CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS
IT'S A "CIN"
VENOMOUS ARTHROPODS
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
FICTIONAL BATTLES & WARS
200
'One of the largest contemp. art orgs., N.Y.'s P.S. 1, uses a building that began as this type of institution'
a (public) school
200
'French term for a documentary film style that avoids directorial control over its subject'
cinéma vérité
200
'Some scientists include this stinger in the family Apidae, others in its own family, Bombidae'
a bumblebee
200
'2003:
"The Barbarian Invasions"'
Canada
200
'The war between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians is described in this character's "Travels"'
Gulliver
400
'Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art exhibited this woman's art, including her Bed-In for Peace photos'
(Yoko) Ono
400
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew tightens a horse saddle in a stable.) The strap I'm tightening is called latigo, Spanish for "gird", or this word that means it's easily done'
a cinch
400
'This arachnid is responsible for 1,000 deaths a year in Mexico'
scorpion
400
'1949:
"The Bicycle Thief"'
Italy
400
'The battle of Helm's Deep figures in this second book of "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy'
The Two Towers
600
'This museum's ducts are color coded, blue for air, green for fluids, yellow for electrical, & red for movement'
Le Centre Pompidou
600
'This is a mixture of ashes & slag'
cinders
600
'The potter, a solitary species of this insect, hunts only caterpillars'
wasp
600
'2000:
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"'
Taiwan
600
'The Battle of the Cowshed & the Battle of the Windmill are waged in this 1945 work'
Animal Farm
800
'This influential artist said of some Aboriginal art in Sydney's museum, "This is what I have been trying to achieve"'
Pablo Picasso
800
'It's a tragedy that this 17th century French author is known for "Britannicus" & "Berenice"'
Jean Racine
800
'The scientific name of this venomous arthropod is Loxosceles reclusa'
the brown recluse
800
'1981:
"Mephisto"'
Hungary
800
'Juan Rico joins the mobile infantry to fight in the war against the invading alien "bugs" in this Heinlein novel'
Starship Troopers
1000
'Founded in 1939, this city's Contemporary Arts Center was at the center of a 1990s 1st Amendment case'
Cincinnati
1000
'A synthetic hormone preparation that stimulates contractions during childbirth'
pitocin
1000
'The blister species of this secretes an irritating substance called cantharidin that was once used in love potions'
beetle
1000
'1996:
"Kolya"'
the Czech Republic
1000
'A battle for this planet between Paul Atreides' forces & those of the Emperor is at the heart of the "Dune" books'
Arrakis
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