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100
It's the common name for both an international yacht race & that race's trophy, formerly the Hundred Guinea Cup.
What is the America's Cup?
100
This third installment of Stieg Larsson's "Girl" trilogy was the top-selling hardcover fiction book of 2010.
What is The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest?
100
A liquid in which food is soaked before cooking, it's from the Latin for "sea water".
What is marinade?
100
In the Roman Catholic Church, the first of the 7 sacraments you go through is this ceremony.
What is a baptism?
100
The vernal one of these, around March 21, marks the start of spring in the northern hemisphere.
What is the equinox?
200
His 1861 textbook on organic chemistry won the Demidov Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
What is Mendeleev?
200
He died in 2013, 2 months before the publication of his "Command Authority", a new Jack Ryan novel.
Who is Tom Clancy?
200
From a Gothic word for "throne", it's a much less grand small, backless seat.
What is a stool?
200
Exiled from Tibet in 1959, he is the 14th person to be known by this title.
What is the Dalai Lama?
200
You've got about 300 million alveoli in these organs.
What are the lungs?
300
This military medal is given to those wounded or killed in service to the United States. Trump has one now!
What is a Purple Heart?
300
This 2003 story about 2 friends, Amir & Hassan, was the debut novel of Afghan American Khaled Hosseini.
What is The Kite Runner?
300
This 4-letter word for a humble terrestrial annelid comes from the Old English for "dragon" or "serpent".
What is a worm?
300
It's the common name for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
What are the Mormons?
300
Livermorium, atomic number 116, is considered unstable; this is less than 60 milliseconds.
What is a half-life?
400
Created Batman with Bill Finger, he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1999.
Who is Bob Kane?
400
With fishy ladies carved into it, "The Mermaid" this furniture item is the title object of a Sue Monk Kidd novel.
What is a chair?
400
The name of this desert wind comes from sharq, an Arabic word for "east".
What is sirocco?
400
In Judaism, this sacred scroll is handwritten & kept inside a special ark.
What is the Torah?
400
mtDNA is short for this type of DNA; it was used in 2013 to identify Richard III's remains.
What is mitochondrial?
500
Computer science's equivalent to the Nobel Prize is named for this 20th century British mathematician.
Who is Turing?
500
This 2009 follow-up to "The Da Vinci Code" sold over 1 million copies in e-book & hardcover editions on the first day.
What is The Lost Symbol?
500
From the Sanskrit for "enlightened being", it's a Buddhist who forgoes nirvana to return & help others on Earth.
What is a bodhisattva?
500
"The Way" to spell this ancient Asian religion & philosophy?--with a "T" or a "D".
What is Daoism?
500
This imaginary line used to indicate 0 degrees longitude terminates at the North & South Poles.
What is the Prime Meridian?
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