'In 1962 this country swapped 1,113 prisoners it captured in the Bay of Pigs invasion for $53 million in aid'
Cuba
200
'She's the type of girl Billy Joel was "in love with" in a 1983 hit'
"Uptown Girl"
200
'Number of months with 28 days'
12
200
'Around 1850 Helmholtz clocked impulses moving along these body parts at about 90 feet per second'
nerves
200
'A temptress, or a device that produces a wailing warning sound'
siren
400
'This now-popular term for a situation with no solution was also the title of a 1961 novel'
catch-22
400
'It's the classic heard here'
"Down on the Corner"
400
'The highest single-digit number that reads the same upside down & right side up'
8
400
'University prof Michael Mastlin sold young Johannes Kepler on this Copernican theory'
heliocentrism
400
'These shadow portraits are named for a French finance minister known for his strict economic policies'
silhouettes
600
'In 1963 he started his "Faith Partnerships", asking 700 of his viewers to pledge $10 a month'
Pat Robertson
600
'It begins, "When this old world starts getting me down and people are just too much for me to face"'
"Up on the Roof"
600
'The number of stars on the U.S. flag divided by the number of U.S. states not in North America'
50 (50/1 (Hawaii))
600
'Max Born taught this subject at the University of Gottingen & won a Nobel Prize in it'
physics
600
'An auxilliary building near the main one, or to attach a territory to an existing state or nation'
annex
800
'In 1968 work began on this project that stretched from the North Slope by Prudhoe Bay to the port of Valdez'
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
800
'(Hi, I'm KC of KC and the Sunshine Band) My band's first No. 1 hit was this song that's been featured in a Budweiser ad & in Eddie Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle"'
"Get Down Tonight"
800
'Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit equal to -40 degrees Celsius'
-40
800
'"Psychopathia Sexualis" author Krafft-Ebing found the link between this disease & the mental decay called paresis'
syphilis
800
'The word roulette is from Old French for "small" this, though it's a big part of the game'
wheel
1000
'Seasonal name given the liberalization program Alexander Dubcek set up in 1968 in Czechoslovakia'
Prague Spring
1000
'In 1991 Elton John re-recorded this song live with George Michael'
"Don\'t Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
1000
'If you were to spell out the numbers, it's how far you'd have to go before using the letter A'
one thousand
1000
'Nicolaier produced this disease in animals by injecting then with soil, & maybe watching their little jaws lock'
tetanus
1000
'As an adverb, it means "thus" or "so"; as a verb, it means to urge a dog to attack'