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WASHINGTON, D.C.

200

'The city's planner, Pierre L' Enfant, called this hill "A pedestal waiting for a monument"'

Capitol Hill

400

'This little park, named for a French nobleman, faces the White House across Pennsylvania Ave.'

Lafayette Park/Square

600

'The National Zoological park is a unit of this'

Smithsonian Institution

800

'The basement of this building at 511 10th St. NW houses a museum of Lincoln memorabilia'

Ford\'s Theater

1000

'Massachusetts Avenue is noted for more of them than any other street'

Embassies

HISTORY

200

'After meeting this rival liberator in 1822, San Martin left South America'

Simon Bolivar

400

'In 1616 Dutch explorer Willem Schouten rounded this cape that he named for his home town'

Cape Horn

600

'The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland was established on the first day of this century'

19th Century

800

'In 1901 the U.S. made this island a virtual protectorate'

Cuba

1000

'After this mutiny failed in 1858, the last Mogul emperor of India was exiled to Burma'

Sepoy Rebellion

ART

200

'A recent show of her works at the Whitney Museum included bronzes of her art made before she was Mrs. John Lennon'

Yoko Ono

400

'Back in 1961 his "Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer" brought a record price of $2.3 million'

Rembrandt

600

'Jean Arp coined this term to describe the non-mobile works of Alexander Calder'

Stabiles

800

'One of Goya's works depicts this father of Jupiter "devouring his children"'

Saturn

1000

'Also known as "Beaubourg", the Paris Center for the Contemporary Art is named after this French president'

Georges Pompidou

LITERATURE

200

'"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" is from this Tennyson poem'

"Charge of the Light Brigade"

400

'The 1956 novel "Compulsion" was based on the story of this duo defended by Darrow'

Leopold & Loeb

600

'Chingachgook became the last of the Mohicans when this man, his son, died'

Uncas

800

'This Oliver Goldsmith play is subtitled "The Mistakes of the Night"'

"She Stoops to Conquer"

1000

'He wrote "Penrod", "Penrod and Son" & "Penrod Jashber"'

Booth Tarkington

PHYSICS

200

'A unit of wave frequency defined as 1 cycle per second, or a car rental company'

Hertz

400

'While processing pitchblende, a uranium ore, Marie & Pierre Curie & G. DeMont discovered this element'

Radium

600

'The curved path along which a planet travels under the influence of a gravitational field'

Orbit

800

'Speaking of this device, Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth."'

Fulcrum & Lever

1000

'The measure of a body's inertia is technically known as this'

Mass