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400

..some parts of this country, & you'll be in Canada

The United States

400

The 1953 awards were the first to feature Best Situation Comedy; the Academy really liked this show that year

I Love Lucy

400

Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, posited that an insect's flapping wings could alter this, far away

Air Currents (or the wind or the weather)

400

Around 841 the Vikings established a settlement at this Irish city on the River Liffey

Dublin

400

The only compass point in a Steinbeck novel title

East

800

...this 16,000-square-mile country & it's hello, Belgium

The Netherlands

800

The 1953 awards were the first to feature Best Situation Comedy; the Academy really liked this show that year

Angela Lansbury

800

n a 1926 letter this physicist wrote that he was convinced God "does not throw dice"

Einstein

800

This English king known as "the Great" succeeded his brother Ethelred in 871 & ruled for 28 years

Alfred

800

This airline's specialty craft include the Shamu, Lone Star One & Arizona One

Southwest

1200

...this country & you may enter Jordan or Iraq

Syria

1200

A toast to Woody Harrelson, who won for Best Supporting Actor in 1989 for his work on this show

Cheers

1200

Researchers at UCLA used chaos theory to help predict one of these that struck Central California in 2003

An earthquake

1200

In 813 this aged Holy Roman Emperor crowned his son Louis the Pious co-emperor

Charlemagne

1200

Hebron is a city in this territory named for its location on the Jordan River

The West Bank

1600

..this country to enter Croatia, Serbia or Romania

Hungary

1600

Hug it out! In 2006 Jeremy Piven won Best Supporting Actor for this HBO comedy

Entourage

1600

What Bush accused Gore of using, it's an actual branch of mathematics that acknowledges imprecision

Fuzzy math

1600

The University of al-Karaouine in this Moroccan city known for its hats was founded in 859 & is the world's oldest

Fez

1600

Henry Hudson died looking for it

The Northwest Passage

2000

..this country & you might find yourself in Paraguay, Argentina or Chile

Bolivia

2000

Bradley Whitford & Stockard Channing won acting Emmys for this drama

The West Wing

2000

Frank Knight introduced the idea of this into economics in 1921; Heisenberg did it in physics a few years later

Uncertainty

2000

Wat a city! In the late 9th century Yasovarman I made this the capital of the Khmer Empire

Angkor

2000

Its nickname is the "Peace Garden State"

North Dakota

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