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WORLD CAPITALS

200

'The Sphinx stands less than 10 miles from the center of this capital'

Cairo

400

'This Philippine capital's intramuros, or walled city, was built on the design of a medieval castle'

Manila

600

'This Colombian capital sits over 8,000 feet up in the Andes'

Bogotá

800

'This Scandinavian capital founded around 1050 lies at the head of a fjord'

Oslo

1000

'This Alpine city is the capital of a canton as well as the capital of a country, Switzerland'

Bern

VILLAINS SPEAK

200

'After I eat Little Red Riding Hood & her grandmother too, I will lead a new canine order & become master of the universe'

the (big bad) wolf

400

'Peter Pan, I do not need 2 hands of flesh to destroy you, soon you & Tinker Bell too will feel my wrath'

Captain Hook

600

'Spare me your pleas--it amuses me to step on children, & I do not choose to become Dr. Jekyll'

Mr. Hyde

800

'Robin Hood, now that my brother king Richard is away, you & your merry men will see sadder days under my rule'

King John

1000

'All I want is to be a mentor to Lyra Belacqua--one of the Gobblers? Me? Don't be silly'

Mrs. Coulter

ALL ABOUT ART

200

'The name of this item seen here can also refer to the entire range of colors used by an artist'

a palette

400

'In Michelangelo's marble sculpture of him, this biblical hero holds a slingshot'

David

600

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a color wheel diagram on the monitor.) On the color wheel, complementary colors are opposite each other: red & green, yellow & purple, blue & this missing color'

orange

800

'This artist had a blue period (1901-1904) & a rose period (1905-1906)'

Picasso

1000

'In 1889, Van Gogh painted these title flowers'

irises

10-12 YEARS

200

'Rat & monkey are just 2 of the animals in this most populous country's 12-year zodiac cycle'

China

400

'The Oracle at Delphi told this Greek hero he had to perform labors for King Eurystheus for 12 years'

Hercules

600

'After Hidalgo's rebellion in 1810, this western hemisphere country fought 11 years for independence'

Mexico

800

'Taking 12 years to build, La Giralda is a minaret in Seville in this country'

Spain

1000

'Noticed by Galileo in 1610, these on the sun wax & wane in 11-year cycles'

sunspots

FRENCH CLASS

200

'Open up a French datebook & you might see janvier & avril, names of these'

months

400

'One of these sensory organs is l'oeil in French; both of them are called les yeux'

eyes

600

'In your house, what the French call la cuisine we call this room'

the kitchen

800

'Even some French think this meal, petit dejeuner, is the most important of the day'

breakfast

1000

'If you approach the signal called feu rouge on a French road, you'd better do this'

stop