BRITISH AUTHORS
ROMANIA
THE 3rd CENTURY B.C.
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200
'Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny are just a few of this British author's hare-brained protagonists'
Beatrix Potter
200
'Romania has a 100-mile coastline on this "dark" body of water'
the Black Sea
200
'Arcesilaus founds the "Second Academy" of this city'
Athens
200
'One of the planets:
"RNS"'
Uranus
200
'James Bradley & Ron Powers' book was the basis for this 2006 film about the 6 men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima'
Flags of Our Fathers
400
'In "The Doors of Perception", he described the "Brave New World" of drug experimentation'
(Aldous) Huxley
400
'Once a part of the Warsaw Pact, Romania joined this military alliance in 2004'
NATO
400
'This ancient wonder depicted here, is completed'
the Colossus of Rhodes
400
'A U.S. state:
"TH"'
Utah
400
'(Hi, I'm Scott Turow.) This man starred as Rusty Sabich, a lawyer accused of murder, when my novel "Presumed Innocent" was made into a film'
Harrison Ford
600
'This 19th C. novelist's name gave us an adjective that's used to mean squalid or impoverished'
Charles Dickens
600
'The spine of the country is formed by these mountains, the eastward continuation of the Alps'
the Carpathians
600
'The Pharos Lighthouse is built in this Egyptian city'
Alexandria
600
'It's a gas!
(& an element):
"NN"'
neon
600
'She starred as Augusten Burroughs' unstable mom in "Running With Scissors"'
Annette Bening
800
'The home in Haworth, seen here, is where these three sisters wrote novels'
the Brontës
800
'The capital city of Bucharest is on the Dimbovita River, a tributary of this larger, more fabled river'
the Danube
800
'Greek mathematician Eratosthenes famously calculates the circumference of this'
the Earth
800
'A Native American people:
"PCH"'
Apache
800
'In 2005 he starred in "Jarhead", based on a memoir, & co-starred in "Brokeback Mountain", based on a short story'
Jake Gyllenhaal
1000
'From the early 1900s, his "The First Men in the Moon" & "The War in the Air" proved eerily prophetic'
H.G. Wells
1000
'Stick your neck out in this mountainous region of Romania whose name means "beyond the forest"'
Transylvania
1000
'Beginning more than 4 centuries of rule, this 3-letter dynasty is founded in China'
Han
1000
'A country in Africa:
"THP"'
Ethiopia
1000
'2 flims with this title got Oscar nominations, one based on a Dreiser novel, the other on a Stephen King book'
Carrie
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