'For most escaped slaves, the final destination was this country where slavery was illegal'
Canada
200
'This layered, flat-noodled Italian favorite is sometimes made with a bechamel sauce instead of tomato'
lasagna
200
'In January 2006 a single B-share of this Omahan's Berkshire Hathaway was $2,952; by Oct. 2008 it was $4,650'
Warren Buffett
200
'Book 1 of Livy's 142-book "History of Rome" deals with these 2 sons of Rhea Silvia'
Remus & Romulus
400
'America's Team, in the '70s'
the (Dallas) Cowboys
400
'Like their counterparts on real railroads, helpers on the Underground Railroad were called these'
conductors
400
'Campbell's classic recipe for green bean casserole calls for one can of this soup'
cream of mushroom
400
'This shipbuilder led a group that bought the Yankees for $10 million in 1973; in 2008, the team was worth $1 billion'
(George) Steinbrenner
400
'Confucian writing includes the "Shih Ching", "Shu Ching" & this, whose title means "Classic of Changes"'
I Ching
600
'The Monsters of the Midway'
Chicago Bears
600
'Abolitionist Levi Coffin's house in Fountain City, Ind. was known as this "Station" on the Underground Railroad'
Grand Central
600
'I'm all up for Deli but let's skip this lingual meat, even if it does come with a potato pancake'
tongue
600
'This company's venti cappuccinos must've sold big between Sept. '05 & May '06; its stock went up more than $16 a share'
Starbucks
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) The complex bridge of fools proof showing that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal is the point beyond which only very clever students are said to go in this book by Euclid'
The Elements
800
'The Fins'
the Miami Dolphins
800
'Called "Moses" & a former slave herself, she ventured back into the South to help hundreds of slaves escape'
(Harriet) Tubman
800
'At a sushi bar order iwashi to see how many of these fish you can pack away'
sardines
800
'This 4-letter item was about $300 an ounce in Oct. 1998 but eureka! It had tripled a mere 10 years later'
gold
800
'Macrobius' book set during a banquet shares its title with this December festival, ancient Rome's jolliest'
the Saturnalia
1000
'The Bolts'
the San Diego Chargers
1000
'Widely ignored in the North, this 1850 act, abbreviated FSA, outlawed assisting escaped slaves'
the Fugitive Slave Act
1000
'Oui! An hors d'oeuvre of raw cut-up vegetables served with a cold dip goes by this French name'
crudites
1000
'Hope you got in when this Page/Brin search engine went public in '04; by 2007, it was up 510%'
Google
1000
'Epictetus produced books of these ethical lectures; today the word means furious rants'