LITERARY CHARACTERS
WORD ORIGINS
WORLD FACTS
PHILOSOPHY
UN SECRETARIES GENERAL
200
'Her first husband is Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother; Rhett Butler is her third'
Scarlett O\'Hara
200
'Slang for remarkable or gutsy, it may be a blend of "bold" & "audacious"'
Bodacious
200
'A seafood cocktail called zarzuela is a specialty of this country's Costa Brava'
Spain
200
'The Stoics derived their name from a painted porch in this Greek city'
Athens
200
'During World War II, he served in the German army occupying Greece'
Kurt Waldheim
400
'This doctor becomes acquainted with Lara when they work together at a Russian Red Cross hospital'
Dr. Zhivago
400
'This term for all the letters in a language comes from the names of two Greek letters'
Alphabet
400
'It's the monetary unit of Vatican City'
Lira
400
'This church put most of Descartes' books on its "Index of Proscribed Literature"'
Roman Catholic Church
400
'In 1988 this Peruvian personally negotiated the end of fighting in the Iran-Iraq War'
Javier Perez de Cuellar
600
'In "Go Tell It on the Mountain", John Grimes represents this author of the novel'
James Baldwin
600
'Our word "blanket" is derived in part from Old French for this color'
white
600
'The imposing ruins of Angkor Tom temple complex, built around 1200, are in this country'
Cambodia/Kampuchea
600
'The Latin name of this great philosophical work by St. Augustine is "De Civitate Dei"'
City of God
600
'Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as this nation's minister of state for foreign affairs from 1977-1991'
Egypt
800
'In a novel by Edith Wharton, this New England farmer falls in love with his wife's cousin Mattie'
Ethan Frome
800
'Humorist Gillette Burgess coined this 5-letter term for a brief laudatory phrase on a book jacket'
Blurb
800
'You might call the Pearl Mosque the "pearl" of this Taj Mahal city'
Agra
800
'This Frenchman later said that his 1945 lecture on existentialism & humanism was a mistake'
Jean-Paul Sartre
800
'He served as headmaster of the national high school in his hometown of Pantana, Burma'
U Thant
1000
'In one G.K. Chesterton tale, this reverend detective is called Paul; in another, he has the initial "J"'
Father Brown
1000
'The Middle English phrase for this position with hands-on-hips & elbows bent out was "Ankinibo"'
Akimbo
1000
'Her first-born son, Frederic, is Denmark's crown prince'
Queen Margrethe II
1000
'Lewis Carroll's 1896 book on the symbolic type of this branch of philosophy was not intended for children'
Logic
1000
'He headed Norway's delegation to the 1945 UN conference in San Francisco before becoming secretary general'
Trygve Lie
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