LITERARY TERMS
ROMAN EMPERORS
WINES & SPIRITS
ANIMALS
REPUBLICANS
200
'This term for a short, simple poem or song comes from dictatum, Latin for "dictated thing"'
Ditty
200
'To avert suspicion that he started the Great Fire of 64, he blamed it on the Christians'
Nero
200
'Buza, a spirit from Egypt, is made from these palm fruits'
Dates
200
'Like the falcon or hawk, the shrike is classified as a bird of this'
Prey
200
'A loser in 1980 & 1988, this Senate majority leader is again bidding for the GOP presidential nomination'
Robert Dole
400
'Heptameter refers to a line of verse consisting of this number of feet'
7
400
'Hadrian's decision to build a shrine on the site of the temple in this city incited a Jewish revolt'
Jerusalem
400
'in 1995 Jim Beam, a maker of this Kentucky spirit, celebrated its 200th anniversary'
Bourbon
400
'Almost 99% of a jellyfish's body is made of this substance'
Water
400
'He shared his views on domestic policy in the 1995 bestseller "To Renew America"'
Newt Gingrich
600
'This form of light verse named for a place in Ireland rhymes aabba'
Limerick
600
'Slipping into insanity, Commodus imagined he was this mythical club-wielding hero'
Hercules
600
'Tia Maria is a coffee-flavored Jamaican drink based on this liquor'
Rum
600
'The marine types of these have flattish carapaces & their limbs have evolved into flippers'
Turtles
600
'In 1994 the Arizona chapter of the ACLU named this former senator its Civil Libertarian of the Year'
Barry Goldwater
800
'Bowdlerize comes from the name of an editor best known for purging his works of "indecent" passages'
William Shakespeare
800
'To eliminate opposition, Septimius Severus replaced these imperial bodyguards with his own troops'
Praetorian Guards
800
'The name of this wine is French for "Smoked White"'
Fume Blanc
800
'A bee is said to do this at the hive to show the other bees the direction & distance to a food source'
Dance
800
'This independent candidate for president was chairman of the House Republican Conference from 1969 to 1979'
John Anderson
1000
'The 30,000-line poem about this fox is the best-known beast epic'
Reynard
1000
'To support his building program, including his famous baths, he raised taxes & debased the currency'
Caracalla
1000
'It's the Dutch version of cointreau or triple sec'
Curacao
1000
'It's the proper name for the Australian animal some call the spiny anteater'
Echidna
1000
'In 1995 this New Jersey governor became the first woman to give the response to the State of the Union address'
Christie Todd Whitman
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