'For a piece of the pie...this game full of factoids came out with a 20th anniversary edition in 2002'
Trivial Pursuit
200
'By 1903 this American had settled in France where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas'
Gertrude Stein
200
'The font seen here is named for this machine famously used by Mark Twain'
typewriter
200
'In 1885 one of these explosions, the brightest to appear for the next century, appeared in the Andromeda galaxy'
a supernova
400
'The first word of "The Rainbow Connection"'
Why (y)
400
'This classic board game was once known as Criss-Cross Words'
Scrabble
400
'This "Waiting for Godot" author moved to France where he worked with fellow Irishman James Joyce'
Samuel Beckett
400
'The Pantone formula guide shows 1,114 of these with their corresponding ink formulas'
colors
400
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh) Nomad became the first robot to find extraterrestrial objects when it snagged these in Antarctica'
meteorites
600
'The sugar one is also called the Mennonite one (Mennonites like it)'
pea (p)
600
'"Fiend Folio" & "Monster Manual" are 2 of the books used in conjunction with this game'
Dungeons and Dragons
600
'This Pennsylvania-born woman was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1904 for her art'
Mary Cassatt
600
'Named for their large storage tray, these proofs with a nautical name are checked before pages are made up'
galleys
600
'AKA Zidovudine, the drug AZT was approved in 1987 to fight this virus'
HIV/AIDS
800
'A pigtail once mandatory in the British army'
queue (q)
800
'Known as Jumpman when introduced in Donkey Kong, this video game character has since appeared in over 70 games'
Mario
800
'The story of this dancer who became a French citizen in 1937 was made into a telepic starring Lynn Whitfield'
Josephine Baker
800
'The resolution of printers is measured in DPI, dots per inch; on a screen, in PPI, this'
pixels per inch
800
'In 1919 this rocket pioneer published "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"'
(Robert) Goddard
1000
'"Haw" tells an animal to turn left & this means turn right'
gee (g)
1000
'It's all there in black & white; this strategy game is named for a Shakespeare play'
Othello
1000
'Look up in the Paris opera & you'll see a ceiling by this Russian-born artist who moved to France in 1923'
Marc Chagall
1000
'One paragraph seen here is right ragged, the other is right this, also called aligned & flush'
justified
1000
'In 1885, 14 years after a more famous find, this German archaeologist excavated Tiryns in Greece'