One astronomical unit is about 93 million miles, the average distance between Earth & this.
What is the sun?
100
1903's "The Old Guitarist" is a classic painting from this Spaniard's "Blue Period".
What is Picasso?
100
E.B. White spun this tale about a spider & a pig.
What is Charlotte's Web?
100
The Shan-Yang one of these waterways was built in China as early as the 300s B.C.
What is a canal?
100
2 for the price of one: caves full of these leathery-winged mammals often contain cockroaches, too.
What is bats?
200
Dixie designates its 7-this cup a "Quick Drink" & its 16-this cup a "Big Thirst".
What is ounce?
200
He began "The Adoration of the Magi" in 1481; the chick with the weird smile came later.
What is Leonardo DaVinci?
200
In this Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title bird's favorite word is "nevermore".
What is the Raven?
200
The Zapotec Empire in what is now this country developed one of the first written texts in Middle America.
What is Mexico?
200
in Hoboken, New Jersey, The Macy's Parade balloons are inflated with a mix of air & this gas; they used to be released after the parade but that was stopped for safety reasons.
What is helium?
300
Number of half-inches in a yard.
What is 72?
300
In 1889, he painted his self-portrait; notice the bandaged ear.
What is Vincent Van Gogh?
300
Dickens divided this book into staves instead of chapters; Stave IV is called "The Last of the Spirits".
What is A Christmas Carol?
300
During this Carthaginian's crossing of the Alps in 218 B.C., he lost at least 10,000 men & most of his elephants.
What is Hannibal?
300
The "coconut" type of this crustacean uses its big pincers to open coconuts, its principal food.
What is crabs?
400
If you're "as thick as a" standard one of these, you could be 3 3/4" in depth, 2 1/4" in height & 8" in length.
What is a brick?
400
This Wyoming-born painter was famed for the radical "drip" technique he used to create his major works.
What is Jackson Pollock?
400
If you're in the "hobbit" of reading his books, try his non-hobbit tale "Farmer Giles Of Ham".
What is Tolkien?
400
In the 700s B.C., the Kingdom of Kush conquered this neighbor to the north, establishing its 25th dynasty.
What is Egypt?
400
From the Greek for "dissection", this science deals with the structure of the human body.
What is anatomy?
500
This unit of length used more in Europe than the U.S. is about 39.37 inches.