BOOKS & AUTHORS
PEOPLE
ART CLASS
TRAVEL & TOURISM
WORLD HISTORY
200
'Sheila Burnford wrote about 2 dogs & one of these animals on an "Incredible Journey"'
a cat
200
'Notified of this rival's death in March 1993, Dr. Jonas Salk called it "a great loss"'
Sabin
200
'c. 1490 he found that the span of a man's arms equals his height & drew a picture showing it'
Leonardo da Vinci
200
'Cape May, at the end of the Garden State Parkway in this state, is the USA's oldest seashore resort'
New Jersey
200
'Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of this country twice, in 1925 & 1932'
Germany
400
'In this Nathaniel Hawthorne tale, Colonel Pyncheon is cursed by convicted wizard Matthew Maule'
The House of the Seven Gables (The House of Seven Gables accepted)
400
'This British expert on black holes has been called "the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein"'
Stephen Hawking
400
'Term for the decoration of Medieval manuscripts with fancy initials, patterns & borders'
illumination
400
'The northwest corner of Death Valley National Park lies in this state'
Nevada
400
'Before battle on Oct. 21, 1805, he signaled, "England expects that every man will do his duty"'
Nelson
600
'This author of "2010: Odyssey Two" sold his first science fiction stories while in the RAF during WWII'
Arthur C. Clarke
600
'This Soviet-born dancer was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989'
Nureyev
600
'There are 2 major techniques of this type of painting: transparent & gouache, which is opaque'
watercolor
600
'When traveling through this Kansas city, be sure to stop at Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood home'
Abilene
600
'In 1734 this city near Mount Vesuvius became the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies'
Naples
800
'Among his novels featuring spy George Smiley are "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" & "Smiley's People"'
John le Carré
800
'In 1989 his wife Sarah was named chairperson of Handgun Control Inc.'
(James) Brady
800
'It's believed that Vermeer used this image-making device to help transfer images to canvas'
a camera obscura
800
'This Alabama city has a collection of spacecraft at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center'
Huntsville
800
'In 1943 this Chinese leader met with FDR & Winston Churchill at the Cairo conference'
Chiang Kai-shek
1000
'His story "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" appeared in 1869 in the Overland Monthly, which he edited'
Bret Harte
1000
'In August 1994 he was sworn in as the 108th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court'
Stephen Breyer
1000
'In the rules of perspective, this is the place at which parallel lines converge on the horizon'
the vanishing point
1000
'You can whale-watch at Grand Manan, Deer & Campobello Islands in this Canadian bay'
the Bay of Fundy
1000
'At the Congress of Vienna, William I of the Netherlands traded Nassau for this Duchy'
Luxembourg
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