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COLLEGE STADIUMS & ARENAS

200

'Tulane's football team plays its home games off campus at this facility that has a 9.7-acre roof'

the Superdome

400

'Built in 1914, Palmer Stadium at this New Jersey university was the home of its football team for 82 years'

Princeton University

600

'Fittingly, $57 million is what this food company is paying over 20 years to have its name on the Pittsburgh Panthers' field'

Heinz

800

'This South Carolina school's Tigers play their home game in Memorial Stadium, aka "Death Valley"'

Clemson

1000

'Rupp Arena is the home court to this school's Wildcats basketball team'

University of Kentucky

CHINESE GEOGRAPHY

200

'This colorful river emptied into the sea until 1853, when its course shifted to empty into the Gulf of Chihli'

the Yellow River

400

'The border formalized between Mongolia & China in 1962 includes a 900-mile stretch through this desert'

the Gobi Desert

600

'The Turfan Depression is China's lowest point; in 1951 this peak became its highest point'

Mount Everest

800

'China's Fertile Triangle lies between Nanjing, Hangzhou & this, the country's leading seaport'

Shanghai

1000

'This gulf is bordered by Luichow Peninsula & Hainan Island on the east & Vietnam on the west'

the Gulf of Tonkin

YE GODS!

200

'Hilal, a pre-Islamic deity of Arabia, was god of one phase of this heavenly body'

the moon

400

'The Hindu goddess Shatarupa was so beautiful, this creator god grew 4 heads so he could view her in all directions'

Brahma

600

'A sabine god of war, Quirinus gave his name to one of the fabled hills of this city'

Rome

800

'Invoked by seal hunters, Nerrivik is the mother of all sea creatures as a goddess of this North American people'

the Inuit

1000

'Covering a lot of ground, this Greek counterpart of Diana was the goddess of childbirth & chastity'

Artemis

WHAT A WAY TO GO

200

'Franz Reichelt died after a 1912 jump from this tall Parisian structure testing his parachute-overcoat combo'

the Eiffel Tower

400

'Tradition holds that Aeschylus died when a bird dropped this reptile on his bald head to crack its shell'

a turtle

600

'Plutarch says that this king who lent his name to a type of costly victory died from being struck by a tile'

Pyrrhus

800

'In an automated factory in 1979, Robert Williams became one of the first men killed by one of these (shades of Asimov)'

a robot

1000

'This playwright choked to death in 1983 at NYC's hotel Elysee; a character of his exits a streetcar at "Elysian Fields"'

Tennessee Williams

BOOKS & AUTHORS

200

'This Steinbeck novel begins, "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came..."'

The Grapes of Wrath

400

'A savage named John has educated himself by reading Shakespeare in "Brave New World" by this man'

Aldous Huxley

600

'In "The Prince" he wrote, "It is far safer to be feared than loved"'

Machiavelli

800

'Perhaps the effort killed him--he died not long after completing his masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov"'

Dostoyevsky

1000

'The stories that Kenneth Grahame told his son about a mole & a toad became this 1908 classic'

The Wind in the Willows