'In October of 1986, South Africa's Dutch Reformed Church denounced this'
apartheid
200
'On most general reference maps, blue indicates this'
water
200
'This calendar oddity will occur on a Monday in 1988'
February 29th (Leap Year Day)
200
'In September of 1986, the first of the three remaining reactors at this Soviet plant was restarted'
Chernobyl
400
'Geometrically patterned flooring'
parquet
400
'The president of this Arab country must be a Maronite Christian'
Lebanon
400
'Distinction that makes a collection of maps an atlas'
they are bound
400
'Number of House seats up for election in 1988'
all of them (435)
400
'Nuclear energy is released when you split up nucleons in the nucleus: groups of protons, and these'
neutrons
600
'Despite the title of the following early hit, this artist is smart enough to be a star 20 years later: "Just because I'm blonde don't think I'm dumb because this dumb blonde ain't nobody's fool!"'
Dolly Parton
600
'English spellings of the names of all seven archangels of Judeo-Christian tradition end with these two letters'
E-L
600
'in 1884, astronomers and geographers set this line as the starting point for east-west measurements'
Prime Meridian (Greenwich)
600
'Number of Senate seats up for election in 1988'
33
600
'A metal used in making control rods for nuclear reactors; its chemical symbol is Cd'
cadmium
800
'The name of this herb comes from the Greek for "rock celery"; petrocelinon'
parsley
800
'At first, Jim Bakker claimed that this Louisiana-based Pentecostal preacher wanted to take over the PTL'
Jimmy Swaggart
800
'Found on maps, it's technically called a representative fraction and more commonly this'
scale
800
'In mid-March, Midway Island will be midway along the path of one of these'
a solar eclipse
800
'This sub-atomic particle is the anti-particle of the electron'
the positron
1000
'Descended from Iranian exiles, these Zoroastrians now live in India'
Parsis
1000
'On May 9, 1969, it was declared that 200 Catholic saints would lose these'
Feast Days
1000
'On a topographic map, these lines indicate changes in elevation'
contour lines
1000
'Both Sunday, January 31st and Tuesday, March 8th have been dubbed with this five-letter adjective'
super
1000
'Among particles in this family are the up, down, strange, and charmed'