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He directed “The Birds” and “Psycho”

Alfred Hitchcock

100

In this Dr Seuss book, he hears a who!

Horton

100

The original name of New York City

New Amsterdam

100

The city of Ching Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park

Thailand

100

A pointy geologic formation found overhead in a cave

Stalactite

200

Audrey Hepburn’s alternative to brunch in bed

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

200

This philosopher and general wrote “The Art Of War”

Sun Tzu

200

The state where the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated

New Mexico

200

One of the two landlocked countries in South America

Bolivia and Paraguay

200

The Fallingwater house, located in Pennsylvania, was designed by this architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

300

In The Matrix, Neo takes this color pill

Red

300

This Tolstoy tome centers on the 1812 invasion of Russia

War and Peace

300

He was the first Republican president

Abraham Lincoln

300

This Argentine region’s name is Spanish for “big feet” perhaps because Spaniards saw Indians who wore large boots.

Patagonia

300

It holds that the physical universe is God

Pantheism 

400

The first sequel to win Best Picture

The Godfather 2

400

He won the 1953 Nobel Prize in literature partly for his six volume history of World War II

Winston Churchill 

400

This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and British armies during the war

Benedict (not Paul Joseph) Arnold

400

The number of US states that touch the Pacific Ocean

5

400

In 2006-07, the only undefeated team in Division 1-A football was from this capital city, the “Crossroads of the Oregon Trail,”

Boise

500

The name of the skyscraper in “Die Hard”

Nakatomi Plaza

500

This 1939 novel contains no words with the letter “E”

Gadsby (by Earnest Vincent Wright)

500

The year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon

1969

500

The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea

The Dead Sea

500

What number does the Roman numeral D stand for?

500

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