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100

When N.Y.C. was a Dutch settlement, this street got its name because it was a wide thoroughfare for wagons.

Broadway

100

The word “library” comes from the Latin “liber,” which means this.

Book

100

This common expression of distress comes from an English representation of the French word for “help me.”

Mayday

100

In Mark 1, he says, “There cometh one mightier than I after me.”

John the Baptist

100

Term for what occurs when an older brother fights for the attention given to his little sister.

Sibling rivalry

200

This territory was formally transferred to the U.S. at Castle Hill in Sitka.

Alaska

200

4 Chinese women meet regularly to play Mah-jongg & to talk about life & their children in this 1989 novel.

The Joy Luck Club

200

"Genu" is the Latin word for this part of the body that is easily injured in sports that involve running and jumping.

Knee

200

According to the book of Psalms, these objects “have ears, but they hear not.”

Idols

200

The molecular structure of salt allows it to dissolve in water; pepper however will only disperse, creating this type of mixture.

A suspension

300

Edward Kemeys designed the lions that guard the entrance to the Art Institute of this American city.

Chicago

300

Washington Irving’s tale of this farmer who takes a big snooze was based on a German folktale.

Rip Van Winkle

300

Derived from the Latin for “faith.” I pledge you my everlasting "blank".

Fidelity

300

“A Christian hymn and a Jewish holiday hymn are both titled this, also the name of a 2009 Tony-nominated musical.”

Rock of Ages.

300

Invented in 1929, the government began buying this machine to help prevent any more of a series of Army Air Corps fatalities.

The flight simulator.

400

Some of the finest singing canaries are bred in the Harz Mountains of this country.

Germany

400

In 1937 his sister said he had “hats of every description,” which he would use as a “foundation of his next book.”

Dr. Seuss.

400

Subtract a letter from the name of a keystroke found in computer commands and you get this violent reaction to social change.

Backlash (from “backslash”)

400

This community outside Washington, D.C., is named after a Presbyterian church built there in 1820.

Bethesda, Maryland

400

One of the first recorded autopsies was performed on this man & revealed 23 puncture marks.

Julius Caesar

500

In 1784 she founded the city of Sevastopol in her new domain of the Crimea.

Catherine (Kathryn) the Great

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