POETS & POETRY
SCIENCE
REPUBLICANS
STARTS & ENDS WITH "O"
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
200
'The last work of 15th century poet Christine de Pisan celebrates the military victories of this woman'
Joan of Arc
200
'In 1803 Luke Howard coined names for types of them, including cumulus & stratus'
Clouds
200
'In June 1996 Trent Lott succeeded him as Senate majority leader'
Bob Dole
200
'Shakespeare's moor'
Othello
200
'From Burundi to the Mediterranean, this longest river flows through 35 degrees of latitude'
the Nile
400
'In a preface to "Paradise Lost" he called rhyme "The invention of a barbarous age, to set off...lame meter"'
John Milton
400
'Atoms of this lightest element make up about 90% of the universe'
Hydrogen
400
'Relentless in his pursuit of conservative ideals, he was named Time's Man of the Year for 1995'
Newt Gingrich
400
'The first 3 Holy Roman emperors, father, son & grandson, shared this name'
Otto
400
'Productive farmland in this European country lies in the polders, land reclaimed from the sea'
The Netherlands (Holland)
600
'In a 1648 poem Robert Herrick urged reluctant maidens, "Gather ye" these "while ye may"'
Rosebuds
600
'This element, symbol Ir, is one of the most corrosion-resistant metals known'
Iridium
600
'This longtime Arizona senator retired from Congress after the 1986 session'
Barry Goldwater
600
'It's a long, dramatic musical piece, usually on a religious theme'
Oratorio
600
'This sea provides most of Turkey's northern border'
Black Sea
800
'This midwestern American poet gained new fame in 1990 with "Iron John: A Book About Men"'
Robert Bly
800
'It's the branch of physics that deals with light & vision'
Optics
800
'This Ohio senator & son of a president was known as "Mr. Republican"'
Robert Taft
800
'This river that flows through Venezuela is South America's northernmost major river'
Orinoco
800
'Arhus is the largest city on this Danish peninsula'
Jutland
1000
'This 19th century author of "Les Fleurs du Mal" translated Poe's tales into French'
Charles Baudelaire
1000
'From the Latin for "whip", they're the whiplike parts by which certain protozoa move about'
Flagellum
1000
'In 1948 Thomas Dewey "commissioned" this California governor as his vice presidential running mate'
Earl Warren
1000
'Similar to Turkish raki, it's perhaps Greece's best-known aperitif'
Ouzo
1000
'This "great" Canadian lake lies on the Arctic Circle'
Great Bear Lake
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