(These answers all relate to nobility or royalty)

1. This American jazz composer was given a noble nickname because of his elegant manners and style.
2. This Kentucky poet laureate based All the King's Men on the life of former Louisiana governor Huey Long.
3. This French king entertained the nobles at court with ballets and performances of Moliere's comedies.
4. A contemporary of Michelangelo and Leonardo, this writer is known for his treatise on power, The Prince.
5. This Russian Count wrote Anna Kerininaand War and Peace but was exiled when a spiritual conversion caused him to reject political and religious institutions.

(these subjects are connected by an interest in light.)

1. This Polish astronomer of the 1500's laid the foundation for modern astronomy. He theorized that the sun was the center of our planetary system.
2. This French clergyman used height and light in his design for the first Gothic cathedral.
3. He was blinded by the light on the road to Damascus, and went on to spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire.
4. This Greek philosopher felt that all human beings were locked in a dark cave, unaware of the light of truth.
5. This Dutch painter's interiors seem to contain their own sources of light. He is known for such works as Young Woman with a Water Jug.

(these authors all wrote about journeys.)

1. This American patriot was inspired by European designs on his travels. His design for Monticello reflected the influence of Palladio.
2. This medieval English author told tales of the pilgrimage to Canterbury.
3. This Florentine author journeyed to hell and back. He was guided home by his love, Beatrice.
4. This storyteller's character Odysseus took the long way home from the Trojan War.
5. This American writer revolutionized the use of everyday speech in his tale about Huck Finn's journey on the Mississippi.

(these answers all relate to the idea of water)

1. This American architect is known for the House of Falling Water .
2. La Mer or The Sea is an impressionistic composition by this 19th Century French musician.
3. This film by Elia Kazan starred Eva Marie Saint and Marlon Brando, who "Coulda been a contenda."
4. This composer of The Messiah is also known for his collection Water Music.
5. This Renaissance painter is known for his painting of Venus arising from the sea.

(these writers or composers can be found at the movies)

1. This nineteenth century German Romantic composer's tempestuous life was depicted in the film, Immortal beloved.
2. This Elizabethan playwright's tragedy about star-crossed lovers became a feature film released in 1997, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
3. Victorian author whose classic novel, Great Expectations has been reset in contemporary Florida in a current release of the same title starring Ethan Hawke and Gweneth Paltrow.
4. This author, whose novel The Color Purple was made into a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg, has also published several volumes of poetry.
5. Austrian child prodigy and composer whose last years were dramatized in the Broadway play and feature film, Amadeus.

(These answers all end in the suffix 'ism' and relate to styles in the arts and literature.)

1. This style stresses emotion and intuition over logic and reason. (Examples: Wordsworth and Constable)
2. This style emphasizes truth and attention to photographic detail. (Examples: Steinbeck and Lange)
3. This style stresses logic, reason, harmony, balance, and simplicity, and originated in 5th century Greece.
4. This style seeks to portray the truth as glimpsed in an instant. Artists who worked in this style are Monet and Renoir.
5. This style seeks to portray inner truths, and often takes the form of abstraction. Examples are: Van Gogh, Munch, and later Pollock and Kline.

(these answers all relate to Italy)

1. This theatrical form used improvisation, stock characters, mime, and pantomime, and employed actors who played the same parts a number of times.
2. Perspective was supposedly invented by this Italian, who designed the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
3. Literally meaning "up in smoke" this technique (used in the background of the Mona Lisa) is another way of showing depth.
4. This Italian "Don Juan" is the womanizing hero of one of Mozart's most famous operas.
5. This Italian sculptor is known for his baroque creations, such as the canopy at St. Peters, The David, and The Ecstasy of St. Theresa.