'In 1610, while serving as court mathematician for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first observed the rings of Saturn'
Galileo
200
'Hollywood's superficial glamour gave it this nickname'
Tinseltown
200
'The venture aims to preseve our literary heritage; No. 1 in the series contains this author's "Omoo", "Typee" & "Mardi"'
Melville
200
'Henry Fuseli's painting of this Shakespeare character might give the Louvre-goer a fright'
Lady Macbeth
200
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports.) December 31st, 1967: On the frozen tundra of Lambeau field, Bart Starr sneaks the winning touchdown to lead this team over Dallas, 21-17'
the Green Bay Packers
400
'He developed the 3rd of his laws of planetary motion while serving as provincial mathematician in Linz, Austria'
(Johannes) Kepler
400
'Medical condition of persistent noise in the ear'
tinnitus
400
'David Halberstam & Stanley Karnow are represented in a collection of reportage of this event'
the Vietnam War
400
'He painted the work known around the Louvre as "La Joconde"'
'In his 1573 work "De Nova Stella", this Dane wrote down his observation of his newly discovered star'
Brahe
600
'A positive photograph made on a plate of sensitized metal'
a tintype
600
'He gets 7 volumes, including "The Gilded Age and Later Novels"'
(Mark) Twain
600
'Title of the Watteau work seenhere, it's the French version of the Commedia dell'arte's Pedrolino'
Pierrot
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) June 19, 1946: This heavyweight had warned Billy Conn "He can run but he can't hide"; eighth round, ooh!ouch! thhh--the running ceases'
Joe Louis
800
'As assistant to her planet discoverer brother, she herself discovered 8 comets'
(Carolyn) Herschel
800
'This man's work, "Christ at the Sea of Galilee", is seen here'
Tintoretto
800
'"The Royal Family" & "You Can't Take It WIth You" are in a volume of plays credited to this man "& Co."'
George S. Kaufman
800
'This man transferred 5,000 civil servants out of the Louvre & inaugurated the resulting new art wing in 1993'
François Mitterrand
800
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports.) February 22, 1959: So you say you can't go 135 mph in an Oldsmobile? Lee Petty did, winning the first running of this in Florida'
the Daytona 500
1000
'In the 1850s this American stargazer visited the Vatican Observatory, which would only admit her by day'
(Mariah) Mitchell
1000
'Coastal Cornish village said to be the birthplace of King Arthur'
Tintagel
1000
'Most of the series is collections, but this 1925 Dreiser novel has its own 972-page volume'
An American Tragedy
1000
'Since the 1600s the Louvre has owned the work seenhere by Claude Gellée, also known as this, for his region of birth'