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100

As part of efforts to heal the church's rift with France Pope Benedict XV canonized her on May 16 1920

Who is Joan of Arc?

100

This oxymoronic dress code for the office can include neatly pressed tailored pieces but never gym clothes or bare midriffs

What is Business Casual?

100

Yeezus

Who is Kanye West?

100

This '50s & '60s Soviet leader who told the West we will bury you is himself buried at Novodevichy Cemetery

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

100

The anonymous author of the 2019 book A Warning is listed as a senior official in this administration

What is the Trump Administration?

200

As part of efforts to heal the church's rift with France Pope Benedict XV canonized her on May 16 1920

What is heresy?

200

Alliterative expression of dismay favored by Peanuts characters

What is Good Grief?

200

The Prince of Darkness

Who is Ozzy Osbourne?

200

Around 1310 Pope Clement V moved the papacy from Italy to this French city & it stayed there for almost 70 years

What is Avignon?

200

This anonymous Old English poem about a hero fighting monsters survives in the Nowell Codex at the British Library

What is Beowulf?

300

Promising salvation St. Bernard of Clairvaux got Europeans to go on the second of these & blamed their sins when it failed

What is a crusade?

300

At any time about 200000 Americans are these on the way to educating our youth

What are student teachers?

300

The Prime Minister of Funk or Doctor Funkenstein

Who is George Clinton?
300

In 1202 Leonardo of Pisa urged the use of Arabic numerals including this one originally called a zephyrum & it caught on

What is zero?

300

These 85 essays were attributed to Publius when they appeared in New York newspapers from 1787 to 1788

What are the Federalist Papers?

400

One story of St. Boniface's conversion of the Germans involves cutting down a sacred oak of this thunder god

Who is Thor?

400

Completes the Shakespeare line Good Night Good Night! Parting is such...

What is sweet sorrow?

400

Slowhand

Who is Eric Clapton?

400

Heads up! Or off! the Reign of Terror ended in July 1794 with this man's execution

Who is Maximilien Robespierre?

400

Tender-Conscience is the hero of an anonymous author's Third Part of this work tacked on to John Bunyan's parts 1 & 2

What is the Pilgrim's Promise?

500

In 1170 this Archbishop of Canterbury took the fatal step of excommunicating the Archbishop of York infuriating the king

Who is Becket?

500

In this place at a movie theater the first word gives up and the second one toughs it out

What is the concession stand?

500

The Boss & before that the Doctor

Who is Bruce Springsteen?

500

The 1864 convention in this city called for relief to the wounded without any distinction as to nationality

What is the Geneva Convention?

500

in 1827 this 18-year-old American anonymously published Tamerlane and Other Poems including Visit of the Dead

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

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