j-archive-5564-D-2008-11-13

NONFICTION

200

'"She Would Not Be Moved" is the story of this woman & the Montgomery bus boycott of the 1950s'

Rosa Parks

400

'This "Stuart Little" author also co-wrote the handbook "The Elements of Style"'

E.B. White

600

'This book that tackled the topic of football in a Texas town inspired a film & a TV series'

Friday Night Lights

800

'Mitch Albom's weekly visits with a dying teacher spawned this mega-bestseller'

Tuesdays with Morrie

1000

'This 1950 classic by Thor Heyerdahl is subtitled "Across the Pacific by Raft"'

Kon-Tiki

ART

200

'Romantic painters liked nighttime, as in Friedrich's 1822 canvas showing this rising over the sea'

the Moon

400

'The Byzantines kept busy making these, in which small pieces form big pictures on floors, walls & ceilings'

mosaics

600

'This British artist, known for a famous "Boy", gave us the girl seen here'

Gainsborough

800

'A woodcut is this raised type of printing, also a kind of map'

a relief

1000

'Otto Van Veen--here's his "Lamentation"--taught this greatest northern Baroque painter--here's his'

Rubens

ABBREV.

200

'The ASPCA is the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to these'

Animals

400

'In 1999 Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman astronaut, visited this, the ISS'

the International Space Station

600

'nsec stands for this very brief amount of time'

a nanosecond

800

'When used of time, the abbreviation P.M. means this "meridiem"'

post

1000

'To look at soft tissue, you might need an MRI, which stands for magnetic resonance this'

imaging

AN HOUR OF TV

200

'Are you watching this CBS reality show that hit its 10th edition in 2008, or is it watching you?'

Big Brother

400

'This fall '08 Fox show kicked off with a plane landing at Logan Airport with no one on it alive'

Fringe

600

'This '80s teen actress plays a mom on "The Secret Life of the American Teenager"'

Molly Ringwald

800

'Sam & Dean cruise the U.S. in a '67 Impala battling demons (& gas prices?) on this drama'

Supernatural

1000

'Zooey's sister, this actress is the lovely "Bones"'

Emily Deschanel

FLAGS

200

'The flags of Berlin, Germany & this Swiss capital both have bears on them'

Bern

400

'Until 2002 the flag of this African nation had a large "R" on it'

Rwanda

600

'American Samoa's flag includes this American bird grasping symbols of Samoan authority'

the eagle

800

'The stripes on Argentina's flag are in "celeste y blanca", this shade of blue & white'

sky blue

1000

'This North African nation's flag features a green... has a green... well, it's just all green'

Libya