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This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.

What is Schindler's List?

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1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott

Who is Agatha Christie?

100

This kid lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive”

What is 101 Dalmatians?

100

A young female horse

What is a filly?

100

This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener

What is Blink?

100

The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library

What is the Library of Congress?

100

With a rhyming title: “The True Story of the Manson Murders”

What is Helter Skelter?

200

A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.

What is Fight Club?

200

On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century

What are Science Fiction and Fantasy?

200

E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on “Twilight”

What is 50 Shades of Grey?

200

In scientific classification, it’s between order & genus

What is family?

200

2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work

What is Carrie?

200

This “Chicago” poet was Illinois’ poet laureate in the last years of his life from 1962 to 1967

Who is Carl Sandburg?

200

“A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”

What is Freakonomics?

300

Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name

What is The Help?

300

It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver

What is Barbara?

300

The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane

What is Catch-22?

300

2 independent countries lie within the borders of this nation

What is Italy?

300

In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence

What is Neuromancer?

300

In 2019 Joy Harjo of the Muscogee Creek Nation of this state was named the first Native American poet laureate

What is Oklahoma?

300

By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”

What is Lean In?

400

This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”

What is Goodfellas?
400

During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
400

Garry Wills’ 1992 “Lincoln at” this place examines an event sixscore & nine years previous

What is Gettysburg?

400

Hospital attendant job with non-medical duties

What is an orderly?

400

“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land

What is Terabithia?

400

Colorado laureate Milford Shields must have been surprised when the governor also made this folk singer with a capital city sounding name a co-laureate in 1974

Who is John Denver?

400

Made into a 2009 Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”

What is He's Just Not That Into You?

500

Rose Byrne played biographer Rebecca Skloot in the HBO movie “The Immortal Life of” this woman

Who is Henrietta Lacks?

500

She wrote the classics “Ramona the Pest” & “Beezus & Ramona”

Who is Beverly Cleary?

500

5-letter piece of ornamental lace or embroidery found on a table

What is a doily?

500

In 2019 this Rick Riordan title guy—”& the Olympians”, too—spent week 500 on the children’s series list, & that’s no myth

Who is Percy Jackson?

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Whitman's 1865 poems "O Captain! My Captain!" & "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" are elegies for this hero of his        

Who is Abraham Lincoln?