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100

The Nazca tectonic plate is off the west coast of this continent

What is Peru?

100

2018's Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
on NBC featured this "Eighteen" hard rocker as King Herod

Who is Alice Cooper?

100

Stupid-est, deep-est:  This 2nd deepest lake in Africa borders Mozambique, Tanzania, and mostly Malawi.

What is Lake Malawi?

100

In 1799, Humphry Davy began a series of self-experiments with this gas, collected from heated crystals of ammonium nitrate

What is nitrous oxide?

100

Muriel Bowser may be the mayor of this city, but not of the District.

What is Washington (DC)?

200

This landmark in Rio's Guanabara Bay is an example of an inselberg, or "island mountain"

What is Sugarloaf Mt.?

200

Letter Perfect:  This title Avenue is a coming-of-age parable musical, about kids whose parents always told them they were special

What is Avenue Q?

200

Weak-est:  In 2020, Jane Lynch became the mean host of this game show reboot.

What is the Weakest Link?

200

The two substance in which propane naturally occurs is petroleum and this extracted gas

What is natural gas?

200

In 1912, Mayor Yukio Ozaki of this city gave 3000 cherry blossom trees to the US to symbolize friendship

What is Tokyo?

300

SAME FIRST & LAST 2 LETTERS
Adjective for soil deposited by flowing water

What is alluvial?

300

"Beautiful Ghosts" was an original song by Taylor Swift for the film version of this long-running Broadway musical.  She played Bombalurina.

What is Cats?

300

Lat-est:  In the U.S. it's the latest date in November on which Thanksgiving can fall

What is November 28 (the 4th Sunday)?

300

This element is named after the Greek for the "violet-coloured" gas that sublimes from a lustrous, purple-black metallic solid under standard conditions

What is iodine?

300

This Chicago law man who enforced Prohibition ran for Cleveland mayor in 1947

Who is Elliot Ness?

400

Geology:  This term refers to the layering that occurs in most sedimentary rocks & has produced Oregon's Painted Hills.

What is stratification?

400

characters!  Christian, Toulouse-Lautrec and Roxanne

What is Moulin Rouge! ?

400

Young-est:  The decade in which American Bobby Fischer Becomes Youngest Chess Grandmaster

What is the 1950s (1958)?

400

According to PBS, onions make you cry because the gas from ’em mixes w/ tears to form what chemical?

What is sulfuric acid?

400

Save for a few brief occasions after 1834, what large foreign capital did not have a mayor until 1977?

What is Paris?

500

It's believed that a land mass called Pangaea later split into 2: Laurasia & this one

What is Gondwanaland?

500

Head Over Heels is a 2018 jukebox musical comedy with music and lyrics from the catalog of this 80's girl group.

What is the Go-Go's?

500

Fin-est: NYT, reviewing his "Beowulf" translation, the Times called this Seamus poet "arguably the finest poet now writing in English"

Who is Seamus Heaney?

500

"Put a tiger in your tank" was the long-time slogan of this gasoline brand that is no longer used in the US, only internationally.

What is Esso?

500

(but not the Good Times actor):  With Tammany Hall backing, this dapper politician won election as NYC mayor in 1925

Who is Jimmy Walker?

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