Famous Paintings
Also known as “La Gioconda”, it’s the most valuable painting in the world.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Killer whales are the largest of these.
What are porpoises (dolphins)?
Only major language with no alphabet, it uses 50,000 characters to represent words.
What is Chinese?
Boston’s largest ethnic group.
What are the Irish?
Striking this hard form of quartz with steel produces a spark.
What is flint?
Picasso painted the “3 Musicians” in this real “square” style.
What is Cubism?
Kinds include the dik-dik & the bongo of the Congo.
What are antelopes?
South Africa’s Afrikaans developed from this European language.
What is Dutch?
Both Harvard & M.I.T are in this Boston suburb.
What is Cambridge?
If you journeyed 1800 miles toward the middle of the earth, you’d find this central portion.
What is the core?
“The Abduction of” these women by Roman leader Romulus was the subject of a Poussin painting.
What is the Sabine Women?
The horned toad is really one of these.
What is a lizard?
Related to Finnish and Estonian, this Eastern European language is also called Magyar.
What is Hungarian?
Term for east Indian or Boston elite.
What is the Brahmin?
The largest are called ice sheets, found in Greenland and the Antarctic.
What are glaciers?
French Impressionist who kept his ballerinas on their toes in “The Dancing Class”.
Who is Edgar Degas?
Flamingos diet of brine shrimp and blue green algae is responsible for the turning of pink in their feathers, but they’re actually born this color.
What is grey/white?
Russian is the most widely spoken member of this Indo-European language group.
What is Slavic?
From 1930-1979, he led the Boston Pops.
Who is Arthur Fiedler?
Aluminum silicate, or a 1960’s Leon Uris spy story which became a Hitchcock film.
What is topaz?
His abstract “Nude Descending a Staircase” caused a sensation at the 1913 New York Armory Show.
Who is Marcel Duchamp?
The largest member of the camel family in South America.
What are llamas?
In 1929, this language went from Arabic to Latin script.
What is Turkish?
Occurring after Babe Ruth was traded to the Yankees in 1918, the Boston Red Sox failed to win a World Series for 86 years where it was named this “curse”.
What is the “Curse of the Bambino”?
It’s the submerged land surrounding the continents.
What is the continental shelf?