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ITALIAN LITERATURE
YOU'RE EXCOMMUNICATED
WHO KILLED ME?
E BEFORE I
THAT'S LIFE SCIENCE
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'His use of Tuscan dialect in the "Divine Comedy" helped make it the standard form of modern Italian'
Dante
200
'Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's fight to keep the Latin this & other traditions led to his 1988 excommunication'
the mass
200
'Killer of "the radio star" in a Buggles song'
video
200
'Derived from another country'
foreign
200
'Able to "sleep" in dried eggs for years, the ever-popular sea monkeys are actually a brine type of this'
shrimp
400
'Giacomo da Lentini is credited with inventing this poetic form ("Let's see, 12 lines--not enough, 16--too many, hmm")'
the sonnet
400
'In 1656 rabbis in this Dutch city excommunicated the philosopher Spinoza'
Amsterdam
400
'He offed the second Duke of Buckingham in 1483'
Richard III
400
'An imitation that's trying to pass as genuine, as in money'
counterfeit
400
'One of the parasitic types of this one-celled creature is seen here'
an amoeba
600
'While Machiavelli was writing this, he was working on another book on how to preserve republics'
The Prince
600
'He was excommunicated in 1955 for enacting an Argentine divorce law & expelling 2 priests'
(Juan) Perón
600
'He killed Patroclus, Achilles' friend--mistake'
Hector
600
'In old physiology, vessels that convey one of the 4 elemental bodily humors'
veins
600
'A variety of Atlantic sea slug eats algae, retains some of it & can then undergo this plant process'
photosynthesis
800
'Ignazio Silone revised his peasant novel "Pane e Vino" as "Vino e Pane"; either way, the title refers to these 2 things'
bread & wine
800
'She was excommunicated in 1570 & the church sanctioned efforts to dethrone her'
Elizabeth I
800
'She made short work of Jean-Paul Marat'
Charlotte Corday
800
'It's a sultanate on the coast of Borneo, formerly under British protection'
Brunei
800
'Able to reach a length of 6.5", the South American longhorn variety of this insect is one of the world's largest'
a beetle
1000
'Dario Fo's plays include "Accidental Death of" this person of anti-government views'
an Anarchist
1000
'Giving his name to a "razor" in logic, he was an Oxford prof. who stated church beliefs could not be proven logically'
(William of) Ockham
1000
'Laura Palmer in "Twin Peaks"--mystery solved'
Bob
1000
'This word was popularized as an appellation of the witches, or "sisters", in "Macbeth"'
weird
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a bird on the monitor.) A bird's wing is composed of bones similar to our arm; & like us, birds have two bones between their elbow & wrist with these names'
the ulna & the radius