The Museums of Europe
Fictional Characters
Vocabulary
Music of the 70s
Nature
100

This museum on the Seine was opened to the public is 1793

What is the Louvre?

100

This teen classic from the 60's features brothers Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy?

What is the Outsiders?

100

Meaning not separable, it is the longest work in the text of the Pledge of Allegiance

What is indivisible?

100

This jazz-rock group gave us the songs "25 or 6 to 4" and "Does anybody really know what time it is??

What is Chicago?

100

In the US, alligators and crocodiles co-exist only at the southern tip of this State

What is Florida?

200

In 1764 Empress Catherine II purchased the first collection for this St. Petersburg museum

What is the Hermitage?

200

On the day of her wedding, she learns that her groom-to-be, Mr. Rochester, already has a wife.

Who is Jane Eyre?

200

Italian for "unknown," it is how a person in disguise might "travel"

What is incognito?

200

In his No. 1 hit "I Wish" he "wished those days could come back once more"

Who is Stevie Wonder?

200

Some members of the genus Aedes of this insect transmit Yellow Fever

What is the mosquito?

300

You can learn about the history of nordic sailing in this Icelandic capital's maritime museum

What is Reykjavik?

300

In "Oliver Twist" Bill Sikes is an accomplice of this gang leader

Who is Fagin?

300

Salvation from sin, or the return of an investor's principal

What is redemption?

300

This cocktail is part of the hook in the Rupert Holmes song "Escape" that topped the charts in 1979

What is Pina Colada?

300

In the Seahorse, this pair of sense organs can move independently of one another

What are the eyes?


400

Exhibits in this composer's Bonn home include his grand piano and variety of ear trumpets

Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?

400

Title nickname of Harry Angstrom, a character in several of John Updike's novels

What is Rabbit?

400

This 14-letter word means to sail or fly around, especially around the earth

What is circumnavigate?

400

In 1978 on "Two Tickets to Paradise" he asked, "Won't you pack your bags, we'll leave tonight"

Who is Eddie Money?

400

Shagreen, the dried skin of this meat eater, was once used as sandpaper?

What is the shark?

500

Its museums include the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art and the Room of the Immaculate Conception

What is the Vatican?

500

In "The Old Man and the Sea" this fisherman had "gone eighty-four days....without taking a fish"

Who is Santiago?

500

It is an 11-letter word for coin collecting

What is numismatics?

500

Shut your mouth!  Isaac Hayes won an Oscar for the theme from this 1971 flick

What is "Shaft"?

500

Black spot is a serious fungal disease that affects these flowers; Rugosas have good tolerance

What are roses?