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100

Her "Little Women" appeared in 1868; a mere 127 years later, her "A Long Fatal Love Chase" arrived

Louisa May Alcott

100

Highest average salary

NBA

100

While they pack calcium, vitamin E & fiber, packs of these have been banned in some schools & on some airplanes

Peanuts

100

This highest natural singing voice for women is Italian for "what is above"

Soprano

100

Saratoga & Yorktown are famous battles in this revolution

The American Revolution

200

In addition to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", he wrote an 1887 story on the Civil War, "North Against South"

Jules Verne

200

Uses a center

All 3

200

Like shark, swordfish contain high levels of this toxic element, so limit yourself

Mercury

200

This wood-eating insect gets its name from the Latin for "wood-eating worm"

Termite

200

It ended in 1917 with Nicholas II out on his czary...

The Russian Revolution

300

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" in a 1945 book by this author

George Orwell

300

Has no major teams based outside the continental U.S.

NFL

300

McDonald's says one of its priorities is to reduce & eliminate these, the "TF" in TFAs, from its fried foods

Trans fats

300

This ground-meat sandwich gets its name from a German port city

Hamburger

300

The coup d'etat of 9 Thermidor was part of it

The French Revolution

400

In 1840 he hit a Bumppo in the road & penned "The Pathfinder"

James Fenimore Cooper

400

Plays its championship at a theoretically neutral site

NFL

400

Tea, grape juice & blueberries are all rich in substances called anti- these that help prevent cell damage

(anti)oxidants

400

This word for a kind of land mass comes from a word meaning "to contain"

Continent

400

In 1966 Mao Zedong launched this campaign to revolutionize Chinese Society, & chaos ensued

The Cultural Revolution

500

In 1863 this Russian wrote "The Cossacks", a short novel based on his travels with the army

Leo Tolstoy

500

Has cancelled an entire season due to labor woes

NHL

500

Be sure to eat your leafy green vegetables; they're full of this "special" vitamin that makes the blood clot

Vitamin K

500

This term for a leading character of a literary work comes from the Greek for "first combatant"

Protagonist

500

It took the British by storm from about 1750 to 1850, & they were steamed

The Industrial Revolution