Kutty
Klimt
Koffee
Women's Korner
World War II
100
In 1602, this English explorer pushed the Wampanoags aside and renamed their island of Poocuohhunkunnah.
Who is Bartholomew Gosnold?
100
These French words describe the artistic pre-eminence of Klimt's Austro-Hungarian world before WWI.
What is La Belle Epoque?
100
Coffee is the world's second most valuable traded commodity behind only this commodity.
What is petroleum?
100
She served as Assistant Director of Admissions at her alma mater, Yale University.
Who is Claire Richards?
100
At this conference in February, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agreed to seek Germany's unconditional surrender.
What is Yalta?
200
The most valuable English commodity first planted and harvested on Cuttyhunk island.
What is sassafras?
200
Klimt painted "Goldfish" - a naked female mooning the viewer - for this audience.
Who are his critics?
200
This country is the largest producer and exporter of coffee in the world.
What is Brazil?
200
She was born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928, and she wrote famously: "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
This was the name of the United States' atomic weapons development program during the war.
What is The Manhattan Project?
300
The most popular fish that draws fishermen to Cuttyhunk each spring.
What is striped bass?
300
This is the most important artistic theme spanning Klimt's lifetime of work.
What is sexuality or eroticism?
300
This is the single most influential factor in the world coffee prices at any given time.
What is the weather in Brazil?
300
She met her husband Leonard through the Bloomsbury group when she, with them, famously disguised herself as an Ethiopian royal to gain access to the HMS Dreadnought.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
300
In April 1941, the Greek king and government evacuated to this island, which fell to the Germans by June.
What is Crete?
400
Scholars suggest that Cuttyhunk is the setting for this Shakespeare play.
What is "The Tempest"?
400
The culmination and last of Klimt's paintings in his "golden phase."
What is "Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer"
400
These are the two main species of coffee beans in the world.
What are Arabica and Robusta?
400
It's the name given to fierce Irish Grace O'Malley after she became famous for capturing English ships and taking their cargo.
What is The Pirate Queen?
400
This was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account in which they deposited money, gold and jewels taken from European Jews.
What is Max Heiliger?
500
The rocky shores of Cuttyhunk are evidence of this geological origin.
What is glacial?
500
Klimt's architectural work in Vienna became the "creed" of this major 1920's architectural movement.
What is Bauhaus?
500
This is the nickname for the middlemen exporters to whom most farmers sell coffee directly and who pay prices far below market price.
What is coyotes?
500
This South Carolinian woman was an American educator and civil rights leader who served as a national advisor on FDR's Black Cabinet.
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
During WWII, British soldiers got a ration of 3 of these per day; Americans got a ration of 22.
What is sheets of toilet paper?
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