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