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100

This book is set in Long Island during the Roaring '20's.

What is the Great Gatsby?

100

"It came without ribbons! It came without tags! It came without packages, boxes, or bags!" And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then he thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"

What is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."

100

Captain Hook's hook was on this hand.

What is his Left Hand?


100

This New York City museum was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is located along Fifth Avenue’s Museum Mile. 

What is the Guggenheim Museum?

100

Born out of her father’s head she became the goddess of wisdom.

Who is Athena?

100

This successful musical was based on a James Michener novel.

What is South Pacific?

100

Modern day computers all have what is called the CPU or the brains of the computer. What does this 3-letter acronym stand for?

What is a Central Processing Unit?

100

In this WWII movie a tree played an important role.

What is Mr. Roberts?

200

Her novel became a 1939 blockbuster.

What is "Gone With The Wind" by Margaret Mitchell?

200

He said "The game is afoot."

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

200

This is the name of Iron man's character.

What is Tony Stark?

200

Many variety acts as well as many all-time famous rock stars and groups have entered and performed at this theater situated on Broadway between W. 53rd and 54th Streets.

What is the Ed Sullivan Theater?

200

She made a tasty stew of her children and served them to her husband.

Who is Medea?

200

The protagonist of this musical is a matchmaker from Yonkers.

What is Hello Dolly?


200

In 2019, sales of this type of computer totaled 88.4 million units compared to 166 million laptops, but there is still a strong demand and need for this type.

What is a desktop computer?

300

Although he worked in England this detective was Belgian by birth.

Who is Hercule Piorot?


300

The author and book that says: “You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”

Who is Phillip Roth in Portnoy's Complaint?

300

She is Luke Skywalker's twin sister?

Who is Princess Leia?

300

This area in the shadow of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges was once a dark industrial area until artists made its warehouse buildings popular. It is now home to pricey loft & luxury apartments and a sparkling new riverfront park.

What is Dumbo?

300

She threw down the golden apple that started a fierce competition among the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena.

Who is Eris, the goddess of discord? 

300

This popular musical was an adaptation of Puccini’s “La Boheme.“

What is Rent?

300

What does the acronym CD-ROM stand for?

What is Compact Disk - Read-Only-Memory?

400

This novel shows a child's view of race and justice in the Depression era South.

What is "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee?


400

He said "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." 

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400

This is the movie hotel you would least want to shower in.

What is the Bates Hotel?

400

Built in 1863, and home to jazz musicians Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and WC Handy, lies a famous cemetery in the Northern most part of NYC

What is Woodlawn Cemetary?

400

Cursed by Apollo for rejecting his advances. No one would believe this princess of Troy's prophecies.

Who is Cassandra?

400

The highest honor an Off Broadway show can achieve.

What is the Obie?

400

A double line under a word or phrase occurs in a Microsoft Word document while you are working on it indicating?

What is a grammatical error?

500

This Hemingway novel takes place in Spain.

What is "The Sun Also Rises."

500

This character said: “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

Who is Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?

500

This is Supermans real name?

What is Kal-El?

500

Boulevards are found in all the 5 boroughs of NYC. This borough boasts more than 50 different ones.

What is Queens?

500

It was on this ship that the quest for the Golden Fleece began.

What is the Argo?

500

Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew” was developed into a hit Broadway musical by this composer.

What is Cole Porter?

500

With which computer-related device would you associate the terms dot-matrix and ink-jet?

What is a printer?

600

This Shakespeare character suffered from somnambulism.

Who is Lady Macbeth?

600

Which Shakespeare character said "O beware, my Lord of jealousies; it is the great green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on."

Who is Othello?

600

Sally Field's character was Tom Hank's mother in this movie?

What is Forrest Gump?

600

3 islands sit less than 2 miles from Manhattan’s Battery Park. They are Ellis Island, Liberty Park, and ...

What is Governors Island?

600

 He was robbed of his wife by a Trojan prince.

Who is Menelaus?

600

"Does Anyone Still Wear a Hat” is a memorable line from this song and Sondheim musical.

What is Company?

600

One of the factors that helps to make passwords more secure is the length. In order to make password more secure the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in their 2016 Digital Identity Guidelines changed the minimum number of significant characters from 6 to these many characters.

What is 8 characters?

700

In this Steinbeck novel in which its main character finds a treasure.

What is The Pearl?

700

Which author and book referred to this New York City borough as “the valley of ashes” and "the narrow channel through which the railroad traveler had to pass on his way to Manhattan."

What is the Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald?

700

This Hitchcock movie employs voyeurism.

What is "Rear Window"?

700

Up until 2018 this borough of NYC was the wealthiest of all 5 NYC boroughs as measured by median household income according to the US Census Bureau.

What is Staten Island?

700

He failed to listen to his father’s flying instructions and drowned. 

Who is Icarus?

700

The subject of this play deals with the possibility of an inappropriate relationship between an adult and a minor.


What is Doubt?

700

What is the more common name for the next level up in the hierarchy where our various files can be saved & stored?

What is a folder?

800

This author was a childhood friend of Truman Capote.

What is Harper Lee?

800

This Shakespeare character said "Neither a borrower or a lender be."

Who is Polonious in Hamlet?

800

This Oscar-winning film was an expose on the Catholic Church.

What is Spotlight?

800

You are on your way to the Rockaways as you are approaching the Marine Parkway Bridge. Which bay lies immediately to your right and West?

What is Dead Horse Bay?

800

The name of Homer’s epic work was derived from this ancient name of Troy.

What is the Ilium?

800

One of the issues highlighted in this American musical dealt with the issue of Miscegenation.

What is Showboat?

800

This general term refers to all kinds of harmful software, including viruses, worms, trojan horses, and spyware?

What is malware?

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