Which artist was the first living person to have art displayed in the Louvre?
Georges Braque
Westminster Abbey's Coronation Chair included this 336-pound symbol in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England
the Stone of Scone
In 1934 December was an apt month for the Broadway opening of a play about this Penn. place where George Washington was tested
Valley Forge
Days after crossing the Delaware, Washington won the battle of this place but the painting is in rival Yale's art gallery
Princeton
In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island
Iwo Jima
Name the artist famed for painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
Michelangelo
In 1959 she became president of India's Congress Party & would join Parliament 5 years later
Indira Gandhi
Dame Sybil Thorndike was truly a lady made for burning: she played this saintly G.B. Shaw heroine more than 2,000 times on stage
Joan of Arc
The Goths & Vandals were 2 of these groups, a term for non-Greeks or Romans, presumably with bad table manners
Barbarians
Robert E. Lee & George Meade were the commanding generals at this decisive July 1863 battle
Gettysburg
What's the well known name for a painting on a freshly plastered wall?
Fresco
Before becoming the first American woman in space, she was a star tennis player at Stanford & Billie Jean King told her to go pro
Sally Ride
Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords
Oslo
In April 1830 this country passed a law aiming to curb illegal immigration of Americans over its border
Mexico
In 1936, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie appealed for help against Italian aggression to this organization, which was no help
the League of Nations
What is the meaning of the art term impasto?
Thickly applied paint
In 2010 the remains of this "father of modern astronomy" were reburied in Poland with full Catholic honors
Copernicus
In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk
King John
This people who formed an empire in 19th century southern Africa bears the name of a ruler, the son of Malandela
Zulu
In exile in Mexico, this Soviet bigwig survived a machine gun attack on his home in may 1940 but an axe did the trick a bit later
Trotsky
Which artist founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Pablo Picasso?
Georges Braque
This Frenchman discovered Prince Edward Island in 1534 & gets credit for naming Canada; you can set your fancy watch by that
Cartier
This creator of "The Crown" also depicts Elizabeth II onstage, as when she meets with her prime ministers in "The Audience"
(Peter) Morgan
Around 3000 B.C. the Sumerian settlement of Uruk was the first big city in this historic region, at its southeast end
Mesopotamia
Locally, this early 1900s Chinese secret society was called the Righteous & Harmonious Fists; foreigners gave them this name
Boxers