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"Sly" creature sought by sportsmen riding to hounds
What is a fox?
100
Since '32 the U.S. Badge of Military Merit has had this colorful name
What is the Purple Heart?
100
What Paul Newman's "Hustler" hustled
What is pool?
100
"Fulton's Folly"
What is a steamboat?
100
Where all roads were supposed to have led
What is Rome?
200
The "ship of the desert"
What is a camel?
200
British decoration named for former queen
What is Victoria Cross?
200
Subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb"
What is Dr. Strangelove?
200
Early ones were called the "hobby horse", "penny-farthing" & "high-wheeler"
What is a bicycle?
200
Its people called it "kemet", color of black, from land after flooding by Nile
What is Egypt?
300
The children are poults, the mothers, hens & the fathers, toms
What are turkeys?
300
This prize did not have an economics category until '69
What is the Nobel Prize?
300
1949's Best Picture, its title came from "Humpty Dumpty"
What is All the King's Men?
300
1899 device for attaching papers that could ruin a computer floppy disc when magnetized
What is a paperclip?
300
Followed the Stone Age; named for copper alloy people used for tools & weapons
What is the Bronze Age?
400
Name of the sport of hunting birds with other birds
What is falconry?
400
26 years after writing it for the stage, he won an Oscar for the screenplay "Pygmalion"
Who is George Bernard Shaw?
400
He sang with way to an Oscar in "Cabaret"
Who is Joel Gray?
400
After inventing the lever & pulley, this Greek said, "I will move the Earth"
Who is Archimedes?
400
The Chinese once regarded calligraphy as a branch of this are
What is painting?
500
Floating sea creature named by sailors for the Iberian fighting ship it resembles
What is the Portuguese man-of-war?
500
He may have disagreed with Gene Siskel, but he won a '75 Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism.
Who is Roger Ebert?
500
Ironically, he spoke the only word in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie"
Who is Marcel Marceau?
500
1st one to attempt sinking a warship was the "Turtle" in the Revolutionary War
What is a submarine?
500
Civilization of sailors that developed 1st Western alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians?