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100

This North Carolina estate is the largest privately owned house in the United States.

What is the Biltmore Estate?

100

This bologna brand has a first name... and a car.

What is Oscar Mayer?

100

This iconic building has many gargoyles including the sculpted head of Darth Vader.

What is the National Cathedral?

100

This is a 2010 memoir by Piper Kerman, which tells the story of her year spent in a federal prison.

What is Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison?

100

A fortnight is this many days.

What is fourteen?

200

In 1909, this president expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office in the White House.

Who is William Howard Taft?

200

The 22nd and 24th president of the United States.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

200

This slogan is featured on DC license plates. The word "End" added in 2017.

What is "Taxation without Representation"?

200

In this novel, Billy saves money to buy two puppies who he names Old Dan and Little Ann.

What is Where the Red Fern Grows?

200

Tyrannosaurus rex lived during this period.

What is the Cretaceous period?

300

This house is more commonly known as "My Old Kentucky Home".

What is Federal Hill?

300

This weather phenomenon is caused by ionization of the air molecules in the electric field around an object, producing a faint glow easily visible in low-light conditions.

What is St. Elmo's Fire?

300

This neighborhood includes the Watergate Complex, the Kennedy Center, and George Washington University.

What is Foggy Bottom?

300

Fannie Flag was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation of this, her 1987 novel.

What is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe?

300

This "periodic" comet returns to Earth's vicinity about every 75 years and is projected to return in 2061.

What is Halley's Comet?

400

Built by the widow of a firearm magnate between 1884–1922, this Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, is renowned for its size, architectural curiosities, and lack of any master building plan.

What is the Winchester Mystery House?

400

This fictional character in the Star Wars franchise is portrayed by Christopher Lee.

Who is Count Dooku?

400

The alphabet named streets of DC use all the letters except X, Y, Z, and this letter.  

What is J?

400

This short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, was first published in January 1892 and is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature.

What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

400

This Backstreet Boys album released on May 18, 1999 includes "I Want It That Way".

What is Millennium?

500

This 1893 Richardsonian-Romanesque house and museum in St. James Court, is known for its quilt-like patterned parquet flooring.

What is the Conrad–Caldwell House?

500

This big bird is the largest flying bird living today and has a wingspan of about 11.4 feet.

What is a Royal Albatross?

500

This is the only president buried in DC.

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

500

Published in 1970, this is the first novel written by Toni Morrison.

What is The Bluest Eye?

500

In this period of rapid economic growth between the Civil War and the turn of the 20th century, greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence at the expense of the working class.

What is the the Gilded Age?

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