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100

In this 2023 film old man Paul Giamatti & young man Dominic Sessa check out the 1970 Dustin Hoffman film "Little Big Man"

What is The Holdovers?

100

His "The Runaway" is not even his most famous poem with a horse in falling snow

Who is Robert Frost?

100

The rapper Twista has an affinity for magic & also can make his puppet Tiny Twista rap as one of these voice-throwing performers

What is a Ventriloquist?

100

Types of these waves include Love, primary, secondary & the "did you feel that?" kind

What are Seismic Waves?

100

1990'S NUMBER 1 SONGS:

This title character of the top song from 1996 can't stand her boyfriend Vitorino & spurns him to be with his 2 friends

What is Macarena?

200

In a 2009 film Johnny Depp as this 1930s gangster watches "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph before meeting his fate

What is Dillinger?

200

Philip Larkin's "This Be the Verse" says, "They fill you with the faults they had & add some extra, just for you"

What is Your Parents?

200

In 2023 this rapper & Lando Calrissian actor opened a boba tea shop in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles

Who is Donald Glover?

200

Radar images taken by the Magellan spacecraft in the 1990s helped determine that this planet has around 85,000 volcanoes

What is Venus?

200

1980's FADS:

A November 29, 1983 N.Y. Times article about these used "near-riot", "adoptable", "waiting for 8 hours" & "my life (is) in danger"

What are Cabbage Patch Kids?

300

In this 2019 film Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate puts her feet up as she watches herself in a movie at a theater

What is Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood?

300

A sick kid has "two pillows at my head" in Stevenson's "Land of Counter-Pane"; a counterpane is this word with 2 rhyming syllables

What is a Bedspread?

300

In a video for ESPN, Lil Wayne states his love for this sport & says he feels amped after doing a "flat ground trick off of a 50-50"

What is Skateboarding?

300

In 1671 naturalist John Ray discovered this acid by collecting & distilling large numbers of dead ants

What is Formic Acid?

300

BOOK & MOVIE TITLE REFERENCES:

The title of this 2001 book, also a 2003 film, forms a partial border between Boston, Chelsea, Medford & Everett

What is Mystic River?

400

In "The Shawshank Redemption", Andy DuFresne & Red watch this actress' hair flip scene in "Gilda"

Who is Rita Hayworth?

400

In 1920 his first poem to make a big splash mentioned Buffalo Bill & Jesus, with capital Bs & a capital J

Who is E.E. Cummings?

400

Will Smith trained in this pastime with Grandmaster Maurice Ashley

What is Chess?

400

In 1948 this vitamin C advocate found that the polypeptide chain would coil into a structure he called the alpha helix

Who is Linus Pauling?

400

COUNTRIES WITH SPACE PROGRAMS:

It launched its first satellite, Asterix, in 1965

What is France?

500

In the film "Divorce Italian Style", scandal comes to a small town when a theater shows this sweetly named 1960 Fellini film

What is La Dolce Vita?

500

Though it's often printed broken into short lines, his "No man is an island" is a prose passage; "Air & Angels", that's a poem

Who is John Donne?

500

In 2023 this former member of OutKast released the album "New Blue Sun" that contained no rap bars, but a lot of his passion: flutes

Who is Andre 3000?

500

It's the 5-syllable word for a counterpart such as the positron to the negatively charged electron

What is an antiparticle?

500

20TH CENTURY NAMES:

According to one obituary, in 1935 he owned 13 magazines, 8 radio stations, 2 movie companies & $56 million in real estate

Who is William Randolph Hearst?