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19th Century English Literature
100

This state has the highest elevation point.

What is Alaska

100

The name for this pasta literally means "little pasta".

What is orzo (or pastina)?

100

This person has won the most Tony awards (6) as a performer.

Who is Audra McDonald?

100

This planet is the farthest from the sun, now that Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

What is Neptune?

100

Both Bridget Jones's Diary and Clueless are based on this popular 19th century novel.

What is Emma?

200

This state receives the most rain in a year, average 63.7".

What is Hawaii

200

If you have one piece of spaghetti what is the piece called?

What is spaghetto?

200

This long running tv show has won the most Emmys.

What is The Simpsons?

200

The tallest mountain, at over 21km, in the solar system is on this planet.

What is Mars?

200

This novel about the adventures of Miss Maddy and Miss Deborah was originally published as a series in the magazine Household Words.

What is Cranford?

300

Delaware became the first state in the union when it ratified the constitution in this year.

What is 1787?

300

Pasta was brought to the US in 1789 by the founder of UVA.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

The Nobel Prize committee awards medals in this number of categories.

What is six?

300

This planet is the farthest from Earth and still be seen with the naked eye.

What is Saturn?

300

A bartender at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC created this drink in 1894 using Scotch whiskey in honor of the opening of an operretta based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott.

What is a rob roy?

400
This state has the deepest lake in the US.  The lake has a total depth of 1,943 feet and is named Crater Lake.

What is Oregon?

400

This former head chef at the Plaza Hotel created a canned pasta and sauce company that is popular with children across the US.

Who is Chef Boyardee?

400

The Edgar is the award presented by the Mystery Writers of America and is named for this author.

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

400

This planet has the shortest day, at 9 hours and 55 minutes.

What is Jupiter?

400

In the tv show Cheers Frazier takes liberties, including adding aliens, in the reading of this classic novel by Charles Dickens in order to keep the attention of Cliff and Norms.

What is a Tale of Two Cities?

500

This state grows the most peaches, nearly 56% of US consumption.

What is California?

500

Patrick's liver, and not his stomach, has suffered the most at this famous Italian restaurant in NYC (at least twice he doesn't remember getting home).

What is del posto?

500

This college is the only school to have multiple winners in "Jeopardy College Championships"

What is Stamford?

500

These are the only two planets without moons.

What are Venus and Mercury?

500

This authors use of humor, social commentary and biting irony to comment on the landed gentry and the role of females in the last half of the 18th century have earned her a huge following, especially in the Fitzgerald households.

Who is Jane Austen?

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