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100
Elizabeth Holmes is known for creating a machine which supposedly could analyze drops of this substance.
What is blood?
100
This is the city where the Count of Monte Cristo settles to spend his millions & exact his final revenge.
What is Paris?
100
The book "Shrines of Gaiety" by Kate Atkinson was set in this fabulous decade.
What was the 1920s?
100
We read the entire dreadful series about "A Wrinkle in [this element]".
What is Time?
100
"The Casual Vacancy" is by this now-controversial writer.
Who is JK Rowling?
200
"Team of Rivals" is about the cabinet of this president.
Who is Lincoln?
200
In the book by Michelle Zauner, this is what someone is doing in the H Mart.
What is Crying?
200
"Fingersmith" takes place in this English time period.
What is the Victorian Period?
200
Robert Kaplan's "The Revenge of [this element]" deals with how it has shaped human history.
What is Geography?
200
This person wrote "Brideshead Revisited".
Who is Evelyn Waugh?
300
Carmen Maria Machado's "The Resident" deals with a woman's perceptions of reality & loss of reason at this sort of event.
What is an artistic (or literary or writers') retreat?
300
This is the "secret city" in the book "Secret City" by James Kirchik.
What is Washington, District of Columbia?
300
"The Secret History of [this superhero]" deals with the suffrage and women's rights movements.
Who is Wonder Woman?
300
The Decameron Project assembled short stories from this fabled newspaper.
What is the New York Times?
300
"American Gods" is by this guy.
Who is Neil Gaiman?
400
Elizabeth Strout writes about the adventures of this persnickety woman from Maine.
Who is Olive Kitteridge?
400
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is the generational saga of people combining the cultures of the United States and this continent.
What is Africa?
400
"War & Peace" is set during these wars.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
400
This book about a stolen painting deals with themes of loss, loneliness, and coming of age.
What is "The Goldfinch"?
400
This man wrote "The People's History of the United States".
Who is Howard Zinn?
500
"House of Names" revolves around Agamemnon murdering his daughter and then being murdered in turn by this wife.
Who is Clytemnestra?
500
Shuggie Bain grows up in the slums of this city.
What is Glasgow?
500
This Neil Gaiman book recounts a pending battle of angels & demons that could spark Armageddon.
What is "Good Omens"?
500
This term for a character who is too-too perfect applies to Yi Jin from "The Court Dancer".
What is a Mary Sue?
500
This person wrote "In the Dream House".
Who is Carmen Maria Machado?