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100

This Road is the namesake of a famous Robert Frost Poem

What is The Road Not Taken

100

In this song "they're parkin' their cars and packin' the bars, to?

What is Dancin' the St. John's Waltz?

100

This world famous Center of Learning, where 2 famous Presidents were also an alumni, is a clue within your clue.

What is the Marine Institute?

100

Dubbed "The Great One" at age 10 by a reporter from the London Free Press after he scored 400 goals in a single youth hockey season in Brantford. The nickname was in reference to other famous NHL monikers like "Mr. Hockey" & "The Golden Jet."

Who is Wayne Gretzky? 

100

This is the longest-running soap opera on NBC.

What is Days of Our Lives?

200

The Road To... was a series of comedy films featuring these 2 actors

Either 2 - of Who are Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, or Dorothy Lamour

200

This song is often called the unofficial National anthem of Australia, written by poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson in 1895.

What is Waltzing Matilda

200

This is the name of a professional west coast baseball team.

What is the Seattle Mariners?

200

This common phrase to express shock or astonishment can convey surprise or sudden realization. Most famously used by "Doc" Brown in Back to the Future films, it also could be a description of Sir William Wallace or Robert the Bruce.

What is Great Scott?

200

There have been a total of 250 deaths of named characters, ranging from natural causes to murder, disasters, accidents & suicide on this Soap Opera, A character even famously died in a tram crash.

What is Coronation Street?

300

The lyrics "Stole 5 dollars from the sugar can, grabbed my suitcase & I ran..."

What is Down River Road?

300

The Waltz of Flowers from an 1892 ballet in act II of The Nutcracker, celebrated for its graceful waltz rhythm, was written by this famous Russian composer. 

Who is Tchaikovsky?

300

Samuel Butler, referencing, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem quipped, "it would not have taken so well, if it had been called The Old Sailor."

What is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

300

This early King of Wessex is perhaps better known for his burnt cakes, than for his many military successes, his educational & social reforms, & his role in shaping an early English identity.

Who is King Alfred the Great? (c. 849 – 899)

300

This Soap Opera's wedding scene, with over 30 million viewers, holds the record for the highest rated episode in American daytime television history.

What is General Hospital?

400

This 4000 mile trade route from Asia to Europe contributed to the spread of the Black Death?

What is The Silk Road

400

This "hurtin' song" written on a matchbox cover, originally recorded as a B-side of Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, tells of a lost little darling, a sweetheart who's stolen away.


What is Tennessee Waltz?

400

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remarkable poem about An Old Sailor who kills an albatrosswhat is the famous line about thirst & the sea?

What is "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink?"

400

This jazz age novel, about a mysterious millionaire's love quest was an early commercial failure & sold fewer than 20,000 copies at first print. The author's hopes of a monetary windfall crumbled & he died believing himself to be a failure & his greatest work forgotten.

What is The Great Gatsby?

400

The success story of soap operas, from early radio days through the explosion of daytime television, is very closely associated with this company & its cash cow products.

Who is Procter & Gamble or (Ivory Soap, Tide, Comet)

500

This Road was the title of a gritty Depression-era novel, adapted as a movie & a long running Broadway Play, a blues song, & a popular golf course in North Carolina

What is Tobacco Road?

500

A Gallery of Frost, lilies of snow, a dream of Hungarian lanterns, & a bed where the moon has been sweating are some of the imagery of this Canadian song.  

What is Take this Waltz? (Leonard Cohen)

500

The 19th century American poet, Lucy Larcom, who often used nautical themes to describe life, wrote these last lines, before passing, 

"O Mariner-soul, thy quest is but begun, 

there are new worlds Forever to be ...

What is "Won?"

500

This Prussian Princess, rose to great power in her adopted country, primarily by a coup, (which she orchestrated), & the subsequent assassination of her husband. 

Who is Princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg or Catherine the Great?  

500

The first lesbian kiss on an American daytime soap opera occurred between Bianca Montgomery & Lena Kundera on April 23, 2003 on this Soap.

 

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