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100

This hardest tissue in the body covers the crown of a tooth in mammals

Enamel

100

This Brit's own poor childhood inspired him to write books like David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

100

When this federal standard went into effect in 1938 it was 25 cents per hour; today it's $7.25

Minimum Wage

100

This movie released by disney in 2013 is famous for its ability to babysit children.

Frozen

100

When you read about these warrior women in Greek mythology notice that they don't have .com after their names

The Amazons

200

The 3 main parts of an insect's body are the head the thorax & this section

Abdomen

200

This character says I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye

Holden Caulfield

200

In 1945 scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb

New Mexico

200

This 2019 film became the first to win both Best Picture and Foreign Film

Parasite

200

It's what the Z stands for in ZIP code

Zone

300

It's the color of malachite a mineral from which copper is obtained

Green

300

His essay Civil Disobedience was delivered as a lecture & printed as Resistance to Civil Government

Henry David Thoreau
300

In October 1973 he resigned as vice president & pleaded no contest to one count of income tax evasion

Spiro Agnew

300

Mahershala Ali won Best Supporting Actor for playing this character in Moonlight.

DAILY DOUBLE

Juan

300

Disgraced soldiers once left the military with percussion playing--hence this modern idiom

To be Drummed Out

400

Born in 1996 a sheep named this introduced the world to reproductive cloning

Dolly

400

This 1997 short story tells of ranch hands Jack Twist & Ennis del Mar who tend sheep in Wyoming

Brokeback Mountain

400

When East & West were linked by this in October 1861 the days of the Pony Express were numbered

The Telegraph

400

The first word uttered at the beginning of the 1941 Citizen Kane

Rosebud

400

This martial art is said to have been inspired by the slow sinuous movements of a snake

DAILY DOUBLE

Tai Chi

500

In 2009 a new hominid skeleton dubbed Ardi was aged at 4.4 million years predating this other girly find by 1 mil. years

Lucy

500

Ever the optimist Hobbes wrote in this work: The life of man solitary poor nasty brutish and short

Leviathan

500

This state's constitution of 1849 let married women retain control of their own property

California

500

The first and only woman to win an Oscar for Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow

500

In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling

Exclamation mark

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