Poets & Poetry
A Dangerous Category
A Close Look at Art
"Ump" It Up
College Courses
200
This poem by Matthew Arnold mentions the French coast & the cliffs of England
Dover Beach
200
Due to storms, the southernmost cape of South America is one of the world's most dangerous places
Cape Horn
200
W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of" this mythical flier
Icarus
200
Term for Republicans who abandoned their own party in 1884 to support Grover Cleveland
The Mugwumps
200
Biology majors at Humboldt might take mammalogy, herpetology or this, the study of fish
ichthyology
400
2005 marks 150 years since this poet first mowed his "Leaves of Grass"
Walt Whitman
400
Riding these, Cody Hancock's specialty, is considered by many to be the most dangerous rodeo event
a bull
400
"The clash of colors, like the different greens, express the terrible passions of humanity", wrote this artist
Van Gogh
400
A bean, jack or mouse
jumping
400
At Texas A&M civil engineering majors can take a course called advanced design in this "reinforced" paving material
concrete
600
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" asks, "Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat" this fruit
a peach
600
More shark attacks occur in the waters off this country than any other
The US
600
In his "Night Watch", hierarchy is shown by the shadow of the militia captain's hand on an underling's coat
Rembrandt
600
A dark rye bread that originated in Germany
pumpernickel
600
This University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author
Chaucer
800
In a Keats ode, these 5 words immediately precede "that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know"
beauty is truth; truth beauty
800
In the first Time magazine in 1923, these below-ground workers protested dangerous work conditions
coal miners
800
The message of healing in Friedrich's "Winter Landscape" includes a discarded pair of these supports
crutches
800
Asian national capital city with a 2-word name
Kuala Lumpur
800
Here at N.C. State you can find a course on "The Life and Letters of" this apostle from Tarsus
Paul
1000
In 1993 she became the second poet to recite an original work at a presidential inauguration
Maya Angelou
1000
According to Homer, these deadly mythological singers enticed many a sailor to his doom
the sirens
1000
As painters often do, Pontormo inserted one of these into his work called "Deposition"
a self-portrait
1000
A single amount of money that serves as a complete payment
a lump (sum)
1000
At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism & postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program
Women's studies