SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS
SCIENTISTS
ARCHITECTURE
ISLANDS
HISTORIC "G'' 'S
200
'Most of his profits from "The Birth of a Nation" were lost when he made "Intolerance"'
D.W. Griffith
200
'Pythias, an ancient Greek geographer, was perhaps the 1st to associate tidal motion with this body'
Moon
200
'This arched brick or stone ceiling can be of the barrel, grain, or rib style'
Vault
200
'When Columbus reached this future U.S. commonwealth in 1493, he named it San Juan Bautista'
Puerto Rico
200
'Most of England's Hanoverian monarchs had this first name'
George
400
'He directed his last film, "A Countess from Hong Kong" in 1967, over 50 years after his 1st film'
Charlie Chaplin
400
'This proposer of the absolute temperature scale was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1866'
Lord Kelvin
400
'From the Latin for porch, it's a structure consisting of a roof supported by columns'
Portico
400
'Argentina's claim to this British south Atlantic colony dates back to 1820'
Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas
400
'This prominent Monegasque family is descended from wealthy Genovese merchants & politicians'
Grimaldis
600
'Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this 1st Best Picture winner'
Wings
600
'Hugo DeVries, who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity, also proposed this theory of altered genes'
Mutation
600
'Bernini's bronze canopy over the main altar at St. Peter's is a masterpiece of this style of architecture'
Baroque
600
'Quebec's Anticosti Island, at the mouth of this river, is the site of a provincial park'
St. Lawrence
600
'The 3rd Swedish king to bear this name was shot at a masquerade & died a few days later'
Gustav
800
'As an actor, this Vienna-born director was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate"'
Erich Von Stroheim
800
'This German astronomer born in 1571 was the 1st to explain how the planets move around the sun'
Johannes Kepler
800
'Mesopotamians built these temples to look like miniature mountains'
Ziggurats
800
'This island off the coast of southern California was named in honor of St. Catherine of Alexandria'
Santa Catalina
800
'This 4-time British prime minister tried to abolish income taxes, but failed'
William Gladstone
1000
'He remade his 1st Hollywood film, "The Squaw Man", twice'
Cecil B. DeMille
1000
'It was American physicist Arthur Compton who came up with this name for a quantum of light'
Photon
1000
'This architect born in 1573 founded the English Society of Classical Architecture'
Inigo Jones
1000
'This Caribbean island in the Leeward group has both French & Dutch sections'
St. Martin/Maarten
1000
'The name of this political faction in Medieval Italy was derived from the Welps, a German family'
Guelphs
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