Curator, I Hardly Know Her
Continental Breakfast Club
Angel Investors
Aisle Be Reading
Verse Impressions
100
This movement in painting takes its name from a Claude Monet canvas of a hazy harbor sunrise. Critics originally used the word as an insult, but the painters happily adopted it.
What is Impressionism?
100
A 1773 protest where colonists dumped chests into Boston Harbor to object to a tax, plus the friend who dances on tables and never wants to go home from a night out.
What is Boston Tea Party Animal?
100
We operate in the panic-recovery market: keys, wallets, passports, boarding passes. My app auto-whispers a prayer every time a user taps “Lost something.”
Who is Saint Anthony?
100
lethal boarding school
secondhand feather
very overworked strigiformes
What is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone?
100
“Guess who just got back today.”
What is The Boys Are Back in Town?
200
In many churches, the artwork behind the altar is often this three-panel format, with a larger central image and two hinged side panels that can fold in.
What is a triptych?
200
The famous 1776 document that begins “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” plus the summer holiday when Americans set off fireworks and also the title of a blockbuster alien-invasion film starring Will Smith.
What is Declaration of Independence Day?
200
Our total addressable market is every creature from house cats to endangered wolves. And my brand awareness is off the charts; my garden statue campaign has been going viral since 1274.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
200
Louvre after closing
academic with bad hair
very confident conspiracy theory
What is The Da Vinci Code?
200
“Friday night and the lights are low.”
What is Dancing Queen?
300
Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and other Baroque painters were masters of this technique that uses strong contrasts of light and dark to model form, from the Italian for “light-dark.”
What is chiaroscuro?
300
The famous cracked symbol of liberty in Philadelphia, plus the flared trousers that were all the rage in the 1970s.
What is Liberty Bell Bottoms?
300
I run a pan-European, westbound lifestyle platform for people in quick-dry trousers and lots of endurance. I've already established an HQ at the far end of Spain and have a robust partner network with area hostels.
Who is Saint James?
300
sleepy Quebec village
one suspicious death in the woods
chief inspector who quotes poetry
What is Still Life? (Louise Penny)
300
“Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.”
What is Don’t Stop Believin’?
400
A small dog at the couple’s feet and a convex mirror reflecting two extra figures are key details in this 1434 double portrait by Jan van Eyck, often read as a marriage scene.
What is The Arnolfini Portrait?
400
A nickname for British soldiers during the American Revolution, based on the colour of their uniforms, plus the place in a restaurant or theatre where you leave your jacket at the door.
What is Redcoat Check?
400
I build deep-think infrastructure for universities, seminaries, and anyone whose reading list now counts as strength training. As a Dominican student I was written off as the “Dumb Ox,” so I responded by shipping the Summa Theologica and accidentally becoming patron saint of overcaffeinated scholars.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
400
five unmarried daughters
one very rich, very proud visitor
several catastrophic first impressions
What is Pride and Prejudice?
400
“Once upon a time not so long ago.”
What is Livin’ on a Prayer?
500
This detail from a playful French painting is a classic example of which Late Baroque art style?
What is Rocco?
500
The title of the American national anthem, which literally means “flag covered in stars,” plus the basic type of rectangular online display ad you see at the top of web pages.
What is Star-Spangled Banner Ad?
500
We run a full-stack audio portfolio: cathedral choirs, conservatory juries, and the split-second before a terrifying high note during karaoke. I draw on my experience as a young Roman martyr with a natural talent for instruments and an excellent track record in pre-concert panic management.
Who is Saint Cecilia?
500
kidney for breakfast
one long June day in Dublin
heroic amount of interior monologue
What is Ulysses?
500
“Today is gonna be the day that they’re gonna…”
What is Wonderwall?