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EUROPEAN HISTORY

200

'Before taking power, he was editor of the socialist paper "Avanti"'

Benito Mussolini

400

'Of about 200, 700, or 1,200 years, length of time Ireland was ruled by England'

About 700 years

600

'He issued the October Manifesto during the 1905 revolution, but its promises went unfulfilled'

Nicholas II

800

'When England's Queen Anne died, this German became king because he was a great grandson of James I'

George I

1000

'At the height of this war in 1870, some Frenchmen were so hungry they ate animals from the Paris zoo'

Franco-Prussian War

THE THREE R'S

200

'In mathematics they can be classified as real, irrational, or imaginary'

Numbers

400

'It's also been called scrivener's palsy'

Writers\' Cramp

600

'To celebrate its 60th anniversary, this newspaper for schoolkids put out a retrospective book'

"Weekly Reader"

800

'Printing with this style of letters began in Venice about 1500'

Italic

1000

'The subtitle of this 1955 book by Rudolf Flesch is "And What You Can Do About It"'

"Why Johnny Can\'t Read"

ARCHITECTURE

200

'A projecting support, whether or not it's "flying"'

Buttress

400

'In architecture, it can be suspended over a statue; in furniture, it hangs above your bed'

Canopy

600

'Found in classical architecture, a caryatid is a column shaped like this'

Woman

800

'Legend says the architect of this church on Red Square was blinded so he couldn't create another one'

St. Basil\'s

1000

'The oldest of the Greek classical orders, it featured the simplest capitals on the columns'

Doric

DRAMA

200

'His play, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial", was based on his own novel, "The Caine Mutiny"'

Herman Wouk

400

'In 1978 Vincent Price starred in a one-man show as this "Earnest" playwright'

Oscar Wilde

600

'This play about Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury is subtitled "The Honor of God"'

"Becket"

800

'Susan Strasberg played the leading role in the original 1955 production of this play set in Amsterdam'

"The Diary of Anne Frank"

1000

'The title character of this "maternal" Bertolt Brecht drama has a son named Swiss Cheese'

"Mother Courage (and Her Children)"

BOOKS & AUTHORS

200

'In his 80th year, the Paris street where he lived was renamed for this "Hunchback of Notre Dame" author'

Victor Hugo

400

'English tale of Mrs. Wickett and her boarder, an old schoolmaster from Brookfield Boys School'

"Goodbye, Mr. Chips"

600

'Dickens' unfinished last novel, he carried its solution to his grave'

"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"

800

'The military and the clergy are represented by the two colors in the title of this book by Stendhal'

"The Red and the Black"

1000

'At the end of this Steinbeck novel, Danny's friends burn his house as a tribute to him'

"Tortilla Flat"