Show:
THE VICTORIANS
MOVIE BIO DOUBLE
THE BOOK OF JOHN
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
BIBLICAL BOTANY
200
'The plight of the poor was shown in works like "Horrible" this city & "The Bitter Cry of Outcast" this city'
London
200
'Willem Dafoe in 1988,
Jim Caviezel in 2004'
Jesus
200
'This "Pilgrim's Progress" author wrote his autobiography, "Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners", while in prison'
John Bunyan
200
'Types of this shape include right, oblique & isosceles'
a triangle
200
'The first Temple of Solomon was built from this wood of Lebanon'
cedar
400
'Prominent feature of women in pre-Raphaelite paintings; model Lizzie Siddal's was said to have filled her coffin'
long hair
400
'Cate Blanchett in 1998,
Judi Dench in 1998'
Queen Elizabeth I
400
'He departed from legal thrillers with "Bleachers", about the impending death of a high school football coach'
John Grisham
400
'A honeycomb is an example of a tessellation; these shapes fit together perfectly to cover a frame in the beehive'
a hexagon
400
'Socrates could warn you about turning "the fruit of righteousness" into this poisonous herb'
hemlock
600
'The Broadwood co. led the world in making these instruments & no, they didn't prudishly cover the legs'
pianos
600
'Henry Fonda in 1939,
Raymond Massey in 1940'
Abraham Lincoln
600
'In 2008 he tinkered & tailored with "A Most Wanted Man", his latest thriller'
John le Carré
600
'Each side of this Virginia structure is 921 feet long; it's almost a mile in circumference'
the Pentagon
600
'Jacob took idols & hid them under this mighty tree where, we assume, little idols don't grow'
an oak
800
'The year Her Majesty came to the throne, Birmingham & Manchester were first linked by this'
the railway
800
'Robert Downey Jr. in 1992,
Eddie Izzard in 2001'
(Charlie) Chaplin
800
'His "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" says, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"'
John Donne
800
'Start counting sides: it's the shape seen here'
a nonagon
800
'In Exodus, the Lord told Moses, not the 3 kings, to bring this gum resin that was used in embalming'
frankincense
1000
'"The Great White Hand or the Tiger of Cawnpore" was one of many novels written about this 1857-58 uprising'
the Indian Mutiny
1000
'Philip Seymour Hoffman in 2005, Toby Jones in 2006'
Truman Capote
1000
'He followed up "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" with "Children Are from Heaven"'
John Gray
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows an animation of conic sections on the monitor.) A cut parallel to the base of a cone gives us a circle; an angular cut above the base creates an ellipse; & an angular cut through the base makes this shape'
a parabola
1000
'Absinthe lovers are forewarned in Amos about "Ye who turn judgment to" this bitter, aromatic plant'
wormwood