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By mass, it's the most abundant element in the Earth's crust & in your body.

Carbon

Oxygen

Iron

Oxygen

200

"I'm in trouble deep", Madonna tells her dad in this 1986 hit.

"Papa Don't Preach"

"True Blue"

"Like It Or Not"

"Papa Don't Preach"

200

Of this U.S. state: central Worcester County


Vermont

New Hampshire

Massachusetts

Massachusetts

200

Susan Orlean's biography of this movie star dog.


White Fang

Rin Tin Tin

Strongheart

Rin Tin Tin

200

The ancient Greek playwright Sophocles wrote that this "eases all things"; we've also heard that is heals all wounds.

Time

Compassion

Faith

Time

400

The Roman numeral for 100 is also the symbol for this element.

Carbon

Xenon

Lithium

Carbon

400

This group's 1972 no. 1 hit "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" isn't about Mick or Keith.

The Four Tops

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

The Temptations

The Temptations

400

Of this continent: the city of Cuiaba in the state of Mato Grosso.

South America

Africa

Europe

South America

400

This Cormac McCarthy novel with the cattle gun-wielding Chigurh.

"The Road"

"Cities of the Plain"

"No Country for Old Men"

"No Country for Old Men"

400

It's the "here" in the 1863 line, "Those who here gave their lives that that nation might live".

Antietam

Petersburg

Gettysburg

Gettysburg

600

This glow-in-the-dark element is the only one whose name ends in "us".

Sulfur

Fluorine

Phosphorus

Phosphorus

600

In 1965, we learned from him that Papa had acquired a "Brand New Bag"; in 1974, that he "Don't Take No Mess".

Rick James

Marvin Gaye

James Brown

James Brown

600

Of this peninsula: near Madrid.


Magdelena

Beara

Iberian

Iberian

600

"Duty", the 2014 memoir of this former Secretary of Defense.

Robert Gates

Leon Panetta

William J. Burns

William J. Burns

600

This Roman began a book, "All Gaul" (which he's just conquered) "is divided into three parts".

Gaius Octavius

Julius Caesar

Marcus Junius Brutus

Julius Caesar

800

After "Omaha" or "Lincoln", an addressed envelope could have the 2 letters symbolizing this element.

Iodine

Neon

Silicon

Neon

800

"I'm gonna be like you, Dad / You know I'm gonna be like you", he sang in the 1974 hit "Cat's In The Cradle".

John Denver

Harry Chapin

Dan Fogelberg

Harry Chapin

800

Of this continent: in the south of the Northern Territory.

Asia

Africa

Australia

Australia

800

"Dark Places", by this author of "Gone Girl".


Tana French

Gillian Flynn

Karin Slaughter

Gillian Flynn

800

This mid-20th century First Lady said, "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent".

Eleanor Roosevelt

Betty Ford

Roselynn Carter

Eleanor Roosevelt

1000

The name of Oganesson may lead you to this atomic number, the highest yet assigned.

114

118

120

118

1000

This group had some words for absentee dads: "Father of mine, tell me where have you been / You know I just close my eyes, my whole world disappeared..."

Everclear

Matchbox Twenty

Gin Blossoms

Everclear

1000

Of this big country: Evenkia, on Lake Vivi; its only resident, Anatoly, died in 2003.

Turkey

Russia

Ukraine

Russia

1000

"The Mermaid Chair", by this 3-named author.


Mary Kay Andrews

Anne Rivers Siddons

Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd

1000

In 1776 he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls".

John Locke

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

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