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100
This term for a collection of maps arose because early ones pictured the titan of that name
What is an atlas?
100
In 1900 this Chinese group killed a German diplomat & tried to drive foreigners out of the country
Who are the Boxers?
100
This comedienne & her daughter Melissa played themselves in the biographical TV movie "Tears and Laughter"
Who is Joan Rivers?
100
After NYC & Washington, D.C., this New Jersey city is most expensive in U.S. to visit
What is Atlantic City?
100
In 2011 Antonin Scalia wrote, "like...books, plays and movies," these games "communicate ideas"
What are video games?
200
Among other events in this Tolstoy novel, the emperor Napoleon shouts, sneers & takes snuff
What is War and Peace?
200
In 1815 the Congress of Vienna made this country a grand duchy ruled by the Netherlands
What is Luxembourg?
200
This talk show hostess was praised for her acting in the 1986 film "Native Son"
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
200
When hearing this term, almost twice as many people think of the movie as Pres. Reagan's defense plan
What is Star Wars?
200
The 1727 discovery that light darkens silver salts was the basis of this medium that took another century to arrive
What is photography?
300
Karl Marx didn't live to complete this 3-volume work laying out his economic ideas
What is Das Kapital?
300
In 1969 the U.N. declared Irian Jaya in west New Guinea this country's 26th province
What is Indonesia?
300
Robert Donat & Richard Chamberlain both played Edmond Dantes in film versions of this Dumas novel
What is The Count of Monte Cristo?
300
Of about 5, 25, or 45, percentage of adults in the U.S. who've been on TV
What is 25?
300
TV wasn't around for long before the joke started that it's a medium because it's neither rare nor this
What is well done?
400
Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel about these 2 surveyors runs over 700 pages -- that's a lot of "line"s
Who are Mason and Dixon?
400
In 1929 this future prime minister was elected president of India's Congress Party
Who is Nehru?
400
"Music Man" played by Robert Preston in Meredith Willson's 1957 musical
Who is Harold Hill?
400
In # of phones per 100 people, the U.S. ranks third, behind these 2 European countries that begin with 5
What are Switzerland and Sweden?
400
Time said critics of the AT&T-DirectTV merger call it an example of "out-of-control media" this event
What is consolidation?
500
His chilling "Gulag Archipelago" was originally published in 3 volumes
Who is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?
500
In 1682 he claimed all of the Mississippi valley for France; 5 years later he was killed in Texas
Who is La Salle?
500
He played Janet Leigh's lover in "Psycho" before he became U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Who is John Gavin?
500
A "Money" magazine survey said people still think this is the best way to get rich
What is hard work?
500
A written attack, a large sheet of paper, or when a ship fires all its port or starboard guns
What is a broadside?