LAZYBONES
YOU GO, GIRL!
FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS... IN 1800
EUROPEAN PAINTERS
WINNIE
200
'Trademark name of a shoe indicating it's meant for those too lazy to lace & tie'
a loafer
200
'It was the main claim to fame of a 26-year-old Russian woman named Valentina Tereshkova'
the first woman in space
200
'This 1726 novel reported that the emperor's largest horses were "each about four inches and a half high"'
Gulliver\'s Travels
200
'This portrayer of Parisian nightlife was descended from the counts of Toulouse'
Toulouse-Lautrec
200
'Except for 2 years, Winston Churchill served in this body from 1900 to his 1964 resignation'
the (British) House of Commons
400
'In an Aesop fable, these insects laugh at a hungry cicada who goofed off all summer'
ants
400
'In this work, one of the big talkers on their way to Becket's tomb is a prioress, Madame Eglentyn'
The Canterbury Tales
400
'On Nov. 10, 1770 Voltaire penned, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to" do this'
invent him
400
'He completed his paintings of "Mornings on the Seine" before beginning his "Water Lillies"'
Monet
400
'The few in Winston's quote, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"'
the RAF
600
'Proverbially, "The devil finds work for" these "to do"'
idle hands
600
'Except for a few short trips, she spent all of her 35 years in Massachusetts, almost all of it in Amherst'
Emily Dickinson
600
'This British lexicographer called John Dryden "The Father of English Criticism"'
Samuel Johnson
600
'Around 1485 this Florentine painted "Mars and Venus" & "The Birth of Venus"'
Botticelli
600
'Churchill's mother, born Jennie Jerome, was a native of this country'
the United States
800
'This notoriously lazy composer had used his overture to "The Barber of Seville" in at least 2 previous operas'
Rossini
800
'Her paper, the N.Y. World, sent her to beat Phileas Fogg's record of "Around the World in 80 Days"'
Nellie Bly
800
'This "classy" Swede wrote, "To live by medicine is to live horribly"'
(Carolus) Linnaeus
800
'You might "Scream" when you see this Norwegian's "Self-portrait with Skeleton Arm"'
(Edvard) Munch
800
'The 5 words that follow the lines spoken here in a June 18, 1940 speech:

"If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say..."'
"this was their finest hour"
1000
'In the 1948 campaign, it was Truman's favorite adjective for the Republican 80th Congress'
the Do-Nothing Congress
1000
'In this Faulkner classic, Addie Bundren's family goes through heck & high water to get her to the graveyard'
As I Lay Dying
1000
'"What dire offense from amorous causes springs, what mighty contests rise from" these'
trivial things
1000
'This Spaniard was named first court painter to King Charles IV in 1799'
Goya
1000
'Churchill was descended from John Churchill, the first Duke of this'
Marlborough
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