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   Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 2 - Arts - Artistic Movements   
      
   > 1. Characterised by fragmented and geometric forms that sought   
   > to depict multiple perspectives and dimensions simultaneously.   
   > Artists: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand L?ger.   
      
   cubism   
      
   > 2. "To resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream   
   > and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality." Artists:   
   > Salvador Dal?, Max Ernst, Ren? Magritte.   
      
   surrealism   
      
   > 3. A reaction to academic art with an emphasis on ordinary subject   
   > matter and accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities.   
   > Artists: Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mary Cassatt.   
      
   impressionism   
      
   > 4. From the French for "wild beasts", this group of early 20th   
   > century artists' works emphasized painterly qualities and strong   
   > color rather than the realistic values retained by .   
   > Artists: Henri Matisse, Andr? Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck.   
      
   fauvists   
      
   > 5. A term coined in 1964 to mean a form of abstract art that   
   > uses optical illusions. Artists: Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley,   
   > Richard Anuszkiewicz.   
      
   op art   
      
   > 6. A post-World War II artistic movement characterized by   
   > spontaneous, non-representational compositions that emphasize   
   > the artist's emotions and gestures. Artists: Jackson Pollock,   
   > Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning.   
      
   post-modernism   
      
   > 10. An international style of art, architecture, and decorative   
   > arts popular between 1890 and 1910, often inspired by natural   
   > forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and flowers. Artists:   
   > Alfons Mucha, Louis Tiffany, Hector Guimard.   
      
   Art Nouveau   
      
   > * Game 7, Round 3 - History - Year in the Life   
      
   > We name a famous person; you give any year in which they were alive.   
      
   > 1. Genghis Khan.   
      
   1210   
      
   > 2. Attila the Hun.   
      
   530   
      
   > 3. Jacques Cartier.   
      
   1650   
      
   > 4. James Cook.   
      
   1750   
      
   > 5. Charlemagne.   
      
   840   
      
   > 6. Muhammad (peace be upon him).   
      
   600   
      
   > 7. Alexander the Great.   
      
   335 BCE   
      
   > 8. Julius Caesar.   
      
   50 BCE   
      
   > 9. William the Conqueror.   
      
   1066   
      
   > 10. Marco Polo.   
      
   1240   
      
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