European History
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Rhyme time
100

For the record this emperor didn't actually fiddle while Rome burned because the fiddle didn't come until centuries later

Nero

100

Otto Dix did several of this type of portrait including one As a Soldier & one as the war god Mars


SELF-PORTRAIT


100

Turn your life around & be one of these a new member of a religious group from the Latin for turn around


A CONVERT


100

What company's logo is a swoosh?



Nike

100

Reddening of the face in the presence of someone you're crazy about


A CRUSH BLUSH


200

In 1465 the archbishop of Mainz granted this printer an annual pension of grain wine & clothes


GUTENBERG

200

Girl Arranging Her Hair from 1886 is by this female American impressionist


(MARY) CASSATT


200

This type of decorative work gets its name from the Greek for a place of the Muses


MOSAIC

200

Who invented basketball?



James Naismith

200

An oxford that's a piece of evidence at a crime scene


A CLUE SHOE


300

During France's Reign of Terror this wax modeler was forced to make death masks of freshly guillotined heads


MADAME TUSSAUD


300

A category in the World Beard & Moustache Championships honors this 20th century artist's 'stache


SALVADOR DALI


300

Get off my heath wouldn't have sounded as good for Clint as using this word from Old French for heath


Lawn

300

The 17th on the Old Course at this Scottish club is known as the Road Hole; lots of players have been run over there.

St. Andrews Wayne Gretzky

300

A sense of excitement in Sao Paulo


A BRAZIL THRILL


400

After the death of Charles II came the War of the Spanish this 1701 to 1714


SUCCESSION

400

Data stored as a string is surrounded by these.

A NOCTURNE


400

Literally meaning dead pledge it's the loan you take out to buy a home


A MORTGAGE


400

Where is the college football hall of fame?



South Bend, Indiana

400

The most essential chorus


THE MAIN REFRAIN


500

In 1948 after celebrating 58 years as this country's queen Wilhelmina abdicated in favor of her daughter


THE NETHERLANDS


500

This word for an artwork made of 3 panels comes from the Greek for three tablets


A TRIPTYCH


500

Arabic for forbidden gave us his word that meant an off-limits section of a house as well as the wives living there


HAREM

500

To capture the modern grand slam, a player must win the Masters, the PGA Championship & these 2 opens.

U.S. Open and the British Open/Open Championship

500

A defensive ditch dug in Dijon


A FRENCH TRENCH


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