WORD ORIGINS
ESPIONAGE
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
ARTISTS
20TH CENTURY WRITERS
200
'A chatty person has "the gift of" this, a word derived from Middle English for "to scoff"'
Gab
200
'In 1962 the CIA enlisted the Mafia to assassinate this Cuban leader'
Fidel Castro
200
'Cape Agulhas near the Cape of Good Hope is this continent's southernmost point'
Africa
200
'In 1639 this Dutch master bought a home in Amsterdam that later became a museum'
Rembrandt
200
'It reportedly took him about 10 years to write "The Catcher in the Rye"'
J.D. Salinger
400
'This word for a ceremonial procession is from old Italian cavalcare, "to ride on horseback"'
Cavalcade
400
'He wrote about cryptography in "The Gold-Bug" & had readers send him cyphers to solve'
Edgar Allan Poe
400
'The central part of this Australian capital is divided into 2 sections by Lake Burley Griffin'
Canberra
400
'His 1770 work "The Blue Boy" resides in the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California'
Thomas Gainsborough
400
'In 1905 this "Call of the Wild" author ran for mayor of Oakland, California as a Socialist'
Jack London
600
'The Ismaili sect of this religion is named for Ismail, a son of the sixth imam, Jafar'
Islam
600
'In 1956 a program that deployed balloons with cameras over Russia ended & this new plane replaced it'
U-2
600
'Surtsey, a volcanic island of this country, was named for Surtur, a mythical god of fire'
Iceland
600
'His "Birth of Venus" was painted for the Medici villa at Castello, Italy'
Botticelli
600
'This poet's annual Christmas greeting for 1949 featured "On a tree fallen across the road"'
Robert Frost
800
'From the Latin for "shaggy" or "bristly", it's a synonym for hairy'
Hirsute
800
'John Honeyman's spying helped take this city in 1776; a plaque in Washington Crossing State Park honors him'
Trenton
800
'The European part of Turkey lies entirely on this peninsula'
Balkan Peninsula
800
'In 1916 she met her future husband, Alfred Stieglitz'
Georgia O\'Keeffe
800
'He was admonished by the LAPD in 1971 for not getting permission to publish "The New Centurions"'
Joseph Wambaugh
1000
'Anatomists know the islets of this are named for the German physician who first described them'
Paul Langerhans
1000
'In the 1940s Kermit, this president's grandson, served in the OSS & the CIA'
Theodore Roosevelt
1000
'This gulf between Sweden & Finland is the largest arm of the Baltic Sea'
Gulf of Bothnia
1000
'The father of this "Marriage of the Virgin" Renaissance artist was a court painter to the Duke of Urbino'
Rafael
1000
'"The Godwulf Manuscript" in 1974 was his first book about Boston policeman-turned-private eye Spenser'
Robert Parker
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