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400

Schwarzwald, also known as the black this.

What is the Black Forest?

400

Many Vikings wore pendants made in the form of Mjolnir, which is this symbol of Thor.

What is the hammer?

400

Antonym, in 7 letters

What is a synonym?

400

In this sci-fi novel Guy Montag is a "fireman" with a burning desire to read.

What is "Fahrenheit 451"?

400

Ober 600 fables are attributed to Aesop, including the one about this pair with the moral "slow but steady wins the race".

What is "the Tortoise and the Hare?"

800

For Yule shopping, christkindlmarkt, christkind literally meaning this little guy

What is the Christ child?

800

The Vikings may have been named for Viken, located in a fjord of this future Scandinavian capital.

What is Oslo?

800

Virtue; it's a squeezing tool, too

What is vice?

800

Pooh on you if you don't know that "Now We Are Six" is a book of light verse by this author.

Who is A. A. Milne?

800

To visit Diego Velazquez's 17th century portrait of Aesop, you'll have to visit this Madrid museum.

What is the Prado?

1200

This river that flows past Worms and Mainz

What is the Rhine?

1200

The need for wood in Greenland prompted visits to Markland, which today is this mainland partner of Newfoundland.

What is Labrador?

1200

Order; Harvard's Curtis McMullen studies its theory

What is chaos?

1200

"Four Blind Mice" by this man is an Alex Cross thriller about a series of murders with strange links to the Vietnam War.

Who is James Patterson?

1200

By some accounts Aesop was unjustly executed in this oracle city for stealing; his death cursed the city.

What is Delphi?

1600

DAILY DOUBLE! Please make a wager before answering.

After the split of Germany, West Germany's capital moved to here.

1600

Under the terms of a 911 treaty, Norse leader Pollo received this region at the mouth of the Seine River.

What is Normandy?

1600

Pleasant or easygoing; Mrs. Parker had such a "circle"

What is vicious?

1600

DAILY DOUBLE! Please make a wager before answering.

1408 is a haunted room at NYC's Dolphin Hotel in a tale by this man.

1600

In one fable this hungry animal concludes that some grapes must be sour when he can't reach them.

What is a fox?

2000

This concentration camp site just north of Munich

What is Dachau?

2000

Viking shipbuilders greatly improved the seaworthiness of their vessels by adding this piece of wood to form the backbone.

What is a keel?

2000

Untouchable; it starts with a "T" but don't say "touchable"

What is tangible?

2000

In a 1915 novel "it must be some place where there were several staircases, and one marked out from the others by having" this title.

What is "The 39 Steps"?

2000

Plutarch said Aesop once worked as an advisor to this fabulously rich king of Lydia.

Who is Croesus?