ARTISTES
SILVER
GEOGRAPHIC MATH
WORKING W/ PLATO
WORD ORIGINS
100

In 2016 this most famous French museum held the exhibition "Hubert Robert: A Visionary Painter"

The Louvre 

100

Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote" that "Every man was not born with" one of these "in his mouth"

A silver spoon

100

The number of American colonies at the time of the Revolution plus the number of states today

63

100

Plato was a teacher of this Greek philosopher & scientist who also became a colleague

Aristotle

100

The numerical record of a sporting event, it comes from the Old Norse for 20 & also means 20

Score

200

Gustave Caillebotte specialized not in landscapes but these -scapes that showed street life in Paris

Cityscapes

200

In 1963 the first $1 Federal Reserve note was issued; until then, most $1 bills were these

Silver certificates

200

The number of countries that begin with Q times the number of countries that begin with X

0

200

The followers of this philosopher & mathematician are the foils in "Phaedo"; they don't take the right angle

Pythagoras

200

This ballroom dance gets its name from the Spanish for "revelry", not from a liquor

Rhumba

300

Francois Girardon provided sculptures such as "Apollo Tended by the Nymphs" for the grounds of this royal palace

Versailles

300

Most silent films have not survived because film stock made of this volatile compound decomposes easily

Silver nitrate

300

The number of Great Lakes times the number of countries that border the United States

10
300

Plato's unfinished "Critias" was to detail the ancient war between Athens & this fabled island

Atlantis

300

Derived from the Latin for "high", it's an adjective meaning proud & scornful

Haughty

400

Pierre-Auguste was the given name of this painter; Jean was his filmmaker son

Renoir

400

Kenny Davis of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team in this sport forbade his heirs from ever accepting a silver medal

Basketball

400

The number of continents minus the number of mountains above 29,000 feet

6 (7 minus 1)

400

In 529 A.D. almost 1,000 years after it was created by Plato, this school was closed by Justinian I

The Academy

400

From the Greek for "pleasure", it's the term for an unbridled pursuit of it

Hedonism

500

Self-taught artists, like Camille Bombois are called naive, or this term, like cavemen

Primitive

500

This rainmaking process was developed at GE & originally was done with dry ice or silver iodide

Cloud seeding

500

The number of U.S. states on the Pacific Ocean squared

25 (Don't forget Alaska and Hawaii)

500

This work is about an ideal city where justice is complete & imitative poets are exiled

Plato's Republic

500

The name of this sudden, overwhelming terror or fear comes from the Greek god thought to cause it

Panic

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