j-archive-2581-J-1995-11-20

ART & ARTISTS

200

'This pop artist & filmmaker appeared on the television program "The Love Boat"'

Andy Warhol

400

'In the late '30s this Spaniard began painting in a more academic style & was expelled by the Surrealists'

Salvador Dalí

600

'"Inside the Bar, Tynemouth" shows this Maine-based artist's mastery of the watercolor medium'

Winslow Homer

800

'After assaulting a fellow knight, Caravaggio fled this island'

Malta

1000

'Wassily Kandinsky joined Gropius at this design school in 1922 & remained there until 1933'

Bauhaus

QUOTATIONS

200

'This Russian empress wrote to Voltaire, "Your wit makes others witty"'

Catherine the Great

400

'In "Walden", he wrote, "We need the tonic of wildness"'

Henry David Thoreau

600

'Edison defined this as "one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"'

genius

800

'In "Waiting for Godot", he wrote, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful"'

Samuel Beckett

1000

'In 1964, he told the Republican Convention, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice"'

Barry Goldwater

MOUNTAINS

200

'The region around Mount Etna is this island's most heavily populated'

Sicily

400

'Mount Apo is an active volcano on this nation's island of Mindanao'

Philippines

600

'Its 1980 eruption was the first in the lower 48 states since 1921'

Mount St. Helens

800

'This 14,494-foot California peak was named for a California state geologist'

Mount Whitney

1000

'This second-tallest African peak is about 70 miles from Nairobi'

Mount Kenya

POP MUSIC

200

'On July 6, 1964 this first Beatles film premiered in London'

A Hard Day\'s Night

400

'In 1989, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend & John Entwistle reunited as this group for an American tour'

The Who

600

'"Killing Me Softly With His Song" was inspired by a concert performance by this "American Pie" singer'

Don McLean

800

'In 1969 Sam Phillips sold this Memphis-based record label to Shelby Singleton of Nashville'

Sun Records

1000

'This performer won a 1981 Grammy for Record of the Year for "Bette Davis Eyes"'

Kim Carnes

THE 1980s

200

'Astronomers were astonished to discover a gigantic arc of hot gases near the center of this galaxy'

Milky Way

400

'This Pakistani leader agreed to an arranged marriage, but kept her maiden name'

Benazir Bhutto

600

'In 1985, 55 years after his death, a memorial to D.H. Lawrence was unveiled in this church's Poet's Corner'

Westminster Abbey

800

'A 41.94-carat diamond that had belonged to this European empress of Mexico was auctioned off for $660,000'

Carlotta

1000

'This Colombian author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez