LOVABLE QUOTES
IT'S NOT EASY BEING TWEEN
AMPHIBIANS
ART SCHOOL
SINGERS ON SCREEN
200
'Around 1387, this poet wisely noted, "in love, ther is but litel reste"'
Chaucer
200
'Tweens can spend hours on this 140-character max website created by a 10-person startup called Obvious'
Twitter
200
'A South American toad displays its orange feet to predators to let them know it's this'
poisonous
200
'The School of Fontainebleau is named for one of these built by Francis I in the 1530s'
a palace
200
'This pop diva was downright dowdy in her role as a welfare caseworker in "Precious"'
Mariah Carey
400
'"Love is strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave" is from this biblical "song" book'
the Song of Solomon
400
'From the Latin for "adulthood", this process generally starts for girls between 10 & 12 & boys, 12 to 14'
puberty
400
'In salamanders named for a lack of these internal organs, a tiny pulmonary artery runs in the body wall'
lungs
400
'"First Steps" is by Jozef Israels of this country's traditionalist Hague School'
the Netherlands
400
'He was clean-shaven & minus the cowboy hat as Sandra Bullock's husband in "The Blind Side"'
(Tim) McGraw
600
'In "A Woman of No Importance", he wrote, "One should always be in love, that is why one should never marry"'
Oscar Wilde
600
'Tweens watching this young man's video "Baby" on YouTube helped it to a record 260 million views as of summer 2010'
Justin Bieber
600
'A South African frog favors the arum type rather than the water type of this plant'
a lily
600
'The Stroganov School in Russia specialized in these exquisite artworks for private devotions'
icons
600
'As Saraghina in "Nine", this pop star belts out "Be Italian"'
Fergie
800
'A little late, this Shakespearean character describes himself as "one that loved not wisely, but too well"'
Othello
800
'Alliterative 2-word term for the actions of a tween's social group to make him or her conform'
peer pressure
800
'Many caecilians have these in their skin, like snakes, which they resemble, but unlike most other amphibians'
scales
800
'While part of the Avignon School, Simone Martini met this poet & painted a portrait of his beloved Laura'
Petrarch
800
'Check out this singer back in 1985 in his role as Dr. Frankenstein in "The Bride"'
Sting
1000
'Thomas Fuller observed that "love and pride stock" this British mental hospital'
Bedlam (or Bethlehem Royal)
1000
'Hmm, your tween is reading works in this movement, like Camus' "Caligula"? That's both impressive & disturbing'
existentialism
1000
'4-letter word for a salamander that leans toward the land side of amphibianness'
a newt
1000
'The school named for this big city began in the1940s & mutated into abstract expressionism, Pop Art, etc.'
New York City
1000
'As June Boatwright in "The Secret Life of Bees", she didn't play the piano but rather the cello, which she learned for the role'
Alicia Keys
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