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100

She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Who was Rosa Parks?

100

This popular stuffed animal was named after a president.

What is the teddy bear?

100

The first Disney animated feature film.

Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs? (1937)

100

This is the longest running musical in West End history.

What is Les Miserables?

100

She played Mrs. Robinson in the Graduate.

Who was Anne Bancroft?

200

The first president to be born in the 20th century.

Who was John F. Kennedy?

200

When the white house was on fire in 1814, this first lady saved a portrait of George Washington.

Who is Dolley Madison?

200

The first female member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Who was Jeanette Rankin? (1917)

200

This is the highest grossing musical of all time.

What is the Lion King?

200

Tom Hanks scored his first Academy Award with this movie.

What is Big?

300

This 19th century folk hero was famous for wearing a tin pot on his head and planting apple trees.

Who was Johnny Appleseed?

300

This famous inventor is credited with creating the first practical incandescent light bulb.

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

This city is home to the Louvre Museum.

What is Paris?

300

This musical is based on the works of T.S. Eliot.

What is Cats?

300

This on again and off again Hollywood power couple starred in the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf.

Who is Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton?

400

After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S. history.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

In the 1760's, these two surveyors used milestones to mark the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Who are Mason & Dixon?

400

The artistic movement that Salvador Dali was associated with.

What is Surrealism?

400

This musical has been adapted into two Oscar-winning films.

What is West Side Story?

400

This American writer/director starred in several European-produced "Spaghetti Westerns."

Who is Clint Eastwood?

500

He was the only president of the Confederacy.

Who was Jefferson Davis?

500

She was the first woman in space.

Who was Sally Ride?

500

This famous painting by Grant Wood of a farmer and daughter's name.

What is an American Gothic?

500

This Kander and Ebb musical welcomed you to the Kit Kat Club.

What is Cabaret?

500

The color pill Neo in the Matrix took.

What is Red?

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