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NICK NAMES

200

'Nick Park created the animated characters Wallace & this loyal dog'

Gromit

400

'He played Four Leaf Tayback in the 2008 comedy "Tropic Thunder"'

Nick Nolte

600

'Drumroll, please, for this star of "Drumline" who is the CEO of the Can I Ball record label'

Nick Cannon

800

'Nick Lowe wrote Elvis Costello's classic song "(What's so funny 'bout)" this trio'

"Peace, Love, And Understanding"

1000

'Nick Hornby novels made into films include "About a Boy" & this one in which John Cusack ran a record store'

High Fidelity

FRANCE, FRANCE REVOLUTION

200

'This structure, a symbol of the Bourbon monarchy, was stormed on July 14, 1789'

the Bastille

400

'France was in dire straits financially due to its support of this other revolution'

the American Revolution

600

'Germinal, Fructidor & Thermidor could be found on the New French Republican this adopted in 1793'

calendar

800

'Robespierre's Committee of Public Safety controlled this period of revolution that saw 30,000 executions'

the Reign of Terror

1000

'A royalist power grab in Paris was crushed by this young general in 1795'

Napoleon Bonaparte

STATE QUARTERS

200

'A salmon breaching the water in front of Mount Rainier'

Washington

400

'Susan Constant, Godspeed & Discovery, ships that brought settlers to Jamestown'

Virginia

600

'A grizzly bear emerging from the water with a salmon in its jaws & the motto "The Great Land"'

Alaska

800

'A racecar superimposed on an outline of the state & the motto "Crossroads of America"'

Indiana

1000

'A trumpet with musical notes & a pelican'

Louisiana

SAY UNCLE

200

'This personification of the United States wears a white top hat that has white stars on a blue band'

Uncle Sam

400

'This "electric" character in "The Addams Family" could light up a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth'

Uncle Fester

600

'Among the stories he narrates are "The Sad Fate of Mr. Fox" & "Why Mr. Possum has no hair on his tail"'

Uncle Remus

800

'John Candy played this loud & crude slacker relative of Macaulay Culkin in a 1989 film'

Uncle Buck

1000

'This Chekhov hero's real name is Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky'

Uncle Vanya

"V" SHALL SEE

200

'The hungry South Carolina native seen here'

the Venus Flytrap

400

'You're all wet if you can't name this location'

the Victoria Falls

600

'It's a point on a triangle indicated here'

a vertex

800

'Early 20th century revolutionary seen here'

Pancho Villa

1000

'Structure seen here perfected by the Romans'

a viaduct