ANCIENT VIPs
ITALIAN LITERATURE
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
OPERA
200
'It was once believed that this Hun, who died on his wedding night, was murdered by his bride'
Attila
200
'Besides "The Prince", he is also known for his "Discourses on" Livy'
Machiavelli
200
'This country's name means "Land of the Southern Slavs"'
Yugoslavia
200
'He wrote, "The birthday of a new world is at hand" in his pamplet "Common Sense"'
Thomas Paine
200
'In "Siegfried" Fafner the giant is turned into one of these mythical beasts before Siegfried slays him'
a dragon
400
'He was the 6th ruler of the Amorite dynasty of Babylon; you probably remember him for his code'
Hammurabi
400
'The Academic American Ency. calls this Dante work the greatest poem of the Middle Ages'
the Divine Comedy
400
'Just north of Khartoum, Sudan, these 2 "colorful" rivers combine to form the Nile'
the Blue Nile & the White Nile
400
'This craftsman designed the 1st official seal of the Colonies & the 1st issue of Continental currency'
Paul Revere
400
'1st name shared by Rigoletto's daughter, a "Saturday Night Live" star & a R. Hayworth character'
Gilda
600
'Amenhotep IV of Egypt changed his name to this because he was so devoted to the god Aton'
Akhenaten
600
'Completes the title of Giorgio Bassani's novel set in Fascist Italy, "The Garden of the..."'
Finzi-Continis
600
'The Gulf of Bothnia & the Gulf of Finland are both extensions of this sea'
the Baltic
600
'The first of these 5 acts closed the port of Boston until payment was made for the destroyed tea'
the Coercive Acts (or the Intolerable Acts)
600
'Marie, the heroine of this Donizetti opera, was adopted as an infant by French soldiers'
The Daughter of the Regiment
800
'Sennacherib, king of this country, made Nineveh his capital & built a magnificent new palace there'
Assyria
800
'"Pinocchio" author Carlo Lorenzini used this last name, taken from his family village'
Collodi
800
'This sea in the North Atlantic is delineated only by the plants that float on its surface'
the Sargasso Sea
800
'Frontiersman who won victories at Kaskaskia, Cahokia & Vincennes in the NW Territory'
George Rogers Clark
800
'English composer whose 1947 opera "Albert Herring" is about a young man, not a young fish'
Benjamin Britten
1000
'This "Great" king of Persia was the son of Darius the Great & the Grandson of Cyrus the Great'
Xerxes
1000
'This Existentialist Italian playwright won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934'
Pirandello
1000
'In 1943 this Mexican volcano grew from a small depression to 1,000 ft. in height'
Paricutin
1000
'Prime minister during the war, some later called him "the minister who lost America"'
Lord North
1000
'Drops of blood from the ceiling reveal where an outlaw is hiding in this Puccini opera'
The Girl of the Golden West
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