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WHAT A GODDESS
NBA LOGOS
BRITISH POETS
ISLAMIC CULTURE
200
'To combine, perhaps for movie cowboy Tom'
mix
200
'Associated with Juno, she's Zeus' sister-wife'
Hera
200
'Lucky, who wears a vest, bow tie & bowler hat with shamrocks on them'
the Celtics
200
'In may 2009 Carol Ann Duffy became the first woman in history appointed to this U.K. post'
Poet Laureate
200
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from Jerusalem's Mayer Museum in Israel.) This chess set was made around the year 1000 in this present-day country; their king was called "shah" & the end of the game was "shah mat", our checkmate'
Iran
400
'It can follow "wind" or "pepper"'
mill
400
'Hesiod mentioned the names of these 9 sister goddesses, patrons of particular arts & sciences'
the Muses
400
'A flaming red basketball going through a white hoop'
the (Miami) Heat
400
'In his "Essay on Man", he wrote, "Know then thy self presume not God to scan, the proper study of mankind is man"'
Alexander Pope
400
'The spiritual center of Tunisia is Kairouan, "The City of 50" of these religious buildings'
mosques
600
'To imitate'
mimic
600
'This Greek goddess of war & handicraft changed Arachne into a spider after a weaving contest between them'
Athena
600
'A shield with a horse's head & a single star'
the (Dallas) Mavericks
600
'He wrote a 1671 poet about the biblical Samson, who like him suffered blindess'
John Milton
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Mayer Museum in Israel.) Astronomy was just one area in which the Islamic world made great strides with devices like these navigational instruments with the same root as the word "astronomy"'
the astrolabe
800
'Full of life, or when talking about color, strikingly intense'
vivid
800
'You think your family is unusual? This Greek goddess of victory was the daughter of Pallas (a Titan) & Styx (a river in Hades)'
Nike
800
'A sword goes through the "C" in the team's name'
the (Cleveland) Cavaliers
800
'In early 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a launch party for his literary magazine St. Botolph's Review'
Ted Hughes
800
'Ta'ziyah, Muslim passion plays, tend to show the martyrdom of members of this minority branch of Islam'
Shia
1000
'Furious'
livid
1000
'The name of this Greek goddess means "foam born", which some stories say she was'
Aphrodite
1000
'The letter "W" forms the body of a man in blue wearing a pointy hat'
the (Washington) Wizards
1000
'The famous "Death be not proud" line is from this man's "Holy Sonnets"'
John Donne
1000
'A qibla indicator shows where to face when praying: toward Mecca & specifically, toward this holy structure'
the Kaaba