first color of the year & of the millennium
Cerulean
500
Several ghosts are said to haunt this famous British location, including Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the two young princes who were allegedly murdered there.
The Tower of London