204: Bubblewrap calendar, with one bubble meant to be burst for each day. 205: Historically there is no evidence to prove that the device in the picture and the associated practice were of the source their name implied. Nor were they even made use of by the country in question. Yet the myth began and…
203: Gericault’s “The Raft of the Medusa.” 204: Puchi-Puchi! The most stress relief you can find in a calendar. How so?
202: Chevy Chase took his stage name from a town which was in turn named after a ballad that was written about the battle which happened on Cheviot Hill. 203: What is this New Yorker cover “Post Katrina, Adrift” based on?
201: Chicanery, from the traffic structure called Chicane which is supposedly derived from a Greek root word for pall mall. 202: How is the guy indirectly named after the hill?
200: Carmina Burana, also known as the Burana Codex, found in 1803 in the Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuern. Between 1935 and 1936 German composer Carl Orff set 24 of the poems to new music, also called Carmina Burana. 201: What word for trickery is derived from what you see in the photograph? The root word…
199: E.C. Bentley, wrote the first Clerihew on Humphry Davy. 200: The manuscript containing a number of old poems and songs was discovered in the monastery. The bespectacled man set a few of the songs to music. Identify all.
198: The films of Tarkovsky – Andrei Rublev -the painter, Solaris – written by Stanislaw Lem, Stalker – based on a work by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky and Nostalghia – based on the life of composer Maxim Berezovsky. 199: He created a form of verse and supposedly wrote the first one on the guy in…
197: Isaac Asimov. 198: Connect the painter, the writers and the composer.
196: General Anthony McAuliffe who sent a message to the German just saying “Nuts!” when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge and a campaign by fans of the TV series Jericho who sent in tons of peanuts to CBS executives after the show was cancelled at the end of season one. The…
195: Tom Sharpe who wrote the Porterhouse books satirizing Cambridge life, specifically Peterhouse. 196: Connect the foolhardy attempt to arrive at some closure, to some epic cojones.
