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What an Artist Dies in Me
400

Kate Mara kissed Sebastian Stan on his spacesuit helmet as he prepped to rescue Matt Damon in this film

What is The Martian?

400

Bill Golden, the creator of this TV network's logo, was inspired by hex signs on shaker barns that looked to him like eyes

What is CBS?

400

Alexander Alekhine was said to have resigned a game not by tipping this piece over but by hurling it across the room

What is the king?

400

In 1988 Bobby McFerrin gave us this optimistic tune

What is "Don't Worry, Be Happy"? 

400

This one-named Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist also has dozens of acting credits including "Queen & Slim" & "Toy Story 4"

Who is Flea?
400

After making his mother immortal (metaphorically, as the woman died in 1881), this American painter passed on July 17, 1903

Who is James McNeill Whistler?

800

On this spinoff of "Grey's Anatomy" Kate Walsh got some kissy face from fellow doc Taye Diggs

What is Private Practice?

800

The logo for this video game company that ruled the '80s is a stylized "A"; it is also based on the Pong screen

What is Atari?

800

Alexandru Crisan was stripped of the coveted title international this after allegations he'd attained it by fixing games

What is a grandmaster?

800

This actor in 1987 was doing a little moonlighting with "Respect Yourself"

Who is Bruce Willis?

800

The opening night audience booed but this opera about Cio-Cio-San has become one of the most often performed

What is Madame Butterfly?

800

Cousin to a noted gunmaker, this sculptor of "The Rattlesnake" died at 48 from complications after an appendectomy

Who is Frederic Remington?

1200

Spoiler alert: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" ends with Matthew McConaughey kissing this actress

Who is Kate Hudson?

1200

The blue & white striped logo for this tech company hasn't changed since Paul Rand designed it in 1972

What is IBM?

1200

In 2008 Ukrainian star Vassily Ivanchuk stormed out of a Chess Olympiad rather than submit to one of these tests

What is a drug test?

1200

Completes the title of Timbuk 3's hit "The Future's So Bright..."

What is "I Gotta Wear Shades"? 

1200

These title "Prophecies" were the subject of a 2002 Richard Gere film

What are the Mothman Prophecies?

1200

This American expat who drew—OK, painted—"The Child's Bath" would die at 82 near her beloved Paris in 1926

Who was Mary Cassatt?

1600

On this series, Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck canoodled with Zak Adama & his brother Apollo

What is Battlestar Galactica?

1600

The center part of the logo for this designer & creator of Tommy Jeans is the international signal flag for the letter "H"

What is Tommy Hilfiger?

1600

It took a phone call from Henry Kissinger & a doubling of the prize fund to get this tempestuous American to play his Soviet foe in 1972

Who is Bobby Fischer?

1600

Their "I Know What Boys Like" hit in 1982

Who are The Waitresses?

1600

In a Rimsky-Korsakov opera, this piece of music conveys when a prince is transformed into a certain insect (by a magical swan!)

What is "Flight of the Bumblebee"?

1600

If this Northern Renaissance painter of wild imagery was alive, he'd ask, "A TV cop has my name? & What's TV?"

Who is Hieronymus Bosch?

2000

Kate Winslet kissed Jim Carrey in this film, but then she faded away

What is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

2000

The logo for the national tourism office of this country was designed by Joan Miro

What is Spain?

2000

His name signifies "newcomer", & this relative newcomer sparked accusations of cheating after a 2022 upset of champ Magnus Carlsen

Who is Hans Niemann?

2000

1983's "Too Shy" was the peak for this group with baby talk in its name

What is Kajagoogoo?

2000

Even then! This play by Aristophanes is a satire on the judicial system of his day & the litigiousness of the Athenian people

What is The Wasps?

2000

In 1614 in Toledo it was time for the burial of this "Burial of the Count of Orgaz" painter

Who is El Greco?

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