LESSER-KNOWN MOVIES
ART & ARTISTS
LANGUAGES
AMERICAN LITERATURE
TAKING YOUR "Q"
200
'Molly Ringwald played Cordelia in Jean-Luc Godard's unique version of this tragedy'
King Lear
200
'This Spaniard painted religious works like the "Madonna of Port-Lligat" & those famous melting watches'
Salvador Dali
200
'"Pehea oe?" means "How are you?" in this language spoken in the 50th state'
Hawaiian
200
'Mark Twain used the tall tale form in his book about "Life on" this river'
Mississippi River
200
'As this substance is denser than the human body, you may drown in it, but you won't sink'
Quicksand
400
'He took time off from playing Barney Fife to hook the title role in "The Incredible Mr. Limpet"'
Don Knotts
400
'In 1892 this French artist painted the nightclub waltzers seen here:'
Toulouse-Lautrec
400
'This language whose native speakers call it Svensk has some loanwords from French'
Swedish
400
'He wrote "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" to capitalize on the success of "The Scarlet Letter"'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
400
'In the 1980s the Supreme Court approved the use of these in hiring to remedy past discrimination'
Quotas
600
'In a 1975 film Sally Kellerman & Mackenzie Phillips are the "Gold Dust Twins" who kidnap this title character'
Rafferty
600
'"The Oxbow" is one of the most famous paintings produced by this Landscape "school" named for a river'
Hudson River School
600
'It's the language you'd expect a native Rhodian to speak'
Greek (island of Rhodes)
600
'He described the setting of "Cannery Row" as "A poem, a stink...a habit, a nostalgia, a dream"'
John Steinbeck
600
'For convicted British traitors of yore, this procedure followed drawing, or disembowelment'
Quartering
800
'Francis Ford Coppola followed "The Godfather" with this film starring Gene Hackman as a wiretapper'
The Conversation
800
'Francois Boucher, known for his portraits of Mme. de Pompadour, was named first painter to this king in 1765'
Louis XV
800
'Mazovian is one of the major dialects of this eastern European language'
Polish
800
'The books of his "U.S.A." trilogy contain "newsreels" made up of headlines & catchphrases'
John Dos Passos
800
'[Hello, I'm Robin Quivers] This marquess who wrote a set of boxing rules also helped bring down Oscar Wilde'
Marquess of Queensbury
1000
'The title character of this 1991 Coen Brothers film is a caricature of writer Clifford Odets'
Barton Fink
1000
'This famous series of paintings by Edward Hicks depicts animals living together in peace & harmony'
"Peaceable Kingdom"
1000
'Hiligaynon, a Bisayan language of this country, is closely related to Tagalog'
Philippines
1000
'He wrote the short story "Nightfall", a science fiction classic, in 1941 when he was 21 years old'
Isaac Asimov
1000
'Some of these objects are the size of one solar system, but brighter than a thousand galaxies'
Quasars
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