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This author (and Cornell dropout) is known for his short stories and novels including Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions.

Kurt Vonnegut

100

A prolific composer of the Classical era, this Austrian musician's compositions include "Eine kleine Nachtmusik."

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

100

The 2005 movie adaptation of this Jane Austen novel stars Kiera Knightley and Matthew Macfayden.

Pride & Prejudice

100

Cornell University is located in this upstate New York town.

Ithaca

100
Lake Ontario and this other great lake meet at Niagara Falls.

Lake Erie

200

This 1908 classic children's novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery recounts the adventures of an 11-year-old orphan girl sent by mistake to live with two middle-aged siblings on Prince Edward Island.

Anne of Green Gables

200

This U2 album contains some of their most known songs, including "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and "Bullet the Blue Sky."

The Joshua Tree

200

Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott stars this Harry Potter actress as Meg March.

Emma Watson

200

This city is second to Dublin as the largest city on the island of Ireland.

Belfast

200

Discovered in 1928, this groundbreaking substance revolutionized medicine by combatting bacterial infections.

Penicillin

300

Author Suzanne Collins recently announced a new prequel for this dystopian series will be released in 2025.

The Hunger Games

300

Songs from this singer-songwriter's newest album include "Fortnight," "Clara Bow," and "So High School."

Taylor Swift

300

This 2007 move musical/comedy starts Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad and Zac Efrom as Link Larkin.

Hairspray

300

This Austrian symbolist painter (born 1862 and died 1918) is best known for his paintings including The Kiss, Death and Life, and Judith and the Head of Holofernes.

Gustav Klimt

300

In Greek mythology, this winged horse sprang from the blood of Medusa and is associated with poetry and inspiration.

Pegasus

400

This English novelist and essayist is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century and is known for her novels including Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One's Own, and To the Lighthouse.

Virginia Woolf

400

This boyband was formed on July 23, 2010 during the "bootcamp" stage of The X Factor (UK).

One Direction

400

The 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You features Julia Stiles as Kat Stratfod and this The Dark Knight actor as Patrick Verona.

Heath Ledger

400

Yale University's mascot, named Handsome Dan, is this breed of dog.

Bulldog

400

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, this pioneering scientist's research laid the foundation for modern atomic theory.

Marie Curie

500

This author is known for his novels including American Gods, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, and Stardust.

Neil Gaiman

500

The chorus of this 2024 hit by Hozier begins "I take my whiskey neat/ My coffee black and my bed at three."

Too Sweet

500

This character is the daughter of Emily and mother of Rory in hit show Gilmore Girls.

Lorelai Gilmore

500

The Itaipu Dam in this South American country is one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the world.

Paraguay

500

This famous song/poem was originally titled "The Battle of Fort McHenry"

The Star Spangled Banner

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