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This fibrous tissue that connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.

What is the Achilles Tendon?

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Her most famous novel was originally titled "Elinor and Marianne", and was signed "By a Lady".

Who is Jane Austen?

200

This 19th century breakthrough method of communication could be described as "Here Come Dots"

The Morse Code

200

This term, derived from Latin, refers to a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards.

What is a palindrome?

200

Grandma Bev's hometown

What is Pine City?

400

These tiny structures are, at between five and ten micrometers in diameter, the smallest blood vessels in the human body

What are capillaries?

400

He was condemned to death for being a member of a literary society in the 1840s whose ultimate purpose was social revolution, but was saved by royal decree even as he stood in front of the firing squad. 

Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

400

"He Bugs Gore", especially when it comes to the Supreme Court

Who is George Bush?

400

The name of this extinct bird is a musical note said twice

What is a Dodo?
400

"Ap Rhys", the name of the Welsh House from which the "Price" line is traced, translates to this in English.

What is "son of Rhys"?

600

This is the largest bone in the human body

What is the femur?

600

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He wrote his published work, a short story titled "The Boarding House", under a pseudonym "Boz", a name inspired from a childhood rendering of the character Moses from Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith's 1776 novel The Vicar of Wakefield

Who is Charles Dickens?

600

He starred in "Old West Action" movies

Who is Clint Eastwood?

600

Its plural is beeves

What is beef?

600

Great-Grandpa George Bernard Gallagher served as an officer in the NYPD for this precinct, the "Old Slip Station House".

What is the 1st Precinct?

800

This finger contributes over 50% of the hands strength

What is the little finger?

800

This Transcendental essayist and author became good friends with Napoleon's nephew Prince Achille Murat despite stark political disagreements in part because Murat did not recognize him, since he went by his middle name.

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

800

"Monkeys Write" at this prominent publication

What is the New York Times?

800

In 1961 Newton Minnow described television as a vast this

What is a wasteland?

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Realto Charles Price, who graduated from Cooper Union in New York City, served in the US Army during World War I, and helped create characters like "Popeye" and "Betty Boop" as a cartoonist for Paramount Pictures, was known by this four-letter nickname

Who is "Jeff"?

1000

As far as we can tell, Michael Jordan, Gene Simmons, and Miley Cyrus all have very active hypoglossal nerves, which is responsible for the movement of this muscular organ

What is the tongue?

1000

This author's list of pseudonyms included, but was not limited to, Martha Careful, Busy Body, Alice Addertongue, and Polly Baker

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

1000

This iconic American monument is "Built to Stay Free"

What is the Statue of Liberty?

1000

Malcolm X often used the device called chiasmus as in We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was this

What is "the rock was landed on us"?

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Upon leaving Long Island in 1666-7, Benjamin Price reestablished his family in this town in New Jersey, which bears the same name as someone in the Schierl family.

What is Elizabeth, New Jersey?