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100

Period of rest in Genesis where working parents leave toddlers.

Seventh day care centers. 

100

In 1985 a paper documented a hole over the south polar region in this layer of the atmosphere.

The ozone layer.

100

Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories set in coastal Maine about this title woman

Olive kitteridge

100

After a long journey this was signed Nov. 21 1620 to ensure the enactment of just & equal laws

The Mayflower Compact 

100

Pres. Lincoln said I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper

THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

200

Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor

STUART LITTLE DIPPER

200

This hardest tissue in the body covers the crown of a tooth in mammals

ENAMEL

200

Published posthumously in 1870 Dickens' only true mystery novel was The Mystery of him

EDWIN DROOD

200

It took 12 years 1847-1859 to find out what became of John Franklin who died searching for this Arctic passage

THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

200

1971 events at this prison east of Buffalo were one of the bloodiest clashes between Americans in the 20th century

ATTICA

300

The group assigned to protect the president proceeds through this door meant for delivery people & other help

SECRET SERVICE ENTRANCE

300

18399 feet down & probably pretty darn cold the Molloy Deep is the deepest point in this ocean

THE ARCTIC

300

This Allen Ginsberg poem begins I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness

HOWL

300

Around 1310 Pope Clement V moved the papacy from Italy to this French city & it stayed there for almost 70 years

AVIGNON

300

To protest taxes Shays' Rebellion included a 1787 attack on the federal arsenal in this city in western Massachusetts

SPRINGFIELD

400

An Asia-set musical merges with an Isaac Asimov tale known for its 3 laws

THE KING AND I ROBOT

400

Peas have 14 shrimp have 254 & humans have 46 of these nucleic acid structures arranged in 23 pairs

CHROMOSOMES

400

Elizabeth Strout won a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book of stories set in coastal Maine about this title woman

OLIVE KITTERIDGE

400

In 1958 crisis ensued when mainland China tried to seize Quemoy & Matsu part of this island's territory

TAIWAN

400

In 1933 a stretch of river rapids in Alabama called Muscle Shoals became an integral part of this multi-state project

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

500

Margaret Mitchell's magnum opus soars with a Bette Midler smash

GONE WITH THE WIND BENEATH MY WINGS

500

The scientific name for the common this plant is Ficus elastica

THE RUBBER PLANT

500

In Oliver Twist Fagin teaches his young followers this type of theft

PICKPOCKETING

500

The 1864 convention in this city called for relief to the wounded without any distinction as to nationality

THE GENEVA CONVENTION

500

The Supreme Court reached a low with its 1857 decision on this slave's case: African Americans were not & could not be U.S. citizens

DRED SCOTT