World History
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Proust's Remembrance of Smells Past
100
Defeating a combined Russian & Austrian army, this general had one of his greatest victories at 1805's Battle of Austerlitz
Napoleon
100
"Piglet said (it) was a... good trap... he wouldn't see the very deep pit until he was half-way down, when it would be too late"
Milne
100
A paper that lists a voter's choices elects to change one letter & dances in as a classic theatrical art form
Ballot/Ballet
100
The Wakefield 241st Street subway station, the northernmost station in the New York City Subway System, is in this boroug
The Bronx
100
In a "30 Rock" episode, this Tina Fey character learns from her high school reunion that she was actually a mean girl
Liz Lemon
100
If only, like Hasbro, I might trademark the smell of this modeling compound: hints of cherry, vanilla, salt & youth itself
Play-doh
200
Christianity reached this vast island with Leif Eriksson in the 11th century & a bishop's seat was established there in 1124
Greenland
200
"The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking around"
Lewis Carroll
200
Mom or dad changes a letter & gets an exclusive right granted for an invention
Parent/Patent
200
Bank & Brixton are stops on London's Metro, better known as the Tube or by this subterranean name
The Underground
200
Yvette Nicole Brown played Shirley Bennett, a Greendale College student that's nice, alongside Donald Glover & Alison Brie on this NBC show
Community
200
Zealously lifting my nostrils to the window, I noted what science calls petrichor--the pleasant, earthy smell caused by this
Rain
300
In August 1601 Olivier van Noort returned to Rotterdam after a 3-year voyage that made him the first Dutchman to do this
Circumnavigate the Globe
300
In one translation, "The most ghastly sight of all was a little mermaid whom they had caught and strangled"
Hans Christian Andersen
300
Uh oh... you're in a synonym of peril because after a letter change, someone is threatening you with a stabbing weapon
Danger/Dagger
300
In Chicago the Blue Line takes you to O'Hare, while the Orange Line takes you to the station for this other airport
Midway
300
"Sorry, we're closed" was the last line of this show in an episode entitled "One for the Road"
Cheers
300
Memory awoke as I detected the xylene fumes: a permanent marker, perhaps of this brand launched in 1964
Sharpie
400
In 1917 Britain turned down an offer to save the family of 7 with this last name, who were later killed
Romanov
400
'"Augustus Gloop! Augustus Gloop! The great big greedy nincompoop!... so unutterably vile, so greedy, foul, and infantile
Roald Dahl
400
To conclude by reasoning switches a letter & now means to bury
Infer/inter
400
The artwork on the walls of this Paris Metro station named for a demolished edifice includes key moments of the French Revolution
The Bastille
400
Ed O'Neill was a longtime TV dad on "Married... with Children" & then again on this sitcom that ran from 2009 to 2020
Modern Family
400
Its smell called to mind the essential oils of drum circles past: that most Bohemian of flora, Pogostemon cablin, aka this
patchouli
500
In 1508 Diego Columbus, Christopher's son, was named governor of these (no compass direction given)
The Indies
500
"Soon Fudge would be a famous television star and I would be plain old Peter Hatcher--fourth grade nothing"
Judy Blume
500
The "value" of a used car changes into this verb meaning to amuse, as with a story
Resale/Regale
500
A Metro stop that serves George Washington University has this 2-word name that includes a murky adjective
Foggy Bottom
500
And there's this actress who played the sitcom roles of Maude Findlay & Dorothy Zbornak
Bea Arthur
500
Its foul stink affronts my senses; never shall I deign to revisit this soft cheese or the Belgian province whence it came
Limburger