Just Deserts | Uh-oh! Shakespeare! | Next Line, Please | Famous Paintings | Countries of the World |
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What is Antartica?
This whole continent is considered a polar desert
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Who is Juliet (Capulet)?
Romantic, yes, but Romeo and this young bride are not good role models for kids
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What is "have you any wool"?
Baa, baa, black sheep...
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Who are Adam & Eve?
You can see this biblical couple in Masaccio's "The Expulsion from Paradise"
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What is Australia?
This vast country is about 1,000 miles northwest of New Zealand
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What are (Saguaro) cacti?
These plants found in Tucson, AZ may be 50 feet tall & over 100 years old
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Who is Cleopatra?
In Shakespeare's time, this Queen of Egypt like other female roles, was played by a boy
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What is "When the wind blows, the cradle will rock"?
Rock-a-bye baby, in the tree top...
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What is a church?
Cathedral of St. Bavon
The "Ghent Altarpiece" was painted for the inside of one of these buildings
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What is South Africa?
This country ended its apartheid policy in the 1990s
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What is the Sahara?
About 3,000 miles wide, its name is form the Arabic for "desert"
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What is "A Midsummer's Night's Dream"?
Fairies & kings, donkeys & talking walls fill this warm weather comedy
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What is "to fetch a pail of water"?
Jack and Jill went up the hill
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What is a landscape?
Turner's "The Shipwreck" is a seascape; Ruisdael's "Wheatfields" is an earthly equivalent
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What are Gauchos?
In the 1800s, Argentinean cowboys called this inspired many writers
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What are sweat glands?
The desert's kangaroo rat lack these glands in order to better retain water
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What is "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?
Falstaff appears in which this 1602 play
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What is "he played knick0knack on my thumb"?
This old man, he played one...
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What is "Mona Lisa"?
The famous Leonardo Da Vinci work revolutionized portrait painting
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What is Spain?
The kingdom represented on this country's coat of arms included Aragon & Castile
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What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The largest chain of deserts in the N. Hemisphere lines the tropic of this
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What is "Macbeth"?
By the end of this "Scottish play", the title character has been "kilt"
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What is "the mouse ran up the clock"?
Hickory, dickory, dock...
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Who is Picasso?
His mural painting "Guernica" was inspired by the Spanish Civil War
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What is Germany?
Its northernmost mainland point lies at a border with Denmark
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