THE FABULOUS 14th CENTURY
THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS
FROM THE LATIN
IT WAS THE OCEAN TO BE PACIFIC
HEROES OF LITERATURE
200
'Casimir III, who passed the statute of Wislica, allowed the Jews to settle in this country that he ruled'
Poland
200
'In 2006 The New York Times said that this animated monkey movie "is an unexpected delight"'
Curious George
200
'The word dime goes back to the Latin decem, meaning this'
ten
200
'Vanuatu has a "Council of" these leaders to advise the government on customs & traditions'
Chiefs
200
'Spanish thinker Ortega y Gasset said that heroism is within all of us in "Meditations on" this literary character'
Don Quixote
400
'Around 1365 Adrianople became the capital of this empire; Constantinople replaced it in 1453'
the Ottoman Empire
400
'Vincent Canby felt "fondly towards this "race of small, teddy bear-like creatures" in "Return of the Jedi"'
the Ewoks
400
'Bees & beehives are kept in this, from the Latin for "beehive"'
an apiary
400
'The Pacific razor is a variety of this bivalve'
a clam
400
'"A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much" is attributed to this Homeric hero'
Achilles
600
'In this 14th century Boccaccio work, 3 men & 7 women flee to the countryside to escape the plague'
The Decameron
600
'Steve Carell raised "the comedy bar with an excruciatingly funny" body-waxing scene in this 2005 film'
The 40 Year Old Virgin
600
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out two words on the monitor.) Genu, Latin for "knee", also gives us this word, meaning "to bend the knee"'
genuflect
600
'This Pacific island nation has been ruled by King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV since 1965'
Tonga
600
'This bread-stealing criminal & fugitive from justice is the hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"'
Jean Valjean
800
'This empire's control of China ended when Toghon-Temur fled the invasion of Ming troops in 1368'
the Mongol Empire
800
'Vincent Canby said it's Woody Allen's "homage to Tolstoy, Kierkegaard, Einstein, Groucho Marx..."'
Love and Death
800
'Appropriately, the name of this fruit comes from the Latin for "seedy apple"'
a pomegranate
800
'On September 1, 1951 New Zealand signed a Pacific defense pact with these 2 countries'
Australia & the United States
800
'This "haloed" hero is the perpetual thorn in Inspector Teal's side in works by Leslie Charteris'
The Saint (Simon Templar)
1000
'On Good Friday, 1327 this Italian poet met a girl named Laura at a church in Avignon; his love for her was not returned'
Petrarch
1000
'The spacemen in this 1951 film are so peaceful "you'd hardly expect them to split an infinitive, let alone an atom"'
The Day the Earth Stood Still
1000
'The name of this flower seen here may come from the Latin for "twisted nose", a reference to its acrid smell'
Nasturtium
1000
'The Pacific Coast Highway continues as Mexico 1 down to this cabo or cape at the bottom of Baja'
Cabo San Lucas
1000
'Ernest J. Gaines wrote a fictional autobiography of this heroic 110-year-old ex-slave'
Miss Jane Pittman
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