I DO IMPRESSIONISTS
MASSACHUSETTS
"YX"? THAT'S FOR ME TO KNOW
1976
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
200
'Time to attend the dancing class seen here painted by this 19th Century Frenchman'
Degas
200
'This patriot's foundry made the State House dome watertight in 1802 by sheathing it with a thick layer of copper'
Paul Revere
200
'Black,
especially a pure or jet black, like the stone'
onyx
200
'January 27:
Jury selection begins in the trial of this woman entangled with the SLA'
Patricia Hearst
200
'The root of a plant of the mustard family, this veggie resembles a small beet'
radish
400
'More a neo-impressionist, he painted pointillist seascapes at Normandy each summer between 1885 & 1889'
(Georges) Seurat
400
'In 1893 Springfield produced this USA's 1st gasoline-powered car; in 1901, the USA's 1st factory for these 2-wheelers'
motorcycles
400
'Come sail away with Charon on this river, a Greek word meaning "hateful"'
Styx
400
'July 2:
This country formally ceases to exist as it is absorbed by its northern counterpart'
South Vietnam
400
'The Eureka is a type of this citris fruit'
a lemon
600
'His impression, Sunrise, is seen here'
Monet
600
'Nye Lubricants, founded in New Bedford in 1844, sold the USA's last bottle of this type of oil in 1978'
whale oil
600
'Patrick Ewing should know this Greek goddess personifying night'
Nyx
600
'February 4th:
The Winter Olympics heat up this Austrian city'
Innsbruck
600
'The white type of this stalked veggie is grown underground; it can't produce chlorophyll & turn green'
asparagus
800
'This American woman went Impressionist in the late 1870s & exhibited with the group in 1879'
(Mary) Cassatt
800
'This Western Mass. college, the state's oldest after Harvard, is a traditional rival of Amherst'
Williams
800
'This small triangular bone consists of 4 rudimentary vertebrae'
the coccyx
800
'June 27:
Palestinian terrorists hijack an Air France jetliner & force it to land in this Ugandan city'
Entebbe
800
'The name of this tropical fruit comes from the resemblance of its flowers to symbols of the crucifixon'
passion fruit
1000
'Seen here is this artist's 1870s work, "Madame Charpentier and Her Children"'
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1000
'"The Spirit Of '76" hangs in this town whose name comes from the misidentification of granite as another rock'
marblehead
1000
'It's not a Seussian animal, it's this large African antelope, an endangered species'
an oryx
1000
'March 24:
The Argentinean Military coups with delight as it overthrows this widow of Juan Peron'
Isabel
1000
'In French, a banana is banane; this tropical fruit is ananas'
a pineapple
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