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| Jasper Johns has been called the father of this type of art whose name also means "father" |
(Sean: Uh...)
(Alex: Hurry!)
pop art
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| This 1865 Lewis Carroll book was inspired by Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Christ Church |
Alice in Wonderland
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| In a William Congreve proverb, this "has charms to soothe a savage breast" |
music
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| This founder of the Order of Preachers was the subject of a No. 1 hit song by the Singing Nun |
St. Dominic
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| The center of Rome since the 8th century B.C., Caesar added the law court to it |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
the Forum
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| His chief Tahitian work was "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We going?" |
(Paul) Gauguin
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| Presidential daughter who said Calvin Coolidge looked "as if he had been weaned on a pickle" |
Alice Roosevelt
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| "One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than 20 pounds of" this |
vinegar
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| In 1866 this saint joined a convent at Nevers & never returned to Lourdes |
(St.) Bernadette
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| Marcel Duchamp caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show in NYC with his "Nude Descending" this |
a Staircase
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| Among the writings of this confidante of Gertrude Stein are a cookbook & an autobiography |
(Alice B.) Toklas
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| It precedes "Weep, and you weep alone" |
Laugh, and the world laughs with you
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| A patron of sailors, his name is given to electrical discharges sometimes seen at ships' mastheads |
(Jan: Who is St. Vitus?)
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(Alex: [*]'s fire.)
St. Elmo
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| In a Roman domus or house, the atrium was the courtyard, the hortus was the garden & the culina, this |
the kitchen
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| His "Allegory of Spring" & "The Birth of Venus" were painted for Lorenzo de Medici's villa |
(Sean: Uh... $3,000.)
(Alex: You can only wager what you have, unless you have less than $1,000.)
(Sean: Uh, let's go with $1,500.)
(Alex: $1,500. All right, that's less than what you have.)
[Laughter]
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(Alex: And frankly, now that you have come up with that correct response, I don't blame you for trying to wager more than you had.)
[Laughter]
Botticelli
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| Her novel "The Color Purple" won both a Pulitzer Prize & an American Book Award in 1983 |
Alice Walker
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| This happens "when poverty comes in at the door" |
love flies out the window
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| The U.S.'s Thule Air Force Base was built on this island with the knowledge it would sink |
Greenland
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| John Baptist de La Salle, founder of the Christian Brothers, is patron of this learned profession |
school teachers
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| In addition to ruling Rome as its first emperor, he ended the reign of the pharaohs |
(Alex: You have the lead at $6,500; you can risk any or all of that, but not more than that.)
[Laughter]
Augustus (Caesar) (Octavius)
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| This "Fog Warning" artist's 1st assignment for "Harper's Weekly" was to sketch Lincoln's inauguration |
Winslow Homer
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| This actress, once a film rival of Betty Grable, has been married to Phil Harris since 1941 |
(Alex: We have a number of senior citizens in our audience and I'm sure each & every one of them know the correct response is [*].)
Alice Faye
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| "It is better to be envied than" this |
(Michael: What is loved?)
(Jan: What is rich?)
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(Alex: Much better to be loved, I would say, though.)
pitied
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| A point, cape & strait are named for this English administrator & geographer |
(Jan: Who is Narrows?)
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[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
John Barrow
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| St. John (Fisher) of Rochester shares his feast with this other English saint also martyred in 1535 |
(St. Thomas) More
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| He was the first emperor to be assassinated |
(Jan: Who is Julius Caesar?)
Caligula
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