WORLD "C"ITIES
POTPOURRI
19TH CENTURY PORTUGAL
OPERA
FATHERLY NICKNAMES
200
'Strolling on the palm-lined Promenade de la Croisette is a must in this French film festival town'
Cannes
200
'Grown in the northeast U.S., the round white or Katahdin type of this tuber is excellent for boiling'
Potato
200
'In 1877, a few years before his famous tower, he built a steel arch bridge over the Douro River in Portugal'
Gustave Eiffel
200
'The role of Scrooge is sung by a baritone in this Thea Musgrave opera'
"A Christmas Carol"
200
'"The Father of the Phonograph"'
Thomas Edison
400
'The government of the state of West Bengal lives in the Raj Dhavan, or Government House, in this city'
Calcutta
400
'This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC'
Apple
400
'In May 1898 Portugal celebrated the 400th anniversary of this explorer's arrival in India'
Vasco da Gama
400
'This Richard Strauss comic opera is named for Octavian, a young cavalier'
"Der Rosenkavalier"
400
'This Frenchman was "The Father of Bacteriology"'
Louis Pasteur
600
'The Coptic Museum in this city is noted for its collection of ancient Coptic textiles'
Cairo
600
'Huitzilopochtli was the war & sun god of this civilization'
Aztecs
600
'This British army leader put the boot to the French in Portugal in 1808'
Wellington
600
'This Mussorgsky opera was first performed at the Met in 1913 with Adamo Didur as Boris'
"Boris Godunov"
600
'Secretaries take note: he's "The Father of Modern Shorthand", not Isaac Pitman'
John Robert Gregg
800
'It's the largest city in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia'
Cologne
800
'This president's 1961 farewell address warned of the influence of "The Military-Industrial Complex"'
Dwight D. Eisenhower
800
'In an 1887 treaty, China recognized Portugal's sovereignty over this territory west of Hong Kong'
Macao
800
'Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots" deals with the events around this massacre'
The St. Bartholemew\'s Day Massacre
800
'This ancient Greek playwright is the "Father of Comedy"'
Aristophanes
1000
'This city on South Island is named for a college at Oxford University'
Christchurch
1000
'With a fan that circulates hot air, this type of oven cooks 25% faster than conventional ovens'
Convection oven
1000
'When Napoleon threatened Portugal in 1807, the royal family fled to this country'
Brazil
1000
'He wrote both text & music for his 3-act opera "Tristan And Isolde"'
Richard Wagner
1000
'"The Father of Bluegrass Music"; he passed away in 1996'
Bill Monroe
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