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200
'His 1927 salary with the Yankees was $70,000, or $1,166.67 per homer'
Babe Ruth
200
'Title of both Judy Sheindlin & her husband Jerry'
judge
200
'Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport has the code DCA but is located in this state'
Virginia
200
'Part I of a 1726 book is "A Voyage to" this place, home to human creatures "not six inches high"'
Lilliput
200
'It begins at the Place de la Concorde'
the Champs-Élysées
400
'Say hey! Say what? In 1965 he hit 52 homers & won his ninth straight Gold Glove--& made $105,000'
Willie Mays
400
'A vicereine is the wife of one of these officials'
a viceroy
400
'In 1966 London Airport was renamed this, which uses the code LHR'
Heathrow
400
'These factory workers in a 1964 book love cacao beans'
Oompa Loompas
400
'City & state of the place known until 1860 as West Urbana'
Champaign, Illinois
600
'This player nicknamed "Big Papi" pulls down $12.5 million with the Red Sox'
David Ortiz
600
'Deposed in 1797, Ludovico Manin was the last of these chief magistrates to rule Venice'
the doges
600
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew sits in a Qantas flight simulator in Australia.) The Qantas A380 flight simulator has a training visual database of over 130 airports, naturally including Australia's busiest one, which goes by this 3-letter code'
SYD
600
'L. Frank Baum's Oz books include these underground folk, spelled without the silent "G"'
Nomes
600
'In this idiom that refers to an impatient horse, many people substitute "chomp"'
champing at the bit
800
'In 1979 this no-hit king became the first major leaguer with a guaranteed $1 million salary'
Nolan Ryan
800
'In "The Mikado" this grand fellow was the "Lord High Everything Else"'
the Pooh-bah
800
'From the initials of the man it's named for, the larger of Paris' 2 airports has this 3-letter code'
CDG
800
'Say "a prayer for" this tiny boy who kills his pal's mom with a foul ball'
Owen Meany
800
'4 old buddies relive glory days of high school hoops in this play'
That Championship Season
1000
'After hitting .350 in 1907, this Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop got his salary doubled for 1908--to a whopping $10,000'
(Honus) Wagner
1000
'An ataman was the leader of a village of these horsemen who gave a Tolstoy novel its title'
the Cossacks
1000
'Jorge Chavez International Airport has the 3-letter code LIM & is in this country'
Peru
1000
'Tyrion's last name in "A Game of Thrones"'
Lannister
1000
'By age 16, this translator of the Rosetta Stone had mastered 8 ancient languages'
Champollion
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