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LIBRARIES

200

'This city's Harold Washington Library Center is the USA's largest municipal library building'

Chicago

400

'The Chapin Library of Rare Books at Williams College in this state's Berkshire Hills has a 1787 copy of the Constitution'

Massachusetts

600

'Under Ptolemy I, Zenodotus of Ephesus became its first librarian'

Library at Alexandria

800

'2 marble lions named Patience & Fortitude guard the entrance to its central research building'

New York Public Library

1000

'The library at Cambridge's Magdalene College is named for this diarist who bequeathed it his books & diary'

Samuel Pepys

ACTRESS-DIRECTORS

200

'"Beautiful" starring Minnie Driver marked the big screen directorial debut of this "Norma Rae" star'

Sally Field

400

'She directed, co-produced & starred in "The Mirror Has Two Faces"'

Barbra Streisand

600

'Films like "Big" & "The Preacher's Wife" have put her in a league of her own'

Penny Marshall

800

'In 1999 she directed & starred in "Agnes Browne", about a mother of 7, who tries to make ends meet in 1960s Dublin'

Anjelica Huston

1000

'A no-nonsense officer in "Hill Street Blues", she's since directed "Private Parts" & "Doctor Dolittle"'

Betty Thomas

SCIENCE & NATURE

200

'75 miles long & 64 miles wide, the Mauna Loa volcano in this state is the world's largest active volcano'

Hawaii

400

'It can be a voracious reader, or a beetle larva that feeds on paper'

Bookworm

600

'When a tropical storm's winds increase past 74 MPH, it's classified as one of these'

Hurricane

800

'12 to 30 miles up, this atmospheric "layer" largely in the stratosphere protects us from the full force of ultraviolet rays'

Ozone layer

1000

'The ants seen here of the genus Atta are known by this "occupational" name'

Leafcutter ants

"S.C."

200

'This body was created September 24, 1789 by the Federal Judiciary Act'

Supreme Court

400

'This Arizona retirement community opened in 1960'

Sun City

600

'In a 1962 movie he bonded with Ursula Andress'

Sean Connery

800

'In this 2000 Clint Eastwood film, a group of prunish astronauts goes into space'

Space Cowboys

1000

'This phrase, from a Hindu belief, is applied to something that's above criticism'

Sacred cow

COUNTRIES BY REGION

200

'Oaxaca,
Durango,
Nayarit'

Mexico

400

'Thessaly,
Epirus,
Peloponnesus'

Greece

600

'Hebei,
Hubei,
Shandong'

China

800

'Nograd,
Pest,
Somogy'

Hungary

1000

'Oppland,
Nordland,
Telemark'

Norway