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400
This 2007 Super Bowl winner is my favorite NFL team.
The New York Giants.
Bonus question (200 points): who made the pivotal "helmet catch" during the last drive?
400
Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, and Robert Di Niro star in this 1990 Scorsese film about Henry Hill and his life as a member of Paulie Cicero's crime family.
Goodfellas
400
Then billed the "saviors of rock," this New York City-based band released the album "Is This It" in 2001 to widespread acclaim.
The Strokes
400
This representative from Louisiana's 4th Congressional District is the current serving Speaker of the House.
Mike Johnson
400
This plan, named after the German Head of General Staff, had German forces invade France through Belgium and make a beeline for Paris.
The Schlieffen Plan
400
Born on November 10, 1483, this German monk sparked the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 Theses to a church door in 1517.
Martin Luther
800
I have called this 1974 biography of an urban planner and public official in New York City "the most important book since the Bible."
The Power Broker
800
In the opening scene of the Godfather, what family event does Amerigo Bonasera interrupt to ask Don Corleone a favor?
His daughter's wedding
800
In 2003, the band "Death Cab for Cutie" released this album that contemplated loss, isolation, and long-distance relationships. The album's lead single opens with a stanza describing the absurdity of the term "glove compartment."
Transatlanticism
800
In the 2000 election, the Florida recount was marred by controversy about these improperly processed ballots, where the punch-card voting machine did not fully remove the perforated paper from the ballot.
Hanging chads.
800
This Russian revolutionary (incidentally, also November-born) was given passage through Germany back to Russia in April 1917 on the promise of brokering a peace deal if he gained power.
Vladimir Lenin
800
Born on November 7, 1867, this scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences.
Marie Curie.
1200
This "Best Picture" winner, adapted from a Cormac McCarthy novel depicting an extended chase through West Texas, is my favorite movie.
No Country For Old Men.
1200
This future director of "Lost In Translation" and "The Virgin Suicides" was cast as the infant in the baptism scene in "The Godfather" and as Marie Corleone in "The Godfather Part III."
Sofia Coppola
1200
Daily Double!
Which artist made this song?
Bonus (200 pts): What's the name of the song?
1200
This longtime Arizona Senator and Vietnam War veteran joined Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins as one of the three Republican holdouts blocking the repeal of the Affordable Care Act in 2017.
John McCain.
1200
Observed on April 25th each year, ANZAC day in Australia and New Zealand commemorates the soldiers who fought in this World War One campaign against the Ottoman Empire.
The Gallipoli Campaign.
1200
Born on November 14, 1840, this French Impressionist painter was known for works such as "Water Lilies" and "Impression, Sunrise."
Claude Monet
1600
This taqueria next to the Church Street Safeway makes my favorite burrito in San Francisco.
El Castillito
1600
In the 1994 movie "Pulp Fiction," Samuel L. Jackson's character delivers this Bible verse before killing someone.
Ezekiel 25:17
Bonus (100 pts): Is this a real verse?
1600
Green Day, in 2005, released the album "American Idiot," a concept album that detailed the arc of this character.
The Jesus of Suburbia.
1600
This U.S. Senator, elected in 2016, was the first openly gay man elected to a U.S. state governorship when he won the role of governor of Colorado in 2022.
Bonus clue: he is also the only the sitting US governor active on the /r/neoliberal subreddit.
Jared Polis
1600
This British politician, formerly a correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War, served as First Lord of the Admiralty in World War I. He pushed the effort to convert the British navy from coal to oil. He later went on to become Prime Minister in 1940.
Winston Churchill
1600
Born on November 22, 1890, this French leader led the Free French Forces during World War II, became the first president of the French Fifth Republic, and led the French withdrawal from Algeria in 1962.
Charles De Gaulle
2000
Daily Double!
This is my favorite painting.
Name the artist OR the painting's name.
2000
In the movie "The Departed," after Billy Costigan (played by Leonardo Dicaprio) orders this drink at the bar, a character asks him "you on your period?" Costigan proceeds to smash the glass onto the character's head.
Cranberry juice.
2000
This band's album "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," released in 2002, features two Chicago skyscrapers on the cover, which have since become known after the band.
Wilco
2000
This landmark 2010 law, passed in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis, instituted a new set of regulations that, among other things, gave the Federal Reserve the power to regulate non-bank financial institutions deemed "too big to fail."
The Dodd-Frank Act
2000
This battle, fought between the British and German navies off of the coast of Denmark, was the largest naval battle of the war, and the last naval battle fought primarily by battleships.
The Battle Of Jutland
2000
Born on November 13, 354, this Church Father and theologian authored "Confessions" and "The City of God," critically shaping early Nicene Christianity
Augustine of Hippo