THE TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
THE MAORI

WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
THE REALLY OLD COLLEGE TRY
STUPID PROVERBS
100

The Capricorn Highway lies on the Tropic of Capricorn in the state of Queensland in this country

Australia

100

The language of the Maoris became an official language of this country in 1987

New Zealand

100

Under the Brooklyn Bridge:

This river

The East River

100

In 1638 the first class was in at this university, which consisted of 1 master in a single frame house & a college "yahd"

Harvard

100

"Fight" this "with fire"

fire

200

This South American behemoth is the only country crossed by both the Tropic of Capricorn & the equator

Brazil

200

Called "moko" in Maori, these body adornments signal status & rank

tattoos

200

Beneath the Bay Bridge in Maryland:


This bay

Chesapeake

200

This university was formed around 1209 by people fleeing "town & gown" tensions in Oxford

Cambridge

200

An American proverb says, "Money begets" this

Money

***TRIPLE STUMPER***

300

The largest island through which the Tropic of Capricorn passes is this one off Africa's eastern coast

Madagascar 

300

The 2nd-largest Hawaiian isle shares its name with this Maori hero of myth who slowed down the Sun for humans

Maui

300

Under the Petofi Bridge in Budapest:

This river

the Danube

300

Around 1257 the apparently unbashful theologian Robert de Sorbon founded the Sorbonne at the Univ. of this

Paris

300

You'll find things are in order with "a place for" this "and everything in its place"

everything

400

The Tropic of Capricorn separates two climatic zones--the tropical one & this zone that extends south to the Antarctic Circle

a temperate zone (the southern temperate zone)

***TRIPLE STUMPER***

400

Named for a figure in Maori legend, sacred Mount Ruapehu is one of the world's most active ones of these

volcano

400

Beneath the Rialto Bridge in Venice:


This busy waterway

The Grand Canal

400

Franz Joseph inaugurated the new main building of the university of this capital, the oldest university in the German-speaking world

University of Vienna

400

"Nothing" does this "like success"

succeeds 

***TRIPLE STUMPER***

500

In 2000 a monument marking the Tropic of Capricorn was built in this Chilean desert

Atacama

500

In this 2002 movie starring Keisha Castle-Hughes, a 12-year-old girl wants to be chief of her Maori tribe; granddad says no.

"The ________ Rider"

The Whale Rider

***TRIPLE STUMPER***

500

Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon:


This River

the Tagus

500

I come to wive it wealthily at the university of this, founded in 1222 by ex-University of Bologna students

Padua

***TRIPLE STUMPER***

500

We're due for this proverb:
"Give credit where credit is" this

due