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100

What hit song begins, "He was a boy, she was a girl.  Can I make it any more obvious."?

"Sk8er Boi" (Avril Lavigne)

100

What fugitive was found in 2003, hiding in a hole with $750K in cash, a pistol, and two AK-47s?

Saddam Hussein

100

Before he was "The Rock", he had another nickname - Dewey

Dwayne Johnson

100

He was nearly blind when he painted his series of "Water Lilies"

Claude Monet

100

Samuel Clemens used this pseudonym which means "2 Fathoms Deep"

Mark Twain

200

Heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne infamously bit the head off what animal at a concert in 1982?

a bat
200

The road leading to Anaheim's baseball stadium is named after what singing cowboy?

Gene Autry

200

Robert Ford met with Missouri's governor to plan the 1882 murder of this outlaw and the gov gave Bob a quick pardon for it

Jesse James

200

In the language of creator Rodin, this sculpture is "le penseur"

The Thinker

200
"The Pit and the Pendulum" helped secure his reputation as a master of lurid Gothic suspense

Edgar Allen Poe

300

What was Nirvana's debut album entitled?

Bleach

300

By what name was human rights activist el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz better known?

Malcolm X

300

Transforming into a creepy new persona, Arthur Fleck dances down a tall set of outdoor stairs in this 2019 film

Joker

300

His "The Potato Eaters" was among paintings taken from a museum in Holland in 1988

Vincent Van Gogh

300

The writer, born in Salinas, explored the Sea of Cortez with Ed Ricketts

John Steinbeck

400

What rap group signed a $1.6 million endorsement deal with Adidas?

Run-D.M.C.

400

What fellow actor did Joanne Woodward marry in 1958?

Paul Newman

400

Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Grand Teton National Park

Jackson Hole

400

Frida Kahlo married him in 1929; they divorced in 1939 & remarried in 1940

Diego Rivera

400

This author of "The Joy Luck Club" was born shortly after her parents immigrated to the U.S.

Amy Tan

500

What pop duo from Germany became infamous after they were outed for not being the actual singers on their albums?

Milli Vanilli

500

The Boston Red Sox were jinxed by the 86-year-long Curse of the Bambino, after they sold who to the New York Yankees?

Babe Ruth

500

A fine-bladed marquetry tool is thought to have been used to create the first of these around 1760

Jigsaw puzzle

500

He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 Apostles for Florence's cathedral

Michelangelo

500

She was a senior editor at Random House while she was writing the novel "Beloved"

Toni Morrison