GRADE
POINT
SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN
AFRICAN-AMERICANA
AVERAGE
200
'A second grade science experiment includes labeling magnets with these 2 math symbols'
plus & minus
200
'Lizard Point, from the Cornish for "court on a height", is this island's southernmost point'
Great Britain
200
'She makes her first entrance with "Her ladies, the train, with eunuchs fanning her"'
Cleopatra
200
'In the history of jazz, Dizzy Gillespie & Louis Armstrong were 2 of the greatest players of this instrument'
the trumpet
200
'From 1980 to 1998 this rose worldwide from 61 to 67'
life expectancy
400
'Sixth grade social studies teach about renewable energy, like solar, & nonrenewable, like this solid fossil fuel'
coal
400
'At Pittsburgh's "The Point", the Allegheny & Monongahela meet to form this third river'
the Ohio
400
'Title adjective Shakespeare used to describe Mistresses Ford & Page'
merry
400
'Once called "The Capstone of Negro Education", this Washington, D.C. university opened its doors in 1867'
Howard University
400
'Of 2,4,8 or 16, the number of hours a day the TV's on in the average American home'
8
600
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew at a chalkboard) Eighth graders should be able to deal with this type of equation [y = 3x + 7 is shown as the example] that uses variables without exponents'
linear equation
600
'A high point of your trip to Santiago might be seeing this hemispheric high point nearby'
Mount Aconcagua
600
'This daughter of Prospero was but a few years old when they were exiled'
Miranda
600
'While an editor for Random House books, she wrote her first novel, "The Bluest Eye"'
Toni Morrison
600
'According to Conde Nast, in the U.S. the average cost of this event is now $22,360'
a wedding
800
'Ninth graders know that electrically neutral atoms have the same number of these 2 particles'
protons & electrons
800
'Cape Andreas is at the pointy end of this island in the eastern Mediterranean'
Cyprus
800
'Figure it out: she has the third line in "Macbeth"'
the third witch
800
'Currently, they're the 2 highest-ranking African-Americans in President Bush's administration'
Condoleezza Rice & Colin Powell
800
'In March 2003 astronomers said this grayish light brown was the average color of the universe'
beige
1000
'Tenth grade? Time for this 1840s French novel about a man falsely imprisoned who wants revenge'
The Count of Monte Cristo
1000
'The instantaneous North Pole is the point where this imaginary line would poke out'
the (Earth\'s) axis
1000
'Briseis in Homer's "Iliad" evolved in tales over time to wind up as this Shakespeare title character'
Cressida
1000
'In 2003 the Postal Service did him justice by honoring him with the stamp seen here'
Thurgood Marshall
1000
'A Frenchman eats 53 pounds of this a year; an American, 31; a Japanese, 4'
cheese
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