FUN WITH OPERA
SPACEY MOVIES
SHOW ME THE MONET
WORLD CAPITALS
ARCHITECT TALK
200
'Lukas Foss' opera "The Jumping Frog of" this county is based on a story by Mark Twain'
Calaveras County
200
'Walter Matthau was probably busy when Kevin Spacey played opposite this man in "Glengarry Glen Ross" & "Dad"'
Jack Lemmon
200
'Monet was a leader of this art movement whose name was derived from one of his paintings'
Impressionism
200
'At 420 feet, Montmartre on the right bank is this city's highest natural point'
Paris
200
'Cruciform means built in this shape, like the interiors of many churches'
Cross-shaped
400
'Cavalli's 17th century opera "Ercole Amante" tells the story of this mythological laborer in love'
Hercules
400
'Off the record & on the QT, Spacey played cop Jack Vincennes in this recent film'
"L.A. Confidential"
400
'Monet's first name, it's derived from the Latin for "lame one"'
Claude
400
'This Haitian capital was founded in 1749 by the French, who named it L'Hopital'
Port-au-Prince
400
'This term for a glass opening in the roof of a house can also refer to what comes through it'
Skylight
600
'We assume Samuel Barber composed his mini-opera about "A Hand of" this game according to Hoyle'
Bridge
600
'Kevin co-produced & played a malignant movie executive in the film "Swimming With" these'
Sharks
600
'In a series representing this river, Monet painted the Waterloo & Charing Cross Bridges'
Thames
600
'This capital city's port, Piraeus, lies on the Saronic Gulf'
Athens
600
'Change one letter in "basement" to get this type of window that's hinged at the side'
Casement
800
'They're the kind of puppets for which Paul Hindemith wrote his opera "Das Nusch-Nuschi"'
Marionettes
800
'Dustin Hoffman & Kevin are virus hunters in this 1995 thriller'
"Outbreak"
800
'This artist with a similar name painted several portraits of Monet, including the 1874 work seen here'
Edouard Manet
800
'Among the parks in this Costa Rican capital are Morazan Park, Bolivar Park & John. F. Kennedy Park'
San Jose
800
'Mary Lou Retton could tell you that barrel, ribbed & domical are types of this arched ceiling'
Vaulted ceiling
1000
'The heroine of this Czech composer's 1901 opera "Rusalka" is a water nymph'
Antonin Dvorak
1000
'"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" finds Kevin dealing in antiques in this Georgia city'
Savannah
1000
'Many of Monet's water landscapes can be seen at the Orangerie in these gardens'
Tuilories
1000
'It was chosen in 1394 as the capital of the kingdom of Choson'
Seoul
1000
'This word for a projecting feature atop a wall is from the Italian for "crow", which might perch there'
Cornice
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