RUSSIAN TO THE BOOKSHELF
DESCRIBING THE ADJECTIVE
AMERICAN HISTORY
ATHLETES WHO TEACH
SAILING THE 5 SEAS
100

Natasha Rostov & Pierre Bezukhov are characters in this Tolstoy masterpiece

War and Peace

100

There are a limited number of I's--3--in this word meaning endless... or unlimited...or... 

infinite

100

One of my heroes is Wild Bill Hickok, who before moving west & becoming a legendary lawman & gunfighter helped escaping slaves at his family's Illinois farm, which served as a stop on this

the Underground Railroad

100

NFL quarterback Jon Kitna traded Xs & Os for the Xs & Ys of this branch of math with a name from Arabic

algebra

100

Travel from Colombia to Jamaica across this sea

the Caribbean Sea

200

Early in a Pasternak novel, this title man stands "in the corridor of the gynecological section of the hospital"

Doctor Zhivago

200

This adjective meaning warmly appreciative is in the name of Bob Weir's band

grateful

200

New York statesman DeWitt Clinton promoted the idea of this waterway & was the commissioner who oversaw its construction

the Erie Canal

200

In 2012 Ken Dryden began teaching a course at McGill in these national "Studies"

Canadian

200

Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs

the Black Sea

300

This 19th century poet, playwright and unsuccessful duelist is considered a founder of modern Russian literature

Alexander Pushkin

300

DAILY DOUBLE

Desolate & raw, or a title description of a novel "House" with Ada Clarek

bleak

300

The only clue to this colony's disappearance was the word "Croatoan" on a post; hasn't helped much

Roanoke

300

The first woman to win three gold track medals in a single Olympics, 1960, she taught second graders in Tennessee

Wilma Rudolph

300

DAILY DOUBLE

The Germans call this bordering sea Ostsee; the Swedes', Ostersjon

the Baltic

400

Woody Allen's film "Love and Death" parodies Russian novels & its title echoes "Crime and Punishment" & this 1862 Turgenev title

Fathers and Sons

400

If you're this "fallacy" of attributing emotions to objects, you're this, & there's no "em-" at the start of the word

pathetic

400

This 2-word concept was used to justify the acquisitions of Oregon territory, California & Mexican land in the southwest

Manifest Destiny

400

This former Knick & onetime presidential candidate taught at Maryland & Stanford

Bill Bradley

400

In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer

the Bering Sea

500

This 1970 Literature Nobel Prize winner spent time in the gulag & was deported from the Soviet Union in 1974

Solzhenitsyn

500

Though it sounds like 5 things you really require, it actually describes the perfect embodiment of something

quintessential

500

This education reformer took John Quincy Adams' seat in the House of Representatives, where he vigorously opposed slavery

Horace Mann

500

Mike Doleac went to the Final Four with this state U., won an NBA title & came home to teach physics at Park City High

Utah

500

On the other side of Greece from the Aegean, this sea is the Mediterranean's deepest, maxing at more than 16,000 feet

the Ionian