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FOLK SONGS

200

'Song in which a gal does in a man who "done her wrong"'

"Frankie & Johnny"

400

'The Dust Bowl balladeer who wailed, "You won't find it so hot, if you ain't got the do re mi"'

Woody Guthrie

600

'"Whenever we go out, the people always shout" this long name'

John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt

800

'In 1990 this "Queen of Protest Pop" came to a "Crossroads" with her 2nd album of inner city angst'

Tracy Chapman

1000

'Legend says this song's about a train whose light shining on a prisoner's cell could set him free'

"The Midnight Special"

HOMOPHONES

200

'The lowest part of a column or the lowest singing voice in a vocal composition'

base/bass

400

'A segment of a curve or a chest for 10 Commandments'

arc/ark

600

'Peel the skin of 2 identical pieces of fruit'

pare/pair/pear

800

'To fly high above the clouds or something painful to the touch'

soar/sore

1000

'The vertical part of a doorframe or the current fashion'

stile/style

ART

200

'This gemlike carving material was obtained from walruses as well as elephants'

ivory

400

'This diminutive poster artist broke his legs in childhood falls, inhibiting their growth'

Toulouse-Lautrec

600

'The animal featured both in Rousseau's "The Sleeping Gypsy" & "The Dream"'

a lion

800

'New & unknown in Paris, at 22 he painted "The Old Guitarist" in shades of blue that reflected his mood'

Picasso

1000

'The most famous "Sunday Afternoon" this pointillist painted was on the "Grand Jatte"'

(Georges) Seurat

FRUITS & VEGETABLES

200

'The head varieties of this vegetable are divided into butterhead & crisphead'

lettuce

400

'Santa Claus, casaba & Crenshaw are types of this fruit'

melon

600

'This root vegetable looks like, sounds like & is related to parsley'

parsnip

800

'It's both a type of gourd & a small immature cucumber'

a gherkin

1000

'Ponderosa, Big Boy hybrid & Sunray are popular varieties of this'

tomato

ANIMALS IN LITERATURE

200

'After losing her own baby, Kala the ape adopted & raised this human infant'

Tarzan

400

'This first sister of Peter Rabbit married Benjamin Bunny'

Flopsy

600

'Reynard, the hero of a popular Medieval epic, was this type of animal'

a fox

800

'In Goethe's version of the story, this character first appears to Faust as a dog'

the Devil (Mephistopheles)

1000

'In "Out of Africa", she wrote of raising a gazelle named lulu'

Isak Dinesen