WHAT'S IN AN ARTIST'S NAME?
THE BASS-ICS
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB
YOU ARE SO FOXY!
SCI. ABBREV.
200
'Utrillo usually signed his works "Maurice Utrillo, V."; the "V" stood for Suzanne Valadon, this relative of his'
his mother
200
'(Jon of the Clue Crew demonstrates his chops on bass.) The technique known as slapping & popping gets you the sound of this classic '70s style of music found in the name of a George Clinton group'
funk
200
'When she failed to provide him with an heir, Napoleon divorced her'
Josephine
200
'In a practice routine for typists, this critter "jumps over the lazy dog"'
the quick brown fox
200
'In computer science, GUI is this kind of user interface'
graphical
400
'Peter Bruegel the Younger's scenes of the netherworld gave him this nickname, a synonym for Hades'
"Hell"
400
'A 4-string bass is usually tuned to E, A, D & G--one octave below the 4 lowest strings of this'
a guitar
400
'His first wife was Fadia; Octavia & Cleo came later'
Marc Antony
400
'J.J. Dickison & M. Jeff Thompson were each called this Francis Marion nickname "of the Confederacy"'
the swamp fox
400
'There's also a phase of sleep abbreviated NREM, which stands for this'
non [or no] rapid eye movement
600
'He signed his paintings with his real name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, written in Greek letters'
El Greco
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew continues the downward slide--tonally, that is.) The lowest note of a chord has this botanical name'
the root
600
'This president's first wife, Ellen, replaced Edith Roosevelt's "Colonial" garden with a rose garden'
Woodrow Wilson
600
'George Fox founded this religious group around 1650'
The Society of Friends (Quakers)
600
'As opposed to an M.D., a D.O. is a doctor of this holistic practice'
osteopathy
800
'This very short artist was known by a shortened version of his long last name, which actually ended with -monfa'
[Henri de] Toulouse-Lautrec
800
'(Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) I played this bassist who teamed with David and Nigel in the mighty band Spinal Tap'
Derek (Smalls)
800
'His first wife was a physicist named Mileva Maric; after WWI he married his cousin Elsa'
[Albert] Einstein
800
'It immediately precedes "golf" in the NATO phonetic radio alphabet'
foxtrot
800
'The "T" in TSH stands for this gland (the "SH" if for stimulating hormone)'
the thyroid
1000
'Jerome Van Aken of "Garden of Earthly Delights" fame took this name in honor of his hometown, 'S-Hertogengosch'
Hieronymus Bosch
1000
'(Jon of the Clue Crew finishes the round on a low note.) A touch at the twelfth fret produces a tone an octave higher than the open string; that's one of these, also meaning pleasing to the ear'
harmonic
1000
'In 1814 he abandoned his pregnant wife Harriet to elope with 16-year-old Mary Godwin'
Shelley
1000
'The foxglove plant is the main source of this medicine used as a stimulant in damaged heart tissue'
digitalis
1000
'The lowercase "r" in rRNA stands for this adjective'
ribosomal
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