GREEK GODDESSES
Art Appreciation
DIFFER BY A LETTER (two word response)
If You Lived Here
ALLITERATIVE AUTHORS (first and last name)
400
She's Zeus' sister-wife
Hera
400
In 1877 2 Rembrandts were part of a 1 mil.-franc buy; in 2015 the Rijksmuseum & this French museum bought them for 160 million euros
the Louvre
400
A dominant male & an island hello/goodbye
alpha & aloha
400
If you lived in the main city of upper Silesia in 1820, you lived in Prussia; in 1920, in Germany; today, in this country to the east
Poland
400
Not about zombies, the short story "The Dead" is found in this Irish author's collection "Dubliners"
James Joyce
800
The handsome youth Adonis was a favorite of this love goddess
Aphrodite
800
In 1958 "Salvator Mundi" sold at Sotheby's for 45 pounds; in 2017 it fetched $450 mil. after attribution to this Italian
Leonardo
800
Menudo ingredient & dull or unoriginal
tripe & trite
800
If you once lived in the wealthy community of Kolmanskop, Namibia, you left with everyone else when these gems ran out
diamonds
800
One of his most famous characters, Harry Haller, has the same initials as the author
Hermann Hesse
1200
This goddess of victory is the daughter of the Titan Pallas & the River Styx
Nike
1200
A New York couple paid $212,500 for 15 paintings by this Spaniard in 1956; in 2015 a single one of them sold for $179 million
Picasso
1200
A mechanical device & a labor pain
contraption & contraction
1200
If you lived in L.A. 150 years ago, you'd be this, just like today, but you'd spell the word with a tilde over the second N
Angeleño
1200
In Sept. 2018 this Singapore-born man had 3 books in the top 5 on the New York Times fiction bestseller list
Kevin Kwan
1600
This goddess of fruit, crops & vegetation has a name that might mean "earth mother"
Demeter
1600
A collector inherited this artist's Tahiti-set painting "When Will You Marry"; in 2015 he sold it for $300 million
Gauguin
1600
A place to throw back some drinks & a large natural underground chamber
cafe & cave (tavern & cavern)
1600
Around 1900, if you were living on this island 10 miles off French Guiana, better hope you were a guard & not a prisoner
Devil's Island
1600
He's taken us on "A Walk in the Woods" & given us "A Short History of Nearly Everything"
Bill Bryson
2000
Give a whistle for her, the muse of epic poetry
Calliope
2000
In 2014 a dealer paid $80 million for an abstract painting by this Russian American, then sold it for $189 million
Mark Rothko
2000
1/8 of a fluid ounce & "beat the skins"
dram & drum
2000
If you lived here from 1808 to 1814, you were this romantic poet; think the one who grew up rich
Lord Byron
2000
This "verdant" author's "The Heart of the Matter" was set in Sierra Leone, where he was once stationed in World War II
Graham Greene