MYTHOLOGY
CONTEMPORARIES
CANADIAN CITIES
FILM DIRECTORS
IN THE DICTIONARY
200
'Like Noah's family in the Bible, the Greeks Deucalion & his wife were the only ones to survive this'
Flood
200
'While Stradivari was making violins, this author was fiddling with "Robinson Crusoe"'
Daniel Defoe
200
'Known for its stampede, this largest Alberta city is called Canada's oil & gas capital'
Calgary
200
'Jonathan Frid of TV's "Dark Shadows" starred in this "Platoon" director's first film, "Seizure", in 1974'
Oliver Stone
200
'As a verb, the word skirl means to play this Highland instrument'
Bagpipes
400
'5 rivers flow through Hades: Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon & this one'
Styx
400
'In 1547 Hernan Cortes died & this Medici became queen of France'
Catherine
400
'General Motors Place is the home of this city's Canucks hockey team'
Vancouver
400
'As a child, this "Big" director performed with her mother's tap dance troupe on the "Original Amateur Hour"'
Penny Marshall
400
'From the Latin word for "four", it's a poem or stanza of 4 lines'
Quatrain
600
'After killing the giant Pallas, this goddess flayed him & used his skin as armor'
Athena
600
'While Charles Babbage was trying to build a computer in the 1820s, this Scot invented what would be a "Mac"'
Charles McIntosh
600
'In North America this city's stock exchange is second in size only to the New York Stock Exchange'
Toronto
600
'He earned his first Oscar nomination for his first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"'
Mike Nichols
600
'This word can mean a drop downward, or one's lineage'
Descent
800
'This god of the west wind fathered 2 immortal horses: Xanthus & Balius'
Zephyr
800
'While Abelard was wooing Heloise in Europe, this Rubaiyat author was writing in the Mideast'
Omar Khayyam
800
'Sites of interest in this city include the Old Market Square & the Manitoba legislative building'
Winnipeg
800
'This playwright directed the 1990 film adaptation of his own play "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead"'
Tom Stoppard
800
'This alternate name for a werewolf is from the Greek for "wolf man"'
Lycanthrope
1000
'Calliope, one of the Muses, was the mother of this masterful lyre player'
Orpheus
1000
'While Gutenberg was setting his type, a duke in this family was setting his sights on Milan'
Sforza
1000
'Province House, Canada's oldest legislative building, was completed in 1818 in this Nova Scotia city'
Halifax
1000
'This Italian, father of actress Isabella, directed the acclaimed Neorealist film "Open City"'
Roberto Rossellini
1000
'This synonym for clumsy is from an old Norse word meaning "turned the wrong way"'
Awkward
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