ESSAY
MUSICAL NICKNAMES
INTERIOR DESIGN
THE 13th CENTURY
"F" TROOP
200
'He was 16 & hadn't yet moved to Philadelphia when he wrote essays called "The Dogood Papers" in 1722'
Benjamin Franklin
200
'William Basie'
Count
200
'From the French, it's the hanging-from-the-ceiling version of a candelabra'
chandelier
200
'Pope Innocent III issued a bull to annul this document agreed to by King John in 1215 -- didn't work'
Magna Carta
200
'He wears No. 4 for the Green Bay Packers'
Brett Favre
400
'In 2002 subjects of his Newsweek essays included baseball statistics & judicial elections'
George Will
400
'Edward Kennedy Ellington'
Duke
400
'Name shared by a serving table from the 18th century & an elevator that brings meals up from the basement kitchen'
dumbwaiter
400
'In 1252 this city, in a show of its independence, began to issue gold florins'
Florence
400
'2-word term for a mass descent of sharks on prey, or of news reporters on a story'
feeding frenzy
600
'In a 1756 essay this sarcastic Frenchman denounced religion, but still showed his own belief in God'
Voltaire
600
'Hoagland Howard Carmichael'
Hoagy
600
'A butterfly table is also known as a drop- this table'
leaf
600
'Before 1250 this country's Bela IV replaced Pest, a city destroyed by the Mongols in 1241, with the new city of Buda'
Hungary
600
'George Clinton is known for this pop music style characterized by syncopated rhythm & a heavy bass line'
Funk
800
'The 2 main types of essays are personal & this stuffier type developed by Sir Francis Bacon'
formal
800
'Julian Edwin Adderley'
Cannonball
800
'Queen whose style lent itself to cabriole legs with club feet; she ruled between William & Mary & George I'
Anne
800
'After traveling for 17 years Marco Polo returned home to this city in 1295'
Venice
800
'Viti Levu is the largest of the many islands that make up this nation 3,100 miles southwest of Hawaii'
Fiji
1000
'In 1919's "Tradition and the Individual Talent", this American-British poet said poets must learn the work of the past'
T.S. Eliot
1000
'Charlie Parker'
Bird
1000
'From the French for "to pout", it's a nicely decorated room where women went to "be alone"'
boudoir
1000
'Trading towns involved in this Baltic league included Cologne & Danzig'
Hanseatic League
1000
'According to Emerson, this kind of consistency "is the hobgoblin of little minds"'
foolish
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