Element Names
The Olympics
Ancient Rome
Literature
TV
In the "Gn"ow
100

This element gets its name from the Latin for "charcoal"

Carbon

100

Michael Phelps made his Olympic debut at age 15 during the 2000 Olympic Games in this city.

Sydney

100

Both Caracalla and Diocletian were noted for building giant "Thermae", these important structures.

Bathhouses

100

This 1939 novel set mostly in Oklahoma during the Great Depression won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It was also cited prominently when its author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.

The Grapes of Wrath

100

This Chicago based show stars Ayo Edebiri as a talented young sous chef.

The Bear

100

A varied family of dumplings in Italian cuisine

Gnocchi 

200

To maintain a safe pool environment, concentration of THIS element should stay between 1 and 4 parts per million

Chlorine

200

In 1968, despite concern about its high altitude, the summer olympics were held in this city. 

Mexico City

200

Alea iacta est is a variation of a Latin phrase attributed to Julius Caesar in 49 BCE, as he led his army across the Rubicon river in Northern Italy. It translates as this phrase

The die has been cast

200

A sweeping epic by Victor Hugo, this novel was made into a Tony winning musical which debuted in 1980

Les Miserables

200

Netflix now carries this show, in which judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood devise the three challenges faced by the competitors each week.

The Great British Bake Off

200

Bite at or nibble something persistently.

Gnaw

300

It would likely be a mistake to make a ballon out of this element, whose atomic mass is 207

Lead

300

Olympic Biathlon is comprised of these two activities 

Cross Country Skiing and Shooting

300

The founding of Rome occurred in this year according to tradition. It got it's name after a fight broke out between brothers Romulus and Remus over who would rule the new city. (Romulus Won)

753 BCE

300

This satirical Joseph Heller novel, which explored the lives of bomber pilots during World War 2, helped to coin a phrase which describes a dilemma from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.

Catch-22

300

This series centers on the Roy family, the owners of global media and entertainment conglomerate Waystar RoyCo, and their fight for control of the company amidst uncertainty about the health of the family's patriarch.

Succession

300

A legendary dwarfish creature supposed to guard the earth's treasures underground.

Gnome

400

This synthetic, radioactive, metallic element is named for a french couple, who together won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

Curium

400

Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic torch to signal the start of the 1996 summer games in this city.

Atlanta

400

Though some believe this space was a room where ancient Romans went to throw up lavish meals so they could return to the table and feast some more, it was actually a large stadium passage which allowed big crowds to exit rapidly at the end of an event.

Vomitorium

400

This Toni Morrison text follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American man living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood.

Song of Solomon

400

Olivia Coleman is a modern day wicked step mother in this 2016 Phoebe Waller Bridge series in which the protagonist is never explicitly named. 

Fleabag
400

The animal seen here

Gnu

500

This element makes up 78% of the earth's atmosphere

Nitrogen

500

She won the first ever women's Olympic Marathon in Los Angeles in 1984

Joan (Benoit) Samuelson 

500

Many Romans believed the Great Fire of Rome was instigated by this emperor to clear land for his planned "Domus Aurea" or "Golden House".

Nero

500

Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions is an epistolary form manifesto written by this Nigerian author

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

500

This intricate drama about drugs, poverty, violence, corruption, and education in Baltimore pulled no punches and provided no happy endings, but people were addicted anyway.

The Wire

500

A common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock

Gneiss

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