1. For $100: The year 2004 marks the 200th anniversary of one of the most famous land explorations ever, the Lewis and _________ Expedition. Clark Smith Jones Rogers

2. For $200: The films 'Up the Down Staircase', 'Mr. Holland's Opus' and 'Dead Poets Society' all have main characters who are ___________. musicians lawyers politicians teachers

3. For $300: Which American author wrote 'The Grapes of Wrath', 'Of Mice and Men' and 'Travels with Charley'? Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck Pearl Buck Mark Twain

4. For $500: Which planet is sometimes farther away from the sun than Pluto? Uranus Neptune Saturn Jupiter

5. For $1,000 and the first plateau: Which bird migrates the farthest, traveling almost half-way around the world and back each year? Canada goose swallow-tailed kite whooping crane arctic tern

6. For $2,000: Which actor has also directed a number of films, among them 'Stand By Me', 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'A Few Good Men'? Ron Howard Robert Redford Billy Crystal Rob Reiner

7. For $4,000: Who discovered the neutron in 1932? Sir Arthur Fleming Sir James Chadwick Clyde Tombaugh Nikola Tesla

8. For $8,000: Which radio talk show host calls his show 'The Jungle'? Rush Limbaugh Dom Imus Howard Stern Jim Rome

9. For $16,000: One of the great American songwriters, he won Academy Awards as the lyricist for 'Three Coins in the Fountain', 'All the Way', 'High Hopes' and 'Call Me Irresponsible'. George Gershwin Cole Porter Sammy Cahn Harold Arlen

10. For $32,000 and the second plateau: What is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth? Paralipophobia Dermatophobia Harpaxophobia Arachibutyrophobia

11. For $64,000: Who of the following did NOT play two sports professionally? Deion Sanders Jim Thorpe Dave Winfield Ed 'Too Tall' Jones

12. For $125,000: Who followed Dag Hammarskjold as Secretary-General of the United Nations? U Thant Kurt Waldheim Trygve Lie Boutros Bourtros-Ghali

13. For $250,000: Which of the following games orginated in India and is considered India's national game? parcheesi go dominoes checkers

14. For $500,000: The Blue Nile and the White Nile meet in what city to form the Nile River? Cairo Kampala Nairobi Khartoum

15. And for a cool million: Something serving to attract a mate is said to be _____________. desipient epigamic mollescent sapient