I CAN NAME THAT NO. 1 '80s HIT
Nominated for a Nobel Prize
Homophones
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GEOGRAPHY
200

"Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note"

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

200

In 1919 Max Planck & this other German physicist nominated each other for Nobel prizes

Einstein

200

An empress' tenure & a downpour

reign and rain 

200

Caffeine is one of these pick-me-up substances

stimulant

200

Found between Austria & Italy, Tyrol is a region in these mountains

Alps

400

"It's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rival"

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

400

Pearl Buck, W.H. Auden & C.S. Lewis all nominated this "North of Boston" poet for Literature, but he never won. It melts your heart to think about it. 

Robert Frost

400

An Oracle & a monetary yield

a prophet and a profit 

400

It starts about 6 miles up from the ground

Stratosphere 

400

The name of this fashionable coastal European resort area is from the Italian for "shore"

Riviera

600

"You know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute, I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is probably moot"

Jessie's Girl

600

In 1962 JFK nominated this first lady from an earlier administration for the Nobel Peace Prize

Eleanor Roosevelt

600

A sense of style & a sudden solar explosion

flair and flare

600

This section once held the cheapest accommodations on passenger ships

steerage

600

The Levant is a Mediterranean region that includes this nation & its ports of Tyre & Sidon

Lebanon

800

"There's a choice we're making, we're saving our own lives, it's true we'll make a better day, just you and me"

We are the World

800

33 people nominated this Russian for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901; he won it in 1904

(Ivan) Pavlov

800

A church singing group & an enclosure for horses

a chorale/corral

800

Frankfurt's Börse, for one

stock exchange 

800

The Sudd is an almost impenetrable papyrus swamp from which this river emerges

Nile

1000

"Did you ever know that you're my hero? & everything I would like to be, I can fly higher than an eagle, for you are the... "

Wind beneath my wings

1000

When Luigi Pirandello won in 1934, he was nominated by this countryman, a 1909 winner for physics

Marconi

1000

A sculpted decoration on a wall near the ceiling & the act of keeping prices or wages at a fixed level

frieze/freeze

1000

German dessert

strudel 

1000

Until 1957, what is today this West African country was known as the Gold Coast

Ghana

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