ETUDE, BRUTE
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
THE ART OF THE STEAL
"CHURCH" & "STATE"
HEDGEHOG-PODGE
200
'An etude is a composition that explores a technical musical problem; the name is French for this'
study
200
'It's just a bloody nose! You don't have this hereditary disorder once endemic to European royalty'
hemophilia
200
'Rembrandt's biblical scene "Storm on the Sea of" this was stolen from a Boston museum in 1990'
Galilee
200
'A Dana Carvey character on "Saturday Night Live"; isn't that special...'
The Church Lady
200
'Some hedgehogs enter periods of torpor; the Western European species spends the winter in this dormant condition'
hibernation
400
'Heitor Villa-Lobos dedicated his "12 Etudes" for this instrument to Andres Segovia'
guitar
400
'You just need a nap! You don't have this sleep disorder that can make sufferers nod off while standing up'
narcolepsy
400
'A Goya stolen (but recovered) in 2006 belonged to a museum in this city (Ohio, not Spain)'
Toledo
400
'To bring back someone to his original function or position'
reinstate
400
'There are about 50 species of the hedgehog type of this plant, so named for its spiny fruit'
cactus
600
'Paganini's "24 Capricci" set the standard for etudes for this instrument'
violin
600
'You just need a little more sun! You don't have this hereditary lack of pigment'
albinism
600
'The ancient "Lion of Nimrud" went missing from this city's National Museum in 2003 (along with a lot of other stuff)'
Baghdad
600
'A can opener with a triangular pointed end'
a church key
600
'"The Hedgehog and the Fox" is an essay on this Russian count's view of history'
Leo Tolstoy
800
'Music fans wax rhapsodic about this Hungarian's "Transcendental Etudes"'
Franz Liszt
800
'You're just a little stiff! You don't have this painful mosquito-borne joint illness with a Swahili name'
dengue fever
800
'In May 2010 5 paintings worth $125 million by Braque, Matisse & 3 others left Paris' Museum of this art period'
modern art
800
'It can mean to develop gradually in the mind or to carry during pregnancy'
gestate
800
'Hedgehogs are covered with quills or spines, which are hollow hairs made stiff by this protein'
keratin
1000
'From 1911 to 1917, this romantic Russian composed "Etudes-tableaux for Piano"'
Rachmaninoff
1000
'It's just acne! You don't have this skin infection also known as Hansen's disease'
leprosy
1000
'A Titian portrait of this Spanish king was stolen at gunpoint from an Argentine museum in 1987'
Philip II of Spain
1000
'It's New Zealand's second-largest city'
Christchurch
1000
'A recent bestseller by Muriel Barbery is called this "of the Hedgehog"'
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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