LITERATURE
HOW'S YOUR LATIN?
KINGS
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
CLASSICAL MUSIC
200
'His novel "Sister Carrie" sold fewer than 500 copies in its first edition'
(Theodore) Dreiser
200
'It means "to the point of making one sick"'
ad nauseam
200
'Urging his execution, in 1792 Robespierre said this king "must perish because our country must live!"'
Louis XVI
200
'A Cuban 1-peso note shows Jose Marti on the obverse & this man entering Havana in 1959 on the reverse'
Fidel Castro
200
'Mendelssohn put this Italian word for a brisk tempo on the first movement of his "Italian" symphony'
allegro
400
'This experimental novelist named William published a 1953 account of drug addiction under the name William Lee'
(William) Burroughs
400
'Literally "rare bird", it's used today to describe something very unusual'
rara avis
400
'A busy guy, he was King of Italy (1900 to 1946), Emperor of Ethiopia (1936 to 1941) & King of Albania (1939 to 1943)'
Victor Emmanuel (III)
400
'This country's $50 bill features William Lyon Mackenzie King, its longest-serving prime minister'
Canada
400
'Joseph Rheinberger played this instrument for his parish church at age 7 & wrote 2 notable sonatas for it'
the organ
600
'This novel by Richard Wright tells of Bigger Thomas, the product of a Chicago slum'
Native Son
600
'Be careful at the Roman flea market & remember this, Latin for "buyer beware"'
caveat emptor
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the "magical" Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark.) Denmark's fourth king of this name was a notable builder who contributed to the plans of Rosenborg Castle, constructed in the early 1600s as his summer home'
Christian
600
'Pitcairn Island & the Cook Islands use this country's dollar as their currency'
New Zealand
600
'A 1725 notebook of compositions by this Baroque master bears the name of a wife who bore him 13 children'
Johann Sebastian Bach
800
'This series of tales by Ovid with a plural title begins with the creation of the world'
Metamorphoses
800
'It's the legal phrase meaning "friend of the court"'
amicus curiae
800
'This country's King Bhumbol was born in Cambridge, Mass., where his father was studying at Harvard'
Thailand
800
'This country's 1,000-pound notes feature Hafez al-Assad & scenes depicting its oil industry'
Syria
800
'"Blessed are they that go mourning" is the opening chorus of Brahms' "German" this'
Requiem
1000
'Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece'
Portrait of a Lady
1000
'This phrase means "there's no accounting for taste"'
de gustibus non est disputandum
1000
'Killed in battle in 1031, this king of Norway was made a saint in 1164'
Olaf
1000
'In 1999 Denmark honored this author of "Out of Africa" by featuring her on the 50-kroner bill'
(Isak) Dinesen
1000
'Richard Chamberlain played him in "The Music Lovers", which featured his piano concerto No. 1, heard here'
Tchaikovsky
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