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20th CENTURY ARTISTS

200

'George Braque said that he & this cubist were like climbers roped together, each pulling the other up'

Picasso

400

'In 1963 he began a series inspired by girls' romance comics that included the painting seen here'

Lichtenstein

600

'He conveyed the loneliness of life in the big city in paintings like "Chop Suey" & "Nighthawks"'

(Edward) Hopper

800

'Born in the Jewish village of Vitebsk in 1887, this painter lived till the ripe old age of 97'

Chagall

1000

'Jackson Pollock & this Rotterdam-born artist created American abstract expressionism'

de Kooning

"MAN"LY MOVIES

200

'1995:
Starring Sean Penn'

Dead Man Walking

400

'1949:
With Orson Welles'

The Third Man

600

'1962:
With Jimmy Stewart'

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

800

'1983:
Starring Steve Martin'

The Man with Two Brains

1000

'1941:
Featuring Lon Chaney Jr.'

The Wolf Man

PORT-POURRI

200

'A 1944 explosion killed 320 at the Port Chicago Ammo Depot on the Sacramento River in this state'

California

400

'In the 19th century Japan's only port for westerners was this second A-bomb site'

Nagasaki

600

'Port Adelaide was established in 1837 to serve ships coming from England to this vast land'

Australia

800

'Le Havre, or "the haven", is a port in Normandy, on this historic body of water'

the English Channel

1000

'In 1641 the Dutch chased the Portuguese out of this Malaysian port that gave its name to a cane'

Malacca

BRITISH SPEECHES

200

'Winston Churchill's first House of Commons speech was about this continent in the aftermath of the Boer War'

Africa

400

'In 1601 she said, "The glory of my crown (is) that I have reigned with your loves"'

Elizabeth I

600

'In 1975 she told her party, "We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal"'

(Margaret) Thatcher

800

'In 1984 this royal called a proposed Trafalgar Square structure "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a... friend"'

Prince Charles

1000

'Assuming command of Britain's Eighth Army, he said "We are going to finish with this chap Rommel once and for all"'

Montgomery

TALK LIKE SHAKESPEARE

200

'Of pestilent, perspicuous or periapt, the one that means "obvious" or "clear"'

perspicuous

400

'Mentioned in "Henry VIII", "to congee" is to do this; as in "They first congee unto her, then dance"'

bow or curtsy

600

'In this play Shakespeare makes an easy pun on "cates", a word for delicacies or sweetmeats'

Taming of the Shrew

800

'This word Shakespeare coined for "encumbering paraphernalia" is now something carried on trips'

luggage

1000

'(Pun!) A quartet of old Roman predictors of the future, or several actors in a Shakespearean play'

four soothsayers ("Forsooth" sayers)