REAL NAMES ON THE MARQUIS
FLAGS
MATH GUYS
A GENERIC TITLE
WORLD CAPITAL AIRPORTS
200
The Jean-Baptiste Colbert show included becoming Marquis de Seignelay & in 1689, Minister of State for this king
Louis XIV
200
Here are the extremely similar flags of Luxembourg and this nearby country
the Netherlands
200
You get an "A" if you know this mathematician of the 200s B.C. wrote a treatise on centers of gravity
Archimedes
200
It's a puzzle, it's a genre, it's a PBS "Masterpiece" series
mystery
200
Schiphol
Amsterdam
400
The real name of this marquis & American Revolution hero: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier
Lafayette
400
The fortress on the flag of this British overseas territory symbolizes its strategic importance on the Mediterranean
Gibraltar
400
Among Ptolemy's pursuits was drawing up a table of these--not in a musical score but as line segments in a circle
chords
400
It's a sequence, it's a genre, it's a podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig
serial
400
Narita Airport
Tokyo
600
He was born Donatien Alphonse Francois, but fans of x-rated lit know him better as this
the Marquis de Sade
600
The red & white stripes on the flag of this Asian country represent the states of the federation, including Sarawak
Malaysia
600
A 1970s computer language is named for this Frenchman who invented a 1640s calculating machine
(Blaise) Pascal
600
Prince Noctis has work to do in edition XV of this alliterative role-playing video game
Final Fantasy
600
Jomo Kenyatta International
Nairobi
800
Concino Concini, AKA the Marquis d'Ancre, was shot to death on the drawbridge of this palace (now a museum) on the right bank of the Seine
the Louvre
800
Here's the flag of this maritime province of Canada
Prince Edward Island (PEI)
800
The subject of a 2001 film, this mathematician won a 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics
(John) Nash
800
In this movie Robert De Niro kidnaps Jerry Lewis
The King of Comedy
800
Toussaint Louverture
Port-au-Prince
1000
In 1681 naval hero Abraham Duquesne was made Marquis du Quesne, but not an admiral, as he was this type of Christian
a Protestant
1000
The diamond shape on its flag references the fact that it was the only diamond-producing U.S. state
Arkansas
1000
This Swiss mathematician's principle says the pressure in a fluid moving horizontally decreases as its velocity increases
Bernoulli
1000
The movie A Place in the Sun was based on this U.S. novel
An American Tragedy
1000
Carthage International Airport
Tunis