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So you want to be in the movies
You say potato
100

Its 86th floor observatory is open 8 A.M. to 2 A.M., 365 days a year

What is the Empire State Building

100

A spelling competition

What is a bee?

100

In geologic time it can cover tens of millions of years; on a typewriter key, it only covers a tiny area

What is period?

100

From the Latin for "hearing", it's a short performance by an actor applying for a role

What is audition?

100

The Russet Burbank potato is also known by this "state"ly name

What is the Idaho potato?

200

It rings at 9:30 a.m & 4:00 p.m. each trading day

What is the NASDAQ bell (or the New York Stock Exchange Bell)?

200

One of the bodies of salt water that cover the earth

What is a sea?

200

Placed on an insect's leg, the onetime world's smallest ad was fittingly created for this book's website

What is the Guinness Book of World Records?

200

This name for the Hollywood actor's necessity seen here sounds like a boxing blow to the skull

What is a headshot?

200

At a New Jersey spelling bee in 1992, he insisted that "potato" was spelled with an "E" at the end

Who is Dan Quayle? 

300

On weekdays, this iconic Herald Square department store at 151 West 34th street opens at 9 a.m.

What is Macy's?

300

Starting aid for football & golf

What is a tee?

300

The smallest bird egg comes, of course, from the Vervain one of these

What is a hummingbird?

300

Important on-set experience can be gained working as one of these AKA atmospheres or background artists

What is an extra?

300

Don Rickles voiced Mr. Potato Head in this 1995 film

What is Toy Story?

400

The last ferry from Battery Park to these 2 harbor attractions leaves at 3:30 p.m. daily

What is Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty?

400
Adverb that demands a reason

What is why?

400

A book about this "merry old soul" is the smallest book in the Library of Congress; it's smaller than a comma

What is Old King Cole?

400

For practice, many Hollywood actors memorize one of these long passages in a play spoken by only one character

What is a monologue?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

What is Frito-Lay (or Lay's)?

500

Early risers can nosh on matzoh brei or corned beef & eggs at this spot on 7th Avenue & 55th Street; it opens at 6:30 a.m.

What is the Carnegie Deli?

500

Actor's signal

What is a cue?

500

Controlling the stapes in the ear is the stapedius, the smallest of these in the human body

What is a muscle?

500

They're the 2 main unions that represent professional TV & film actors in Hollywood

What is AFRA & SAG?
500

In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger)

What is the Irish Potato Famine?

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