'The Joad family in "The Grapes of Wrath" leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California'
Oklahoma
200
'Police constable Ichabod Crane'
Sleepy Hollow
200
'Ayan, also called Nigerian satinwood, has shown some resistance to these wood-eating insects'
termites
200
'This dog breed was first spotted in the Yugoslavia region several hundred years ago'
the Dalmatian
200
'The Holstein-Gottorp family, including Nicholas I, ruled Russia under this name'
Romanov
400
'In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car'
The Great Gatsby
400
'Murderous CIA agent Sands who goes south of the border'
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
400
'A hardwood, agba is used as a substitute for oak for church furniture & these burial items'
coffins
400
'The U.S. military may award one for distinguished service'
a medal
400
'Habsburg is a contraction of Habichtsburg, the name of the family's one of these in Switzerland'
castle
600
'In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a "History of the Navy of the United States"'
(James Fenimore) Cooper
600
'Gonzo journalist Raoul Duke'
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
600
'This evergreen tree is valued for pitch, tar, resin & turpentine, as well as for its wood'
pine
600
'This clue won't kill you, but this type of maniac will'
homicidal
600
'The king of France in 1604 & the king of Spain in 2004 are members of this family'
the Bourbons
800
'In "Following the Equator", this humorist wrote, "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it"'
Mark Twain
800
'Undercover high school policeman Tom Hanson'
21 Jump Street
800
'The trees that provide this wood favored by carvers in the Middle Ages are not the same-named citrus ones'
lime
800
'Playwright Richard Sheridan's "The School for" this didn't cover Enron'
Scandal
800
'The House of Savoy-Carignano was shuttered up in this country in 1946 when Humbert II left the throne'
Italy
1000
'In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel "The Centaur"'
John Updike
1000
'Undercover FBI agent Joe Pistone'
Donnie Brasco
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii) Gunpowder sparks on metal, so the decks of the Missouri are made of this 4-letter wood'
teak
1000
'After leading him up this "path", a woman puts the reins on her intended'
The Bridal Path
1000
'Getting crowned emperor on December 25, 800 made him a Christmas Carolingian'