'He's interred at his former home at 18354 Ventura Blvd. in Encino, not Tarzana, California'
Edgar Rice Burroughs
200
'The Japanese call this "ballistic" train the Shinkansen'
bullet train
200
'1999: Adam Sandler takes on fatherhood'
Big Daddy
200
'The abnormal branch of this field studies mental disorders, deviance & just plain weirdness'
psychology
200
'The final ceremony: Real fun?'
funeral
400
'Saint Martin's Churchyard in Laugharne, Wales is where this poet wound up after drinking himself to death'
Dylan Thomas
400
'The 20th Century Limited took you from New York to this city where you could catch the Super Chief to Los Angeles'
Chicago
400
'1970: Dustin Hoffman as Jack Crabb, aged 121'
Little Big Man
400
'Branch of biology defined as the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye'
microbiology
400
'People complain there's too much of it in the movies: Nice love?'
violence
600
'In Manhattan's Trinity Cemetery, you can visit John J. Audubon as well as this "Visit From St. Nick" poet'
Clement Clarke Moore
600
'This country's Central Railway takes you up 13,000 feet going from La Oroya to Cuzco'
Peru
600
'1987: Dennis Quaid & Ellen Barkin have a steamy romance in New Orleans'
The Big Easy
600
'Sovietology is also sometmes called this, after a structure in Moscow'
Kremlinology
600
'Elmer Gantry, for example: Evil's agent?'
evangelist
800
'Henrik Ibsen is with his family in the Cemetery of Our Savior in this world capital'
Oslo, Norway
800
'The name of this Paris-to-Istanbul service that began in 1873 is now on a London-to-Venice train service'
Orient Express
800
'2002: Frankie Muniz' stolen school essay becomes a big Hollywood movie'
Big Fat Liar
800
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Science Museum of Minnesota) This device was once used in this discredited science of determining personality by reading the bumps on the skull'
phrenology
800
'A Tennessee municipality: Hen villas?'
Nashville
1000
'He's buried in Oxfordshire under a headstone that says "Here Lies Eric Arthur Blair"'
George Orwell
1000
'The 2,461-mile-long Indian Pacific line connects the east & west coasts of this country'
Australia (goes from Perth to Sydney)
1000
'1998: Jeff Bridges is an L.A. slacker who bowls'
The Big Lebowski
1000
'Cornell's medical website calls this study of the functions of living organisms the oldest basic medical science'
physiology
1000
'Sister in a famous family of singers: Am I so modern?'