1. For $100: Which actor starred in 'The Graduate', 'Kramer vs. Kramer', 'Tootsie' and 'Rain Man'? Al Pacino Spencer Tracy Jack Nicholson Dustin Hoffman

2. For $200: Who wrote the novels 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', 'The Sun Also Rises', 'The Old Man and the Sea' and 'A Farewell To Arms'? William Faulkner Ernest Hemingway James Fenimore Cooper Robert Louis Stevenson

3. For $300: Which Greek letter is ordinarily used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter? epsilon pi delta omega

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10. For $32,000 and the second plateau: The flags of Denmark and Switzerland have what feature in common? non-rectangular shaped all one color white cross on a red background picture of a tree

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