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STUPID ANSWERS

200

'A round tower opened in Copenhagen in 1642 as an observatory has this name in English'

the Round Tower

400

'Sparkling wine sold under the name Champagne must come from this region in Northeast France'

Champagne

600

'This is a day to honor all saints'

All Saints\' Day

800

'It takes an hour for each man in this theatrical group to apply blue greasepaint to his head before shows'

the Blue Man Group

1000

'This town on the York River was the site of the last major battle of the Revolutionary War'

Yorktown

COMPUTER SPEAK

200

'This word for fire is also an abusive note on a message board or in a chat room'

flame

400

'No relation to DC Comics' fastest man, this is the fast-loading animation by Adobe'

Flash

600

'When a device can be attached to your computer & install itself, it's PnP, short for this'

Plug and Play

800

'This word meaning to deal a blow is now a word for one look at a website'

a hit

1000

'In chat rooms, "YMMV" is this disclaimer often used in car ads; it basically lets you off the hook for anything you say'

your mileage may vary

BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS

200

'To help reassure women, this First Lady spoke openly about her 1974 battle'

Betty Ford

400

'Dr. Jerri Nielsen was forced to treat herself for breast cancer while she was stuck at this remote location'

Antarctica

600

'This singer is donating the proceeds from the song heard here to breast cancer charities

"I run for you mother, your sister, your wife..."'

Melissa Etheridge

800

'This feminist felt women were so excluded from health care research, even the experimental mice were male'

Gloria Steinem

1000

'A rare male victim of breast cancer, this actor who played John Shaft in 1971 gave the disease the "shaft"'

Richard Roundtree

THE OSCARS

200

'Almost one year after receiving her Oscar for Best Actress, she became a real-life princess'

Grace Kelly

400

'Both Jose Ferrer & Gerard Depardieu received Oscar nominations for playing this title character'

Cyrano de Bergerac

600

'At the ceremony in 1998, this Best Director declared himself "King of the World"'

James Cameron

800

'3 actors got 1982 nominations for acting in drag: Dustin Hoffman, Julie Andrews & this film's John Lithgow'

The World According to Garp

1000

'This Oscar-winning song from 1952 is subtitled "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin'"'

"High Noon"

SPACE EXPLORATION

200

'Launched in 1989, the Magellan spacecraft later radar-mapped most of the surface of this planet, Earth's twin'

Venus

400

'Gus Grissom's Gemini 3 capsule aptly had this "unsinkable" lady's name (his Mercury 4 capsule had sunk)'

Molly Brown

600

'On July 20, 1969 this lunar module separated from the Apollo 11 spacecraft & landed on the Moon'

the Eagle

800

'In 1986 5 spacecraft rendezvoused with this object, Giotto came within 400 miles of its nucleus'

Halley\'s Comet

1000

'In 2005 the Hubble Space Telescope found 2 more small moons orbiting this, making 3, including Charon'

Pluto