Art History
Italian Vincenzo Peruggia is a famous name in the history of art for stealing which iconic painting in 1911? One theory regarding his motivation for stealing the painting was that he wanted to return the painting from France to its country of origin.
What is the Mona Lisa
What is the worlds largest fish?
What is a Whale Shark
This Matthew Arnold poem begins, "The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair"
What is Dover Beach
The work of Laura X (no relation to Malcolm) led to March being designated this every year
What is Women's History Month
Which city is home to Museo Poldi Pezzoli, an art museum housing artworks by Renaissance masters like Michelangelo and Botticelli, and Santa Maria delle Grazie, the church containing Leonardo da Vinci's mural "The Last Supper?
What is Milan
A 'brownie' is what kind of fish?
"Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 19th century lady / Let me count the ways
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Her, in 1869 in a women's suffrage newspaper: "Join the union, girls, and together say equal pay for equal work"
Who is Susan B Anthony
Which character from Hamlet is depicted drowning in an 1852 work by John Everett Millais?
Who is Ophelia
This fish is a small member of the carp family. It includes koi, bubble-eye, and black moor varieties. What commonly named fish is this?
What is Gold
Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his
Who is Lincoln
.. "My Own Words", a bestselling collection of speeches & articles by this late Supreme Court justice
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“Head of a Peasant Woman” is a work by which 19th century artist? In 2022, a self-portrait of this artist was discovered on the back of the work.
This fish can lay up to 70,000 eggs in their life time
Longfellow began a poem about this earlier poet, "Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom"
Who is Dante
In 1878 an amendment for this was introduced in Congress; its adoption didn't occur until 1920
What is Women’s suffrage
In a famous painting by Johannes Vermeer, the subject is a young woman wearing a particular piece of jewelry, after which the painting is named. What specific gemstone features both in the jewelry and the name of the painting?
What is a Pearl
This bizarre-looking fish can be found all up and down the Atlantic seaboard. What is the common name for the Prionotus evolans?
Striped Searobin
Byron: "She walks in ____, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"
What is Beauty
In 1915 this Hull House founder helped establish the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
Who is Jane Addams