Literature
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100

This novel uses an agrarian allegory to satirize the Russian Revolution.

What is Animal Farm?

100

The New York Times offers this many games in its NYT Games app.

What is 10?

100

This idiom refers to the state of being at the highest level.

What is the big leagues?

100

This part of your body stores the second most calcium.

What is the teeth?

100

This Silicon Valley-based tech company is credited for the popularity of emoji.

What is Apple?

200

This is the oldest surviving English long poem.

What is Beowulf?

200

This type of puzzle is considered NP-complete and serves as a way for computer scientists to test algorithms.

What is a sudoku?

200
This idiom refers to acting tough or aggressive.

What is playing hardball?

200

This type of cheese provides the most calcium for the health-conscious turophile.

What is hard cheese (accept parmesan, cheddar, Swiss, Edam, gouda, Gruyere, or blue cheese )?

200

This emoji is most frequently used in October, but is commonly used to indicate embarrassment or intense laughter.

What is the skull emoji?

300

This influential novel from the 1600s dictates how people imagine Hell to be like today.

What is Paradise Lost?

300

The first jigsaw puzzle was developed to teach students about this school subject.

What is geography?

300

This idiom refers to the situation when one declines to attend an event they had previously decided on going to.

What is taking a rain check?

300

This Canadian production company specializes in theater systems.

What is IMAX?

300

Standardized in Unicode in 1993 and rendered in red across most platforms, this glyph has become the digital mascot for devotion.

What is the heart emoji?

400

This story about a delusional protagonist is the best selling fictional novel of all time.

What is Don Quixote?

400

This word describes people who enjoy solving crossword puzzles.

What is a cruciverbalist?

400

This idiom refers to checking in on someone to inform each other of plans.

What is touching base?

400

This mountain is the highest peak in California (and also the continental US).

What is Mt Whitney?

400

This word is the name for symbols for facial expressions that are text-based and made out of keyboard characters.

What is an emoticon?

500

Wuthering Heights centers around the doomed love of these two people.

Heathcliff and Catherine

500

This type of puzzle requires the solver to color in cells according to numbers by the ends of a grid.

What is a nonogram?

500

This word refers to the situation of attempting and failing at something.

What is a whiff?

500

California has this many professional sports teams across the Big Four leagues (NHL, NBA, NFL, MLB). 

What is 19? (5 MLB, 4 NBA, 3 NFL, 3 NHL)

500

Oxford Dictionary's 2015 Word of the Year was this emoji, which is used to show that something is funny or pleasing.

What is Face with Tears of Joy?