j-archive-4773-D-2005-05-11

ALSO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

200

'A gallbladder or a kidney'

an organ

400

'Greek muse whose name means "beautiful voice"'

Calliope

600

'Reddish-brown antelopes with white stripes'

bongos

800

'Architect Renzo'

Piano

1000

'The bellows-mender in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"'

Flute

BOBBING FOR POETS

200

'In 1785 he wrote "Gie me ae spark o'nature's fire, that's a' the learning I desire"'

Bobby Burns

400

'His first published poem was 1833's "Pauline"'

Browning

600

'He wrote, "Better to go down dignified/ With boughten friendship at your side/ Than none at all. Provide, Provide!"'

Robert Frost

800

'The next 3 words of lyric poet Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to make much of time", "Gather ye rosebuds..."'

while ye may

1000

'The USA's first Poet Laureate, he taught at Louisiana State from 1934 to 1942 & edited the Southern Review'

(Robert Penn) Warren

CNN 25: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

200

'In 1987 the AIDS Quilt was displayed on the National Mall and this became the first drug approved by the FDA for AIDS'

AZT

400

'(Hi, I'm CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.) I've reported on the threat of H5N1, better known as this potential pandemic transmitted by fowl'

the avian flu

600

'In 1991, 8 entered this replica of the Earth's ecosystem to test the feasibility of a self-contained space colony'

the Biosphere

800

'It's the alphanumeric problem that for many marred the celebration seen here'

the Y2K bug

1000

'On Dec. 2, 1982, this surgeon, seen here, implanted the first permanent artificial heart, the Jarvik-7, into Barney Clark'

Dr. William DeVries

PAINTERS

200

'(Alex reads from the Barnes Foundation.) In a large painting called "Models", this pointillist included a glimpse of his picture "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"'

Seurat

400

'He was going full throttle in Arles, France in 1888 & 1889, turning out more than 200 paintings'

Van Gogh

600

'This artist's portrait of his wife sold in 1875 for 290 francs, hardly covering the cost of the frame & materials'

Claude Monet

800

'This Swiss painter who died in 1940 called his art a line on a walk'

(Paul) Klee

1000

'This 16th century Flemish painter depicted a cold landscape in "Hunters in the Snow"'

Bruegel

"N" THE BEGINNING

200

'On July 4, 1928 Jean Lussier crawled inside a 6-foot diameter rubber ball & passed over this landmark'

Niagara Falls

400

'In 1931 the leading U.S. organization advocating this -ism changed its name to the American Sunbathing Assoc.'

nudism

600

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vineyard.) In California, "Wine Country" often means this valley, that planted its first wine grapes around 1840'

Napa

800

'With a population of about 210,000, Bergen is this country's second-most populous city'

Norway

1000

'Latin for "None farther beyond", this 3-word phrase refers to the highest level of excellence'

ne plus ultra