TREES
OPERA
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
THE CIVIL WAR
DYNASTIES
200
'It's name is from the Greek for "well covered" & it covers Australia pretty well'
eucalyptus
200
'This heroine's Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San'
Madame Butterfly
200
'From 1967 to 1978 Joyce Carol Oates taught English at the University of Windsor in this country'
Canada
200
'This ship was refloated, rebuilt & renamed the CSS Virginia'
the Merrimac
200
'The Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt ended when her son Ptolemy XV was murdered by Octavian'
Cleopatra
400
'This family of tropical trees has 2 major types of leaves: fan-shaped & feather-shaped'
palms
400
'Guinness says the longest commonly performed opera is his "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg"'
Wagner
400
'"Heartburn" author whose parents, Henry & Phoebe Ephron, wrote the screenplay for "Carousel"'
Nora Ephron
400
'Built to accommodate 10,000 prisoners, this Georgia prison camp often had 3 times that number'
Andersonville
400
'When Nicholas II abdicated in 1917, it brought an end to this Russian dynasty'
the Romanov
600
'The "save" this giant tree "league" was one of the first conservation groups in the U.S.'
the redwood
600
'The title of this Leoncavallo opera can be translated as "Clowns"'
Pagliacci (I Pagliacci accepted)
600
'She went abroad to visit Cro-Magnon caves after writing "The Clan of the Cave Bear"'
(Jean) Auel
600
'Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain won the medal of honor for defending Little Round Top at this Penn. battle'
Gettysburg
600
'During much of the Middle Ages, France was ruled by this dynasty founded by Hugh Capet'
the Capetian
800
'These trees are known for their winged seeds called keys'
maples
800
'The earliest opera that survives, Peri's 1600 "Euridice" tells of Euridice & this husband'
Orpheus
800
'In 1991 on cable television he introduced stories from his book "Welcome to the Monkey House"'
Kurt Vonnegut
800
'Confederate General John C. Breckinridge previously held this U.S. office under Pres. Buchanan'
vice president
800
'In 1644 China's last dynasty was established by these foreigners from the north'
the Manchus
1000
'Species of this popular poplar include the bigtooth and the quaking'
aspen
1000
'Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots" revolves around this 1572 massacre of the Huguenots'
the St. Bartholomew\'s Day Massacre
1000
'He wrote "The Alexandria Quartet" & "The Avignon Quintet"'
Lawrence Durrell
1000
'This famous Mary's diary, published in 1905, gives an inside view of Confederate leaders'
Mary Chestnut
1000
'This famous Italian dynasty ended in 1737 with the death of Gian Gastone, Grand Duke of Tuscany'
the Medici
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