An Asian Capital Idea
Caves
Television
A Date In History
The Mafia
100

The job of guarding the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in this capital is a high honor.

Hai Phong

Hanoi

Hoi An

Hanoi

100

The world's largest ice cave lies in Hochkogel Mountain in a section of this range in Austria.

the Alps

Hohe Tauern

Dachstein

the Alps

100

In Season 2 of this show, Kali, aka Eight, has psychic powers & mentors Eleven.

Locke & Key

School Spirits

Stranger Things

Stranger Things

100

After this couple's first date in 1894, she went home to Poland while he wrote her letters about his "dream for science".

Marie and Pierre Curie

May-Britt and Edvard Moser

Gerty and Carl Cori

Marie and Pierre Curie

100

The most powerful mob boss of his day, Charles Luciano became famous--make that infamous--under this nickname.

Meyer Lansky

Frank Costello

Lucky Luciano

Lucky Luciano

200

A Friendship Bridge across the Mekong River connects Nong Khai, Thailand with this capital of Laos.

Luang Prabang

Savannakhet

Vientiane

Vientiane

200

Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa in these "Inner" islands inspired a famous overture by Felix Mendelssohn.

the Orkney Islands

the Shetland Islands

the Hebrides Islands

the Hebrides Islands

200

As Ed Glosser, the trivial psychic on "SNL", he warned someone they're gonna get an ice cream headache for 8 or 9 seconds.

Christopher Walken

Willem Dafoe

Steve Buscemi

Christopher Walken

200

In Tarsus in 41 B.C. Cleopatra wooed this beefy Roman by arriving to a date dressed as Venus.

Julius Caesar

Octavian

Marc Antony

Marc Antony

200

The "Dapper Don", this Gambino family boss died in prison after getting convicted on 13 counts of extortion, murder & more.

Paul Castellano

John Gotti

Carlo Gambino

John Gotti

300

This city is known as Al-Fayha, "the fragrant", perhaps for its orchards.

Damascus

Aleppo

Hama

Damascus

300

To legally receive its name, this blue-veined cheese must age in the limestone caves near Toulouse, France.

Gorgonzola

Roquefort

Stilton

Roquefort

300

In a time-traveling vision, this character sees his father Ned as a younger man & learns a thing or 2 about Jon Snow.

Brynden Rivers

Jojen Reed

Bran Stark

Bran Stark

300

In the summer of 1989, this not-yet-famous couple went on a movie date in Chicago & saw a Spike Lee film.

Lori and Josh Shapiro

Amy Hoover Sanders and Beto O'Rourke

Michelle and Barack Obama

Michella and Barack Obama

300

In the 1980s this previously obscure federal statute was used to send the heads of 3 mafia families to prison for life.

RICO

VICAR

CCE

RICO

400

Before containing "stan" like its country, this city was known over time as Akmolinsk, Nur-Sultan & also Aqmola.

Astana

Baku

Sumgait

Astana

400

Most of the 4.6 million shells of Kent, England's Shell Grotto are local but there are shells from this Caribbean sea snail as well.

Whelks

Conch

Cerith

Conch

400

In this series based on a Stephen King novel, Anthony Michael Hall wakes up from a coma with psychic abilities.

Under the Dome

The Dead Zone

11/22/63

The Dead Zone

400

On one of this duo's early dates in 1930, he crashed on her couch & in the morning, the Dallas police arrested him.

Alton Coleman & Debra Brown

Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

Martha Beck & Raymond Fernandez

Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

400

In the 1980s an FBI agent infiltrated the Bonanno family under this alias, the title of a 1997 Johnny Depp movie.

Jack Garcia

Donnie Brasco

Scott Payne

Donnie Brasco

500

The downtown of the central part of this city on the Mediterranean was destroyed by a civil war that ended in 1990.

Tripoli

Jounieh

Beirut

Beirut

500

In 1900 a library cave of around 50,000 documents was discovered in the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas on this ancient route.

Silk Road

Tea Horse Road

Amber Road

Silk Road

500

I have a vision that you'll name this show that starred supernaturally gifted Patricia Arquette as a crime solver.

Medium

Ghost Whisperer

Tru Calling

Medium

500

A tale of a medieval hookup: this pair met in Paris around 1115, had a son, but lived on separated as monk & nun.

Abelard & Heloise

Paolo & Francesca

Heathcliff & Cathy

Abelard & Heloise

500

In 1963 Joe Valachi gave televised testimony to Congress, breaking the mafia code of silence known by this Italian word.

Infami

Umilta

Omerta

Omerta