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Ancient Mesopotamia
100
This artist's Sky Above Clouds painting now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
100
This is the name of the ancient Egyptian hippo sculpture that serves as the Metropolitan Museum of Art's unofficial mascot.
What is William?
100
This composer wrote the original score for the Nutcracker ballet.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
100
These cookies consist of a shortbread base with chocolate and colored marshmallows.
What are Church Windows?
100
This script, written by impressing a stylus into clay, is known as the world's first form of writing.
What is cuneiform?
200
This technique involves applying paint directly onto wet plaster.
What is fresco?
200
This is the literal meaning of "hippopotamus" in Greek.
What is "river horse"?
200
The Celesta is famously used in this dance of the Nutcracker.
What is the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy?
200
These classic French confections are made from almond flour and egg whites and sandwiched with flavored fillings.
What are Macarons?
200
The law code of this Old Babylonian ruler is now housed in the Louvre.
Who is Hammurabi?
300
This is the largest art museum in the world (in terms of exhibit space).
What is the Louvre?
300
This is the name of the celebrity baby hippo at the Cincinnati zoo.
What is Fiona?
300
This is Clara/Marie's last name.
What is Stahlbaum (or Silberhaus)?
300
These molded cookies are popular in Holland, especially around Sinterklaas Day.
What are Speculaas?
300
Mesopotamia is the land between these two rivers.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
400
Only thirty-four paintings are attributed with certainty to this Delft artist.
Who is Johannes Vermeer?
400
This is the correct term for a group of hippos.
What is pod, dale, or bloat?
400
This is the author of the original Nutcracker novella.
Who is E. T. A. Hoffmann?
400
These cookies are baked twice, before and after they are cut, making them crispy and dunkable.
What are biscotti?
400
This empire, perhaps the first in world history, was founded by Sargon the Great.
What is the Akkadian empire?
500
This Italian word describes a painting style with pronounced contrasts of dark and light.
What is Chiaroscuro?
500
These are the names of the hippo protagonists in a series of picture books by James Marshall.
What are George and Martha?
500
This choreographer inserted a piece from Tchaikovsky's score for "Sleeping Beauty" into his version of the Nutcracker.
Who is George Balanchine?
500
This type of cookie, first made in Gouda, has a thin layer of caramel-like syrup.
What is Stroopwafel?
500
Hittite emperor Shuppiluliuma I attempted to marry his son to the widow of this Egyptian pharaoh.
Who is Tutankhamun?