EUROPEAN ART
THEY'RE SO ATHLETIC!
FUN WITH OPERA
PHYSICISTS
CITY LITTER
200
'An 1898 exhibit in Amsterdam devoted to this old master has been called the first blockbuster art show'
Rembrandt
200
'In 2007 he entered 16 PGA events & won a mere 7; obviously, his game needs some improvement'
Tiger Woods
200
'Not surprisingly, Merlin & Mordred appear in Chausson's opera about this legendary king'
King Arthur
200
'In the 1920s this American astronomer provided the earliest evidence that the universe was expanding'
(Edwin) Hubble
200
'His 1809 work "A History of New York" relates the Dutch occupation of Manhattan'
Washington Irving
400
'"Dying Centaur" artist Antoine Bourdelle spent years as the chief assistant to this more famous French sculptor'
Rodin
400
'David Tyree's hands were soft as a helmet when he made an amazing catch to help this team win Super Bowl XLII'
the New York Giants
400
'The opera based on this Maurice Sendak book features a wild thing with beard & a wild thing with horns'
Where The Wild Things Are
400
'This Italian-born physicist first split the atom in 1934, although he didn't know it for 4 more years'
Fermi
400
'Inspired by Thomas Malthus' food-supply ideas, his 1859 book was called "the book that shook the world"'
Charles Darwin
600
'Berthe Morisot, the first female impressionist, was the sister-in-law of this "Luncheon on the Grass" painter'
Manet
600
'This pitcher's February 13, 2008 testimony to Congress "rocketed" him into the headlines'
Roger Clemens
600
'In Nicolai's opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor", this fat, funny rogue gets dumped into the river in a laundry basket'
Falstaff
600
'In 2000 a group of physicists finally found evidence of the tau type of this subatomic particle'
a neutrino
600
'After participating in the Alaska gold rush, he returned to San Francisco & wrote "The Son of the Wolf" in 1900'
Jack London
800
'He was in his prime, or should we say his "Primavera", when he painted "Fortitude" in 1470'
Botticelli
800
'We're sure Kobe was thrilled when this 7'1", 325 lb. ex-teammate was traded back to the Western Conf. to the Suns in '08'
Shaquille O\'Neal
800
'Beniamino Gigli was well known for singing the role of this scholar in "Mefistofele"'
Faust
800
'In the 19th century this 3-named British scientist established the kinetic theory of gases--Smart!'
James Clark Maxwell
800
'Surely you know her spooky novel "The Haunting of Hill House" was filmed in 1999 with Liam Neeson'
Shirley Jackson
1000
'This Romanian known for his "Endless Column" also sculpted the scandalous "Princess X"'
Constantin Brancusi
1000
'In 2007 he was a greater Gator, becoming this first player to win the Heisman Trophy as a sophomore'
Tim Tebow
1000
'Egyptologist Auguste Mariette claimed his scenario was the basis for the libretto of this 1871 opera'
Aida
1000
'An equation describing the behavior of particles is named for this physicist, 1887-1961'
Erwin Schrodinger
1000
'He published "The Discovery of Guiana" in 1596, some years after he couldn't recover Roanoke'
(Sir Walter) Raleigh
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