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100

In the 1320s Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City became a sacred site and later a retreat for kings of these people

Aztec

100

A bogus boa

fake snake

100

The Book and the Sword" is a Wuxia novel, a Chinese story about these "arts"

martial arts

100

The Canadian government has promised to never try to find out the name of the young man buried in Ottawa's version of thismemorial

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

100

Johns Hopkins doubled for Harvard in this 2010 film with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg

Social Network

200

Cerro Bolivar rises more than 1,500 feet above the grasslands of the Guiana highlands in this South American nation

Venezuela 

200

Harass or taunt Mr. Hyde's alter ego

heckle Jekyll 

200

In poetry, it's a long narrative, often about heroic deeds; there's also a "mock" type

epic

200

At the Little Bighorn, one problem for this Lt. colonel was not knowing that Major Reno's assault on an Indian village had failed

Custer

200

That's Occidental College, not the planet Vulcan, in "Star Trek III: The Search for" him

Spock

300

Boston's Sentry Hill was renamed this for the light used to warn of intruders

Beacon Hill

300

A judge's mallet that you can take on vacation

travel gavel

300

This Latin American genre with an oxymoronic name involves the extraordinary seeming ordinary

magical realism

300

On June 19, 1865 black residents of Texas learned of this document issued 2 1/2 years earlier

Emancipation Proclamation 

300

East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess

Forrest Gump

400

Vatican Hill, which gave the papal city its name, is located across this river from the traditional 7 hills of Rome

The Tiber

400

A faithful king, queen or prince

loyal royal

400

Penguin has a line of regency romance novels that are set during the regency of the soon-to-be George IV, in this century

19th century

400

In this 19th c. year the USS President fought a battle with HMS Belvidera, which until then didn't know for sure there was a war on

1812

400

A lecture room at New York's Columbia University was used for a scene in the 2nd installment of this Marvel hero's franchise in 2004

A lecture room at New York's Columbia University was used for a scene in the 2nd installment of this Marvel hero's franchise in 2004

500

Once an island in an ancient marsh, Glastonbury Tor Hill in England is associated with this isle of Arthurian mythology

Avalon

500

A back-&-forth talk about certain types of instruments including drums & gongs

percussion discussion

500

Some of Carson McCullers' works fall into the genre of "Southern" this, also an old architectural style

Gothic

500

A 1513 map labeled America with this Latin phrase for "unknown land"; in a 1522 version that became "Terra Nova"

Terra Incognita

500

Boston's Bunker Hill Community College shares screen time with M.I.T. in this 1997 Damon-Affleck production

Good Will Hunting