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MUSEUMS
DANIEL BOONE
BIRTH & DEATH
THE ARCTIC OCEAN
CONVERT FROM THE ROMAN NUMERAL
100
The great men of France circa 1780 are immortalized in the “Grands Hommes” gallery of this museum.
What is Louvre
100
“Tick-licker” was Daniel Boone’s nickname for this indispensable possession.
What is a rifle
100
The No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. isn’t cancer but disease of this organ.
What is a heart
100
The shortest way to sail to the Arctic Ocean from Nome, Alaska is to go north through the strait named for him.
Who is Vitus Bering
100
The notation on a letter or e-mail to note other recipients has this numerical equivalent.
What is 200
200
The highlight of Argentina’s National History Museum in this city is Candido Lopez’s historical canvases.
What is Buenos Aires
200
In 1778 Daniel Boone was taken captive & “Adopted” by Chief Blackfish of this Indian tribe.
Who are the Shawnee
200
A cuneiform tablet dating to 2000 B.C. is the first known reference to the type of birth associated with this Roman leader.
Who is Julius Caesar
200
The spiral tusk of this cetacean that inhabits the water of the Arctic Ocean may reach a length of 10 feet.
What is a narwhal
200
The Minnesota Company with brands like Post-it, Scotch & filtrete gets this big value.
What is 3,000
300
New York’s Museum of Modern Art exhibits paintings that feature this technique in which tiny dots of color seem to blend together.
What is a pointillism
300
Clearly under Daniel Boone’s direction in 1775, the Wilderness Road passed through this famous “Gap”.
What is Cumberland Gap
300
The death in “Death in Venice” is from this water-borne disease that has caused several pandemics.
What is a cholera
300
In the early 1770s England’s Samuel Hearne became the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean overland from this bay.
What is Hudson Bay
300
The abbreviation of the state whose capital is Annapolis equals this equantity.
What is 1,500
400
Works by Titian, Raphael & others, sold by the USSR to Andrew Mellon, became the core of this D.C. museum.
What is National Gallery of Art
400
Daily Double: In his poem “Don Juan”, this Englishman wrote 7 stanzas about Daniel Boone & his virile exploits.
Who is Lord Byron
400
Daily Double: Louise Brown, the first baby conceived as the result of in vitro fertilization, was born in this decade.
What is 1970s
400
The Arctic Ocean’s deepest point, about 17,880 feet, lies just north of this country’s Svalbard Islands.
What is Norway
400
The Norwegian angel Ms. Ullmann, numerically.
What is 54
500
The Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. bears the name of this founder, no relation to Longfellow.
Who is Daniel Wadsworth
500
James Fenimore Cooper based this “Last of the Mohicans” character on Daniel Boone.
Who is Natty Bumppo
500
For 2009, 8 of the 10 highest fertility rates were in countries on this continent.
What is Africa
500
On August 3, 1958 this nuclear-powered submarine became the first to cross the North Pole under the ice.
What is nautilus
500
The last name of silent movie Cowboy star Tom has this value.
What is 1009