U.S. PRESIDENTS
BIOPICS
BALLET BASICS
STORIED HOTELS
MYTHOLOGY & ART
200
'His presidential library's website credits him with saving 77 lives as a lifeguard in Dixon, Illinois'
Ronald Reagan
200
'In 1938 Gary Cooper discovered spaghetti & gunpowder as this adventurer in the East'
Marco Polo
200
'If the arms are en couronne, they're held in a curve here'
above the head
200
'The demolition of Finbar's Hotel in this capital inspired 7 Irish authors to write a book of tales set in it'
Dublin
200
'The Frick Collection boasts a firedog topped with a sculpture of this greatest Roman god in all his glory'
Jupiter
400
'This inventive president invented a "mouldboard of least resistance" for a plow'
Jefferson
400
'"Alexander" features Christopher Plummer as Aristotle & this actor in the title role'
Colin Farrell
400
'This ordinal ballet position traditionally has both arms extended outward'
2nd position
400
'She often stayed at Brown's Hotel in London, & it's said that it inspired her mystery novel "At Bertram's Hotel"'
Agatha Christie
400
'Gustave Moreau's vaguely erotic painting of Oedipus and this creature poses a riddle of its own'
the Sphinx
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, MI.) One of Ford's biggest foreign crises was the capture of the U.S. ship Mayaguez by this Asian country in 1975'
Cambodia
600
'Marion Cotillard transformed herself into this chanteuse in "La Vie en Rose"'
Edith Piaf
600
'The name of this classic ballet pose is derived from the name of a peninsula'
arabesque
600
'Tragedy strikes a high school student staying at the Waldorf in this Nebraska woman's 1905 story "Paul's Case"'
Willa Cather
600
'Giorgione never finished his painting of this Roman love goddess sleeping, so Titian did it for him'
Venus
800
'JFK played golf with Bing Crosby during his 1961 Easter vacation at the Kennedy family's home in this Florida town'
Palm Beach
800
'2007's "Control" is the story of Ian Curtis, the troubled singer of this U.K. rock band'
Joy Division
800
'The name of this ballet move is from the Old French for "spinning top"'
pirouette
800
'Hemingway wrote "Across the River and into the Trees" while living in this city's Gritti Palace, & part of the book is set there'
Venice
800
'Near nudity, not high heels & swimsuits, is on display in Cranach the Elder's painting of this beauty contest'
The Judgment of Paris
1000
'Warren Harding chose this future president as his Secretary of Commerce'
Hoover
1000
'In a 1970 film, Mick Jagger played this Robin Hood-like Australian outlaw on the big screen'
Ned Kelly
1000
'This ballet move with a 4-letter name is a jump forward, backward or to the side'
jeté
1000
'Daphne du Maurier fans love to stay at this Cornwall "Inn" with a Caribbean name; it inspired one of her novels'
Jamaica Inn
1000
'A marble statue of Dirce being tied to a wild one of these once stood in the Farnese Palace'
a bull
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