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200

Antoine de Saint-Exupery is best remembered for the 1943 children's tale "The Little" this

Prince

200

In 1655 England's John Wallis came up with the sideways 8 symbol for this

Infinity

200

This sleek worsted fabric used to make suits doesn't come from hammerheads as its name implies

Sharkskin

200

One story says the inventor of this type of coffee was inspired by a shipment of beans accidentally soaked by seawater.

Decaf

200

Peter the Great & Nicholas II the Unfortunate

Romanov

400

Written by the 11th century poet, Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh" is considered the national epic of this country

Iran

400

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky is the name of a founder of non-this geometry

non-Euclidean

400

Rose point, a very fragile type of this delicate fabric, often features floral motifs

Lace

400

On the tree, coffee beans aren’t called beans but, these, rhyming with Berries.

Cherries

400

Henry VII & Bloody Mary I

Tudor

600

Russian characters can be confusing & Gogol didn't help with a story about a quarrel by 2 men who both had this common first name

Ivan

600

Also known as Leonardo of Pisa, he knew a lot of numbers, not just 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8

Fibonacci

600

The Sea Island type of this natural fiber may come from the Sea Islands or the West Indies

Cotton

600

Jacques-Victor Delforge & Henri-Otto Mayer filed a patent for this type of plunger-based device in 1852.

The French Press

600

Empress Maria Theresa & Emperor Franz Josef

Habsburg

800

Novels in the horror genre by Bram Stoker include "The Lair of" this colorful snakelike creature

The White Worm

800

Henri Poincaré pioneered this math branch that studies the deformation of objects into new shapes without any cutting or pasting

Topology

800

The crepe-back type of this fabric is dull on one side & lustrous on the other

Satin

800

Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind.

Roasting

800

Louis XIV

Bourbon

1000

The author of works like "Cevdet Bey & His Sons", Orhan Pamuk was the first Nobel literature prize winner from this country

Turkey

1000

This 19th century German, whose name is a unit of magnetism, was known as Princeps mathematicorum, "Prince of Mathematicians"

Gauss

1000

1 of the 2 leading wool-producing countries in South America

Argentina (or Uruguay)

1000

These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability & labor standards.

Fair Trade

1000

The crown prince known as MBS: the house of this

Saud (Saudi Arabia)