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Missionary Saint Francis Xavier landed at Kagoshima in this country in 1549 |
Japan
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Antonio Canova carved a monument to Pope Clement XIII for this basilica |
St. Peter's
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Though he was in Spain at the time of Columbus' 1st & 2nd voyages, America was named for him anyway |
Vespucci
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Most Muslims who visit Mecca also go to Medina, where this prophet's tomb is located |
Mohammad
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Kate Nickleby works for a dressmaker named Madame Mantalini in this Dickens novel |
Nicholas Nickleby
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This producer discovered Sophia Loren in a beauty contest when she was about 14 & later married her |
(Jim: Who was Rossellini?)
Carlo Ponti
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This port, China's most populous city, lies on the Huangpu River |
Shanghai
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Some of his water lily paintings hang in the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris |
Monet
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Elizabeth I signed this queen's death warrant February 1, 1587 |
Mary, Queen of Scots
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Like the Bible, this holy book of Islam forbids lying, stealing & murder |
the Koran
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In "Doctor Zhivago" Larisa Feodorovna Guishar is better known by this nickname |
Lara
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This romantic leading man earned his 1st Oscar nomination in 1962 for "Divorce - Italian Style" |
Marcello Mastroianni
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Surabaya is this country's second-largest city & capital of its East Java province |
Indonesia
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This substance is melted & used as a binder for encaustic painting, which was popular in ancient Greece |
wax
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Much of what we know about this king comes from a 9th c. biography, the "Vita Karoli Magni" |
Charlemagne
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The 2 major branches of Islam are Sunni & this |
Shiite
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This Tolstoy heroine has a daughter named Anny & a maid named Annushka |
Anna Karenina
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Ingrid Bergman's relationship with this "Stromboli" director erupted into romance & they were married in 1950 |
(Alex: Now's the time for that man.)
Rossellini
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Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital of this oil-rich sultanate on Borneo |
Brunei
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Jan Van Eyck's great 12-panel Ghent Altarpiece is in a church in this country |
Belgium
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During the 1500s he visited Catherine de Medici's court & cast horoscopes of her children |
Nostradamus
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Individuals who cannot fast during this holy month may feed 30 poor people a day instead |
Ramadan
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Emma covers one of her affairs by pretending to take music lessons in this Flaubert novel |
Madame Bovary
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The 1976 film "Seven Beauties" is considered this female director's masterpiece |
Lina Wertmuller
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Dhaka was a mogul capital long before it became capital of this country |
Bangladesh
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Reviving an ancient custom, John Gibson tinted some parts of his 1847 statue of this queen |
Queen Victoria
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Ulrich Zwingli, a priest from this country, led the Protestant Reformation there |
Switzerland
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Muslims pray toward Mecca & toward this shrine which houses the black stone |
the Kaaba
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In "Little Women" this shy, timid sister is nicknamed "Little Tranquillity" |
(Charli: Who is Amy?)
Beth
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The first Shakespearean film this Italian directed was "The Taming of the Shrew" with Burton & Taylor |
(Jim: Who is Fellini?)
Franco Zeffirelli
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