THE OLD TESTAMENT
ART EXHIBITS
WORLD CAPITALS
HISTORIC NAMES
AUTHORS
200
'These brought unto Egypt included hail, locusts & darkness'
the Plagues
200
'A 1995 exhibit at California's Laguna Art Museum traced the history of this body art'
tattoo
200
'This Costa Rican capital is named for the country's patron Saint Joseph'
San Jose
200
'This student of Nicolo Amati is often considered the greatest violinmaker of all time'
Stradivarius
200
'When his 1978 novel "The Stand" was reissued in 1990, it was about 50% longer than the original'
Stephen King
400
'Derived from Greek, the name of this book means "second law"'
Deuteronomy
400
'In 1995 this art movement was on view in a Monet exhibit & in a Caillebotte show'
Impressionism
400
'It's home to the Glinka Music Museum & the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall'
Moscow
400
'Though Balboa was the first European to sight the eastern Pacific Ocean, this explorer named it'
Ferdinand Magellan
400
'In order to write his 1922 novel "Babbitt", this author studied real estate'
Sinclair Lewis
600
'It's to whom God said, "The end of all flesh is come before me"'
Noah
600
'A recent exhibit at this St. Petersburg museum focused on art plundered by the Red Army during WWII'
the Hermitage
600
'Though only 90 miles from the equator, this Kenyan capital has a moderate climate'
Nairobi
600
'This Roman naturalist "the Elder" died in 79 A.D. while investigating the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius'
Pliny
600
'This "Breakfast of Champions" author once ran a Saab auto dealership'
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
800
'Named for a prophet, it's alphabetically first among the Old Testament books'
Amos
800
'An 1877 exhibit moved John Ruskin to libel this American-born artist, but not his mother'
James McNeill Whistler
800
'This Saudi Arabian capital has long been visited by Muslims on their way to Mecca'
Riyadh
800
'They were the parents of England's Queen Elizabeth I'
Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn
800
'His travels to Europe aboard the steamship Quaker City were documented in "The Innocents Abroad"'
Mark Twain
1000
'Mordecai is the hero of this book'
Esther
1000
'In 1990 a Cincinnati museum faced obscenity charges after showing the work of this late photographer'
Robert Mapplethorpe
1000
'Named for a British monarch, it's the capital of Guyana'
Georgetown
1000
'This French Protestant reformer died in Geneva in 1564'
John Calvin
1000
'This "Lord of the Rings" author served as Merton professor of English at Oxford from 1945 to 1959'
J.R.R. Tolkien
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