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100

Her cryptic smile is portrayed in this early 1500s painting but Leonardo da Vinci.

Who is The Mona Lisa?

100

“Needful Things”

“‘Salem’s Lot”

“Misery”

Who is Stephen King?

100

This 2001 Mike Myers film was the first winner of the Animated Feature Film Oscar.

What is “Shrek”?

100

This 3 line Japanese poem format has lines of 5, 7, and 5 lines, successively. 

What is haiku?

100

This play features the songs “Halina Matata” and “Circle of Life.”

What is “The Lion King?”

200

This is the unusual hair source for SpongeBob’s single-hair brush in the “Wet Painters” episode.

What is a nasal hair?

200

“The Lord of the Rings”

“The Hobbit”

Who is J.R.R. Tolkien?

200

In 1939, Walt Disney was awarded one regular sized Oscar and seven miniature Oscars for this film.

What is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”?

200

He wrote “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabel Lee.”

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

200

He wrote the play “Pygmalion,” which is based on a Greek myth. 

Who is George Bernard Shaw?

300

Michelangelo completed a 12000 square foot painting on this part of Vatican City’s Sistine Chapel in the sixteenth century.

What is the ceiling?

300

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”

Who is Mark Twain?

300

Within five years, this is when The Academy Awards were first presented.

What is 1929 (1924 to 1934)?

300

He wrote children’s poetry anthologies called “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light in the Attic,” and “Falling Up.”

Who is Shel Silverstein?

300

This Shakespeare work is known as “The Scottish Play.”

What is “MacBeth”?

400

These folded/bent objects feature prominently in Salvador Dali’s surrealist painting, “The Perisistence of Memory.”

What are watches (clocks)?

400

“Great Expectations”

“A Christmas Carol”

Who is Charles Dickens?

400

She has received an astounding seventeen Best Actress nominations (1981 to 2018).

Who is Meryl Streep?

400

The 2004 film “Troy” is based on the Ancient Greek poet Homer’s epic poem, entitled this:

What is The Iliad?

400

This play, which became a movie in 2024, is based on the lives of two witches.

What is “Wicked”?

500

Historically, eggs have been used in the formulation of this type of paint.

What is tempura?

500

“Death on the Nile”

“Murder on the Orient Express”

“The ABC Murders”

Who is Agatha Christie?

500

One of three films to win eleven Oscars.

What is (one of) “Ben Hur,” “Titanic,” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”?

500

This poem, first published in 1823, is often misnamed as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

What is “A Visit From Saint Nicholas”?

500

With a run of 35 years, this play based on a haunted theatre is Broadway’s longest running show.

What is “The Phantom of the Opera”?