Flags
Movie Quotes
Sociology
European Paintings
Crossword Clues "A"
400
This term for a tapering or triangular flag is also used to mean a baseball league championship
What is a pennant?
400
2012: "Let's do a head count...the demigod, a super-solider...a man with breathtaking anger management issues..."
What is The Avengers?
400
This 5-letter plural follows "social" to refer to platforms like Twitter that have changed communication
What is media?
400
In 1902 Camille Pissarro painted this art museum "Under Snow"
What is the Louvre?
400
Dry, like the desert
(4)
What is arid?
800
Gilbert Baker designed this flag first seen at 1978 gay pride activities
What is the rainbow flag?
800
1969:
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
What is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
800
First communion can be this type of 3-word ritual representing a change from one role to another
What is the rite of passage?
800
Botticelli's "La Primavera" originally hung in the summerhouse of this family as a companion piece to "Birth of Venus"
What is the Medici?
800
Payment to your ex
(7)
What is alimony?
1200
The part of the flag farthest from the staff is called the fly; the part closest to the staff, used to raise the flag, is called this, also a verb meaning "to raise a flag"
What is the hoist?
1200
2007: "Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig, does whatever a Spider-Pig does, can he swing, from a web, no he can't, he's a pig"
What is The Simpsons?
1200
Trobriand islanders trade these items, important in the plots of "Titanic" & "Anastasia"
What are necklaces?
1200
This artist, who gave us "This is Not a Pipe", combined 2 of his most famous images here
Who is (René) Magritte?
1200
Catching fish using hook, line & sinker
(7)
What is angling?
1600
The flag of the United Nations has a map of the world framed by 2 of these
What are olive branches?
1600
2003:
"Santaaaa! Oh my God! Santa here? I know him! I know him"
What is Elf?
1600
Back in 1868 N.Y.'s gov. made note of homelessness among these men; now there's a whole Cabinet dept. to help them
What are veterans?
1600
This 17th century Spaniard's portraits of Philip IV "On Horseback" & "In Hunting Garb" are in the Prado
Who is Velazquez?
1600
Handy with both hands
(12)
What is ambidextrous?
2000
The blue triangle on the flag of this relatively new nation represents the Nile
What is South Sudan?
2000
1993:
"I didn't kill my wife!";
"I don't care!"
What is The Fugitive?
2000
In 1977 the A.S.A. president defined it as "a set of norms & values ...that sharply contradict the dominant" ones
What is counterculture?
2000
One of the most expensive still lifes ever sold at auction was this Frenchman's "Curtain, Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit"
Who is Cezanne?
2000
Herschel or Sagan
(10)
What is astronomer?